I’ve just come back to my desk from a Master Class given at the Press & Media Department (Facultad de Ciencias de la Información) at the Complutense University of Madrid. The class was organized under the auspices of the American Documentary Showcase and the US Embassy in Madrid within the context of the Semana de [...]
I’ve been in New York since May 12th. Happily, my trip coincided with the opening of the film Untouchable Girls at the Cinema Village on Friday the 13th. I quickly purchased tickets for my mother, a friend of hers and myself, anticipating a full theater. I was right and very glad to see a good [...]
One client prospect recently exclaimed “The sun never sets on MocaMedia!” He had a point. Thanks to our international reach, we can provide our filmmaker clients virtually (as in online) and for real 24 hour attention, 7 days a week. By the time you wake up in New York, Minnesota or California, we will have [...]
Sneak peek of new line of underthesea jewelry by Susan Rockefeller - launching soon.
Checking out music by Antonio de Jerez, whose “cante” appears in new doc we’ve just recently discussed with filmmaker Katina Dunn.
Yesterday we recorded with Antonio de Jerez (singer in the video above), who is one of the most respected flamenco artists in the United States. For the last 2 months, me + Gnotes have been working on the soundtrack for this documentary about the flamenco community here in LA, which is way more vibrant and full of talent than I expected.
On Monday we recorded with guitarist Jose Tanaka … soon we’ll be grabando con Kai Narezo. Thankfully, we have our SUBSUELO dancer La Tigresa keeping us in compás.
But this post was actually sparked by the acompanying guitarist in the video above, Gareth Owen, a 23 year old Canadian who holds his geet kinda weird but rips like none other. He’s the best young flamenco guitarist I’ve seen since El Nieto Habichuela.
Insane Art Formed By Carving Books with Surgical Tools
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.
“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.
“The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. By altering physical forms of information and shifting preconceived functions, new and unexpected roles emerge.”
Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA.
(Spotted via posterous)
Blue cat. Seen in window in Amsterdam during IDFA, October 2011
Honey shot - Valentine’s Day
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