Photorealistic Computer Art

Here's a large selection of some of the best computer graphics photorealistic art I could find....please note that, although all the pics are credited by the software to Chris Case,  I am just the one who collected them. To access them individually, go HERE

Suggestion: right-click on the photo wall and select Full Screen. Choose a starting pic and select the Slide Show icon at the bottom..

My Dinner WIth Andre

The movie consists of a conversation between Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, both of whom were active in New York theater at the time of the movie. Two themes tie the entire dialog together: (1) should we live spontaneously in the moment, disconnecting ourselves from the purposes of our actions (a la Hindu Karma Yoga), and (2) what is the purpose of the theater.

[In Waiting for Guffman, Corky St. Clair, played by Christopher Guest, shows off his My Dinner with Andre action figures during the tour of his shop.]

Liquid Crystal Vision Finale - Fire Dance

My favourite part of old friend Torsten's video about the trance dance scene, Liquid Crystal Vision, well worth watching in its entirety. I wish I knew the name of the track the beautiful firedancer is synched with....

Watch the entire documentary
 

Alice in Wonderland Seeks Guy DeBord

An amusing intro to the Situationist Guy DeBord's  ideas about the world as Spectacle,  which anticipated the virtual world in which so many live today...

ANDRE KERTESZ' PHOTOS

Andre Kertesz has always been one of my favourite photographers, and my own photography was greatly influenced by his sensibility and style of composition.  Some time ago I made a gallery of his pictures,  and now have made a video slide show of them:

Harinie Jeevitha Kathak Dancing

Only 13 years old!

The Omo People

Serpentine Dance

filmed in 1896 by the Lumiere Brothers (Auguste Lumière (1862-1954) and Louis Lumière (1864-1948)

Inspired by dancer Loie Fuller's famed skirt dances, in which colored lights projected onto her billowing garments, this film (and others like it) was hand-tinted to achieve similar affects. Fuller's solo was mesmerizing, and her copycat film subjects no less so.

A TORD GUSTAVSEN TRIO Playlist

All About Jazz reviewer John Kelman put the trio's distinctive character beautifully: "As silence can sometimes speak as loudly as thunder, and insofar as careful elaboration of melody can be just as compelling as more vivid expansion, Gustavsen's trio makes a clear case for the elusive power of restraint."

Gustavsen phrases it romantically, that his music is "about loving every note". It is this very tendency of playing what you like, rather than what you ought to play between passages, together with the elaborated yet elegant lyrics of the tunes, that creates this unique aesthetic and the kind of feeling you will not have very often in reality, but in dreams."

Here's a playlist of his three albums so far, not including the several in which he collaborated with Silje Nergaard. Like the best ambient music, this can be a marvellous accompaniment to a relaxed evening, rarely insisting on attention, but truly rewarding it if given.

It's not all contemplative; check out track 009 to see how funky he can be..

DANCES from ENTHEOGEN

Here's a clip of the dance sequences from the film ENTHEOGEN: AWAKENING THE DIVINE WITHIN