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Willie Witte created this video, using printed out still frames from videos. Nothing in the video is computer generated trickery: it simply uses clever camera tricks and lots of printed photographs to create the seamless transitions. ‘All the trickery took place literally in front of the camera,’ Witte says.
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Everybody Street
A new documentary turns the lens on New York’s street photographers. From sidewalk antics in Harlem with Bruce Davidson to people-watching with Magnum veteran Elliot Erwitt, a new feature-length documentary by Cheryl Dunn chronicles the pioneering photographers making their mark on the streets of New York.
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Life Drawing
Commissioned to promote the life-drawing classes at east London’s Book Club, Wriggles & Robins devised this short stop-motion film in which a life model is drawn and then dances across various easels. Created by setting up ten easels in a life drawing class, each capturing a different angle of the model, the artists were filmed sketching the model.
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The Architect’s Ingredients
The Avant/Garde Diaries met Ole Sondresen, a New York-based architect whose personal and non-intrusive work utilizes the humble aesthetics of reclaimed and recycled materials. His office is in the mythical 80 Wooster Street basement studio of George Maciunas – a location long abandoned after its original incarnation as a hive for Fluxus gatherings with artists like Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, and Jonas Mekas.
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15.000 Volts
‘Sometimes the best way to create something is by destroying something’, says american artist Melanie Hoff. She creates her art by sending electrical current into plywood with 15,000 volts of electricity and speeding it up, just to see what it would look like.
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sarah anne dinardo
Sarah Ann DiNardo is not a typical artist. Someone very special taught her that art is finding beauty in something. Anything. And she found that beauty in sticky tape. Everything started with the love for Chiquita Banana stickers in her childhood. This fascination for pulling her fingers off something sticky developed into her hand rolling tape art.
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Balance
‘Balance’ is a short film by photographer and director Tobias Hutzler, inspired by Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque artist Maedir Eugster, who is performing his unbelievable balancing act. In deep concentration the artist carefully assembles 16 bare ribs of palm leaves and a feather by balancing each piece in front of the other.
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Ana Kraš
We have been quietly watching Belgrade-born Ana Kraš for some time now. She is working as a product designer, a photographer, and a model. Her presence has an immediate calming influence and so does her work; every detail has a sentimental, inspirational value. Truth and authenticity found in Kraš’s nature, her designs are a reflection of her personality.
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A million times
Swedish Design Studio Human since 1982 combined 288 analogue clocks to create this installation of shifting monochrome patterns, forming letters and numbers. This piece is called ‘A Million Times’ for Victor Hunt Designart and features 576 motors which can be controlled via a customized software on an iPad.
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