Category: media
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Rest In Peace, Mr. Sakamoto
News came earlier today (April 2, 2023) that Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 died on March 28 of colon cancer. I (Chris) am saddened by his passing as he was a musician that I have been following since the late 70’s. I still have these vinyl LPs bought 40 years ago. He was a founding member of…
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Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate
Atlas Studios is a film studio located about 5 km (3 miles) west of the city of Ouarzazate, the second town where we spent a night on our Merzouga-to-Essaouira road trip across Morocco. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and here. According to Wikipedia, measured by acreage, it is the…
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Life, Life – Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian, both my very favorite artists, collaborated again on this video – the music, poem and time-lapse photographed images of New York City. Meditative and beautiful. How did I miss this by almost three years? It was released in 2017 when Sakamoto’s “async” came out. And I just discovered this video.…
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Olympics Museum, Lausanne
Closer to home … Earlier this year while the 2018 Winter Olympics games were being held in South Korea, we went to visit our town’s most famous tourist attraction – the Olympics Museum (Le museé Olympique). The museum is located on a slope facing Lac Leman, not far from downtown Lausanne. We took a city…
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Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
IT and I visited the Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in April 2016. It is a beautiful, well-designed (duh), starchitect-built campus – more about this place in future posts. From 26.02 – 29.05.2016, in a free-standing gallery next to the museum, the exhibition titled “Objection! Protest by Design” was held. The exhibition presented a…
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Two and a Half Minutes of Art
Film and TV titles design is an art form. However, many such works have been overlooked, ignored, or forgotten. Unlike a trailer which contains actual footages, film title is often created separately from the film itself. Title art grew in 1940’s out of Hollywood studios’ desire to present a more complete list of credits and using…