April’s Always Apt For Hopping

For those of you who are scheduled to attend next Tuesday’s field trip: bring $6.00 with you for a round trip Metra fare (that’s the student ID discount rate) and $2.25 for the CTA (if you bring, say, $100.00, that leaves you $91.75 for a gourmet luncheon). We’ll take our attendance at the school before we get bussed–to the rail depot–then we’ll commute downtown and walk to the Cultural Center to see two, or possibly three, exhibits. There may be time for the Gage Gallery as well, one block away, and nourishment of the food sort. We’ll ride the Brown Line El to visit galleries in the River North neighborhood; then we’ll hoof it back to the 1:30 train and return to Borington at 2:32.

Here are links to current exhibits.

http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/events/dca_tourism/EricHolubow.html

 http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/events/dca_tourism/writenow.html

 http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/special_events/tourism/morbid_curiosity.html

 http://www.roosevelt.edu/GageGallery.aspx

http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2012/04/survival_techni.php

 http://www.edelmangallery.com/exhibitions/2012/beltra/beltrashow2012.htm

http://schneidergallerychicago.com/home.html

2012/04/12
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W. o’ W.: Alfred Hitchcock

“A clear horizon… nuthin’ to worry about on your plate.”

http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/hitchcock_on_happiness.html

2012/04/12
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Read The Tweets and Buy The Book

This summary of the main ideas in “Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography),” by Errol Morris, is as terse as the text is expansive. As a photographer who shares this world with the rest of us, you need to acquire this book and digest it.

Errol’s book made simple. (Some principles.)

All photographs are posed.

The intentions of the photographer are not recorded in a photographic image. (You can imagine that they are, but it’s pure speculation.)

Photographs are neither true nor false. (They have no truth-value.)

False beliefs adhere to photographs like flies to flypaper.

There is a causal connection between a photograph and what it is a photograph of. (Even photoshopped images.)

Uncovering a relationship between a photograph and reality is no easy matter.

Most people don’t care about this and prefer to speculate about what they believe about a photograph.

The more famous a photograph is, the more likely it is that people will claim it has been posed or faked.

2012/04/09
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W. o’ W.: Robert Frank

“You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist doesn’t take risks, then it’s not worth it.”

2012/03/31
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Ecce ICCI.

Click on the writings to enlarge and read.

Once again, the participating artists were Karlee Wech, Stephanie Washko, Stephanie Walterman, Hana Vanderveen, Katie Strack, Brooke Schocker, Hayley Schaut, Sean Ruffatti, Marcus Rowe, Margaret Rajic, Austin Presti, Sammy Padiak, Nikki Nixon, Kelly Neises, Elisabeth Monsen, Mackenzie Lestan, Duyen Le, Sarah Lagenstrass, Nicole Kornely, Cassidy Karwowski, Alex Hallerberg, Kailey Gilbert, Kaeley Ferguson, Maddie Carrigan, Olivia Bueno, Kyler Bruner, Sarah Betar, Morgan Behrens, and Grace Barbolla. (Go Google yourselves.) And thanks to all the insightful in-house reviewers, some of whom are represented here.

2012/03/30
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John Cleese Pontificates (appropriately).

Listen and learn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug

He may not realize it, but he’s describing… the darkroom!

2012/03/24
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Deep Background on Duke Ellington

http://www.openculture.com/2010/04/record_making_with_duke_ellington_1937.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93W1Cgy9e9A

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/08/03/128960586/ellington-interviews-strayhorn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4YdERiF0sA

2012/03/24
Categories: Brush with Greatness, Media . . Author: mrdplus . Comments: Leave a comment

Woodman. And Meatyard.

This week’s review of the Francesca Woodman exhibit in New York City (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/francesca-woodman-at-guggenheim-museum.html?scp=1&sq=woodman&st=cse) is balanced and insightful, but something occurred to me which has never come up in my decades of paging through monographs, down in the dank darkroom: how much influence was there on Ms. Woodman from one Ralph Eugene Meatyard? Look at these jpegs of their images and see if you can guess, completely correctly, whose is whose. Oh, sure, one can easily point out the differences, but look at the similarities.

2012/03/21
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ICCI Reinvents Itself

The Interstate Creative Camerawork Invitational is back after a year’s hiatus. Participating schools include Schaumburg, Lincoln High in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Lake Zurich, Cary-Grove, Buffalo Grove, and good ol’ BHS.

No awards per se this time, but certificates of participation all around.

Ms. Covelli of LZ chose to attend over another event at their school (I always thought she was brilliant and perceptive).

The show is so wide-ranging that it’s diffcult to know where to look.

Get in to see everything tomorrow or Friday; don’t try on Monday or Tuesday (some sort of SWAT training will make a visit to the school potentially life-threatening); after spring break, the AP Seniors exhibit will displace this stuff fairly rapidly.

Artists in the exhibit are Grace Barbolla, Morgan Behrens, Sarah Betar, Kyler Bruner, Olivia Bueno, Maddie Carrigan, Kaeley Ferguson, Kailey Gilbert, Alex Hallerberg, Cassidy Karwowski, Nicole Kornely, Sarah Lagenstrass, Duyen Le, Mackenzie Lestan, Elisabeth Monsen, Kelly Neises, Nikki Nixon, Sammy Padiak, Austin Presti, Margaret Rajic, Marcus Rowe, Sean Ruffatti, Hayley Schaut, Brooke Schocker, Katie Strack, Hana Vanderveen, Stephanie Walterman, Stephanie Washko, and Karlee Wech.

2012/03/21
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I *Saw* Hendrix, Man.

It’s true. July or August of 1968, Auditorium Theatre. The clincher for me was that The Soft Machine opened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwo3ht8sxJo&feature=related (I already had their LP). All this came flooding back (and yes, I do remember the ’60s) when I came across this record of a vibrant performance.

http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/hendrix_plays_sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band.html

2012/03/20
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