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The Photographs of Balazs Gardi

January 14, 2014 — Leave a comment

There has been a lot of press regarding a new movie based on the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell who was the lone Seal team member to survive the biggest loss of Navy Seal soldiers (19) in one day since WW2. Meet Balazs Gardi an embedded photographer in Afghanistan who just decided not to quit documenting his unit (The 1/8, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines) and surrounding local population.  He set up Basetrack on Facebook.

See this hidden war that has killed so many from a very unique point of view. His Instagram feed is here. His haunting video Facing Water Crisis – Machar Colony is here.

 

 

 

via http://www.balazsgardi.com

The Photographs of Balazs Gardi

 

 

 

 

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Video: Street by James Nares

January 11, 2014 — Leave a comment

James Nares rode around NYC with a video camera in his truck and documented the city in slow poetic motion. There is a surprise every minute and they are breathtakingly beautiful, comic and human. There is something here that reminds me of my dad’s 3D images of our family – which literally froze us in time. Dickens believed nothing was more interesting than real life and Nares gives us this fact, slowed down frame by frame, in all its glorious messy, poetic chaos. This is the short version of a much longer museum piece of 61 minutes.

Video: Street by James Nares

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The Robot Photographs of Vincent Fournier

January 7, 2014 — Leave a comment

The Robots are coming and it’s not pretty…. Vincent Fournier spends his time thinking about technology, tweaked nature and how humans interface with this new world order. His series on Robots titled The Man Machine is wonderful and a bit frighting….

Don”t miss his new series Post Natural History

All Image via the artist web site

The Robot Photographs of Vincent Fournier

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Music Break: Sean Hayes Sings Powerful Stuff (Live)

January 6, 2014 — Leave a comment

Check out Sean Hayes playing  this sweet version of his of Powerful Stuff live.

Music Break: Sean Hayes Sings Powerful Stuff (Live)

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Video Mashup: Jun Miyake – Lillies of the Valley

January 6, 2014 — Leave a comment

Jun Miyake is a Japanese composer and trumpeter of some renown who composed this tune for a Wim Wenders documentary on Pina Bausch. But this anonymous video is a really interesting mashup of old dance routines, slightly off the beat which gives it a tension you can’t take your eyes off of. (Even more interesting as a visual comment to Bausch’s work). A very rare find and a work of art in itself. It seems to be an act of love as no credit for the person that put this together except linkszumliebhaben.

Video Mashup: Jun Miyake – Lillies of the Valley

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