Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives and the survival of his country and everyone in it. As one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. (more…)
Longboard icon Kassia Meador floats serenely across the majestic waves in surfer and filmmaker Bruce Muller’s Echo. The visual meditation is the first of four shorts teasing the release this fall of Frequencies, an experimental documentary and visual essay by Muller shot at prime surfing destinations across Southern California. Starring Meador and with an original score from Los Angeles-based psyche-pop trio E.S.P, Frequencies aims to explore how man can find synergy with nature’s cycles. (more…)
I recently interviewed artist and cook David Thorne about an event space and occasional restaurant he’s running in Los Angeles: elysian. His background includes farming in Vermont and working with the famed Bread and Puppet Theater, as well as participating in the Whitney Independent Study program and producing very interesting work with his wife Julia Meltzer (among many other notables!). Be sure to check it out elysian if in LA, and read more about it on his blog here.
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Angels & Demons, Nosara, Costa Rica, 2011, by Arthur Ou
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.—Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
How can you capture something as valuable as water in 3 seconds? Surfrider asked their supporters to do just that in super short films. More than 160 people sent in films from all over the planet (France, South Africa, Australia, Romania…). Surfrider edited the three-second clips together and added music by Zee Avi. See the three winners for best submission here.
James Welling, Torso 3, 2005-2008 Digital chromogenic print 45 ¾ x 34 ¼ in.
So too in Welling’s photogram series Torsos (2005–08) do complexities manifest. He cut screening, of the same type used for windows, to follow bodily contours and placed them on chromogenic paper before exposing them. Folded, curled, and billowing up from the paper ground, the wavy-edged mesh scraps produce lushly variegated passages while also revealing an obdurate materiality through their density, thickness, and permeability to light.
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