George Lucas
"We are moving into a different era in terms of cinematic experience. I liken it more to the move from painting frescos in the mid-15th century - when you had to finish that piece of plaster that day otherwise you couldn't go on. Now we've moved into the era of oil paintings, which gave the artist more control and more time to think about what they're doing." I think that it was Han Solo who commented that Lucas would make a film without human actors if the CGI technology was good enough. It's interesting that while many in the [plastic] arts are heralding the end of the artist as individual, replaced instead by the collaborative, much the opposite is happening in film. via
hack the planet.
Must...fight...inner...consumer
If for no other reason, than that we all hold out hope there will be
something better to blow our money on next week.
Le Monde : Internet, le déstabilisateur incertain des médias
"Au moment où les nouvelles technologies de la communication bouleversent l'univers des médias, n'est-il pas nécessaire de penser les moyens permettant de freiner les dérives ou, au moins, de tempérer les effets pervers des plus récentes «révolutions de l'information» ?"
L.A. Times on the Tree People
"Now they want the trees they plant and the houses they retrofit to be part of a total system--what they call a "sustainable watershed." The bottom line: a city that functions as its own ecosystem, dramatically reducing flooding, drought and pollution. " mmmmm....
tree-planting.
Mark Stevens on the MOMA's "Fame after Photography"
"As fame yields to celebrity, so does art to artist, character to personality, and memory to nostalgia."
First Monday, July 1999
Includes a
rebuttal to David Noble's critique of "distributed learning technologies" (my mouth is full of potatoes) which I am looking forward to reading.
