Michael Szpakowski
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Works in Harlow United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Re: Minivan on Fire! New Video by Lewis LaCook at lewislacook.org


I really really like this Lewis, but then I've enjoyed
all your video work a lot.
It's very singular stuff -it has something of your
poetry about it - the abrupt & often bizarre
juxtapositions, which when marshalled by the very
*elegant* framework of your verse are rendered both
orderly & subtly spine-tingling.
Here ( & elsewhere in the vids) it's looser, wilder...
it's the disorder, the abrupt, the stubborn refusal to
ingratiate yourself with the viewer, the presentation
*as universal* of what is essentially a private
language ( though that last seems to me a feature of
your poetry too), that dominate...there isn't the
technical delicacy of your verse...no criticism.. this
is something different & its quite thrilling...
The rather washed out look, too, which seems to have
been quite a feature of your recent video work, I like
a lot..again most uningratiating..you make us *choose*
to work on it.. to opt in..
Finally ( & this was most striking in the telephone
call piece you did some while ago -can't remember the
name -o just looked <modern life>) there's a sense
here in which the juxtapostion either serially or
simultaneously of a number of disparate strands makes
me feel that there are in fact *many* narratives (in
the broadest sense of the word) struggling to surface.
It's an odd paradox that something that looks at first
sight so art*less* is in fact saturated with
art*fulness*
great stuff!
michael
ps though it defeats me utterly why you've got the
past vids on your site in the horrible .flv format
-surely its not some sort of copy protect move? They
looked way better in QT!

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DISCUSSION

Ilkley Moor


Of the cycle of birth & death
& the importance of warm headgear:

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2007/01/13#post133

40MB, sound.

best
michael

DISCUSSION

two silents


Two silents:

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2007/01

'Defying Gravity' varies on pretty much each pass
through it..

On a similar note I was hoping more folk than did
would play with 'Template',

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2006/12/17#post128

where *you* upload the images for the movie. It amuses
*me*, maybe I just have a trivial mind...
best
michael

DISCUSSION

Re: ECOARTTECH - Practical Quicktimes


Isn't it just! I loved the <series of practical
performances> when they first appeared last summer &
<wilderness trouble> has more ideas per second than
many manage in a lifetime.
michael
--- Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:

> Great stuff Cary.
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> > From: Cary Peppermint <cpeppermint@colgate.edu>
> > Reply-To: Cary Peppermint
> <cpeppermint@colgate.edu>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:11:04 -0800
> > To: <list@rhizome.org>
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: ECOARTTECH - Practical
> Quicktimes
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> > The Department of Ecology, Art, & Technology
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> > Recent Works
> > http://www.ecoarttech.net/quicktimes
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> > Image for Rhizome
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http://www.ecoarttech.net/images/wildernesstrouble_web.jpg
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> > Wilderness Trouble V1.0, 2007 (9.2MB)
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http://www.restlessculture.net/mov/wildernesstroublev1_web.mov
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> > A Quicktime video and DVD, inspired by William
> Cronon

DISCUSSION

The return of DVblog


Hi
just to let you know DVblog is back.
http://dvblog.org/
This week we'll have great new work from Donna Kuhn,
Alan Sondheim & Martha Deed as well as repostings from
our first incarnation.
Details of how & why in the "about" page plus how to
submit movies, how to write for DVblog (please!).
Please spread the word far & wide
best wishes
Michael
(for Doron, Mica & Michael)