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BIO
Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer, writer and educator.
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
two Quick Time movies
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/pissarro.mov
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/numbers.mov
Both have sound.
also (& apologies if you know this already) there's a
short article about the movies in the current
'intelligent agent'
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol4_No4_video_szpakowski.htm
if you like the movies you might like to read it.
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/numbers.mov
Both have sound.
also (& apologies if you know this already) there's a
short article about the movies in the current
'intelligent agent'
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol4_No4_video_szpakowski.htm
if you like the movies you might like to read it.
best
michael
Re: Steal This Concept: The Breakaway Mobius Strip Palindrome
Hi Curt
I'm not clear about this - are you critiquing an
*actual* piece?- I'm assuming not.
There just seems to be a whiff of the straw man about
this. It's as incisive, well written and amusing as
I'd expect from you, but it feels kind of over the top
if it doesn't refer to something that's actually out
there (and I don't mean as a *tendency* but a
concrete work).
As a tiny point in passing I suppose I also have a
personal interest to declare, in that I *love* the
'loop back and forth' feature in Quick Time - and it
seems to me part of knowing ones craft in any context
like this is knowing the idiomatic features of one's
tools and knowing when and when not to emphasise these
-when for example it would be a cliche and when on the
other hand it could still create a little sigh of
appreciation and connection in the viewer...
Lastly I'm assuming the disclaimer #1 is sincere ( ie
you, not the satire).
I'd be very interested to hear you explore at some
length the areas where you think the conceptual can be
interesting and fertile - the grey areas; maybe an
extended critique of an actual piece (and if you've
done this, forgive me -just point me there!)
best wishes
michael
--- Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com> wrote:
> Steal This Concept: The Breakaway Mobius Strip
> Palindrome
>
> Take Bruce Conner's original "Breakaway" film with
> Toni Basil dancing
> in an increasingly naked fashion (for the first half
> of the film; in
> the second half she dances backwards in a
> decreasingly naked
> fashion), and loop it so that it plays forwards and
> backwards and
> forwards and backwards for the entire exhibit.
> Better yet, just save
> it as a quicktime file and set the player on
> palindrome, so it
> doesn't just loop, but it actually plays the
> backwards part forwards
> and the forwards part backwards on its way back to
> the start.
>
> It won't make a darned bit of difference practically
> whether you loop
> it or do the palindrome thing, but you can include
> the fact that you
> used the palindrome setting in your ARTIST
> STATEMENT. It will make
> it seem all new media and technological. Like,
> "Techno." From the
> Greek -- "Technae." From the French -- "Technique."
> And then you
> can be all like -- "Techtonic plate structures..."
>
> Or set one player on one projector to loop it, and
> another player on
> a second projector to palindrome play it, and then
> talk about that in
> your ARTIST STATEMENT.
>
> The title of the piece is your real "ace in the
> hole." Mobius strip
> like "a continuous one-sided surface that can be
> formed from a
> rectangular strip by rotating one end 180
I'm not clear about this - are you critiquing an
*actual* piece?- I'm assuming not.
There just seems to be a whiff of the straw man about
this. It's as incisive, well written and amusing as
I'd expect from you, but it feels kind of over the top
if it doesn't refer to something that's actually out
there (and I don't mean as a *tendency* but a
concrete work).
As a tiny point in passing I suppose I also have a
personal interest to declare, in that I *love* the
'loop back and forth' feature in Quick Time - and it
seems to me part of knowing ones craft in any context
like this is knowing the idiomatic features of one's
tools and knowing when and when not to emphasise these
-when for example it would be a cliche and when on the
other hand it could still create a little sigh of
appreciation and connection in the viewer...
Lastly I'm assuming the disclaimer #1 is sincere ( ie
you, not the satire).
I'd be very interested to hear you explore at some
length the areas where you think the conceptual can be
interesting and fertile - the grey areas; maybe an
extended critique of an actual piece (and if you've
done this, forgive me -just point me there!)
best wishes
michael
--- Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com> wrote:
> Steal This Concept: The Breakaway Mobius Strip
> Palindrome
>
> Take Bruce Conner's original "Breakaway" film with
> Toni Basil dancing
> in an increasingly naked fashion (for the first half
> of the film; in
> the second half she dances backwards in a
> decreasingly naked
> fashion), and loop it so that it plays forwards and
> backwards and
> forwards and backwards for the entire exhibit.
> Better yet, just save
> it as a quicktime file and set the player on
> palindrome, so it
> doesn't just loop, but it actually plays the
> backwards part forwards
> and the forwards part backwards on its way back to
> the start.
>
> It won't make a darned bit of difference practically
> whether you loop
> it or do the palindrome thing, but you can include
> the fact that you
> used the palindrome setting in your ARTIST
> STATEMENT. It will make
> it seem all new media and technological. Like,
> "Techno." From the
> Greek -- "Technae." From the French -- "Technique."
> And then you
> can be all like -- "Techtonic plate structures..."
>
> Or set one player on one projector to loop it, and
> another player on
> a second projector to palindrome play it, and then
> talk about that in
> your ARTIST STATEMENT.
>
> The title of the piece is your real "ace in the
> hole." Mobius strip
> like "a continuous one-sided surface that can be
> formed from a
> rectangular strip by rotating one end 180
road movie
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/RoadMovie/index.html
sound on; requires shockwave.
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
'Everything is connected.' - V.I.Lenin
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
sound on; requires shockwave.
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
'Everything is connected.' - V.I.Lenin
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
'noir' - a generative movie
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/noir/index.html
noir permutes short sections of two public domain
films from the prelinger archive to create a piece of
which the order of scenes and length is not determined
in advance.
It also "composes" its own score on each pass, so make
sure your sound is on.
Its a 5 mb download so if you're on a dial up have a
good book ready or put the kettle on.
Once it's playing it'll keep cycling round until you
leave the page.
Requires shockwave.
Sources:
D.O.A -
http://www4.archive.org/details/doa_1949
Third Avenue El -
http://www4.archive.org/details/ThirdAve1950
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/index.html
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
noir permutes short sections of two public domain
films from the prelinger archive to create a piece of
which the order of scenes and length is not determined
in advance.
It also "composes" its own score on each pass, so make
sure your sound is on.
Its a 5 mb download so if you're on a dial up have a
good book ready or put the kettle on.
Once it's playing it'll keep cycling round until you
leave the page.
Requires shockwave.
Sources:
D.O.A -
http://www4.archive.org/details/doa_1949
Third Avenue El -
http://www4.archive.org/details/ThirdAve1950
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/index.html
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
Re: New Anti War Party takes London seat in UK general election
Well Rob
<You guys don't know Respect very well, do you? > -I
know them pretty well - I'm a member since they
started & I've never made a secret that I'm a "Trot".
( ie consistent anti war activist, consistent trades
unionist,consistent anti racist, consistent opposer of
privatisation)
But I'm glad to see you've got your priorites in order
- something enormously positive & hopeful (and, I
think, of real historic significance, but we'll see)
occurs and you indulge in a little sectarian red
baiting - nice one!
As for the "fundamentalist" smear -well actually the
fundamentalists had a good try at physically
intimidating Galloway & Respect supporters & in fact
told Muslims they'd go straight to hell if they *did*
vote Respect.
Good job Galloway's constituents put class and
principle *before* this advice.
Its a pity that in other areas the only way of
registering a protest was to vote for the Lib Dems,
who opposed the war until it started, then opposed it
again when they discovered that the issue wasn't going
away and could win them some votes.
michael
--- Rob Myers <robmyers@mac.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 06, 2005, at 09:30AM, Michael
> Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >In London the new anti war party Respect, wins in
> >Bethnal Green and Bow, comes second in the two
> >neighbouring constituencies and in Birmingham
> >Sparkbrook, and third in London's Poplar and
> Canning
> >town constituency.
>
> You guys don't know Respect very well, do you?
>
> http://respectwatch.blogspot.com/
>
> They're the Trot-Fundie coalition, the worst
> excesses of red and green in an unlikely marriage of
> convenience.
>
>
http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/04/in\_a\_place\_near.html
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-18169-1590512,00.html
>
> Here's a picture of an anti war banner from the East
> End a while ago:
>
>
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/bufstopwar1.JPG
>
> Here's the context:
>
>
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2005/04/17/up\_for\_a\_fight.php
>
> - Rob.
>
> +
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>
<You guys don't know Respect very well, do you? > -I
know them pretty well - I'm a member since they
started & I've never made a secret that I'm a "Trot".
( ie consistent anti war activist, consistent trades
unionist,consistent anti racist, consistent opposer of
privatisation)
But I'm glad to see you've got your priorites in order
- something enormously positive & hopeful (and, I
think, of real historic significance, but we'll see)
occurs and you indulge in a little sectarian red
baiting - nice one!
As for the "fundamentalist" smear -well actually the
fundamentalists had a good try at physically
intimidating Galloway & Respect supporters & in fact
told Muslims they'd go straight to hell if they *did*
vote Respect.
Good job Galloway's constituents put class and
principle *before* this advice.
Its a pity that in other areas the only way of
registering a protest was to vote for the Lib Dems,
who opposed the war until it started, then opposed it
again when they discovered that the issue wasn't going
away and could win them some votes.
michael
--- Rob Myers <robmyers@mac.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 06, 2005, at 09:30AM, Michael
> Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >In London the new anti war party Respect, wins in
> >Bethnal Green and Bow, comes second in the two
> >neighbouring constituencies and in Birmingham
> >Sparkbrook, and third in London's Poplar and
> Canning
> >town constituency.
>
> You guys don't know Respect very well, do you?
>
> http://respectwatch.blogspot.com/
>
> They're the Trot-Fundie coalition, the worst
> excesses of red and green in an unlikely marriage of
> convenience.
>
>
http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/04/in\_a\_place\_near.html
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-18169-1590512,00.html
>
> Here's a picture of an anti war banner from the East
> End a while ago:
>
>
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/bufstopwar1.JPG
>
> Here's the context:
>
>
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2005/04/17/up\_for\_a\_fight.php
>
> - Rob.
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is
> open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set
> out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at
> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>