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Category Archives: Photography
Colour film & Skin Tone
Joel Meyerowitz on deciding to become a photographer
The Perspective Myth
How a film projector works
Shoot Film!
Demo Reel — 2012 from Evan Prosofsky on Vimeo.
Check out this show reel of music videos with cinematography by Montreal based Evan Prosofsky. All shot with super 35mm and super 16mm and Arriflex cameras. Perhaps you’d already noticed the filmic look of Grimes’ breakthrough video for ‘Oblivion‘, directed by, also based in Montreal, Emily Kai Bock, and featuring the football team of my alma mater マギル大学. The demo reel comes with the byline: “Please help keep film alive! Shoot film.” and Evan’s CV indicates that most of his projects are done with film, though he has used Red cameras on a couple of videos.
Anyways, shoot film! It’s one way to stand out from the crowd.
Dark Charisma
There’s currently a brief but insightful article in the BBC online magazine, probably timed for Remembrance Day. The composite of Hitler pics is really well done and stimulates thought about just what was responsible for Hitler’s popularity. And it made me think about people I know who exhibit some Hitler-like behaviour. Won’t name those here, but you might think about whether these pictures remind you of anyone you know, whether in real-life or in the media.
The Magic Sun (Sun Ra Arkestra x Phill Niblock)
Sun Ra filmed by Phill Niblock in the sixties.
Incendie de la biosphère
Archives de la Ville de Montréal, VM94-Ud77-27
The above image is not a computer graphic. The Biosphère, designed by Buckminister Fuller and Cambridge Seven Associates and built for Expo 67 in acrylic and steel, burst into flames while it was being renovated in 1976. The fire was triggered during welding work on the frame and the acrylic shell was consumed by flames in about thirty minutes. No one was killed in the accident, though there may have been some injuries. Not surprisingly, the fire has reportedly [1] made it easier to climb the structure, though I have not verified this myself.
Here’s a presentation by Cambridge Seven Associates. A cool feature of the pavilion was that the Expo monorail train route passed through the sphere. I recall feeling excited by the building but being disappointed by the somewhat vague exhibition inside. For example, you couldn’t walk on the simulated lunar landscape – pretty frustrating for a five year old.
[1] http://spacingmontreal.ca/2009/01/31/photo-du-jour-biosphere-burning/ (see comments)
Post-industrial Montreal
Pictures taken not far from where I used to live (Rue Bernard and Ave du Parc, in Outremont) as an undergraduate at Mcgill. There was already some post-industrial urban decay in those days, but the grafitti wasn’t as good. It feels like I’ve been on top of this building long ago, but surely it can’t have been abandoned for that long – probably déjà vu. Seems a little dangerous: there’s a sink hole where the roof is starting to cave in. And unhealthy: tons of pigeon shit and mold everywhere.
The building may be the location of this video:
or maybe it was shot in the Bovril building on the other side of Parc.