Yes, I haven’t been updating anything these past few weeks. But there’s a lot of stuff coming up! Band photoshoots, live photography, a ton of instant film for my two new (old) Polaroid SX-70s ready to be scanned, design work, music, et cetera - here, a small appetizer: Cult of Luna @ Siddharta Club, Prato. The entire set is available on Flickr. Enjoy!
Check this Pitchfork article out: photography and electronic music compared, intertwined, deconstructed, glorified. Kind of.
Electronic music and photography have more than a few things in common: crucially, both genres’ dependence upon mechanical, electronic and/or digital reproduction. Perhaps more importantly, both genres have lagged behind their older “siblings” (painting or traditional acoustic or electrically amplified music) in becoming fully recognized and validated on their own terms. Far from being a coincidence, their shaky reputations are wholly wrapped up in their reproductive methods.
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Electronic music– especially in its popular, club-oriented forms– remains a second-class citizen, the black sheep of the musical flock, for many of the same reasons that photography was denigrated for so long: Mediated principally by machines, it’s often believed to be inauthentically expressive– the expression not of the artist but of the automatic device he or she wields.
I’m drooling. I’ve also found out about Gabriel Ananda. Nice minimalist techno. I want to do electronic music so bad. It just sound easy! I love it. I miss the good days when I used to compose electronic pieces with ReBirth. That was so fun and easy. That’s what makes it for me: you can basically have a finished product in few hours. I heard Aphex Twin saying how even back in the mid-90’s he had some 150 hours of completed music. Think about it.
It took me a while to realize how great Flickr is. Especially in the Pro version. I thought I’d make the big jump and it’s amazingly smooth and efficient. What else? Go check it out, I have put up a lot of new sets so it’s not a mess anymore. And more to come, of course. I have to edit those 500+ pictures from Paris.
…photography, for a while?
Though photography has been a great source of interest in this past two years, this is the first post about it. I don’t know why I haven’t done this before, but today I found out many interesting photoblogs and I think that gave me a little butt kick to start things off here. I subscribed to their RSS feeds, so I can have them with my email as soon as they’re updated. That is fancy. I’m going to post the links in the next days so you can see what I’m talking about.
What I like the most about photologs is the different approach every photographer has to their own work: besides of technical ability and design choices, I’m more fascinated by the different motivations they have and the goals they look forward to. And there are different medias involved: from digital SLRs to medium format film cameras, to point-and-shoot, even to hand made cameras. With time I learnt how to see the differences between different media, and my interest seems to be growing in every direction.
I’m also thinking about starting a photoblog myself, but that will come in a little time. Right now I’m posting occasionally on Flickr. The latest two sets I just published here on the Photography section (and in part also on Flickr) are from the celebration for the World Cup in Thiene, the closest bigger town. Everybody went crazy on the streets, and it was fun to shoot some portraits. Despite my usual crappy mood and the damn autofocus not working in the dark. The kit lens that came together with my Canon EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT) is pretty impossible to deal with as far as manual focus goes. The focusing ring is all wobbly and that just gets in the way in low light, where the AF sensor is practically blind.
So the next morning I decided I had to order that cheap Canon 50mm f1.8, as I read it’s worth the price and it will hopefully make the viewfinder brighter. It should arrive before the end of the month, so I will be able to test it in Stockholm this august.