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The Portrait Machine Project Book

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I’m fascinated by Carlo Van de Roer‘s The Portrait Machine Project.

From the artist: This project explores the idea that a camera can reveal an insight into the subjects character or the relationship between the photographer, subject and viewer. These portraits are made with a Polaroid aura camera developed by American inventor in an attempt to record what a psychic might see. 

 The subject is connected to the camera by sensors measuring electromagnetic biofeedback. It translates these readings into information about the subjects character and how they are seen by others. The camera generates a printed description of these views of the subject which are also depicted as color in the Polaroid. 

 The aura camera has undertones of pseudo-scientific authority and attributes associated with a less mediated type of photography. It’s a modified land camera that uses instant film and has only one button, implying minimal mediation from the photographer.

The Portrait Machine Project Signed Limited Edition is available on Exhibition A here.  You can watch a short video here from  Van de Roer’s kickstarter to find out more about the process. 

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INSIDE OUT 11M

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My family and I were super excited to participate in French artist, JR’s ever evolving INSIDE OUT, the world’s largest participatory art project here in Los Angeles. Yesterday’s event was to bring attention to immigration reform.

JR creates a global participatory art project inspired by his large‐format street “pastings” with the aim of turning the world “INSIDE OUT”. The concept is to give everyone the opportunity to share with the world their portrait and a statement of what they stand for, through the power of their own image. Now the people don’t just see art, they make it. ~insideout

I watched INSIDE OUT: The People’s Art Project movie several months ago on HBO.  It was extremely moving to see the reach of people involved and “power of paper and glue”.

Watch the trailer for this incredible film here.

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Walter De Maria 1935-2013

de maria 1images: The 2000 Sculpture at LACMA, Lightning Field in New Mexico, De Maria and his Mile Long Drawing in the mojave desert 

A pioneering figure in the development of minimal, conceptual, land art, and installation art, Walter De Maria has made minimalist horizontal sculptures that occupy entire rooms since 1969. ~lacma.org 

Read more on De Maria’s passing in today’s LA Times here.

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Parachute Market

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Well, this weekend is off to a DESIGN filled start.  I’m headed off to downtown LA in a bit to check out Dwell on Design event at the convention center.  Then saturday will be back DTLA taking the family to Parachute Market.

From the people who brought us STOREFRONT LA and A Current Affair –  PARACHUTE MARKET  “is a quarterly design show for artists and designers to present their work in a thematic venue, chosen for its commonality and curatorial integrity. ” This weekend, for their Summer 2013 show, the theme is “Psychedelic Summer”, referencing post-modern design birthed via psychedelic culture. The market features furniture and object design, fine art, sculpture, vintage clothing, vintage furniture, fashion design, music, and the culinary arts, all cradled together under the theme of the season.~standardculture

More information and tickets here.

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Photographer Nicholas Alan Cope‘s monograph captures the dramatic light and shadows produced by the Southern California sun on the landscape of Los Angeles modern architecture.

In the foreward written by Designer Rick Owens: ” I moved to Paris from Los Angeles 10 years ago and haven’t been back since. But this is exactly how I remember it. Bright hot incessant clear light, casting blackety-black shadows from Brutalist blocks that take the history of architecture and silently reduce and contain it like lunar tombs. Or Aztec temples morphed into foam-core cartoons.

This kind of light makes decisions easier, more black and white. Good vs bad, pure vs impure, aspiration vs collapse. Determined grim optimism vs self indulgent despair. The suggestion of an old Hollywood monolithic black-and-white movie set encourages self invention and self consciousness as you make your way down an imaginary long white staircase. There’s not another living soul on the set and the spotlight is on you, wiping out any flaw or imperfection, hallucinating yourself into who you wanna be… 

Exactly how I remember it…” ~Rick Owens, November 2012

For more information and to purchase Whitewash from powerHouse Books see here.

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AMERICAN HARDCORE

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The Vinyl Factory and The Mott Collection announce a new exhibition and publication: American Hardcore, 1978-1990.

The exhibition brings together 50 American Hardcore records spanning the apex of the genre from the late 70s up to the 90s, and takes place at The Vinyl Factory Chelsea from 11 April to 4 May 2013. 

The collection showcases the subtle shifts and changes, and finally the overall unification of what began as a disparate musical style that developed into a rigid set of fixed codes, sounds, and political beliefs.

From the raw stripped down sounds of Black Flag to the spasmodic reggae influenced Bad Brains, Hardcore emerged as a puritanical suburban rely to the decadence of big city Punk Rock outfits such as the Ramones or the New York Dolls. ~vfeditions

Ah, I can smell my youth just by looking at these images.