The King

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© 2007 Olafur Eliasson, courtesy the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and neugerriemschneider

“No museum wants [a work involving] water on the fifth floor, right on top of a Picasso show.” Just came across this great interview with my hero Olafur Eliasson from a couple of years ago. Swoon.

via Olafur Eliasson – ARTINFO.com.

Not Completely Trailer Cynicalized Yet

Nay, I still got excited looking at this. And I’d just recently read all about it in Vanity Fair without getting excited. Despite descriptions of a process that involved replacing Heath Ledger, who died during production, with multiple actors (Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law). Despite Terry Gilliam, say no more. For that matter, despite Christopher Plummer, also say no more. So, hats off to the trailermakin bizness once again.

Why Do I Need To Think He Is Nice?

I follow Eric Whitacre in Facebook. His Lux Aurumque blew me away the first time I ever heard it, and still shivers me timbers countless listens later. He is a young, online, easy-on-the-eyes guy too, which, perhaps strangely, I do not associate with the world of virtuoso choral composition.

Today I share with you a post from my Facebook friend Eric. He is producing a virtual performance of Lux. Actually the Facebook post is of a blog post, which includes enticements to investigate further, such as “Making the conductor track was a strange experience for me personally. The production crew set up the cameras and left the room, and I conducted through the entire piece in total silence, hearing only the ‘ideal’ version in my head. Then I went back to the video and played the piano part over my silent conductor track. That was especially difficult, and weird: the Eric-piano-player playing for the Eric-the-conductor on a piece that Eric-the-composer wrote ten years ago.”

Should you decide to participate in the virtual performance, the video you’ll use, for syncing and of course for direction from The Eric, is right there, beckoning…Actually it is right here too, above. But go read the original post, below.

Virtual Choir: The Lux Aurumque Conductor Track « SoaringLeap.com.

Suits My Crazy

Today, Motionographer sagely, generously directs us to revisit Tadonori Yokoo’s strange Kachi Kachi Yama. We take this direction, and we are grateful. And now we must spend some googletime trying to learn more about this guy so that we can more vividly imagine spending time with him in 1965. AND, we must begin hanging paper currency out the corner of our mouth like a dart all the time.