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I'll be moving house so there will be around a one week break on the WIRE until everything gets settled. In the meantime, follow the links to our friends or why not browse through the archive.
Thanks again for your support and enjoy the twilight of the summer.
It's difficult to find much information on Myung Sook Yoon and the diminutive displays of her work online do little justice to her creations. Also, I've found that many South Korean photographers are poorly represented in the west which is a shame. We'll have to see what we can do about that.
"The sea accompanied by typhoon or hard rain is dreadful but makes my heart flutter with a new hope.
Sometimes a strong wind shaking my windows makes me sit up all night but with a happy expectation that a new day will come with clear and beautiful scenes newly born after the rain.
Whenever I take pictures, there is not myself, there is only a person who feels cold and hungry.
After the stay in big Jeju Island where I have no acquaintances for about two weeks, I can hear a sound from deep in my heart.
It is my voice of yearning to talk to someone. Yell!
Keep going to and out of the coast in the rain for several consecutive days, I just wait for the rain to stop.
And finally I see the sun coming out, I just feel like running away when I stand in the piercing wind at the rainy coast of Jeju Island in mid winter.
But those that are not frequently seen I want to take.
Time does not exist when I think in which angle I should see the sea, where between the sky and the sea I should put the horizon, etc.
In Seoul, electric cables in the street sometimes remind me of the horizon.
The sea shows a desperate, dark appearance but a hope suddenly comes out of it.
I felt desperate about the fact that I am a woman before.
I also felt bad about myself that I am small, silent and not social.
As time went by, I understood those things have made myself.
Now I found myself enjoying taking landscapes into the photos alone.
The sea is always there, showing its appearances as it is and I see the appearances of the sea the way I want to see it.
This is my relation with the sea.
I become the richest of all in the world when I take the photo of the sea that I wanted after a long waiting.
I am just happy that I have stood before the sea."
Satoshi Kon, director of the superb films Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, and Paprika has succumbed to cancer at the age of 46. (Just two months short of his 47th birthday).
From the psychological thriller Perfect Blue to the epic drama of Millenium Actress, Satoshi Kon stood as one of the top film makers in the world creating several classics in his all too short repertoire. If you have yet to see his work, do not deny yourself.
Read the full article HERE."When I heard about it – in passing, in a soundbite – I figured it was a US example of the sort of inanely confrontational fantasy scheme Anjem Choudary might issue a press release about if he fancied winding up the tabloids for the 900th time this year. I was wrong. The "Ground Zero mosque" is a genuine proposal, but it's slightly less provocative than its critics' nickname makes it sound. For one thing, it's not at Ground Zero. Also, it isn't a mosque.
Wait, it gets duller. It's not being built by extremists either. Cordoba House, as it's known, is a proposed Islamic cultural centre, which, in addition to a prayer room, will include a basketball court, restaurant, and swimming pool. Its aim is to improve inter-faith relations. It'll probably also have comfy chairs and people who smile at you when you walk in, the monsters."
"Sixes Last" for musician Alias' track from his album Muted was created by 1st Avenue Machine in 2005. Directed my Arvind Palep and produced by Serge Patzak, it's beautifully strange.
"It is about how artificiality is creeping into the modern day world," said director Arvind Palep. "We were looking at a merge between synthetic biology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and what could spawn from them."
Under the intense microscope of Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, "Sting" appears as shallow as a typical politician if not plain stupid.
With the release of the film Moomins and the Comet Chase in cinemas and with the republication in english of The Dangerous Journey (4 Nov 2010 - UK), it is a good time to be a Moomin fan. As an added bonus, Björk has done a track on the film with frequent collaborator, poet and writer Sjón.
Happy 65th anniversary to the Moomins!
Links:
Moomins and the Comet Chase
Moonins and the Comet Chase (IMDB)
Grand Old Aunt Björk (Reykjavik Grapevine)
More Moomin Magic (Publisher's Weekly)
Tove Jansson's Moomins (SiouxWIRE)
Sjón Profile
At the end of a day that started with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being accused of rape and molestation in Sweden, Sweden's Chief Prosecutor, Eva Finne has now stated, "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape." Prior to this withdrawal of an arrest warrant, Assange had stated, "The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing" and "We were warned to expect 'dirty tricks'. Now we have the first one."
So this leads one to ask the obvious question: Who was behind these allegations?
Here's another interview with Julian Assange:
For Julie Taymor's latest film, she returns to her first work on stage, Shakespeare's The Tempest though in this adaptation, Prospero has been cast as a woman, Helen Mirren. Her earlier adaptation of Titus Andronicus, Titus (also by Shakespeare) is among my favourite films so I am anticipating great things from this.
The Tempest will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September with general release scheduled for 10 December 2010.
Links:
The Tempest (film) Wiki
Julie Taymor Wiki
The Tempest (IMDB)
Julie Taymor's The Tempest to close Venice Film Festival (Guardian)
Helen Mirren in lead role in Julie Taymor's The Tempest (USA Today)
Julie Taymor's Titus (SiouxWIRE)
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