reminiscing an already extinct profession…
2009.06.16 02:02
This is Part II of kucingputi’s piece on movie banner and poster painters. Enjoy! If cinema banner painters are pessimistically waiting for their final day, a similar profession has taken their last breath a decade ago. “I can’t even remember the last time I made a movie poster,” said 55-year old Rusdi, a graphic designer [...]
painting for the silver screen…
2009.06.15 22:22
From the dimly-lit, makeshift painting studios in the kampungs of Jakarta, people armed with large pieces of white cloth and wall paint are struggling to survive from a not-so-glamorous part of the cinema business. They are artists of under-appreciated works. Art works that give us a glimpse of the latest movie on the theatre and [...]
Help the Tweenbots!
2009.04.14 12:05
What would you do if you met a robot on the streets, lost and lonely and looking for directions? That’s what the Tweenbots social experiment project by Kacie Kinzer from NYU’s ITP sought to find out. A cardboard robot, that could only roll in a straight line, was put to test, with only a [...]
Guernica
2009.04.13 23:01
BBC recently ran a story about Pablo Picasso’s painting of the Guernica bombing, in remembrance of the tragic event, which occured on April 26, 1937. Guernica, a historical Basque town in the Biscay province, was victim to a particularly controversial type of air-raid bombing –known as “terror bombing“– during the Spanish Civil War. Immortalized in [...]
