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j.viewz Playing Teardrop with Vegetables

Roy Pessis — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:12:26 +0000

j.viewz Playing Teardrop with Vegetables

Paperman

Gal Toledo — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:26:08 +0000

Paperman follows the story of a lonely young man in mid-century New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on his morning commute.

What Aristotle and Bell can teach us about persuasion

Roy Pessis — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:11:01 +0000

Imagine you are one of the world’s greatest violin players, and you decide to conduct an experiment: play inside a subway station and see if anyone stops to appreciate when you are stripped of a concert hall and name recognition. Joshua Bell did this, and Conor Neill channels Aristotle to understand why the context mattered.

The Event of a Thread

Roy Pessis — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:17:20 +0000

Visual artist Ann Hamilton combines the ephemeral presence of time with the material tactility for which she is best known to create a new large-scale installation for the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Commissioned by the Armory, the event of a thread references the building’s architecture, as well as the individual encounters and congregational gatherings that have animated its rich social history. A multisensory affair, the work draws together readings, sound, and live events within a field of swings that together invite visitors to connect to the action of each other and the work itself, illuminating the experience of the singular and collective body, the relationship between the animal and the human. The address of the readers to the pigeons shifts at the end of each day, when a vocalist on the drill hall’s balcony serenades their release to flight. Each day’s song is cut with a record lathe, and the resulting recording is played back the next day.

Brave

Roy Pessis — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:04:53 +0000

Meet Tommy Carroll. He has been skating since he was ten, but has been blind since the age of two…

Cascada

Roy Pessis — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:46:54 +0000

Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses…Perfection.
Is this a vacation? Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, Galen Volckhausen, Tim Kemple, Anson Fogel, Blake Hendrix and Skip Armstrong hunt the remote Mexican jungle for the perfect waterfall…and the perfect shot. Paddler and cinematographer alike explore a world beyond the expected.
Cascada.

Tour of the International Space Station

Roy Pessis — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:17:35 +0000

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station’s modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.

ReWalk

Roy Pessis — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:51:17 +0000

Amazing insight into life using a ReWalk as we interview John Dawson-Ellis interviewed after 30 hours of walking in the ReWalk system…

2012: What Brought Us Together

Roy Pessis — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:38:17 +0000

It was a year of breakthroughs, adversity, accomplishments. And the web shared all of it. From the highest sky-dive to the fastest running man, a first vote or last mission, joys and tragedies, grumpy cats and flash mobs, from silly to serious; whatever it is that we shared in 2012, here is a compilation.

The Real Thing

Roy Pessis — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:53:01 +0000

THE REAL THING is a short documentary about custom hot rod builder BODIE STROUD and his re-imagining of a classic Mustang by way of an extremely rare and powerful motor built specifically for legendary racer Mario Andretti’s 1969 Can Am series race car. The film follows the complex and creative build from its early stages, through its initial test drive all the way to an unveiling at the SEMA Car Show in Las Vegas where Bodie comes face to face with Mario Andretti himself.