kristina_kraft

February 14, 2009

Arthur,

No, I didn't see "Europa" and "Dancer in the dark", but I've just read it the plots. Dancer in the dark is too strong for my senses! And Europa movie is not for me either.

Von Triar produced Dogville ! I found that fact just reading about him. Dogville continues on, to - Manderlay as a second part.

February 13, 2009

Arthur,

this Tagtele video stream is very good. Now I understand better. Seems less chaotic.

I was reading about his other works. I wish I could see these movies. "Possible Worlds" seems very interesting from what I've read. There is almost nothing unfamiliar to me, inside. Then, "Far side of the moon", also, nothing unfamiliar to me. I'm really interesting how Lapage managed to express those truths that I also look for. And "The Confessions" seems to me very intrigued. I'd love to see this movie where past and present live together. It's just perfect, but unfortunately, these events end tragically. In a real life, I suppose, would lead to tragedy. Tell me if I'm wrong.

I recommend you to watch "Dogville" movie. Film-makers made a kind of inovation. The plot is placed inside of a real studio as a theatrical stage. Dogville is a village where the main actress Nicole Kidman hid herself from her father. From that point it starts very interesting play of how villagers had behaved upon her. It's terrified, it's awesome.

February 12, 2009

I often photograph my friends, myself and among that I photographed my boyfriend and myself together. In those moments I don't think on loss, but rather on preserving the moment in time that was important to me than. Those were a special moments to me, emotionally beautiful.It was a time when we were feeling close to one another. Our souls communicated than. It's really a remarkable feeling and a state of being when you experience such a warmth of relationship.

The rest would be an art of keeping a relationship an ongoing one. Unfortunately, males don't know how to keep it, how to care the garden. It's not in their nature "to stay at home" .

I would take a self-portrait with all of you here! And I would have titled it "We were Photo-Netters".

February 12, 2009

Holy smoke, Arthur!

That is a real gigantic performance. This is my first news about Lepage and I like what he did - a great tribute to Quebec city. The amazing part is how the pictures were rolling on cylindrical silos. I'm not sure if they managed some new technology for these particular sequences. I couldn't understand so smoothly the interview.

The music seems to imitate the noise of the mill. Together, for me it is one big audio-visual chaos that has a sense and purpose.

It looks like it is an ultimate deployment of photographic image, turning a page further .

January 28, 2009

I have a lot of portraits and self-portraits and I must tell how my face and physiognomy was changing, specially in my twenties and now. I discovered that human face is so dynamic like emotions, and that face is changing by the emotions and by the inner state.

Of course, I noticed also that in some people who are emotionally and psychologically rather stable, their faces would be static without changes. Of course, it's not so determined, rather relative. In the end it's all about how person can be open to a life, or to the changes that ones chooses.

Tom,

your personal story is charming.

January 6, 2009

I photograph myself from time to time when I experience some inner changes (excitement, joy, sorrow, loneliness, satisfaction, physical changes, or from creative reasons), or turning points to the outside world.

Simply put it, I just feel need to capture myself, to create and obtain some new control over myself.

January 6, 2009

Larry: "We experience art, and, like much of our experience, we do not analyse it to understand it, we just live it. And therein lies the real joy."

Yes, that's true for me too. Analyzing diminish the experience. IMO, when art work is analised, say, in the eye of the art historian, he actually can't enjoy on emotional level as might an ordinary viewer. Instead, he might see an art work from rather broader angles of perception because he has a knowledge, and his enjoyment is shown differently. He can be dedicated...,etc.

January 3, 2009

Fred,

you have nicely described a two side of the coin of consciousness. Thanks for the compliment.

January 3, 2009

I'd say that work of art dies the moment you recognize it. But dying here means transformation into personal, subjective world, for me. I'll talk about transformation.

Recognition is much more powerful than understanding . (I'm puzzling myself right now.) That kind of recognition is on personal basis, of course. Person can simply recognize his/her own state of mind in a particular work of art.

For example, I find myself biologically thrilled when I listen my favorite singers, songs. Pure electricity runs through my blood. And I feel high. Because my feeling through my senses recognize a musical mode that fits to my taste, to my perception of particular emotional state ("...Cry me a river that leads to your ocean ...It's just emotion that taking me over ..." - BeeGees, Emotion .) It's not only recognition in lyrics, but in the singer's voice which suits my senses.

When it is about visual art form, I just recognize some kind of universal beauty, a real canon. And I'm just silently in awe and sensing it with my eyes, fulfilling myself. It's my inner world that I feed . Nothing ever dies.

Great conversation is going on here.

January 3, 2009

Arthur,

I read that The Nibelungenlied is partly historical, partly mythical and partly a legend. And it was written through many decades by many storytellers. Tolkien and Lewis are totally different kind, having much more spiritual background. Reader can feel that he can become a part of the quest that characters experience (in the books). It's all about personal quest for the truth, meaning of life, belief. Romance and love are transformed and shown through spirituality, purity, faith.

But in the Nibelungenlied, human love is transformed and dispersed through all emotions that one person can have about the other; our earthly emotions which are the drive to make complex actions, like revenge....etc.

December 31, 2008

Arthur,

I am not familiar with "Nibelungenlied ". But from what I've read, on Amazon, I founded interesting, and this story needs to be taken in a small doses. It is so complex. Regarding that the author is unknown, I can only presume that he was someone close to Siegfried, some knight...etc.

Because the stroy seems to me so real, from what I've read. Like the author was a kind of witness. Well, human mind is so complicated, and human deeds and actions too.

I just don't believe that someone would write from the pure imagination that kind of legend about the hero.

I agree on that that Tolkien and Lewis were fed up with narrow-minded adults.

Happy New Year to you all!

December 30, 2008

Don, thanks.

Right, C.S. Lewis, The Seven Chronicles of Narnia . But from which book is this quote: The scent of an unseen flower ?

I know about the Chronicles. He lived in a war time and made such a great deed for the youngsters and kids in those times. Putting their attention to something magical, to the world of kings, heroes, fairies, dwarfs, Good and Evil...

But I much prefer Tolkien, whose stories are much more complex and they are for older one. But Lewis created a childhood warmth where every kid can become a hero, a prince, a fighter against an evil. The adventure is inevitable, that's for sure. And I like it a lot too. Both authors have their own uniqueness. I enjoyed in their books a lot.

December 29, 2008

Here is his photo of Alice Liddell, a daughter of Dean of Christ Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Liddell.jpg

December 29, 2008

I've just recalled that Lewis was a photographer too. He liked to photograph a girl who was a doughter of his friend - a rector of one of the churches in the 19 ct. It is said that this girl had been his inspiration for a book Alice in a Wonderland . So you may call me a looney if I say that this girl might had been his scent of an unseen flower .

(Let me find the photo of that girl. I've seen her on the web.)

December 29, 2008

It is peaceful and romantic view or earthrise and earthset. Has anyone ever composed some musical theme on Apollo mission?

Pictures from 1968 look much better than from the last year.

Well, I only watched a movie about that mission.

December 29, 2008

...and Winogrand:

http://masters-of-photography.com/W/winogrand/winogrand_articles3.html

http://masters-of-photography.com/W/winogrand/winogrand_articles2.html

"Animal in the human":

http://masters-of-photography.com/W/winogrand/winogrand_new_york_zoo.html

December 29, 2008

Here are few links about Gowin:

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Emmet__Gowin/A/

http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibit/legacy/bios/bios-gh.html

A biography only. You'll find his books too.

http://www.geh.org/ne/str085/htmlsrc5/gowin_sld00001.html

and his photographs! I am not sure if you can find his statement in this photos. They are strange a lot, but metaphysical, I don't know.

December 29, 2008

"Your feelings, pro and con, on the use of multiple images in a photo may go far enlighten me and the rest of us on how such photography may or may not be useful. How do you think it is perceived by the public who may be interested in photography?"

Multiple images, collages, diptychs from my experience are usually used in a commercial photography; when industry wants to present some of their products at public places - shops, restaurants and similar. Then those kind of multiple images are visually very attractive and it suits as a decoration very well.

I personally never did this kind of images, but if I ever come to describe as a photo essay, I'd probably do triptychs and multiple one.

December 28, 2008

Arthur, you've done very attractive thread here.

"Is it important to you to seek the unseen and to photograph it? Perhaps it is something you are looking for or perhaps even more absract. Is the scent of an unknown and yet unseen flower a stimulus for your hobby or profession? Are you driven by your appreciation of the usual, or by the challenge of the unusual or unexperienced?"

Lets see the unseen: Of course, this has been my motivation from always. I've seen many places and spaces. On my way I have found I sacrifice myself a lot, spontaneously. It came as I am becoming older. I become a searcher and have discovered a life in its splendour and fulfilness. So many depths that sometimes I feel lost just as Alice in a Wonderland. I just, then, let myself into it, accept, and then it's gone. And I'm back on track, so to speak.

The scent of an unseen and unknown flower - Yes, that's it. That is the part where my motivation begin, always. And I am aware of a danger on the way. But where is the limit, then? I think, I know where lies mine. I discovered it on the way.

Challenge of the unusual and unexperienced: The challenge might become a problem, an obstacle. Might ask: How strong is my motivation and drive to dare. It all depends on my power of creativity - how to do things on my quest. I'm satisfied right now the way it goes.

As a kid I used to play with myself in a way I'd hid myself in a closet and closed the door, sitting in a dark for a few minutes. Many kids are afraid of the dark, specially when comes the time for sleeping. I've never been afraid of the dark. That was a good start, wasn't it?

Some of you were strangers for me in the begining, putting my posts among the strangers. You might call it a challenge for unexperienced and unseen situations. Now, I'm still here, writing among less strangers, feeling comfortable.

December 16, 2008

Well maybe her work is not emotional and intellectual, but it is joyful and funny. Hey, it's a party time, after all! I was enjoying watching the video. She is working very smooth.

November 25, 2008

That's very informative article. I find very useful paragraph about the "Star Wars". Was it about the movie or 3D animation, when he talked about the post-processing and creating many layers on a particular object? (I prefer the movie.) I like screens a lot. I accepted this technology as a normal way of living. Above all, it is bright, radiant and it entertains. It would be perfect for us, people, if we could only entertain ourselves without mediators and media. Just in live, enjoying each other company. I'm saying this from my experience. I'm not entertained so much from persons in my life. I'll try to work this out, try to find the balance among all these emotions. Usually Holywood was the one who has been entertained me all of my life. Usually, I was watching movies by myself in cinemas. I was giving all my attention to the screen.

So, what do you think?

November 22, 2008

Nicely said, John - "I am loving. I am breathing".

November 20, 2008

Fred,

"Push-pull photographs, ones that draw me in and simultaneously push me away, can be very powerful and sincere..." - Can you explain me, because this is very interesting, what do you mean by that? Give me some example. Why do you think it is powerful?

John,

"It's paradoxical that you experience joy and suffering from the same relationship, but it's not ironic unless you want to...perhaps... diminish the relationship..." - I agree. You said it perfectly. I know that feeling. I can't escape from it. I accepted it and I live with that notion. But I can't explain on philosophical level why I feel like that. Maybe you may want to explain.

Juliet, for me, didn't discover Romeo's death. I don't see discovering in this case. Rather I see it as her stupidity because she didn't check the pulse in the neck. She didn't do anything from medical perspective. Neither she didn't touch his heart to feel the pulse. Why Shakespeare missed that?

I am more of the type of a person who likes to discover and recognized. Mysteries makes me nervous.

Now I feel like a character in a book, having tea time and conversation with you guys.

November 17, 2008

John, now I got it. Do you mean that the song "You Were Always on my Mind" is ironic? Tell me, what kind of man he was when he wrote such a lyrics? How can man think on a woman and at the same time not giving her enough and healthy love, claiming "I'm so happy that you were mine" ? Why so many contradiction? It looks to me as his real experience. Maybe he was feeling crucified somehow and ended...

What's your opinion, John?

Yes, in this case this is my association just looking at Eggleston's beautiful and old photograph.

November 15, 2008

Visiting Graceland web sites, I just don't quite understand why Lisa - Marie can't make a fresh photographs of Elvis bedroom, or second floor in general. I mean 30 years have passed. It could be just as with National Archive documents that can be publish after 30 years publicly. So that the world can be informed. It's really too bad that millions of people can't see the second floor, almost silly.

It would be great to see in details his brush, clothes, etc.

What do you think, John?

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