Weekend ahead! (Photo via, Madeira, Portugal).
Kunstmeile Hamburg ›
May 10 - June 9, 2012
The Kunstmeile Hamburg are the five renowned art institutions in the center of Hamburg. The Bucerius Kunst Forum, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg with its exhibition halls for contemporary art and photography, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunstverein Hamburg and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe are all within walking distance of each other along the art mile. Their excellent location near the Alster is an invitation to visitors to take a stroll of discovery. Together they exhibit an up-to-date, vibrant selection of contemporary and historical art in all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, applied arts and design.
As a follow up to the last post, that´s the trailer for 43,000 FEET, a short film about falling.
Tribeca: On his way to a statistics conference, John Wilkins is the victim of a freak accident, sucked out of a plane when an emergency door fails mid-flight. Realizing he has several minutes before he hits the ground, he reflects on his past, formulates a plan for hitting the ground, and rehearses what he will say to the media on the off chance that he survives.
Director Campbell Hooper has utilized elements from film, video, illustration, animation, sound design, painting, and photography in a wide range of international music videos and television commercials. He formed the creative studio Special Problems in 2007. This is his first short film.
The Guardian: Some years ago, Werner Herzog was on an internal flight somewhere in Colorado and the plane’s landing gear wouldn’t come down. They would have to make an emergency landing. The runway was covered in foam and flanked by scores of fire engines. “We were ordered to crouch down with our faces on our knees and hold our legs,” says Herzog, “and I refused to do it.” The stewardess was very upset, the co-pilot came out from the cabin and ordered him to do as he was told. “I said, ‘If we perish I want to see what’s coming at me, and if we survive, I want to see it as well. I’m not posing a danger to anyone by not being in this shitty, undignified position.’” In the end, the plane landed normally. Herzog was banned from the airline for life but, he laughs, it went bust two years later anyway.
“Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, ‘I would plant an apple tree today.’ This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.”
South Korean artist Hong Sung Chul creates intriguing three-dimensional portraits using numerous staggered elastic strings on which an image is printed. The artworks communicate the deep desire for human contact within our society. Hada Contemporary describes Sung Chul’s construction as “a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life — the umbilical chord.” Image © Hada Contemporary.
Happy Birthday Mr. Polaroid! LIFE.com: Here, on Edwin Land’s birthday (he was born May 7, 1909, in Bridgeport Conn.), and a full 40 years after the SX-70 was introduced, LIFE.com pays tribute to Land’s vision and his determination to, as he once put it, “provide an opportunity for creativity that other photography doesn’t allow.”
Photo: Edwin H. Land using one of his own creations, a Polaroid Land Camera.
