The Rampler #356 (8/12/09) 15.9
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The Rampler #356 (8/12/09) 15.9 (41:52 / 38.6 MB)
The Overnightscape Underground – August 2009 – Track 9
“Your Late Night Broadcast” online at onsug.com
Created by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) in New Jersey, USA
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“SUPER SHOES” – 41:52 / 38.6 MB – Frank in NYC in the morning. Installing new clocks, alarm, flyers, spelling errors, the super shoes theory, getting a passion fruit macadamia bar, psychic penny test, attention span, The Orb “The Dream”, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Bryant Park, Your World of Text, book publishing, Frank’s poetry books “Duskaway Parking” and “Severe Repair: Book One”, the idea of the re-release of the poetry book to be called “Thinkfang”, Secaucus Junction, the aesthetics of parking in a parking garage and taking a train to work, Frank’s video project Inramble.com, and the haze of mental sheen.
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License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com
http://documentaryheaven.com/2009/08/baraka/
Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as “breath of life†or “blessing,†Baraka is Ron Fricke’s impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio’s non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio’s film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on Koyaanisqatsi.
The result is a tour-de-force in 70mm: a cinematic “guided meditation†(Fricke’s own description) shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period that unites religious ritual, the phenomena of nature, and man’s own destructive powers into a web of moving images.
Fricke’s camera ranges, in meditative slow motion or bewildering time-lapse, over the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the Ryoan-Ji temple in Kyoto, Lake Natron in Tanzania, burning oil fields in Kuwait, the smoldering precipice of an active volcano, a busy subway terminal, tribal celebrations of the Masai in Kenya, chanting monks in the Dip Tse Chok Ling monastery…and on and on, through locales across the globe. To execute the film’s time-lapse sequences, Fricke had a special camera built that combined time-lapse photography with perfectly controlled movements.
Comment by eddie — August 14, 2009 @ 5:05 am