tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8770747208120822082..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Subjective City ValentineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30885160271344808632014-02-15T06:31:41.680-08:002014-02-15T06:31:41.680-08:00Performative is definitely the apt term.
A povert...Performative is definitely the apt term.<br /><br />A poverty of feeling, or a poverty of means, and circumstance?<br /><br />The smogcloaked landscape in which these pathetic theatrics play out:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/down-by-river.html" rel="nofollow">Down by the River</a><br /><br />The photographer is of the generation that came of age at the time of this remarkable and as it now seems prophetic film document of post-postmodern phantasmagoria, alienation and mass virtual spectacle. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UentCQ98n4" rel="nofollow">Jia Zhangke: The World (2004)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71224032996374736832014-02-15T02:19:28.306-08:002014-02-15T02:19:28.306-08:00They have a performative feel and yet there's ...They have a performative feel and yet there's allusion to the given world. Makes for some odd spaces in the frames.<br /><br />And the question of where to place the subject colours everything.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48047901300985783812014-02-14T20:18:58.424-08:002014-02-14T20:18:58.424-08:00Stunning,stunning pictures..And after returning fr...Stunning,stunning pictures..And after returning from watching a screening of "Her"..I hesitantly possess a visual perspective of what a mechanical coupling would look like for us(the literal one)..it ain't pretty..neither are these..so the transition should be smooth..by the time iphone 10 or 15's are out..who knows what these images will look like..manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54825060023926622002014-02-14T10:40:53.318-08:002014-02-14T10:40:53.318-08:00These are pictures of absence. There’s a lack of f...These are pictures of absence. There’s a lack of feeling, of emotion, especially the one emotion celebrated on this day. The images pose a question. They bring to mind the contemporary, neo-amorous phrase “to hook up,” and the dearth of sensuality and warmth and caring implied in those words, that are better suited to describe a mechanical coupling.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20553201646133428322014-02-14T07:57:38.580-08:002014-02-14T07:57:38.580-08:00Wow indeed! What an amazing series.Wow indeed! What an amazing series.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26886237824441497692014-02-14T07:17:07.526-08:002014-02-14T07:17:07.526-08:00wowwowLallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.com