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Trevor Paglen has been called the Fox Mulder of cultural geography – his ongoing military-industrial counter-surveillance project The Secret Bases: Exploring the Pentagon’s “Black World” prompted the US government to extend the perimeter around Area 51 to prevent him from taking photographs from the tops of nearby mountains. He will be speaking at USC this Friday (11/18) at 2:00PM in Kaprielian Hall (KAP) Room 417. This will be a most remarkable event, I assure you!
Today’s LA Weekly features an article by Holly Willis on digital media art in Los Angeles which includes interviews with Naimark, Hoberman and Bleecker.
From Chera…A rare screening of How the West Was Won in 3-Strip CINERAMA October 28 through November 3, 2005 at the Cinerama Dome.
How the West Was Won features a star-studded cast that includes Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Preston, James Stewart, and John Wayne. Directed by not one but three film directors, including the legendary John Ford, this epic broke box office records during its initial release in 1962.
The Cinerama Dome is one of a handful of theaters left in the world that has the capability to screen three-strip Cinerama. The technically and economically challenging Cinerama process, which used three simultaneous cameras to film and takes three separate projectors to exhibit, lasted only 12 years, and How the West Was Won is one of only two feature films to be produced, and the only one that has been restored.
From Ghia… “This is a link to the website for the London Eye, otherwise known as the giant ferris wheel that sits on the South Bank. The view that it affords is stunningly similar to the one in the panorama book. It is also similar to the ascent of a hot air balloon although not as high. Click on “Eye View” and you can take a virtual tour.”
The A short panoramic clip taken from the moving sidewalk at the 1900 World Exposition in Paris
The Santa Monica Camera Obscura is located at 1450 Ocean Avenue, just north of the SM pier. Open weekdays 9-4; weekends 11-4
Magnificent Desolation and Wild Safari 3D IMAX movies now playing at the California Science Center
The Ecstasy: In and About Altered States show opens at MoCA on Sunday 10/9.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is open Thurs 2:00-8:00; Fri-Sun 12:00-6:00
The Doug Aitken show at Regen Projects in West Hollywood closes this Saturday 10/8!
