i remembered this from last year's drawing trip to the wellcome collection. titled 'phantom museum' 2003 by the quay brothers, this short animation documents a journey through the trust's peculiar medical archives, but what interested me most was the way it was shot. (see stills below)

…it begins with an obscurant low angle shot, with nothing but the curator's white gloved hand in view as they ascend the staircase which echoes the sense of intrigue that surrounds the artefacts. the film can be viewed here.

i love the character of old, crackly, black and white films. they seem to have the ability to make everything more mysterious and unsettling. there's something quite jarring about this 1925 demonstration (also from wellcomefilm's youtube channel) of orthopaedic exercises for spinal correction...

currently taken up these exercises - there's just enough room in my bedroom to do them in. - joke, but amazing to see how medical treatment has transformed over the decades.

I heart the internet.

reading week! - woop! ...hasn't got off to the best of starts tho…missed a voluntary photography 'intro' at uni this morning which i was wanting to go to, but it was halloween last night so i'll forgive myself. it is however coming up to 4pm and i'm still in bed :/... the internet is far too addictive, but rewarding nonetheless when you find a little gem like matt irwin's blog...

for the last few weeks i'v been working on my web design in flash. have to say - not a fan of computers me, but i'm actually starting to enjoy it now. I'v gone for the minimalist look (as have most ppl) but was wanting to zhoosh it up a bit with a fancy pre-loader and had envisaged a kind of net or something forming from a load of lines that would creep onto a white background. wasn't sure how i could do this but by chance i found this animated vid on the barbican's website (for their 'in praise of the shadows' exhibition), which is almost a perfect example of what i was looking for! ffaaaaabulous darling...

moiré (piano and organ) from defetto on Vimeo.

Typographic Tautology

we worked in pairs for this project. i had the lovely ed rivers working with me :] and after a lot of research we ended up deconstructing an aristotle quote (below).

the most significance we found with this tongue-twister, was its allusive message & unnecessary repetition of meaning using different words that effectively mean the same thing. we aimed to illustrate this confusion by overlaying the two halves of the quotation, which creates a kind of typographical illusion. letterforms can both be found in the negative and positive shapes which reinforces the message of the quotation itself; how do we define truth?

"To say of what is that is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is that it is not, is true." Aristotle.

Typographic Spiderweb from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.

Bland Is Beautiful

photography by luke stephenson

philip wood

carl kleiner (check out his diary)

…& stirring imagery from larry sultan reminds me of alexey titarenko's work titled 'city of shadows'.

just coz they're nice...

i dont know why, but i felt compelled to post these two spreads up that i found whilst doing my recurrent blog-stalking. (above taken from zut-alor sinc [either the world's most clever or irritating website], & below by barney bubbles, featured in creative review).