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Posts archive for: November, 2008
  • Local Hero - happy 25th birthday

    Good grief - I'm losing my grip - another complimentary post about the Beeb!

    Tonight, Mark Kermode and Bill Forsyth are visiting the location of possibly the best film in the world - Local Hero.

    Our VHS tape wore out we watched it so often, and now we have a DVD from Canada, thanks to the wonders of ebay.

    So I shall be glued to the set come 22:00 tonight.

    Culture show trailer

    PS I'm glad it's not that annoyingly matey Geordie lass presenting though...

  • Let there be light

    I know I am usually banging on about how rubbish terrestrial TV is, but I rather enjoyed the last episode of Alan Yentob's Imagine called "Let there be light". As a photographer, I was very interested in other ways artists use light to express themseves. Featured artists include:

    • Liliane Lijn - Aerogel sculptures
    • United Visual Artists - interactive light and sound installations for public spaces
    • Charles Ross - spectra from large prisms and lenses
    • Anthony McCall - light sculptures in a dark room 
    • James Turrell - amazing lit spaces looking onto the sky and playing on optical illusions
    • and of course that old favourite - the fluorescent tube king, Dan Flavin.

    I can recommend it - Yentob is an infectiously enthusiastic chap, and some of the art is mesmerising - especially Turrell's I thought. On the BBC iplayer now:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fm1vb/Imagine_Let_There_Be_Light/

    A jewel adrift in a sea of dross.

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