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Posts Tagged ‘Iceland’

pictures of light

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

There are some beautiful photographs of Eyjafjallajokull accompanied by the Northern Lights here. (Thanks to Politics Theory Photography for posting on it.) They remind me of one of my favorite films about nature, seeing, and light, Peter Mettler’s Picture of Light (with music by Jim O’Rourke). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUUJWWE34o&hl=en_US&fs=1&

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the Event (or, ‘nature at its finest’)

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , on April 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Volcanic eruption films aren’t plentiful enough to make their own genre. Most of them fall into the disaster genre or the straight documentary video. Werner Herzog’s 1977 film La Soufrière, about the anticipated eruption in 1976 of an active volcano on the island of Guadeloupe, is different. Like his quasi-science-fictional films — Fata Morgana, Lessons […]

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metadata & musical geography (from album covers to cultural policy)

Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »

One of the more oblique threads I’ve been pursuing on this blog has to do with what new media are doing to aural and musical information. Music is, of course, much more than information: it is embodied affect (in a Deleuzian sense) that carries, channels, activates, mobilizes (sets into motion), transforms, and disseminates cultural meanings […]

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