rue blees luxemburg

rue blees luxemburgs technique is night photography mostly exploring the urban landscape, using long exposures and only the available light.


Commonsensual is a journey of her work over a ten year period, combining projects and creating new relationships. Looming out from a world of shadow and mystery, Luxemburg takes us out of the real world, holding no moe than a tenous link with the latter.

Distinctive green and yellows.

Commonsensual: The Works of Rut Blees Luxemburg

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Rut Blees Luxemburg s photographic work explores the public spaces of cities, where the ambitions and unexpected sensual elaborations of the modern project are revealed. In so doing she brings to light the overlooked, the dismissed and the unforeseen and creates uncanny and vertiginous compositions whose constituent parts suggest different ways of experiencing our shared common spaces.
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Tom Hunter

'London Fields East - the Ghetto' by James Mackinnon and Tom Hunter. By permission of the artists. 1994

Sticking it out in London Fields

This three-dimensional model shows a row of houses in Ellingfort Road in Hackney. It is made from photographic images, paper and wood. Artists Tom Hunter and James McKinnon produced the model in 1994.

The artists' home

In 1994 squatters occupied much of Ellingfort Road. Hackney Council repeatedly threatened to evict them. Many of the squatters were artists who nick-named their street 'The Ghetto'. The artists wanted to record this exciting community in their work in a way that countered the Council's rejection of them as socially unacceptable.

Making a statement

The model comments on the use and regeneration of buildings in the city. It also explores the conflicts that occur between councils and communities. By highlighting the threat and explaining the importance of the artistic community, the residents eventually saved the street from demolition. The houses are currently being refurbished.

*All information from:

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/E8.html

For Batter or Worse, Tom Hunter

The Hall take 2

Re-think Hall scene, is there a scene?

For Batter or Worse, Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter uses historical referenceswhen creating his scenes.

Extra images

Not doing anything with these extra images of the city.

Cheapside

Location: Cheapside, scene: headlights and passerby.

red markings to be removed, yellow is an indication of car and peach on the right for passerby.

Arrange car and model, time between 4pm and 5pm.

Shoot set for Wednesday 11Th November 2009.

A Perfect Place - Mike Patton

A PERFECT PLACE

A PERFECT PLACE
A film by Derrick Scocchera
Soundtrack by Mike Patton

The black and white film is 25 minutes long, a short story about two men and their perfect place for their imperfect crime. It was the soundtrack that lead me to the film in particular track two, titled, A Perfect Place.
I listen to this when I'm travelling on the buses mostly, watching the world around me transform from what it is to what it really is. Reality, normality, what do these terms mean, what is normal, is normal what is acceptable, and if so who accepts it, the majority?
I could imagine in medieval times people who suffered from conditions such as epilepsy would have been considered to be possessed by the devil and either outcasted or put to death. The human race as advanced in some ways but I fear in others we are drastically going backwards, whether this is a deliberate intension to keep the masses of people under control, so that other particular groups of people may gain from this I cannot say, but I do believe there are far too many people unwilling or unable to even try and understand, not just other individuals but everything and anything they experience.

A perfect place opens my eyes, I sit back and watch the humanity around me and I try to understand what I see. Are the strange really so strange for me normality seams to be one of the strangest ideas if you can call it that, the fact that people can believe they must and everybody else must be a certain way to be “normal”.

View the trailer of A PERFECT PLACE on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvPravtdqg