new york , 2013
photo: nicole van straatum
My blog has a vague format. Because in this structured innerweb, I find peace with blurred visual and textural content. Much like this photograph I took recently for a 4 month project I am working on (keep posted!)
s p a c e // • // t i m e
Check it out. A couple friends in this // other than that I was a PA for some of the funniest characters. Enjoy New York Ciiiiiiiiitttyy, ladies. If you watch TV, this is associated with the HBO show Girls.
Spring 2013 Collection photography by Mic Becker / styling Nicole Van Straatum / hair Clark Phillips / model Filippa Berg
* Check out model Filippa’s blog linked…so good xx
still from Red Desert 1964
Michelangelo Antonioni
Visual impact can be noted as the source of motion pictures. Compared to the vivid manipulation of ideas rolling onto a screen, much like Antonioni compiled in Red Desert. Hysteria and faded imagery of factories nearly blinding reality. In a fanasty we escape, only to find we are the eye watching distortion of reality bleed into our encompassed souls. This thought originates from what is not apparent, instead it is derived from bits and pieces sneaking into our individual minds.
Could this be brain-wash discoveries?
Or simply…our ideals of self blurred.
I shot a short video (link below) for a friend with many of these ideas in mind. Imagery being distorted and reflective relations emerging. Although my short is only a glimpse into the hyper-cyber interconnected world we live in. It is a step in hopefully discovering more of what lies beneath. Keep tune for the tracking of experimental progress.
If you ever wondered
What’s behind the curtain
The whispers of the night…if you only listened
The bubble proudly glistens
Afraid we stand aside
Knowing that if pressure is presented
It may pop and never existed
Much like the dream
We remember vividly
Speak word for word of what we linger on the tongue
As if the tanned skin were touched by the sun
Proof
Poof
Only if we wondered
Let go of the summered
Mumbling out terrified applications of false allegories
Temporary
Lost
In dreams of rhythmic like schemes
Bubbles float away
Left the reflections of lakes
Hiding behind capes
Curtains are pulled
No dreamer shall be fooled.
- N.V.S
