Part 1 Let’s back up a bit. When did you move to the US? I came to this country in 1952, having left Germany at age 17. My 18th birthday I celebrated on the boat a week before landing in New York. I had just graduated from High School. This was in February, and in [...]
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An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 6x0, Afternoons in Poughkeepsie (Popoludni v Pokipsi), An Idealized Biography (Idealizovana biohrafija), André Breton, Apollonian, Artificial Intelligence, Blood of a Poet, Bourbaki, César Vallejo, computers, Dionysian, dreams, Eero Saarinen, electrical engineering, Eugene Jolas, FC2, Federico García Lorca, Fiction Collective, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georges Perec, I Don't Know (Ne znaju), IBM, Jacques Roubeau, Jean Cocteau, Life in the City, Life: A User’s Manual, linguistics, machine translation, Marcel Benabou, Memories (Spomyny), Meningitis, morphology, New York University, Nikolai Gogol, Orphée, Oulipo, Pablo Neruda, Poems About Nothing and Other Poems on the Same Subject (Poeziji pro nishcho i inshi poeziji na cju samu temu), Rafael Alberti, Roads (Shljaxy), Ron Sukenick, running, Russian, Salvador Dalí, Suchasnist Publishers, Surrealism, syntax, The Possessed (Besy), They Don't Exist (Jix nemaje), This Is How I Get Well (Oto jak zdrowjeje), Three Blondes and Death, U ra na, Ukraine, Vicente Aleixandre, Vicente Huidobro, Without Anything (Bez nichoho), Yuriy Tarnawsky on March 19, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew & Lana Wachowski, Andy Warhol, Arthur Penn, Blake Edwards, Brian De Palma, Bullet-Time, David Lynch, Douglas Gordon, Dziga Vertov, Eadweard Muybridge, Erik Satie, Godfrey Reggio, Interpol, Jean Cocteau, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Vigo, John Woo, Joseph Cornell, Kar Wai Wong, Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, overcranking, Pixies, René Clair, Rouben Mamoulian, Sam Peckinpah, slow motion, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Macmillan, Time-Slice, undercranking, Velouria, Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder, zoopraxiscope on March 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly due to my general interest in how time works in narrative, and in brevity and stasis (and “the ongoing”). Slow motion is created by presenting film footage at a slower rate than it was shot [...]