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Every picture tells a story: The mother of us all

Every picture tells a story: Into the unknowable

Lebensader: a little girl finds the whole world in a leaf

This is a luscious trip into a parallel microcosmos where colours, sounds and mystical beings all abound and swirl together. Lebensader is a short film with a sweetness, innocence and curious wonder about it that will stay with you for a long time afterwards. It was created in 2009 by animator Angela Stefffen who worksContinue reading “Lebensader: a little girl finds the whole world in a leaf”

Every picture tells a story: Into the unknowable

Every picture tells a story: Contemplating the shore

The shore of our lives Thats where we meet Together you and I The severed parts of our past And enticing preludes of the future Our children Our forebears All who dipped their toes in first Where all is made anew and dressed again Made youthful, pure and sacred once more Beyond time, place orContinue reading “Every picture tells a story: Contemplating the shore”

Every picture tells a story: Observe yourself and time gets longer

Every picture tells a story: When you observe, time gets longer

Every picture tells a story: Into the unknowable

<3 The Internet: Get music, book, art and film recommendations

A pictorial history of electronic music mapped to the circuitboard of a theremin

Marek Gibney is the creator of the Music Map, the Film Map, the Tech Gadget Map, the Art Map and the Book Map. These ingenious web based apps allow you to get recommendations on books, music, films and art by typing in your favourite artists. It’s sort of like a cooler and less annoying versionContinue reading “<3 The Internet: Get music, book, art and film recommendations”

Every picture tells a story: hear your own voice

Every picture tells a story: Into the unknowable

Every Picture Tells a Story: A Surreal Midnight Dream

This etching by a Reddit artist called JDrift01 reminds me of the Google Deep Dream generator which ran amok on the internet about 2 years ago. Suddenly the online world was jammed with ten eyed dogs and sushi that had faces on it. Infact this art reminds me of a post from a few yearsContinue reading “Every Picture Tells a Story: A Surreal Midnight Dream”

Every picture tells a story: Your inner sanctum

Every picture tells a story: Into the unknowable

Film Review: Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016) Terrence Malick

The other night Terrence Malick’s new film Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival Autumn events in Auckland. Although I’ve found Malick’s films a little too long and ponderous, this one I enjoyed more than his others because of its sparseness and its lack of human narrative and human characters.Continue reading “Film Review: Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016) Terrence Malick”