"This is like Web 4.0"

Mark Cooper, the creative director at Ogilvy, demonstrates an amazingly cool 3D video interactive site from GE. Turn on your computer's camera, hold up a printout from the GE site, and a 3D scene appears on your screen. It's magic.

{local} a Warhol factory party

The East Bay Express and Amoeba music are looking to answer the question, what would Warhol's space look like now? From the Express:

Step into the world of Andy Warhol and his original 1960s New York City Factory. ... an Emeryville warehouse (is turned) upside down for a night of live art, film making, musical performances, and theatrical art forms.
A portion of this event features a re-creation of Andy Warhol's Factory, including a screening of 13 Most Beautiful People… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (Plexifilm DVD, out 3/24) and live production of art in the style and process performed by Andy Warhol, including silk screening, filming, and painting.

Velvet Underground Cover Bands will perform --- Dress in your 1960s best!

Visitors are encouraged to bring a can of Campbell's soup for the Alameda County Food Bank.

Admission: Free

It starts at 6, at 1343 Powell Street in Emeryville. More info over here.

Info on the continuing Warhol show at the deYoung is here.

8 years on the Bush beat

Time Magazine has a beautiful audio/visual piece on the Bush presidency, from the two photographers who covered W. for the magazine, Brooks Kraft and Christopher Morris. The photos are wonderful, but Kraft's fawning and simplistic commentary comes close to ruining the show.

"There was always something about (Bush when he was) alone that was very evocative. ... There was a sense, always, that Bush was a man of determination and resolve who would go it alone, regardless of the consequences."

You could call that determination, or you could call it something else.

Morris, thankfully, is a lot less pompous. When he got the assignment from Time he wondered, "How am I going to photograph a man in a suit for many years to come?" After the attacks of 2001, he traveled around the country with Bush.

"I saw the real cult of personality that was building up around George W. Bush. ... It's something I had seen in other countries, this kind of nationalism and patriotism.... It was shocking to me, to see it in America."

Morris says Bush's emotional visit to a hospital in Bethesda to visit soldiers wounded in Iraq was his most memorable experience. He asked Bush how he could do it, and the president said, "I have to do it, because I sent them there."

Worth a look.

temporary art in a timeless place

Jim Denevan recently made the world's largest freehand drawing on a dry lake in Nevada. How big is it? Three miles across. Jim walked for eight days, about 100 miles to draw the pattern. The drawing was transient, as all of Jim's work is: "It was completely erased in a rainstorm the next week... It felt strange to work so hard and not see tide come in. But rains did come which is sort of the same thing."
More amazing landscape sculptures and photographs at his website. San Francisco's KQED has a nice profile of Denevan.

The photographer who helped Denevan document his work in the Black Rock Desert, David Sievert, was honored by the Professional Aerial Photographers Association on Tuesday for his outstanding work. The story is here.

"It was like the city was whispering in my ear"

When Stephanie de Rouge emigrated to New York City from France two years ago, she felt very unfamiliar in the big city. To get to know the place better, she took a walk with a camera. A long walk -- 15 miles all the way up Broadway from the southern tip of Manhattan to the Bronx. And she took rolls and rolls of overlapping black and white pictures on her Holga. Why a Holga and not a digital camera? "Because I think it would lose all the sexiness ... just the magic of it."

The result is a stream-of-consciousness set of images, one pictue blending into the next, just the way the neighborhoods do.

The New York Times has an audio/visual slideshow here. You can see more at Stephanie's website.

(with a shoutout to Dave)