In a desolate time we visit “Sofugan Island”, an Island that was once famous for providing the mainland with the valuable meat of colossal mutated whales, known as “Monjus”.
If you hang around YouTube or, most especially, Vimeo long enough, you’ll become familiar with a particular kind of short form documentary that typically focuses on some artist, eccentric character, or oddity of place or history. Karim Eich nails it, and the animation is pretty cool, too.
Wherein a horny leopard tries to seduce her own image. Or maybe she’s just practising.
“French photographers Anne-Marie, Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE and their friend Michel GUISS DJOMOU installed six large mirrors (1,2 m x 2,5 m) in the Gabonese jungle near Nyonié. In order to film the reaction of wild animals from different angles as they encounter their reflection, the group also installed cameras equipped with motion detectors in front of each mirror. Just as in humans, self recognition in mammals in not an innate ability. The ability to recognise one’s own reflection is the result of a training process that little by little allows the human, and some rare mammals or primate to understand the mirror’s properties.”
Trail side cameras operated by motion detectors have become quite the tool for ecologists, naturalists, animal behaviorists and generally nosey humans. Add mirrors to the equation and you create quite the interesting set-up. This group has recorded interactions between mirrors and leopards, chimpanzees, gorillas, elephants, palm nut vultures and others. It’s endlessly fascinating. You can find a great many more videos at their YouTube channel.
Graphic by Roman.
Photo / graphic by Roman.
Photo / graphic by Roman.
Photo by Roman.
A literary love story by Spike Jonze….
This, as well as some disturbing or amusing surrealist stuff, can be found at the Meat Dept. Vimeo channel.
Photo / graphic by Roman.
Photo by Roman.
Sorry if I seem repetitious.
I have this thing about light.
It comes from having lived with two cats for over a decade. We spent long quality hours staring at…
And I still do.
Photo by Roman.
Well, there is an “immediate care” clinic right at hand. ‘Tis fortunate; the thought of dancing an i-beam evoked so much vertigo that I almost checked myself in. What passes for public art these days is most mischievous. Don’t you love it?
Yip Abides 