today marked class three of my ecological perspectives on design class at eciad, the topic of which reminded me that i’d rented edward burtynsky’s “manufactured landscapes” a few days ago but completely forgot to watch it. i swear, this class is getting to me- not in a bad way, but in an eerie, viral way that proves that i’m continuously influenced by what i’m learning. after getting home from school (at an obscene hour, as usual) i fixed a sammich and watched the documentary. it was awesome, in maybe the purest sense of the word, because i was in awe of the cinematography. i’m really keen on burtynsky’s work, i saw one of his photographs in MoMA a few years ago, and it did change some of my perspectives on the way that i make pictures. “manufactured landscapes” was a wonderful peek into the way that burtynsky takes photographs, though it was difficult to look past the subject matter, even for a moment. china is an incredible actress.
as an aside:
every time i’ve logged into flickr for the past few days i’ve been met with an annoying box announcing the fact that time was running for on my pro account. today i bought another year of flickr pro access for myself partly because advertising works, and also because i consider it to be an investment in my future. this is, in part, because flickr is one of my favourite means to display my photographs, and also because it was one of my first introductions to the world of web 2.0. if anything, i owe flickr a medal of commendation for its impact on me as a blogger and a person who is, above all things, enamoured by the future.
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I rented Manufactured Landscapes, then bought it. The ship-breaking part seemed a little out-of-place, what with the theme being mostly the Chinese environment. One criticism I read about it was that the director tried, and failed, to duplicate Burtynsky’s photographs with the moving picture, but is that such a bad thing? Other than that, wow, you really get a sense of the dimensions involved when talking about the Middle Kingdom.
Richard added these pithy words on
Jan 22 08 at
12:50
I thought Manufactured Landscapes was fantastic and agree it was fascinating to see how he takes his photos.
John added these pithy words on
Jan 22 08 at
20:15