Comments on: 11 Seconds of Underground Video Zen for Upper Sac Fans

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:23:04 +0000

There we have it. The Underground’s Illtelligentsia Director has placed me in the same rarified air as Warhol. Clearly, my very breath is art…

By: Sully

Sully — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:59:09 +0000

Andy Warhol
«Empire»

The Empire State Building filmed for 8 consecutive hours from dusk till dawn of the following day, shot on the night of the 25th of June 1964 from the 44th floor of the Time Life Building. «Empire» is an object-trouvé, a ready-made that prefigured today’s webcam images. It can also be considered a ‹structural film›: the obsessive repetition of the same image triggers our focus on the act of looking, on the value of the frame and most of all on the film duration. Time of reality and time of cinema are the same.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:40:36 +0000

I can see already that the Underground’s Readers sense my Kurosawa-esque grasp of the epic simplicity of my subject matter, tinged with just a taste of Scorcese’s storytelling framework. Brilliant. I’m freakin’ brilliant.

By: Bernard Yin

Bernard Yin — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:13:26 +0000

LOVE it. It’s funny but the slightly distorting audio actually enhances the wonderful sound of moving water…stay lo-fi !!!
:)
B.

By: Bamboo Addict

Bamboo Addict — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:50:05 +0000

Very good Tommy, tryed to call you from the river yesterday to let you hear a reel screaming but no signal. See you in three days

By: pseudososa

pseudososa — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:54:14 +0000

Fantasic, Tom! Only thing missing from the video was you and your tailing loop!

Your favorite fishing partner.