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Haiti’s Only Film School Keeps Filming

Trout Monfalco — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:55:16 +0000

The PBS Newshour Art Beat reports that students of Haiti’s only film school, Ciné Institute, have kept filming after the earthquake, shooting and editing despite their own personal circumstances.

Ciné Institute Students Effort from Ciné Institute on Vimeo.

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Ciné Institute
Ciné Institute online videos at Vimeo
Conversation: Students from Haiti’s Only Film School Keep Their Cameras Rolling from PBS Newshour, Art Beat
Haiti’s Film Students Find a New Mission by Salon

Short film for the day

Photographers Produce Onè Respe to Benefit Haitian Relief

Trout Monfalco — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:44:37 +0000

San Francisco Bay Area photographer Lane Hartwell gathered photographers to publish a special magazine titled Onè Respe to benefit Haiti. The images celebrate life in Haiti, all taken before the earthquake. Other participating photographers include Mary Ellen Mark, Chet Gordon and Peter Pereira. The magazine was printed through HP’s MagCloud service. HP has decided to donate printing costs to the effort. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross.

Order Onè Respe.

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Photographers Unite for Haiti Fundraising from Wired
Lane Hartwell Photography
Mary Ellen Mark photography
Chet Gordon, photographer
Peter Pereira, photojournalist
MagCloud, print on demand by HP

Graffiti Animation Runs Across Walls

Trout Monfalco — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:59:05 +0000

This great animation, by the artist Blu, is drawn and erased frame by frame on real walls and buildings in Baden and Buenos Aires.

Visit the artist Blu’s web site.

Reverse Graffiti

Trout Monfalco — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:26:58 +0000

When you paint images not with spray cans or pigment, but instead by cleaning dirt and pollution from public places in artistic patterns – painting the image by removing dirt – this is reverse graffiti. This defaces no surface, and in fact starts to clean what a city should have cleaned to begin with. In order to remove the image, you don’t sandblast or get out the toxic cleaners. Instead you just finish cleaning the surface. The whole surface returns to its original bright clean color. Just like someone writing “Wash Me!” into the grime on a dirty car windshield might shame someone into actually washing their car just to get rid of the message – so reverse graffiti artists cause cities to clean where they should have already.

In São Paulo Brazil, artist Alexandre Orion:

In Paris, corporate reverse graffiti (for the Electronic Arts game Burnout, but through a beautifully designed guerrilla campaign at Kah Ra Shin):

Travel to Brazil or France (Travelocity).

Brazilian and Russian Street Art

Trout Monfalco — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:24:35 +0000

Beautiful street art in Moscow and Brazil (not sure where). From Funny Picture Crazy.

Brasilian street art
and
Moscow street art

Reverse Graffiti