Les Plaines. 2025. Digital abstract by Ivan Bjørn
This is your beacon. An emptiness in the midst of this burdened chaos. Secluded plain surrounded by polluted minds, by denials and extremes. You drew the curtains, so you couldn't see. But you can still hear the unbearable noise and screams out there, disturbing your senses, penetrating your very being. You let out screams too, silently, deep inside…
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VistaPoint 2 or “The Nest” is an experimental digital visual project created in Blender 3.1.2. The concept revolves around an idea, philosophical context of environmental presence - interacting with and evaluating our agency in the environment.
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VistaPoint or “The Wings” is an experimental digital visual project created in Blender 3.1.2. The concept revolves around an idea, philosophical context of environmental presence - interacting with and evaluating our agency in the environment.
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Designed by Paul Kepple and Max Vandenberg, this book is nothing short of a pictorial, spiritual and addictive trip into the underbelly of Twin Peaks. Many pages are packed with typewritten information and bright red notes in the margin, but what could have easily felt overwhelming was a breeze to read through thanks to a fantastic layout – and that’s exactly what you need when you’re putting in long hours of detective work…
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Beatles fans try to break through a police line at Buckingham Palace in London in 1965
Music has proven to have one of the most powerful effects on our memory and often evokes vivid images and sensations from the past. One only needs to read up on the wealth of research that has been done on Alzheimer’s and the effect music can have on patients even with severely deteriorated mental states to understand that melodies and compositions from the past can be our greatest healers…
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While music is obviously the most important part of the vinyl experience, one mustn’t forget about the many hours spent studying the respective album cover’s art and design. It is a part of the ritual, one that spurs on a deeper relationship with, and a new perspective on the music that inspired the art. The album art is every bit a reflection on the cultural narrative as the music itself, not just in terms of style but depiction. Looking back at iconic record covers spanning from the late sixties to the early noughties, one witnesses the evolution of fashion, the gender binary, socio-political climates and design preferences
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Un Chien Andalou, a 1929 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí
For hundreds of years, writers and playwrights tried to summarize the human experience and preserve the memory of love, hate, betrayal, failure or success. In the early twentieth century, filmmakers were strongly influenced by classical storytelling techniques frequently used in classic literature and theater, but the new medium demanded new ways of narration, simply because it imposed its own limitations
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David Lynch, an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer
The art of captivating an audience with a two-and-a-half-minute scene of a man sweeping the floors of the Roadhouse – and making it memorable – is what real cinematography is all about, and it’s one Lynch has mastered following his own gaze and spiritual callings. As over the top or downplayed as his eclectic mix of characters often are, he insists on the viewer’s investment – sometimes even by poking fun at them with a sense of humour only he fully understands
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