For the past 6 months we’ve worked hard, and now “Post Post’ is almost here.
Georgi Unkovski
Just a regular night on Alexander st.
We were shooting something else. They showed up. We were shooting them.
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Get to know YuGang!
He’s a Fine Art Photography student and you should get to know him. There’s much more to him then he’s letting on.
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Art that loads faster….
First of, I would like to congratulate everyone that was involved with the DRAFT. All of you did a great job.
These are a few moments, or one-liners as Rob called them. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
I will keep working on them.
The series is called ”Art That Loads Faster”
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A video that seriously needs a different title…
Hello people, I hope everyone is doing well. I’m glad I can finally share this video with you.
Hopefully it will say more then my explanation in words can. For those that want to read however, the words are included under.
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I started shooting videos with my cell phone in 2003 when I bought a Motorola that could shoot video. In 2004 I borrowed my brothers camcorder and started recording car rides. In 2009, using the same camera, I recorded a car ride by tying the camera to the bumper with a phone cable.
In the 7 years since my initial infatuation with the cell phone camera I’ve shot hundreds of videos and image sequences. This project however is not about the “cell-phone” as a medium; it’s about the casual and trivial videos it produces. The mediums have changed over the years, but the cell phone started it. It was easy to carry around; its battery lasted for days and the videos were memory friendly. I recorded everywhere and everything.
I have countless videos of car rides whose dates and locations I can’t recall. The ride is a perfect example of hypnosis. The mind focuses on the lanes and the speed; people drive for hours without being able to remember anything from the miles they have passed. We are hypnotized by any display of routine. Pictures and videos are tools that help us witness it, but in turn these tools induce hypnosis of their own.
Every time I watch the videos I’ve shot, I am surprised by how many of those instances exist just because the evidence of them exists. None of those “trivial” moments would remain in my head without the technology to support them. This discovery made me more conscious about how our mind stores and deletes memories that it finds too common. Our memories pile together in our subconscious where they mix with our dreams, creating fictional memories with qualities imposed both by the way we perceive others and ourselves.
5 weeks ago…
5 weeks ago I got a call from “Bei The Fish” manager telling me that the video I made for them is going to play on the Eastern European MTV Channel.
Needless to say i was ecstatic. I had hoped the video was different enough to attract attention and expected it to play on MTV maybe once or twice, just enough so that
I can put it on my resume. In the following 3 weeks the video got on the charts and faced a competition of local and international artists.
Last week the video was voted no.1 on the MTV top charts and as of yesterday it stayed first for its second consecutive week.
Despite its success I keep feeling that all of this in some way or another is happening prematurely. I still don’t know how to take
advantage of it, or make money from it or anything. The part that I take the most pride in is that the video cost 50$ to make. Most of the other videos
that we’ve left behind were shot on a budget of 5 000$ or more.
One step at a time.
G.
I step closer to where I want to be.
About 2 weeks ago I had my first video promotion, and although I wasn’t able to attend since it was in Macedonia, I want to share the video that that was presented there.
The video was done for a Macedonian band that I met the past summer and decided to work with.
I didn’t get paid, but I also got to do whatever I want. Which pretty much was the best part about it.
You have already seen parts of it, but now it maybe functions as a whole.
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Chris Moore visited me in a dream..
Not really….but I thought it be interesting to show how one of his recent photographs inspired me. I think things like this should happen more often, we should see how we can combine our creativity in some way. It’s great to talk about work, but it’s also great to create work together.
Note to self and others: This image is not to be taken too seriously.
P.S: Matt, the building doesn’t disrupt the horizon line anymore :)
Original photograph by Chris Moore can be seen here:
http://sundayandwednesday.com/archive/chrismoore/its-not-sunday-but-id-like-some-feedback/#comments
New and Old
Many sundays and wednesdays have passed and I have contributed very little, so I pick this Thursday to try and get back in with things.
Stop motion is something I always keep going to, it is the only time when I feel really comfortable working. I try and lock myself in a room, sit down with these
cars (reference video bellow) and try to figure out their potential in an animation. I don’t know why I got obsessed with toy cars, I bought 50 chinese-made metal/plastic cars,
and two really good ones. I sawed through 4 cars (as seen on video) and used then in different ways.
I also don’t have a real car.
This is probably some kind of a solution to my mental (car deficiency) problems .
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I found my way home
I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a while. I try and not forget where I come from,
a “world” very distant and unknown to the people that surround me at school. People (myself included) forget how far I go
every summer in hope of getting education and being a part of a community.
In that respect, this is a documentary (I guess) of my commute.
The U.S, the school we go to, the community is very easily taken for granted, this is just a reminder (more for myself then anyone else) of how
much I value my home and how much I value my travels.
Enjoy.
Georgi
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