http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:59:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I edited up a few videos from my mammoth archive of video material, taken with my surprisingly quality Canon SD Powershot 1100 ESPECIALLY for this night of nights, NO BABIES ALLOWED. Unfortunately, I'm hitting high traffic on Vimeo, so I'm guessing that only very few of my videos will upload on ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/10/summer-2008-the-home-videos Thanks to the many dollars the UW is able to devote to undergrad research, I spent my summer working on an independent video project over the summer. Here's my speech and the video, oh boy oh boy. ______________________________________________________________________ My name is Claire Fox and I’m from the Comparative History of Ideas and ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/08/the-decadent-world-of-undergraduate-research Everyone needs to know that I spent my summer learning design theory from this guy. http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/08/why-we-go-to-summer-school I'm a diehard Portlander, but I spent two years of my high school career at Phillips Academy, a school outside of Boston, learning the ways of the East Coast. I had some pretty rad teachers at that school, in particular a dude named Edwin Quattlebaum, who taught my 8:30am modern ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/08/its-only-rock-n-roll-but-i-like-it She waited for her husband to open his umbrella and then took his arm. He kept clearing his throat in a special resonant way he had when he was upset. They reached the bus stop shelter on the other side of the street and he closed his umbrella. A few ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/07/i-see-myself-in-you I made a video awhile back and wrote an essay about it. familiar, yet absurd from Claire Fox on Vimeo. Whenever I attempt to create a piece of video art, I consider the responsibilities I have both as an “artist” and as a twenty-year-old in 2008. When considering the writings of theorists ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/07/familiar-yet-absurd My friend Matt Lutton has been working on a series of photos of New York City for the past couple of years, titled "I See A Darkness" after the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album. He recently set up a show at an epic photo supplies/rental store here in Seattle called Glazer's ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/04/another-exercise-in-writing-about-art Here's my essay on Godard's La Chinoise, as promised. It's so fresh that I haven't even read over it since turning it in to my professor. ____________________________________________________________________ Reality of the Reflection “The socialist literature and art must fight on two fronts. Art doesn’t reflect reality, but is a reality of reflection.” - Kirilov ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/03/mediocre-essays-on-great-film-part-two One of the great things about being a Comparative History of Ideas major at the UW is that I get to take classes with titles like, "On Beauty." And since On Beauty is a CHID class, that means I get to read theories of art and aesthetics by the greats ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/03/mediocre-essays-on-great-film-part-one I'll start this with a promise: I will post here, and I will post regularly (if not often). For now, I'll leave you with a fragment of Nudge, an arts publication and project of mine that's lately been taking up a significant amount of my thought capacity. I started working ... http://breadandink.existentialmedia.net/2008/03/heres-to-a-lasting-friendship