Here’s a nice post on CBS news about a manipulated photograph.  I find the move to be a significant and compelling commitment to both authorial expression and event-based documentation:

Jamie and Kevin captured New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham grabbing a shot of a runway model at Fashion Week.

“It’s something I never thought about before doing this: What does it say about the scene, about the guy picking up a camera, because he’s the only one moving – he and the model aren’t still. I think it communicates things about his individual take on the world. He’s not concerned with what he SHOULD be shooting, he’s not concerned about, ‘Do I need a big camera, big flash, lot of equipment?’

“There’s ways to manipulate the photo and the movement to communicate these things. Often times things will come out of the footage in response to what the person does.”

Credit: cinemagraphs.com

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-207_162-10009387-6.html#ixzz1YyJ6DihC

The following links demonstrate the innovation and artistry of a new kind of filmmaking. Click on one of the sites below for a minute of exploration into a new world, or get lost for hours meandering through lives in intimate detail. Either way, the films–and the formats– are truly stunning.

• View over a dozen cities from the window of a local highrise in Out My Window. Filmmaker Katerina Cizek’s many interactive, 360-degree documentaries offer vivid snapshots of the state of our urban planet through the intimate living spaces of people who look out on the world from highrise windows.

• Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons of the Goggles present Welcome to Pine Point, a work that could have been pure nostalgia but rises to something so different. It is a challenging interactive film that is about a website that is about a town that is no longer that town.

• Another interactive film, Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, reflects on the nature of documentary, offering 163 interviews with filmmakers about the aesthetics and importance of the documentary film.

• Filmmaker Dianne Whelan spent 16 days on a snowmobile making This Land, a documentary about a Canadian military expedition to raise a flag at the northernmost point in the country, a trek covering over 2000km. Watch the natural both resist and embrace the human in this interactive film.

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The fall season is underway for local art museums as well as for all those connected to the academic calendar.  All over the University of Texas campus and the city of Austin striking exhibits are popping open.

• The Visual Arts Center just opened their 2011 Season. Stop by the Art Building and check out a series of exciting new exhibitions, heavy on the installations. These will be open all season and are free to the public.

• In The Anxiety of Photography, 18 artists trouble the notion of the static image, exploring the fluidity of both photograph and photographer. The exhibit runs September 10 – December 30 in the Arthouse at the Jones Center.

• The Center for Latin American Visual Studies has began its 2011 Permanent Seminar, with meetings held every other Thursday. Each discussion will focus around a cluster of issues that deal with art in Latin America and its resonances beyond. Check out the success of last year’s seminar.