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Week 34: 19-25 August 2019

August 25, 2019 By Karl Andersson Leave a Comment

Tonight I finished a first draft of the visual project for Space and Place, after having done a Zoom interview this morning with an informant. I wonder if it’s ok with just one informant in the visual piece. If he’s good, why not? I don’t think it necessarily gets better if two or three people are saying variations of the same things. And it’s only a seven minute piece. (The rules were 5–10 minutes.)

S and I attended the opening and closing of the experimental film festival Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at HKW. I met our programme director S there, and former student K. As for the films, let’s just say they were all over the spectrum. I loved Lukács’s and Broersen’s Forest on Location.

On Monday I finally did the failed bike ride that I had planned for last Sunday. And yesterday I biked to Liepnitzsee with S, our first long ride together. But 60 kilometers on the fixie was painful in the end.

Two visits to the Apple Store: I got back my Macbook Pro with a new topcase, and I got my Ipad Pro exchanged for a new one (of the older model) after I noticed a lighter spot on the screen. For once Apple Care pays off!

I had lunch with my German friend M, who has moved to Berlin.

I had coffee with a Japanese photo journalist who had contacted me and wanted advice about my programme, which he had been accepted to.

I wrote to four more Japanese shops to ask permission to film there.

Oh, and I read lots of comments and reviews slashing Enter the Anime.

Japanese

Apps

  • Memrise: 24,600 (jōyō kanji 小1–6, reviews)
  • Nextbook 漢字:
    • 小3 writing level 41–50 (including repeats)

Other

Articles

  • The Economist:
    • Leader: Deathwatch for the Amazon
    • Jair Bolsonaro shrugs as the Amazon burns
    • Leader: As societies polarise, free speech is under threat. It needs defenders
    • The global gag on free speech is tightening
    • How Turkey deals with returning Islamic State fighters
    • Germany’s economy is now shrinking
    • Britain’s government tries to trim the £56bn cost of HS2
    • As face-recognition technology spreads, so do ideas for subverting it
    • An accident in Russia points to the risks of atomic aviation
    • Obituary: Toni Morrison died on August 5th
  • Engadget: Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database
  • BBC: Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest – space agency
  • Fristad/Hans Li Engnell: När mobbaren söker sympati
  • FiercePharma: Lawmakers clash as Gilead CEO takes congressional hot seat to defend Truvada
  • RSC: Enter The Anime Review: A Shameless, Cynical Hour Of Netflix Patting Itself On The Back

Videos

  • Jeven Dovey: CINEMATIC Color Grading BEGINNERS GUIDE
  • Jesse Driftwood: Why LUTs don’t work: My colour grading workflow.
  • Shyam Gopakumar: CINEMATIC COLOR GRADING in FCPX 10.4 | Color Correction Tutorial
  • James Matthews: HOW TO SHOOT A SHORT FILM // BTS
  • This Guy Edits:
    • How Final Cut Pro Went OFF THE TRACKS
    • 7 Commandments of Film Editing
  • The School of Life:
    • How To Simplify Your Life
  • Ronald L. Banks: 8 Things I Don’t Buy Or Own As A Minimalist [Minimalism Series]
  • Patriot Act/Hasan Minhaj: Deep Cuts: Hasan & Casey Neistat On YouTube’s Downside

HKW: Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Opening screening, 20 August 2019
  • Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukacs: Forest on Location (11:42, Netherlands, 2018)
  • Laura Henno: Djo (13:00, France, 2018)
  • Soufiane Adel: La lumière tombe (9:23, France, 2018)
  • Sebastian Diaz Morales: Multiverse (10:00, Netherlands, 2018)
Performances, 20 August 2019
  • Untitled performance by Shahram Yazdani in collaboration with Broersen & Lukács (Iran, Netherlands, 10:00)
  • The Screening (2019), outdoor screening performance by Ariane Michel (France, 28:00)
Closing day, 25 August 2019
  • Sandro Aguilar: Mariphasa (Portugal, 2017, 87 min)

Film

  • Brad Olsen: Off the Tracks (Abridged documentary, 2019, 50 min)

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About Karl Andersson

Karl Andersson is attending the MA Visual and Media Anthropology programme at Freie Universität Berlin. He has a background in journalism and is currently researching Japanese subcultures. 日本語で話せます!

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