Flaneurial » newport http://thames2thayer.com/blog the infrequent blog of zachary mccune Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:37:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Coffee http://thames2thayer.com/blog/coffee/ http://thames2thayer.com/blog/coffee/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:17:04 +0000 admin http://thames2thayer.com/blog/coffee/ This is just to say
That I am having a coffee
In Newport on an early fall day

]]> http://thames2thayer.com/blog/coffee/feed/ 0 reviving the kino-eye http://thames2thayer.com/blog/reviving-the-kino-eye/ http://thames2thayer.com/blog/reviving-the-kino-eye/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:42:52 +0000 admin http://thames2thayer.com/blog/?p=418 Continue reading →]]> i will off to ireland it just a few days to shoot a documentary on gaelic games. the documentary is sponsored by an at&t “new media” fellowship and was organized by the watson institute at brown. i’m thrilled to be off to ireland (it is a birthright trip in many ways) but i am almost more excited to be a given a chance to dig into the practice of media humanism that i have been playing with on a personal philosophy/production side. inspired by that and the arrival of a sweet hd canon vixia, i decided to a shoot a ton of stuff in newport this past weekend and edit it all together. the result, i hope, reminds of both man with a movie camera, and jazz on a summer’s day, an underappreciated documentary on the newport jazz festival.

the kino-eye (an early soviet film collective) believed that the camera could supplement and augment the vision (and thus perception) of the human being. i found this to never be true in watching film, but in producing it, it does seem present. in reviewing my clips, i found my perception augmented and expanded. why? because captured in a reviewable format, the moment was given many lives and almost a certain immortality. barthes of course talks about this through camera lucida, but he did not stop to consider how much moving pictures complicate the capturing of time. siegfried kracaeur did. an his theory moves from the film as a photograph made several in tracing the cinema’s unique ability to vivify what is only promised as living in static photographs.

anyway, with these things swirling about, i captured a few days of video of newport life, then cut it all together. included is the newport bermuda race, a nice bonus!

newport, a summer day from Zachary McCune on Vimeo.

]]> http://thames2thayer.com/blog/reviving-the-kino-eye/feed/ 0 11 outcomes from US – ENG, and what they would mean http://thames2thayer.com/blog/11-outcomes-from-us-eng-and-what-they-would-mean/ http://thames2thayer.com/blog/11-outcomes-from-us-eng-and-what-they-would-mean/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:15:22 +0000 admin http://thames2thayer.com/blog/?p=415 Continue reading →]]> there’s been a lot of smack (trash) talking going down over the upcoming USA – England match up in the soon to be started 2010 World Cup. fate would insist/force/require that i be in the midst of a wedding when the game kicks off, but i will be a living example of those commercials where men watch sports in inappropriate locations. but, in the spirit of loving (and living for) this game i now present the meaning of the game’s outcome in any of the the circumstances that should present themselves as reality when i check the game’s progress on an iphone during i-do’s.

0-0

f that.

1-0 Eng

we have learned nothing. england is supposed to win. they get it done. but there is nothing that says May Day for Team USA. a totally acceptable result.

1-1

american soccer ain’t nothing to mess with. prepare to see the british press start panicking. capello will call it a hiccup, and the english will crush the next game, but the us will be looking into the round of 16.

2-1 ENG

the most likely result. the three lions will have some confidence but the us will feel vindicated. nothing is in disarray for the americans. now they just need to win the next two.

2-1 US

totally possible. and it would be so glorious. the brits would start re-thinking their defense. maybe a goalkeeping change will be in order. and the pressure would build on the english. the americans meanwhile will have something to hang their hat on.

2-2

damn that would be a good game. i’d love it to be a 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2 progression. everyone (fans, players, coaches, pundits) would be content.

3-2 ENG

mmmmmm good. and acceptable for everyone. scoring won’t be the problem. the americans will be thinking about defense and endurance. so will team england.

3-2 US

capello will be flipping out. america will have some new offensive hero (even if it’s donovan/dempsey again). ratings for the rest of the american world cup games will be out of control.

ENG victory by 2 or more

ummm, ok, maybe england is a legit contender. everyone in the uk’s gonna be getting STOKED on that kinda result. buy your rooney jerseyz now.

US victory by 2 or more

england in roo-ins. the british press corps are about to go CRAZY. america will never let the british live this down. f*** bp. REVENGE OF THE GULF! t-shirts. tattoos. monuments. ESPN will be calling it an instant classic. i will call it SARATOGA 2 or SARATOGA IN SOUTH AFRICA.

3-3

well boys, that’s what we call soccer (unless ur british in which case that’s what you call football).

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