Awe Inspiring Hubble

Check out Don't Panic a great resource for anything and everything creative from typography to photography to illustration to dance, it's all here. At the moment they have a great article about some of the amazing things the Hubble Space Telescope has given us over it's unexpectedly long life. Below is the image of the space shuttle Atlantis flying in from the sun, on the last of it's service mission.

In Control

If something appears to be a little askew or even missing in Eva Stenrams images, you'd be right. Scenes from nature, whether looking up to the sky or into a forest, they have an unsettling quality in what should be images of tranquility. Eva takes found images either from her own family album or the public domain and manipulates them to show another meaning. In Birds of Flight we see birds flying high above, rearranged into head on collisions and fighter plane formations. Flying as an image of freedom is therefore placed under control by technology and in turn makes the sky itself no longer a safe haven from attack. Yet the images do still retain some sense of harmony in uniformity before pending doom. In Pornography/Forest images of pornography set in the great outdoors are taken from the internet. Eva then hastily removes the people from these forest scenes to reveal an almost criminal police scene. By removing the individuals the original photographer had focused on, we are left with a bland view of nature that begs the question "why are we doing here". Again Eva is playing with the intended meaning of the image and crossing it with a contradiction which leaves us feeling dizzy.



Eve Stenram

On The Verge Of Taking A Stand

WOW! Did I have no f**king idea what I had let myself in for with this movie. Based on the BBC series The Thick Of It, this fly on the wall mockumentary gives a behind the scenes look at the interwaeaving relations of British and American government agencies. This parody of true to life scenarios of poltical agenda and public gaffes, take one back seat MP and catapult him into the world arena. A blindering idiot with no idea of the implications of his words, continues to dig deep in his already overwhelming trench. While a tourettes wheelding government advisor applys barbed wire to the dam that has already broken its banks. Internal departments face off against one another, each possessing a potential whistle blower. A highly elaborate spin on multiple levels appeases all, leaving the audience with a sick taste in their mouths, as to the real world significance. An amazing cast shot with choppy, abrupt close ups and sharp edits adds to the energy and urgency of the film. Be warned, the language of one individual is highly offensive yet completely in context with his character. In The Loop is a great film that will have you deliberating whether to laugh out loud or cringe at the inconceivable incompetence of elected officials.