The Gates of Christo & Jeanne Claude
Check out my first video! It’s on the Gates of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Feel free to comment about it. With your feedback, I’ll get inspired to make more videos.
– Tim Cone
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Check out my first video! It’s on the Gates of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Feel free to comment about it. With your feedback, I’ll get inspired to make more videos.
– Tim Cone
funny.
January 13, 2011 at 4:54 am
Dear Tim
I would have loved to see Central Park with the gates of Jerann-Claude and Christo, but I was there only about 2 months later, I couldn’t make it earlier.
It is interesting how you explane their art, in a very instructive way, that makes it understandable. I wost your camera had been more professional with smoother movements. I wosh you much progress and success,
anselm from switzerland
November 15, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Hi,
Thank you for the great quality of your blog, every time i come here, i’m amazed.
black hattitude.
October 22, 2009 at 2:38 am
What a pleasure…and yes, do more, please. I know very little about contemporary art and will look forward to future TimConeOnContempArt musings. Many thanks, professor. Will we all be notified as new videos are posted? Hope so…rtb
September 20, 2009 at 10:49 pm
I loved seeing the Gates from above from your hotel/apartment window. Getting the overview like that helped to imagine them as they snaked through Central Park. The fleeting aspect of the installation is a bit frustrating but makes your critique and film of them all the more important as it is all we have now to consider. I like the idea of the critic revealing his experience of the artwork first hand through the video. Usually the review is detached. There is a lot of art to cover in DC Tim – Keep going!
September 18, 2009 at 2:40 am
Wow
Even better than I imagined. Its the thinking that transforms the visual experience into a full experience.
Do More Videos!!!
August 28, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I really enjoyed watching this video on Christos work, it is interesting and thoughtful but most of all memorable because of its really dramatic effect on Central park and on us who were fortunate to see it then and now. Thank you Tim.
August 28, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Tim! I love it! It has a wonderful quirky and charming tone, and your amusing self-conscious touches like the comment on “its recording” and the NYTimes image give it a depth, while still keeping a light tone. The switch from cherry tree to barren tree and the burst of classical music was great. More substantively, your point about the “co-existence” of the gates was very well put, and your idea of them functioning like metaphoric film screens was just wonderful! I’m going to show this to my students during my lecture on landscape art, if I may?: it really is a lovely piece. Definitely do more!
August 26, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Wow, Tim, I’m really impressed. I state the obvious when I say that this is beyond amateur video. That conjures up images of birthday parties and animal tricks. Your layering of music, stills, home video, old file footage is beyond just video. And then there’s your contemplative, philosophical voice over…
I thought I was watching public television. Is that what it reminds me of? Or maybe a piece on Sunday morning with Charles whats-his-face.
At any rate, in my humble opinion, you show a LOT of promise as a producer of these things. I really like the way you spliced everything together so thoughtfully. It must have taken quite a while. How long? What camera did you use? What software did you use?
I like it! Keep it up! Very original!
August 17, 2009 at 11:23 pm
nice work, I particularly loved the drivebys with the thoughtful gaze out the window.
And all this talk about the amateur reminds me of Ed Halter’s essay on rhizome.org a while back about the breakdown of the distinctions between amateur and professional, particularly in photography, film and video.
http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2566
What we read visually as amateur can just as often be the stylistic or production choice of an artist, where amateurism is used to convey firsthand, unmediated experience. Which is what you did here, capturing the various aspects of a visit to the Gates.
So if you’re ever worried about the production values of your videos, you can always just declare amateurism as your conceptual stance, it’s win-win!
August 17, 2009 at 3:50 am
Christo-Shmisto. Your video is the lasting piece of art! For this Chicago philistine, your movie is my sole experience with the famed orange gates… which, for what it’s worth, brought to mind the opening ceremony of every Olympics I’ve ever seen, minus the athletes. And who doesn’t like a parade of flags, even when they’re all orange? Thank you for the virtual walk through Central Park, and for the art history commentary. Kudos, too, to the genius who asked for sauerkraut on her hot dog. Brilliant. -Sally, co-host of Walking on Air with Betsy and Sal
August 14, 2009 at 2:32 am
Made me miss the gates all over again…
August 13, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Bravo Tim!! You have delivered with an engaging, entertaining rumination on a work of art that no longer exists. This is not an easy feat. I really enjoyed your video. I suppose your experience of the art was much better than mine, in the qualitative sense, but more important, your considerations of the art will ultimately have a much longer lifespan than the art itself. Congratulations and well done! How does it feel to have superseded your subject? I look forward to the next installment.
August 13, 2009 at 1:58 am
Of course, one of the charming aspects of amateur video is that it is amateur; but I agree you can only apologize for it once!
Since I am distressingly unfamiliar with the norms of these newers forms of communication, I’m not sure if I am allowed to ramble on and on with comments. There is plenty to say, but let me pause and convey my amateurish thoughts in a more private setting.
It was very enjoyable and I encourage you to continue.
August 12, 2009 at 2:41 pm
A film producer friend told me I could get away with the “amateur” theme in the Christo video only because it was my first video. I hope my future videos rise to the challenge.
August 12, 2009 at 12:54 pm