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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
She will soon feature in Bollywood film Prince where she is performing lead actress along with Nandana Sen and Neeru Singh opposite Vivek Oberoi.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Malaika Arora Khan born on 23rd August 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is an Indian model, actress, anchor, television personality and former MTV VJ. Her sister Amrita Arora is also an actress.
she will soon feature as The Dream girl in upcoming Bollywood Hindi film Prem Kaa Game where she is performing along with Rakesh Bedi, Madhuri Bhattacharya, Arbaaz Khan, Razak Khan, Johnny Lever and Tara Sharma.
Check out more details and hot pictures of Malaika in our previous post here.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Rituparna Sengupta (aka Chitrangshu) born on 7th November 1971 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She is an Indian actress who appears in Bengali films as well as in Hindi films. She is also a dancer and social worker.
Her latest release is Karan Razdan directed Mittal v/s Mittal where she is performing along with Rohit Roy, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Gulshan Grover, Dolly Thakore, Reema Lagoo, Anjan Srivastav, Irawati Harshe and Hazel.
Check out her official website here.
Labels: Actress, Bollywood, Dancer, Indian, Model, Rituparna Sengupta, Social Worker
Friday, March 19, 2010
Labels: Badminton, Indian, Player, Saina Nehwal, Sports
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Shweta Agarwal is an Indian model and Bollywood actress who is made her debut with Hindi film Tandoori Love in 2008.
Her latest release is Vikram Bhatt’s thriller film Shaapit where she is performing opposite Aditya Narayan.
Labels: Actress, Bollywood, Indian, Model, Shweta Agarwal
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Isha Koppikar (aka Eesha Narang) is an Indian actress and model who appeared in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. Isha married her long-term boyfriend Rohit (Timmy) Narang on 29th November 2009.
Her latest Bollywood release is Right Yaa Wrong where she is performing along with Sunny Deol, Irrfan Khan and Konkona Sen Sharma, Kirron Kher and Aryan Vaid.
Labels: Actress, Bollywood, Indian, Isha Koppikar, Model
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Labels: Actress, Bollywood, hollywood, Indian, International, Singer, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Vocalist
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Fischli and Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), video, 30', 1987
Honda Ad, 2003
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass, 2009
I remember the choreographer João Fiadeiro once showing Fischli & Weiss's work during some seminar or workshop and talking about what in his mind made it so impressive: necessity. Although it might seem like anything can happen, what happens is exactly what needs to happen. A tautology that evolves in time? But isn't any proof precisely that - a dynamic tautology?
So is it because it's a proof that it's so appealing?
A proof of what?
Of how things go, we are tempted to say.
Which, of course, is just silly talk. It's precisely because things don't go this way that we enjoy it so much. It's because the unexpected becomes necessary.
What about this "evolution"? The work of art turned into a commercial turned into a music video. Don't expect any moral judgement on that. Actually, I enjoyed all three videos.
We could discuss the question of authorship. But we won't. (Fischli & Weiss threatened to sue Honda).
Here's what I've been pondering on: what exactly are the differences?
Because, once you've accepted that they're all in the same category (actually, this type of inventions is called either Heath Robinson contraptions (UK), or (more commonly) Rube Goldberg Machines (US) and have been in popular culture at least since the beginning of the 20th century), you can see into how very different they are.
So what makes it an art project, a commercial, a music video?
If we turn the volume off, what changes?
If we put music, or switch it from one video to another?
The timing, the materials, the way things go and pass.
What sort of universe appears in each of them?
Yes, that's precious: they each have their own universe. They are entities. You can easily find yourself around them, with their texture, their dynamics, their smell...
One more thing: aren't they each hiding in their specific ways this very basic urge for things to make sense?
If that is so, it's beyond necessity or discovery. It's the comfort of order. The sense that somewhere beyond the frame, things are just waiting to come into action, to move into view. And their potential is already in perfect harmony with the moment when they will become what they are meant to be. The best of possible worlds.
It shouldn't come as a surprize that these delicately balancing certainties remind us of childhood.