When I was living in Richmond, VA I had endless amounts of time to devote to obsessive activities, i.e. cross-stitching. I also had cable TV. I spent a good 4 months channel surfing in search of advertisements and shows shot on widescreen or 16:9 that place product identity in the negative space.
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Here is a short documentary thing that I made about this trend.
letterboxing that’s not black freaks me out! i cant stop looking at it! so many boxes! (really nice collection btw )
- guthrie — 10/28/06 @ 9:52 pm
Only four months? Joel, this is the kind of half-assed effort that you must change. A serious artist would devote no less than seven or eight years to this kind of thing. You continually refuse to put your body on the line and, frankly, many of us are disappointed.
- parisikov — 10/29/06 @ 7:45 pm
So true.
This is great, Joel.
A couple of related links- a post I did a few years ago about the use of letterboxing to make TV series look “classier,” and an interview with painter Jack Featherly, who used letterboxing in his paintings:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/cinefiles/?15018
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/featherly/interview/
- tom moody — 10/31/06 @ 9:53 am
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