Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

music

Richard Crandell In the Flower of Our Youth

http://www.myspace.com/softcircle

Stokowski and Serebrier Conduct Charles Ives Symphony No.4

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Panasonic HDC-Z10000 Twin-Lens 2D/3D Camcorder

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Full HD Stereoscopic 3D Recording
6x CMOS Sensors - 2.2 Mp Each
Dual Integrated 10x Lenses (12x in 2D)
18" Minimum Object Distance in 3D
Auto & Manual Convergence Adjustment
Manual Rings for Focus, Iris & Zoom
Multi View Coding (MVC) Recording in 3D
1080p60 AVCHD Recording in 2D
Dual XLR Inputs
2D/3D Still Image Recording

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The Panasonic HDC-Z10000 Twin-Lens 2D/3D Camcorder has dual lenses and twin Full HD 3MOS imagers, and as such it joins a burgeoning class of affordable, single-body 3D-capable handheld camcorders. But it introduces to this category those three-chip imagers and also true convergence adjustment, which alters the angular orientation of the two 10x zoom lenses. This control facilitates fine control over the location of the "image plane" – the plane from which objects seem to either jump or recede as you're watching them on the big screen, or on the Z10000 camcorder's glasses-free 3.2" LCD monitor.
Convergence can be set to adjust automatically, or you can turn a manual dial to make the lenses' sights diverge or move toward parallel. The lenses shoot fairly wide at a 35mm equivalent of 32mm when in 3D mode, which gives more options for placing foreground/background elements in a 3D scene or for shooting indoors. For close-ups, the minimum object distance is also quite impressive for a 3D camera at about 18" in 3D.
The camcorder also puts manual control over focus, zoom, and iris at the operator's fingertips in the form of three rings at the base of the dual lenses. Alternatively, you can operate the camera under iA ("intelligent auto") mode and let the Z10000 choose the optimal shooting mode, turning on face detection, contrast control, and optical image stabilization as needed.
The HDC-Z10000 records to two SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card slots either sequentially or simultaneously. In 2D mode, the camera captures several flavors of high-definition AVCHD format video, including AVCHD Progressive at 1080p60. Three-dimensional video is recorded as AVCHD 3D, which uses MVC (multiview video coding) compression. (This format has already started to find compatibility with popular nonlinear editing software programs.) With dual XLRs inputs and a five-element built-in microphone, the Z10000 facilitates high-quality capture of two-channel audio or 5.1 surround sound.

Professional-Quality Full HD 2D and Full HD 3D Images: The Double 3MOS System reflects the sum of a number of unique technologies that Panasonic has accumulated. This advanced imaging system combines two large-diameter f/1.5 lenses featuring a special Nano Surface Coating technology, with two independent, high-sensitivity 3MOS sensors (left and right) for superb color and detail reproduction, and the newly developed Crystal Engine Pro II for high-speed processing. The result: an entirely new dimension in lifelike imaging

High-Sensitivity 3MOS Sensor: The HDC-Z10000 employs two independent, high-sensitivity 3MOS sensors, left and right, each with a three-sensor configuration. This provides a resolution of 6.57 million effective motion image pixels (2.19 million x 3). With their excellent color reproduction and strong low-light shooting capability, these 3MOS sensors maximize the quality of Full HD 3D and Full HD progressive images ¹
Please Note:
Each sensor offers 6.21 megapixels (effective) when shooting in 3D close

Crystal Engine Pro II Chip for Enhanced Resolution and Noise Reduction: The ultra-high-speed Crystal Engine Pro II processes the 4K2K-equivalent pixels that are obtained, and with pixel shift technology, superb Full-HD image quality is achieved even in detailed images. The improved processing capability also provides dramatic noise-reduction effects, to achieve clear, high-quality 2D and 3D images

Bright, High-Performance f/1.5 Lens with Nano Surface Coating: New large-diameter f/1.5 lenses are mounted independently, left and right. A Nano Surface Coating is applied to the front lens surface. These advanced lens systems suppress ghosts and flaring when shooting moving pictures, and let you record bright images with very little noise even in dark places. The Nano Surface Coating boasts an extremely low reflectance ratio compared with the conventional multi coating, to minimize ghosts. By forming a nano-level, microstructure film with an ultra-low refractive index on the lens surface, the reflection of incident light is greatly reduced over the entire visual light range. This Panasonic black-box technology boosts the optical performance of the HDC-Z10000 to deliver images with stunning clarity

AVCHD Progressive-Compliant 1080p60 Recording: 1080p60 recording (1920 x 1080, 60 progressive frames per second) conveys about twice the information of 1080i (interlace) recording. Fast-moving subjects, such as in sports scenes, are recorded smoothly. The progressive recording of the HDC-Z10000 fully complies with the new AVCHD Progressive standard

Dual XLR Terminals: In addition to the electret condenser microphones that are built into the HDC-Z10000, XLR audio input terminals allow 2-channel input with 48V phantom power supply for external microphones. This facilitates the use of the many high-performance microphones with XLR terminal connections that are available for professional equipment

Linear PCM Recording: The HDC-Z10000 features 48 kHz/16-bit linear PCM recording (2 channels only) and captures original sounds faithfully and accurately. This meets the demand for high sound quality, for example, when recording live music performances and the sounds of nature

5.1-Channel Surround Sound System: The HDC-Z10000 is equipped with five electret condenser microphones. The center mic helps capture the sound source and distance accurately, so you get a more three-dimensional effect. You get a realistic sound space that's a perfect match with the true-to-life HD images

Manual Rings for Focus, Zoom & Iris: Three independent manual rings allow detailed adjustment of the focus, zoom, and iris. You can fine-tune each of these adjustments while viewing the results in the LCD or EVF, so you get the exact images you want quickly and easily

True 3D Convergence Control: The convergence angle between the two lenses is variable inside the optical unit. This moves the convergence point (the reference plane of the 3D image) in a fore-and-aft direction to control the leaping and depth effects of recorded objects, allowing the camcorder to acquire natural-looking 3D images. The convergence point can be set to adjust automatically, or it can be manually adjusted with the convergence dial while viewing the LCD image, which can display the numerical setting of the convergence

Glasses-Free 3D from the 3.5" LCD: The 1,152,000-dot, 3.5" naked-eye 3D LCD lets you check your 3D images without any special eyewear. By using a parallax barrier to control the direction of the light, the LCD enables two images captured from slightly different perspectives to be viewed exclusively by the right and by the left eye. You can check 3D images while shooting, without having to connect a monitor. Naturally, the display can also be switched between 2D and 3D, and it also enables intuitive fingertip-touch operation

Color Viewfinder: The bright 0.45" Live View Finder (LVF) features high-speed response and a superb 1,227,000-dot resolution. The LVF makes it easier to optimize the focus, a crucial consideration for 3D recording. It's also supremely useful in situations that require there to be none of the excess light that LCD screens emit

Independent Control Buttons/Function Memory: Functions that are frequently used for recording, such as O.I.S. ON/OFF, Color Bar ON/OFF, Zebra Pattern Display, 3D Guide Display, Auto/Manual Iris, Auto/Manual Auto Focus, and Auto/Manual White Balance are arranged on the side of the body as separate buttons to enable quick, intuitive operation. In addition, for easy access the most frequently used functions can be allocated to three user buttons on the main unit and four user buttons on the LCD. Any of 20 different functions can be assigned to these buttons

Dual SD Card Slot: The dual SD Memory Card slot offers the option of extended recording or backup recording. When two SD Memory Cards are inserted and the first card reaches full capacity, the system automatically and seamlessly switches to the second card. This allows extended recording without having to worry about interruptions due to a lack of card capacity. Alternatively, during backup recording, the same data is recorded onto both cards for immediate duplicating or archiving purposes in the case of a faulty SD card

Bundled HD Writer XE 1.0 Software: The HDC-Z10000 is bundled with HD Writer XE 1.0 software, which lets you easily cut out MVC format Full HD 3D or 1080p60 2D Full HD images and save them onto a PC. It is also possible to write the images onto a Blu-ray Disc or SD card ²
Please Note:
In order to play images recorded onto a Blu-ray Disc, a device that is compatible with the AVCHD 3D/Progressive standards is required close

One-Touch Still Image Recording: You can record 2D/3D still images (MPO-compliant) at any time, simply by pressing the shutter button. It is also possible to cut out images in all modes while shooting or playing videos. 3D and 2D still images are recorded simultaneously with 2.1 Mp resolution

Multi-Format Recording: You can select 2D or 3D recording modes to match the shooting situation. You can shoot AVCHD 3D at either 1080i60, 1080p30, or 1080p24. AVCHD Progressive (1080p60) is a high-quality choice for 2D video, and in 2D you can also shoot 1080p30 or 1080p24 – or 1080i60 at three different quality levels, which can be employed to conserve recording space

Sophisticated Image Tuning: Advanced image tuning functions, such as gamma mode, knee point, detail, detail coring, chroma levels, chroma phase, and master pedestal, can be applied to match the shooting situation. These functions provide excellent expressive control

Custom Scene Function: Up to six sets of camera setting data can be stored within the camera, enabling you to instantly configure settings based on the shooting conditions. For example, if you store regular HD recording settings, cinema-like recording settings, subject recording settings, and landscape recording settings as your customized settings, they can be instantly switched into action with a single touch when the shooting situation changes

Compact, Lightweight Body: The HDC-Z10000 delivers a high level of image quality in a tight package. It is very easy to carry around and offers superb mobility in cramped indoor locations

HYBRID O.I.S.+: The new five-axis HYBRID O.I.S.+ corrects the kind of roll-direction hand shake that often occurs when shooting while zooming or walking, in addition to horizontal, vertical, yawing, and pitching (four-axis) correction. This optical image stabilization system puts into effect at the wide end the kinds of hybrid corrections that previously worked only for telephoto shooting. This enables the Z10000 to record steady images over the entire zoom range ³
Please Note:
HYBRID O.I.S. is for 2D shooting only. POWER O.I.S. stabilizes 3D shooting close

iA (Intelligent Auto): The iA function lets the HDC-Z10000 choose the optimal shooting mode automatically with the press of a button. The Intelligent Scene Selector, HYBRID O.I.S.+ (POWER O.I.S. for 3D shooting), Face Detection, and Intelligent Contrast Control automatically operate as needed, so you get high-quality images while the HDC-Z10000 does all the work

Wide-Angle Shooting with 10x Optical Zoom: A wide range of shooting situations are covered by this versatile lens, from 32mm wide-angle shooting (29.8mm for 2D shooting) to 10x optical zooming (12x for 2D shooting, 23x for shooting with Intelligent Zoom). This greatly extends the range of uses, from shooting in tight places to situations where you and the subject are far apart ⁴
Please Note:
These focal lengths are 35mm camera equivalents close

Quick Start-Up: With Quick Power-On, just switch the power on and the HDC-Z10000 is in standby mode in about 2.0 seconds, ready to shoot when you are. When the LCD is closed, the power automatically switches off. Using Quick Start mode, you simply flip open the LCD and you're ready to shoot in only 0.6 seconds ⁵
Please Note:
Depending on the recording conditions, start time may be longer close

One-Touch 2D/3D Still Picture Recording: Simply press the shutter button to record a 2D or 3D (MPO-compliant) still image at any time. It is also possible to cut out images in all modes while shooting or playing videos. 3D and 2D still images are recorded simultaneously at 2.1-megapixel resolution ⁶
Please Note:
3-megapixel resolution for 2D, 2.1-megapixel resolution for 3D close

ViewSonic PJD7583wi Advanced Short Throw DLP Widescreen Projector

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Viewsonic PJD7583wi Advanced Short Throw DLP Widescreen Projector

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Product Highlights

3D-Ready
Equipped With Interactive Pen
BrilliantColor Technology
Brightness: 3000 Lumens
Contrast Ratio: 2000:1
WXGA 1280x800 Resolution
Dual RGB Inputs
Network Ready RJ-45 Terminal
Supports Crestron RoomView Express
Closed Caption Capable

An amenable workhorse in the classroom, the ViewSonic PJD7583wi Advanced Short Throw DLP Widescreen Projector will increase your effectiveness as an educator, while expanding your reach into tighter and brighter spaces. The PJD7583wi is an ultra short throw projector, specially tuned to support widescreen formats. Choosing between auto, standard TV and widescreen aspect ratios is a luxury for both entertainment and educational purposes. For teachers, the PJD7583wi eliminates the shadows they've been casting across projection screens for years, as well as reducing distracting ambient light. The PJD7583wi can open up tight spaces by projecting an impressive 95" diagonal image on a screen from a mere 39" away. With Screen Color Correction, even soft colored walls won't limit your presentation areas.

The vivid and accurate color reproduction is owed to BrilliantColor technology, which uses a sophisticated five-segment color wheel to deliver bold, life-like saturation. The PJD7583wi also comes 3D-Ready, perfect for educators looking for a more interactive way to teach. The included PointBlank Pen complements the 3D technology by allowing kids to use an interactive whiteboard and optional software to become more involved in the learning process.
A great training tool on its own, the PJD7583wi is even more productive when run through a network. From one central computer, you can schedule multiple presentations, send e-mail alerts and even monitor the lamp status. The PJD7583wi also supports Crestron RoomView Express. With the proper software, it's possible to manage up to 250 network projectors. You can schedule events and manage assets across an entire campus from one central computer in real time.
Networking an army of projectors is an impressive feature, but individually, the PJD7583wi can handle information from two different computers simultaneously. The dual RGB inputs will add a sophisticated dimension to your presentations. You can utilize multiple computers, create startup screens, use a microphone through the 10W speaker and monitor your presentation time as well. The heightened control ensures high-quality images will be matched by expressive presentations.
With the PJD7583wi, even your carbon footprint is negotiable. Running your projector on Eco-Mode decreases the lamp brightness without compromising image quality. This can extend your lamp life three times longer than a traditional projector lamp. With less maintenance efforts and decreased energy bills, saving the planet will also save you money.

Short Throw Lens: Designed to eliminate ambient light and annoying shadows created by walking in front of the lamp, short throw projectors are also ideal for brighter and tighter spaces. The PJD7583wi delivers high performance at a short distance and can project a large, 95" image on a screen from a mere 39" away

Widescreen Projection: The PJD7583wi is specially tuned to support widescreen formats. You can switch from auto, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10 aspect ratios

3D-Ready: Ideal for classroom and boardroom applications where 3D rendering is key to the message. Great for home theatre installation and compatible with over 1000 3D video games. The advanced 120Hz frame rate provides well-defined, blur-free images when running 2D or 3D content

DLP Filter Free Technology: Enjoying filter free projection design means less maintenance and more money. This will save you significant dollars over the projector's lifespan. With no filter cleaning or filter replacement, DLP filter free projectors have a lower total cost of ownership

BrilliantColor Technology: Delivering rich all-digital clarity with life-like color, sharp graphics and outstanding video. The impressive 5-segment color (RGBWY) wheel affords greater color accuracy and detail

Interactive Pen: The PointBlank pen can work in place of your regular computer mouse. Just hold the pen in your hand and point it at the projected image to point, click, and drag. It gives you more flexibility to operate your computer without standing next to it. The self contained (IWB) interactive white board functionality along with the included pen works with a variety of software to get the entire class involved in the learning process

Network Control Through RJ-45: Schedule, manage and monitor the projector remotely and receive e-mail alerts of projector lamp status. Use the unique integrated clock to perform commands even when the host PC is powered down

Supports Crestron RoomView Express: Manage up to 250 network projectors in real time monitoring and control. Manage assets, schedule events and program email alerts as well

Eco-Mode Option: This decreases the lamp brightness and optimizes the projecting colour-schemes for different presentation content. Using Eco-Mode, the average lamp life can be up to 6000 hours. Saving both energy costs and decreasing maintenance time, this feature is good for you and the planet. There is no compromise in image brightness or product performance, but it will be more peaceful with the reduced noise output

Dual PC Inputs: Increasing flexibility is possible with the addition of a second RGB input. Having two allows multiple devices to be connected at the same time

Dynamic Contrast Mode: Contrast ratio is just the ratio of the luminance of the lightest color on display to the darkest color on display at any given time. Dynamic Contrast Ratio automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen to produce richer darks and brighter whites. The result is superior screen performance for both light and dark scenes

Integrated 10W Speaker: The integrated speakers offer full multimedia playback and allow for multiple sound sources to be connected

Presentation Timer: Indicating the presentation time on the screen, this timer will undoubtedly improve your time management skills

Screen Color Correction: Projecting on surfaces with multiple shades of white, beige, yellow, etc. is necessary sometimes. This feature adjusts the display to optimize projection on surfaces of several predefined colors

Create Your Own Startup Screen: In addition to selecting the projector startup screen from blue or black screens. You can use the ViewSonic logo or implement your own pictures from your computer or video source to create a unique startup screen

PC-Less Presentation: The PJD7583wi is equipped with USB connectors that allow you to use mobile media devices like memory sticks and portable drives to give packaged presentations without the need for a computer

Monday, December 19, 2011

SHOOT 3D NOW ! How to use a 3D side-by-side rig - www.3DFilmFactory.com

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Tune-Yards - Real Live Flesh (4AD Sessions)

CART06/BARBARA FAGIOLO

I met this woman at Dia:Beacon, she was very nice, we talked about the artwork and other things for thirty minutes, when she left we hugged almost in tears, the connection and the moment were lovely.

Wave Farm, Gelato Arts Salon

http://gelatoartsalon.wordpress.com/category/welcome/

Someone gave me this card once....

Nam June Pak, David Zerbib

must be produced negatively by eliminating information insofar as increased information means memory and diminished information means forgetting.... tekhne logos might have promised, but rather reconfigures the relationships that it can weave with its exterior. oddly enough, this leads us back to the question of paranoia, etymologically "beside the mind", the self cast outside itself like a mind beside the mind out of sync, unhinged.... input-output... to take the instrument to the point of madness... delirium as the source of a system he called 'critical paranoia'... it was a psychological condition corresponding to the recording, safekeeping and salvaging of information... but in its recovery... accessed... in his 1969 Archeology of Knowledge, Foucault famously conceived the archive as the "system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events"... knowledge is not structured in advance; it is perfomative and therefore essentially emergent.
1968 essay "Expanded Education"... "the archeology of the present"... thus the art of live memory is an archive that works by subtracting information, like a negative dialectic working against the instrumental rationality of control-freak paranoia.... Antoni Muntadas's 1994 The File Room... Anne-Marie Duguet, founder of the Anarchive series.... a digital conceptual geography... One for Violin Solo, Opera Sextronique, Fluxus Sonata... It is up to performance to activate the archive by means of its concept, its operating principle. What is recovered is the performance of the archive. If archeology can be understood, as Foucault said, as a description "of discourses as specific practices in the archival element," here it is to produce the event of the archive in the element of the artwork.

www.thefileroom.org
www.anarchive.net
www.ichim.org/ichim03/PDF/054C.pdf

Jack Atkinson Art

Make a little Zine about Jack Atkinson's artwork that is passed out for free on the streets.

The Human Hand in the Digital Age The Message in the Medium Aernout Mik

Aernout Mik

Max Mathews - "Phosphones"

Edgar Varèse: Nocturnal

Pierre Henry - Levitation

Pierre Schaeffer - Apostrophe

Berio- Piano Concerto (1/2)

Sequenza III (1966) - Luciano Berio

Boulez: "Notations I-IV" 1/3

Don Cherry & Terry Riley - descending moonshine dervishes part 1

La Monte Young - Fluxus

Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles

Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich - Beginning

Terry Riley rare footage, live in the 70s

http://mikailgraham.com/terryriley/audio.htm

Kafka

Joyce Quotes

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
- James Joyce
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
- James Joyce
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
- James Joyce
"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
- James Joyce
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
- James Joyce

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
- James Joyce
"Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul."
- James Joyce
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce
"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."
- James Joyce
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
- James Joyce
"Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police."
- James Joyce
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."
- James Joyce
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
- James Joyce
"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."
- James Joyce
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
- James Joyce
"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."
- James Joyce
"When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove."
- James Joyce
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
- James Joyce
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
- James Joyce

Mallarme

Sea Breeze

The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books.

Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense

That the birds, intoxicated, fly

Deep into unknown spume and sky!

Nothing – not even old gardens mirrored by eyes –

Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,

O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,

On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,

No, not even the young woman feeding her child.

I shall go! Steamer, straining at your ropes

Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!

A Boredom, made desolate by cruel hope

Still believes in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!

And perhaps the masts, inviting lightning,

Are those the gale bends over shipwrecks,

Lost, without masts, without masts, no fertile islands...

But, oh my heart, listen to the sailors’ chant!

Rauschenberg White Paintings

Robert Rauschenberg's white paintings inspired Cage's 4'33

Carl Andre, The New Yorker

ABSTRACT: PROFILE of artist Carl Andre. Although the Paula Cooper gallery shows his work regularly, Andre has not had a one-man exhibition at a New York museum since 1970, and his name, as a key figure in the development of minimal art, is no longer prominent in the critical discourse. The drought is easing, though, and it will come to an end in March, 2013, when a retrospective exhibition of Andre’s work opens at the Dia Art Foundation museum, in Beacon, New York, and then travels to a number of as yet unnamed museums here and in Europe. It is hard to think of an artist whose career has been so affected by circumstances that have nothing to do with his art. In Andre’s case, the precipitating event was the death of his third wife, Ana Mendieta, a young artist who fell from the bedroom window of Andre’s apartment, on the thirty-fourth floor of a high-rise on Mercer Street, in the early-morning hours of September 8, 1985. Andre was charged with murder, indicted, and eventually acquitted in a non-jury trial, but Mendieta’s family and many of her friends in the art community and the feminist movement believe that he was responsible for her death. For several years after his acquittal, Andre spent a lot of time in Europe, where the tragedy seemed to have no effect on his reputation. European museums continued to show his work, and sales to museums and private collectors there helped to offset the almost total disappearance of his American market. Wherever Andre was, he kept working. Andre has described himself as the first post-studio artist. He has never needed a studio, because the materials he works with—four-by-four timbers, bricks, one-foot-square metal plates, cut or natural stones, and other available hardware—are ordered from suppliers and assembled by Andre on the site. Andre does not carve, or model, or weld, or transform his materials. His great innovation was to assemble the elements of his simple, linear sculptures on the floor, without joining them together. Other contemporary sculptors had done away with pedestals and the vertical axis, but Andre’s reorientation of his work to the horizontal plane, where it functioned not as an object but, in his words, “as place,” was more radical and more influential than anything being done by Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, or the other minimalist artists in the nineteen-sixties. Writer visits Andre and his wife, Melissa Kretschmer, at their apartment. Tells about Andre’s childhood in Massachusetts, his education at Phillips Academy, and his friendship with Richard Serra. Andre discusses his memories of the night Mendieta died.