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Not really, but due to some glitch in the WordPress system, half of the Ward Report I did this morning has vanished into the aether and cannot be retrieved despite hard work by our experts.

Next week, from SXSWi 2013, then. Unless it happens again.

by Andrew Horn
I remember many years ago reading a story by the science fiction writer Brian W. Aldiss called  “Aimez-Vous Holman Hunt?”. It imagined a computer program that could take a famous painting - in this case one by the above mentioned painter, though I don’t remember the title - and extrapolate a narrative out Continue Reading

Bêtes de concours
par Julien MARSA
Chaque année, les cérémonies de remise de prix sont une bonne occasion de prendre le pouls de ce qui constitue « le cinéma majoritaire mondial », sorte de cartographie tracée grossièrement, à la va-vite, par différents panels de professionnels selon les industries de chaque pays. On pourrait considérer, d'un point de vue européen Continue Reading

Mosaic by Mathias Waller in Görlitzer Park Berlin
Mathias Waller has created a new mosaic in Kreuzberg's Görlitzer Park near our offices in Berlin. Appropriately embedded in the side of the Turkish Fountain ruins, the piece is quite large, like Waller's other bottle cap mosaics. In summer, he had some temporary urban art pieces embedded directly Continue Reading

Next week, The Ward Report will be reporting from Brooklyn; the next two weeks from SXSWi, which ought to make for some entertaining reading, given some of the boneheaded digital culture that's always on display there. This week, though, we'll clean up some of the stuff that's been lying around the desktop here in a Continue Reading

 
Wie ging nochmal dieser Spruch? Familie kann man sich nicht aussuchen, Freunde schon. Eine Kandidatin, die dieses Phänomen sehr beschäftigt und gleichzeitig in ihren Filmen verarbeitet, ist Julie Delpy. Die französische Schauspielerin arbeitet seit 2007 auch als Regisseurin und Drehbuchautorin. In ihren Filmen „2 Tage Paris“ (2007) und „2 Tage New York“ (2012) beschreibt sie Continue Reading

by Andrew Horn
As someone who barely made it out alive from the first season of “Girls”, I probably had no business going to see Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha”. Everyone around me in the theater appeared to be having a great time while I sat there in a dark funk. Is this how the younger generation Continue Reading

Un film sorti de nulle part
par Julien MARSA
À l'instar d'Abel Ferrara et son « 4 :44 Last Day on Earth », le cinéaste français Jean-Claude Brisseau, très célèbre pour son « Noce Blanche » avec Vanessa Paradis, un peu moins pour des œuvres plus confidentielles mais pas moins intrigantes (« De bruit et de fureur », « Choses secrètes »), revient donc aujourd'hui sur Continue Reading

Last week, I mused here on lost media, especially computer platforms and software that is no longer usable for one reason or another. Then, out of the blue, a box arrived from Dust to Digital, an Atlanta-based record company that started out ten years ago with Goodbye Babylon, a collection of old American sacred music Continue Reading

Winter seem to last forever in Berlin. The U-Bahn, our subway, is sometimes the only dab of color in an otherwise monotone landscape. Snow, gray sky, we welcome color from anywhere in months from October to April. Kreuzberg, Mitte, Neukölln or Friedrichshain - we know why the graffiti street artists are tagging the walls. From Continue Reading