PALMSTROKE

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2012-01-29T16:15:00.001+05:30

never thought i'd find this in coonoor

2012-01-04T00:32:00.003+05:30

at the restaurant La Belle Vie in Coonoor.

surveillance secrets

2011-12-07T23:59:00.007+05:30

Object bent into/out of shape with teeth (Sachin) and pliers (Sindhu).

the underwater train chain game

2011-11-27T14:52:00.002+05:30

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the swing

2011-11-27T14:48:00.000+05:30

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2011-10-20T00:43:00.003+05:30

keech keech

2011-10-11T00:31:00.003+05:30

Young Rato Monk Memorizing

2011-09-27T19:31:00.008+05:30

Rato Monk Memorizing by Nicholas Vreeland is part of the series Photos for Rato, currently showing at the Tasveer Gallery in Bangalore.

BBMP art

2011-09-24T15:08:00.014+05:30

I'm doing a film project based on the BBMP wall murals in Bangalore. I've been walking around the city looking at the paintings and photographing them. If you're from Bangalore: do you have any favourite paintings? Send me a short description and location, I'd like to go and see!

2011-09-14T23:23:00.002+05:30

- this is by masood kamandy.

black hole

2011-08-28T13:10:00.001+05:30

note to self

2011-08-15T19:17:00.013+05:30

a water story from an oral history class

2011-03-15T16:17:00.003+05:30

The Dharmambudhi Tank Area (presently Majestic bus stand) is the heart of Bangalore City, going form a tank to an exhibition ground to a bus stand in the last 100 years. Now, at a time when it is about to take on its newest avatar, that of a metro station, three people - a priest of a temple once situated at its banks, an erstwhile high-schooler of a Gandhi Nagar school and the wife an engineer who worked on the KSRTC bus stand - express their memories hopes and fears of the tank area and of urban development at large.

This film was made as part of the Water Stories project for the Talking Histories course at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. It was based on oral history interviews with the three people in the film and with Master Hirannaiah, a famous theatre performer here in Karnataka. If you are interested in hearing the full interviews, please contact me.

for those of you in bangalore

2011-03-04T09:43:00.001+05:30

auto white balance

2011-02-16T21:41:00.001+05:30

gautam's half life 2

2011-02-01T14:31:00.005+05:30

as part of an oral history course, we did some interviews with classmates about life before and after art school. and were asked to interpret the transcripts. gautam has this obsession with gaming, so here was what i did with his interview. the captions to the pictures are excerpts from the interview.

2011-01-17T20:02:00.005+05:30

rotoscoping

2010-12-08T10:01:00.001+05:30

where i live

2010-10-10T23:13:00.006+05:30

i'm floored by the landscapes from these patchwork satellite maps.. and discovering so many places that i'd love to visit in street view.

being back home

2010-10-10T00:00:00.000+05:30

should feel different everytime.

shells and skyscrapers - my summer trip to the USA

2010-09-03T12:51:00.000+05:30

3 pieces of affection

2010-07-02T05:35:00.016+05:30

spent some time
at a place called
colour me mine
making these.
they are for tea,
you and me. so
come on over!

make my day.

2010-05-26T09:28:00.001+05:30

magic in the woods

2010-04-19T03:45:00.004+05:30

projectionists

2010-04-08T17:27:00.006+05:30

“but that the white eye-lid of the screen reflect its proper light, the universe would go up in flames.” – luis buñuel

and friend and i spent some time at the projection room of a famous theatre in bangalore. we got to meet and chat to the people behind the cinema experience. here is a bunch of photographs from that time.

check check

2010-03-20T23:58:00.006+05:30

this is a small project i'm doing. it was initially for a history course i did in college but i'll be happy to take any submissions that anyone might have to contribute. check out, do.

don't tell me what not to draw.

2010-03-06T19:08:00.005+05:30

thinking, writing, doing.

2010-02-22T01:24:00.005+05:30

dad's photos.

2010-02-09T01:10:00.007+05:30

found some old photos today. the camera used here is what i now use : )

2010-01-23T21:02:00.002+05:30

it seems
i consider a particular style of colouring
similar to the raking of fingers through hair
and this style has an 'intimate flow'.

sleep journal zindabad.

cosmic minute

2009-11-28T11:16:00.003+05:30

a one minute film that avani and i made.

unreserved

2009-11-16T19:18:00.022+05:30

saurabh and i, we were talking about the complex rhythms of trains and how they can fit into any song that you can imagine in your head. washing machines and windscreen wipers, they can do that too. and we passed by a long tunnel, two dead cows, a lake with the sun in its waters, brick buildings and cyclists in white shirts before our feet were blissfully grazing the platform of the next station.

<3 tanvee

2009-11-12T23:45:00.003+05:30

i'm a turkophile and tanvee knows it. she made me this killer birthday card:

surrealist proverb.

2009-11-02T22:42:00.000+05:30

no jokes.

i miss french class : (

2009-11-02T22:38:00.001+05:30

more photo transfers

2009-11-02T22:17:00.004+05:30

starfruits

2009-10-25T23:27:00.011+05:30

from a night of blind man's colour and very berry incense.

summer in goa

2009-10-24T14:34:00.014+05:30

with nupur, angad, veera, pavan and a roll of expired film.

the love of old things

2009-10-19T21:58:00.017+05:30

meet ragini. meet ragini's gorgeous purplebrown shirt. meet us after lunch, meet us after school, meet us a long long time away from now.

anything goes.

2009-09-26T20:03:00.001+05:30

the brightest thing i have ever made

2009-09-26T20:01:00.001+05:30

self

2009-09-17T18:40:00.001+05:30

the exercise was to bring about contrasts in personality through a self portrait.

the unbearable lightness of being

2009-09-17T18:35:00.003+05:30

have fallen in love with all the characters. tomas especially.

voulez-vous diner?

2009-09-17T18:32:00.002+05:30

the kinds of things i love to hear

2009-09-17T18:15:00.006+05:30

i love you h.w.longfellow, roger mcgough, the neptunes, dada, and avani :)

company

2009-09-09T00:27:00.006+05:30

marooney's been around for ages and i love him but today i met someone else. he's a bit moody but he's a darling if you get on his secretdinnerpartygoing-rooftopscaling-moonmapmaking side.

distantpast

2009-08-18T17:45:00.010+05:30

something about being able to access memories makes your present-self feel like it is in place. it's assuring to know that you are the thing between the gravity of the past and the ethereal future.

bowed or plucked

2009-06-03T21:50:00.003+05:30

more sketches from BSM

are insects as curious as us?

2009-06-03T21:47:00.001+05:30

why are insects so drawn to other living bodies?

snippets of BSM

2009-05-10T22:23:00.015+05:30

these are sketches from The Bangalore School of Music where I study the flute.

il est minuit

2009-05-03T01:14:00.002+05:30

ulato ulat

2009-05-03T00:58:00.003+05:30

the aviary

2009-04-20T23:39:00.005+05:30

sounds like a fumbling guitar
with the notes removed.

she
enters her bathroom
to wash her face and hands,
feet maybe.
or perhaps
she puts it on
so it'll illuminate her room
late at night
to keep her company;
shy away impostors;
tell people she's there.

it tells me anyway.

across the window
it flickers through the frosted window pane -
your story into mine.

i,
in my dark room,
a canvas
for light that chances by,
painting a picture of its source
on my dark walls,
telling me that
a room
is too small for a person;
the world
is too small for light.

on off on
off on.
we live breathe speak
across these walls,
through this bathroom window,
without wanting or considering
but somehow knowing the other
in ways we don't ourselves understand.

we are neighbours beyond our choosing.
or maybe all neighbours are.

lightbulbs, lenses and long nights

2009-04-09T23:23:00.005+05:30

this stop motion video was part of an interactive installation my classmates and i created. please do give feedback, not too many people got to experience the installation.

we walked to school together

2009-04-07T21:17:00.006+05:30

and it is now,

amidst fond recollections

of the aftertaste of bounty

and of the smell of lavender -

real lavender -

that i wish

somewhere between

those forgotten hindi lessons,

utterances of taboos,

learnings of the origins of paneer,

and of the word tinge,

that i had kept with you

just a while longer.

more ulats

2009-03-19T09:22:00.005+05:30

we are all pretenders

2009-03-17T23:09:00.004+05:30

i am a pretender.
i pretend to be many things.
i sit by myself sometimes
when the headlights throw shadows through the window
and pretend i am somewhere else,
sometime else,
someone else.
i used to think
shadows can't belong to people
because they are not made of anything.
but now i know that they can belong to someone
the same way a pretense can.
it takes a very opaque something to make a nothing.

penumbra

2009-03-17T21:43:00.003+05:30

we went to a science museum today. fancy that.

punctuate as you will

2009-02-12T18:36:00.003+05:30

atop this neck

around this vision

through the portal

in the imaginary space of society

on your shoulders perhaps

or in the longings of the same

reflection in the mirror

through a lifetime

a day

the train window is cold

the rain cannot wet

under this umbrella

it is safe

it is safe

in the warmth of my bed

places to put my head

ulat bansi

2009-01-29T16:54:00.007+05:30

journal visuel hehe

the anglo-saxon museum

2009-01-28T21:09:00.006+05:30

a girl of six, i am shown
their beginnings;
their past.
it is mine, i am told.
it is mine, i believe.
light on linoleum,
hay and hegemony -
fond curiosity constructs.
and why shouldn't it?

the past is a memory
and the memory too is mine.

unravel

2009-01-28T21:09:00.004+05:30

this is my first go at windows movie maker

under the tree

2009-01-28T09:22:00.004+05:30

from the abstarction of nature exercise

which country

2009-01-28T09:19:00.002+05:30

when we let the inks run free

the river rushes on: where can a foot be planted?

2009-01-26T23:58:00.002+05:30

foundies finally got to do something 'kabir related' the other day - illustrate a line or two of his work

limericks

2009-01-26T22:22:00.005+05:30

so much fun, to write and illustrate

two colours i love

2009-01-26T22:13:00.008+05:30

ok, i'll be honest, there was a lot of luck involved in this

after the raj

2009-01-26T21:57:00.000+05:30

a page from my book of collages

minor key

2009-01-26T21:41:00.000+05:30

photo montage from a studio course

my first go at illustration

2009-01-26T21:33:00.000+05:30

from a course on layout