#render ghosts

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4月に来日していたオランダのミュージシャン。曲、歌、声、オランダ語の響きもどれもがすてきで、別のイベントと日が重なってしまって観に行けなかったことが心残り。ジャパンツアー発表時には載っていた440のライブがなくなっていなければ行けたのに…！ 過去にはKim Janssenという人のバンドメンバーとしても来日したり、This Beautiful Messのサポートもしていたみたい。 別で参加しているRender Ghostsというシンセポッププロジェクトもよくて、すべての活動が魅力的。

🕑 1 min / Text: F. Bauer Release Date: Feb 18, 2022 I already discovered this fabulous record on BerlinOnAir and if you're ready to take a trip back to the '80s, you should listen to 'Keeping My Number' by Render Ghosts, a talented european indie band from London and Utrecht. I dig their fresh synth driven electro pop sound, and guys...the chorus is an absolute banger! Upbeat, easy to listen to and joyful, I really hope you like what you hear: Melody: ★★★★★ | Production: ★★★★★ | Arrangement: ★★★☆☆ | Energy: ★★★★☆ |  Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/2wHGONgI1edcOIajIFTmRI Follow: https://www.instagram.com/renderghostsmusic/ ✔️ Available on our Indie Playlist on Spotify.

Alexandra Lange is the guest on the latest episode of Curbed's podcast, The Curbed Appeal (Yes, Curbed has a podcast! Yes, I just learned about it too!), and she's talking about the world of architectural renderings—from how critics should approach them, their inacurracies, and how they are made. Renderings have become a kind of currency in architecture—the way buildings are hyped, reviewed, and sold and it's a fascinating look into a side of architecture I've honestly never considered.

In the episode, she mentions how young architects will do simple Google image searches for "grass" or "people walking" to grab and silouette out for the renderings. Lange suggested someone could literally track back to the origins of different parts of renderings which reminded me of James Bridle's project, The Render Ghosts, where he does this same thing:

I spoke to architects and visualisation artists, trying to track down the original identities of the Render Ghosts. I photographed them, collected them, wrote stories about them. Occasionally some would come to light: a set of photographs of the advertisements for a new marina on the Medway was revealed to be populated entirely by papped celebrities – Olson twins and Hollywood starlets with children in tow wandering through the sunlit unreality of a small English town. Most, however, are more obscure, their origins lost. I spoke to one visualiser who described the images they deployed as “lorem ipsum architecture”: placeholder things and people, pulled at random from vast databases to populate imaginary places. Others talked about them fondly, had their favourites, created histories and back stories for them, placed them with thought and care into their new, albeit temporary, surroundings.

Bridle went on a search to find the real people he kept seeing in these renderings. When I sent this to Lange, she shared a parallel project from Failed Architecture. I first heard Bridle talk about his project in his talk last year for the Walker Art Center's SuperScript conference, but he's also written about architectural renderings for Domus back in 2013: