the Silent Camera

Fairmount Arts Crawl

Kinan Faham — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:18:56 +0000

the Silent Camera is pleased to share photographs(i.e. pictures in still motion) that will be on display at George Apotsos Gallery(2018 Fairmount Ave Philadelphia PA 19130) during Fairmount Arts Crawl 2012.

As a reminder, The arts crawl will happen on Sunday, April 29 from 2-6PM. There will be a private reception on Saturday as well for friends and family.

You will see four different themes by the Silent Camera. Due to space limitations, only the first theme will be on display.

Christine In 6 Movements

Predator trees

Two Trucks & A Railroad

Biggie Smalls

In addition to the photographs, the Silent Camera will play a collection of silent films taken between 2009 and 2012:

Hope to see you there!

this earth is burning under her feet…centralia, pa

Kinan Faham — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:00:00 +0000

centralia, pa is a ghost town in columbia county nestled between different coal mining towns. In 1962, fire had spread underneath the town through the town’s mining tunnels.

A day trip with Delaware County Hikers and Adventurers to Centralia, PA.. a ghost town with only a few souvenirs from its past

We were looking for areas where smoke was rising from the earth & ended up walking down the closed section of Pennsylvania route 61 which started to collapse in the 90s as the fire was raging underneath and causing the road to cave.

We finally take a walk around what is left of the main drag in Centralia, PA.
Unfortunately we did not find as many places with smoke coming out of the ground as we hoped. The only area with smoke rising from the ground appears at the beginning of the video.

All the music you hear in the video was written and played by Nic Bommarito.

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You may recall a similar mining town, Rhyolite in NV, which disappeared years ago.

Wis-sa-hick-on

Kinan Faham — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:48:00 +0000

A hike with the crew of Hiking Around Philly in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia PA.

The following video was taken while on the trail. It includes music by aidan baker recorded during his live performance in the Netherlands @(h)ear.

Wis-sa-hick-on: Hiking the trails of Wissahickon Creek..

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hypoglycemia in black & white

Kinan Faham — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:39:00 +0000

pictures from valley forge national park. king of prussia, pa.

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1000 years ago…when humans used to live on this earth….

Kinan Faham — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:22:00 +0000

The streets of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, PA.
It is recommended that this video be watched on or after February 20, 3012…

The video clip uses field recordings made by Eric Gallun
and also field recordings made by Lyn Goeringer

1000 years ago…when humans used to live on this earth….

mazes, mansions and fences. philly’s fairmount park

Kinan Faham — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:51:00 +0000

this was a walk with Hiking Around Philly meetup group.

mazes, mansions and fences: historic schuylkill river ridge hike

we started at the stables of Chamounix Mansion, got stuck in a maze, passed by Woodford, Laurel Hill, Mt Pleasant, Smith Playground, Strawberry and Sweetbriar mansions, crossed Girard bridge, walked by PA civil war memorial and many more landmarks on the trails.

the music you hear in the video was composed by two outstanding musicians:

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inlet

Kinan Faham — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:43:00 +0000

This was a walk around the empty beaches of Corson’s inlet state park in the Garden state.

Corsons Inlet State Park and the empty beaches of Ocean City

The video clip features music by Mal(A.Ventura)2. The pieces are called: corte 1, corte 2 and corte 3.

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Trees’ Striptease: Ridley Creek State Park

Kinan Faham — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:11:16 +0000

This was a hike with the Appalachian Mountain Club in Ridley Creek State Park in Newtown Square, PA.

Trees’ Striptease: Ridley Creek State Park

The music played in the clip is by Parallel Lines. The album is called: 38:22

The album has five movements(parts):
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V

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mosaic, bottles, birds & screws: philadelphia’s magic gardens

Kinan Faham — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:58:04 +0000

This was a visit to the site commemorating the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar on South Street in Philly.

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beautiful mechanical

Kinan Faham — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:48:35 +0000

yMusic ensemble is a sextet of classically trained, highly talented & genre defying musicians.

They debuted their latest brain child: beautiful mechanical at rockwood musical hall on Allen street in the big apple.

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yMusic is

// rob moose on violin and guitar
performer, arranger and conductor.

// cj camerieri on trumpet and horn
freelance multi-instrumentalist

// clarice jensen on cello
cellist

// alex sopp on flute
flutist

// hideaki aomori on clarinet
freelance performer and educator

// nadia sirota on viola
one of New York’s brightest, busiest violists

Update on February 3rd 2012: NYTimes featured 4 pictures from this post in their newspaper and on the web.