Chris Milk
Chris Milk is an American film director and photographer born on January 1, 1975, in New York City.
He received his education at the Academy of Art University. Working in English, Milk has pursued two parallel vocations — filmmaking and photography — that together define the recorded scope of his professional practice.
The combination of still and moving image runs consistently through what the record establishes about Milk. As a photographer, he engages with the possibilities of the single frame, while his work as a film director draws on the extended visual and narrative capacities of cinema. These two modes of image-making appear side by side in his professional identity, and the facts support no clean separation between them.
Born in New York City and a citizen of the United States, Milk has worked throughout his career in the English language. The clearest identifier in his record remains the dual claim of photography and film direction — two fields that share a fundamental investment in how images are made and framed, held together in Milk's practice as parallel rather than competing concerns.
Quotes by Chris Milk
Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.
I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you.
Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.
It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.
When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.'
My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.