Sound Mirrors in Stereo

September 4, 2013
Sound Mirrors
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Sound Mirrors, Denge

Sound Mirrors, Denge

Sound Mirrors, Denge

Sound Mirrors, Denge

It a while since I have posted any stereo images, so if you are new to this, to resolve the image go cross eyed until the two images register on top of each other – you will see three images and need to concentrate on the middle one. If you are having problems make the image smaller. You might find tilting your head either way to make sure the images are horizontal with your eyes can also help. Once you have the 3D image, try to relax and the depth will emerge. The lower image is quite distorted but gives a gratifying depth.

Art in the Streets

August 31, 2013
Exhibitions
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Art In the Streets

Art In the Streets

From and exhibition a couple of summers ago at MOCA Los Angeles. I have to admit I am not too excited by graffiti. It usually appears so conformist, quite strange for a medium that is depressingly obsessed with authorship. There is a book of photographs by Jean Baudrillard (which I do not own, so the quotation is not exact) where he discusses graffiti artists as people who want to be heard but have nothing to say. I am also afraid I cannot remember the attribution for this piece, a set of exquisitely painted model railway cars (I imagine somewhere between 1:30 to 1:50 scale) that seems to touch on many of the difficulties of graffiti work.

Landscape Futures

August 31, 2013
Publications
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Landscape Futures

Landscape Futures

Sub-titled Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions, Editor Geoff Manaugh (BLDG BLOG) has assembled a book related to the exhibition he put on at the Navada Museum of Art that includes work by Smout Allen, David Gissen, Chris Woebken and Kenichi Okada, Liam Young and Lateral Office. It includes images of a couple of my projects. For more information, see here.

 

 

Ice Fishing Huts on Lake Manitoba

August 29, 2013
Infrastructure
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Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing

People do this for pleasure. It is probably between -20 and -30c. We are on a frozen lake (Lake Manitoba) at Gimli. Hobby fishermen drill a hole in the ice (around three to four feet thick), usually with a petrol driven auger made for the purpose and sit in the cold with a toy-like (very) short fishing rod over the hole, which they have dragged their hut over. The hard core fishermen have a generator going outside to power a television (to watch ice hockey, of course) and a fridge which has the dual function of stopping the beer from freezing and providing some heat for the hut with its heat exchanger. As they fish the hole slowly freezes shut again. Outside, meanwhile, the ice makes pleasing cracking and moaning sounds.

Old Zoo, Griffith Park, LA

August 25, 2013
Didactic Displays, Dioramas
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Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Between 1912 and 1965 this zoo occupied what is now a picnic area in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. The scenographic enclosures are now available for anyone to enter. They are arranged along the lower edge of a small escarpment, to be viewed from below. They are serviced from above, with a series of protected tunnels allowing the keepers to feed the animals. I will post some pictures of these and some of the other infrastructure (that was hidden above the enclosure) in my next post. The Zoo moved to a larger site in the park.

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

Old Zoo, Griffith Park

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