SarahRyan’s exhibition ‘Two worlds, one of them being ideal’ was a great success on Friday night. The lenticular works were incredible and the catalogue which was included with the show was wonderful called ‘The Clearing’, which can be viewed on Sarah’s website. Thanks Sarah. x
Yesterday I received news that my first ever artistic mentor Dr Irene Amos passed away. I so often think of her when making work and the times I went to summer schools and work shops with her along with her dedicated students. She loved her students… Read More
Tarn Sarah and I installed the ‘Two worlds, one of them being ideal’ yesterday afternoon!! It looks amazing, I am so excited to share it! Tonight kicks off at 6PM, then we’ll mosy on to MADE from 7ish, and then to OLIVE BRANCH for… Read More
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I just watched this film for the first time after it being recomended to me by Bryann Ellis a few years ago in Graduate school at UNCG. Why did I decide to watch this now you ask? I was going through my grad school notes and stumbled upon the name of this short film.
Here’s the link ,
Powers Of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames
How does Wikipedia describe the film?
Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). The film is an adaptation of the book Cosmic View (1957) by Dutch educator Kees Boeke,[1] and more recently is the basis of a new book version.[2] Both adaptations, film and book, follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work.
After watching this film I was reading something in CABINET MAGAZINE that mentions the film. Through out the article called, Adventures in the Vertical the writing contains some great ideas about perspective and seeing scale. The article is a review of the W. Watson-Baker’s 1935 book, World Beneath the Microscope. Later on the same article goes into depth about the film the Eames husband and wife team made but keeps the ideas of scale and perspective in the dialogue. The I deas I like best and take away from the reading are about the mirror between traveling into outer space and inner space as part of one dialogue in the terms of scale. Mark Dorrian puts it best when he says, “… this in turn endows the film with a strange circularity, almost as if the poles of the vertical line along which we have passed were bent to meet one another. ”
Check out the film on You Tube by clicking the link above and enjoy!
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On Wednesday the 8th of February at 6pm ADAM MOSER who exhibited at RAYGUN with ‘We Wouldn’t Trade Those Years’ hung out at Phat Burgers and discussed his work. Adam explained the project and discussed social practice and also told us about some… Read More
TIFFANY SHARFAN RELICS OF ALL THINGS PRECIOUS Tiffany is a wonderful friend and artist and her work is both fascinating visually and interesting conceptually, Tiffany is also wonderfully articulate regarding the ideas behind the work, so come and have a look and a… Read More
Sarah Ryan at RAYGUN in February. 1. As a practicing artist what are the issues\concerns you have beenconsistently addressing within your artwork?I guess, my greatest fascination and most consistent concern has been with ‘looking’ and ‘seeing’. I’m really interested in slowing down the process of… Read More
Sam Peck sent me the following link this week, check it out. The pdf is the book ‘The Future is Now’ by James Voorhies and has a sentence or two on each page with the essentials making it so easy, I’ve just read it twice.… Read More
On Sunday my brother Richard took me to Brisbane where we stayed with friends on The River, visited the boutique hotel LIMES in the Valley for cocktails with friends, went to the Old Museum to listen to and see Beth Orton sing some serious tunes, woke to an indulgent breakfast of smoked salmon on… Read More
Adam Mosers project ” We Wouldn’t Trade Those Years” opened last night at RAYGUN. The show was developed follwing an exchange Adam had with his Grandma where in which she told stories surrounding photographs that were taken during her Son ( Adam’s Uncle) Eddies visit… Read More
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