The September Round - UWA

So...I'll miss the UWA challenges each month. :( There is one more but I don't have anything to submit/ Two of my works are in contention for the Grand Finale: "Spatial" and "Here Comes the Sun" On this Sunday, "Primscape Dream" has won something, an honorable mention perhaps, I don't know. UPDATE: Primscape Dream won 2 prizes!!! I'm truly proud of my work. Its original to Second Life and cannot be duplicated in RL. Theres a nice blog about it...although it is misnamed. Chronocules...?

Pablo Valbuena

http://www.pablovalbuena.com/work/quadratura/ This is a site specific installation by Pablo Valbuena. Amazing video of the light playing off the existing structure and the visitors. Wow!!! Look at the Hague City Hall! Genius!

Hope Mountain

I started out making this Hope Mountain for a Relay for Life plot but I got booted off the project. Instead, I continued the idea for submission into the UWA 3D Competition for July. It is now an immersive non-scripted entry. Climb up to the top, if you can. :)

Rauschenberg Revisited

My friend Jewel is a photographer. She's got a show of her work in NYC. The images she presents are of current pop culture which reminds me of the great Robert Rauschenberg's "combines".

http://3lilbirdz.blogspot.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html

"....Apropos of Mr. Rauschenberg, Cage once said, “Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.” Cage meant that people had come to see, through Mr. Rauschenberg’s efforts, not just that anything, including junk on the street, could be the stuff of art (this wasn’t itself new), but that it could be the stuff of an art aspiring to be beautiful — that there was a potential poetics even in consumer glut, which Mr. Rauschenberg celebrated."

Thomas Heatherwick and his Studio

The first picture is the Seed Cathedral, Shanghai Expo 2010.

The other piece is called Sitooterie. The structure is part of a collection of artworks in the grounds of Barnards Farm Gardens, West Horndon, Essex, UK.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynfabrikken/5020089534/

http://www.joehallock.com/?p=485

A cube punctured by 5,000 long windows emit light. The project is made from anodized aluminum and the windows are tubes glazed with a transparent orange acrylic. Inside the central cube one light source illuminates all the windows and a few of the tubes provide seating.

http://www.heatherwick.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=35

Suspicious Mountain

Ok...kinda blurry. Monroe Snook made this poster for the revealing of my new primagery series, which is possibly my last. All the info I put on my notecard is on the poster.

The show is at the new Warehouse at Studio 33.

This series is different than any I have done before. I made a prim grouping and took photos but didn't like them...so I put on a ripple sculpty..and took some more pictures. They looked like mountain landscapes.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Conservatory/212/82/22

Bauhaus Revisted

A show I can really relate to...:) My friend Soundsmith Kamachi is curator at the Vista Hermosa Art Center and put together an exhibit that suits me just fine. I'm all about revisiting --- not reinventing.

The concept: The idea is that the artwork shows how Bauhaus has influenced your art or, alternatively, how you would interpret Bauhaus concepts in today's context. "Bauhaus" of course comprises all phases - from foundation in Weimar, over consolidation phase to its disintegration in Berlin. Influences, e.g. Expressionism or De Stijl.

The opening of "Bauhaus Revisited" is preliminarily scheduled for June 4 (a Saturday) at 2 PM SLT. Opening event:At the opening there will be a dance performance of Oskar Schlemmer's "Dance of the Sticks" by Janjii Rugani with music by Soundsmith Kamachi. As usual, there will be a live concert during the opening, plus champagne and dance balls.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Little%20Andalucia/239/162/53