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Some cool visual art images:

100% Acrylic Art Guards by Agata Olek / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54531.P1.L1 / SML

Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)

Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards

"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.

Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."

Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner’s work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.

Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.

Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek’s work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.

Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.

Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.

agataolek.com
agataolek.com/blog

13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.

www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org

Related SML
+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Art
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
+ SML Flickr Tags: Art
+ SML Pro Blog: Art

Mixed Media Painting (Detail) by Choichun Leung / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54929.P1.L1 / SML

Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
SML Pro Blog: Choichun Leung / 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 10 of 10 / Art + Artists

Choichun Leung
2008
Part of the SCRIPTO series
www.choichun.com/scripto.html

See also Choichun Leung talks about her mixed media paintings (Flickr 720p HD video).

Choichun Leung left Wales when she was seventeen to pursue a degree in metal-smithing at Loughborough college of Art and Design in the UK, afterwhich she studied Buddhist iconography in both Beijing and the Yangkung caves in China’s Shanxi province. In 1988 she moved to London where she studied under the Ray Man Chinese Orchestra as a percussionist and a student of the Gu-qin – a traditional Chinese bass zither. Leung worked in Hong Kong as a background artist for animation film before returning to London in 1992 where she received a grant and Gold Award from the Prince of Wales’ Youth Business Trust for the most innovative new business of the year: a line of symbolic art products using the traditional technique of Chinese paper cutting.

With music and the arts always hand in hand, Leung came to New York in 1994 where she began painting seriously, worked as an assistant to artist Peter Max, and studied music composition. From that point forward, Choichun’s artwork has been inextricably entwined with her interest in music and have continued to influence each other.

As the single mother of a young daughter, Choichun moved to Germany in 2002 to write music, perform and collaborate on an audio/visual project based in Koln. Upon the invitation of a gallery in 2006 she returned to New York. Most recently Choichun has been featured in two solo exhibitions at JLA Baxter House in Manhattan and will take part in a group showing in Hamburg in November 2008. Choichun currently lives in Brooklyn, NYC .

Artist Statement Our lives are as long as we remember. Our memories are imbedded in us like DNA. But what of lives that through trauma or age have lost memory? What of the interplay of conscious thought and the sub-conscious? Which one really drives the show? My paintings are like rorschach tests in reverse, a psychological diary of that moment in time, an investigation of the relationship between past and present, reality and illusion and in effect a blue print to the past self. Through the symbolisms revealed, and the stories or objects we project into the abstract, we expose another layer of ourselves and in turn provide clues to what may not be fully aware. My paintings are simple traces of that activity, void of any meaning, but imbedded with the years of experience that shapes us, yet also holds us hostage.

Choichun never paints from sketches but instead allows the process and medium dictate. Each application is an expressive gesture evoking the emotion and inner psychology of that moment, a conflicted excavation of what may be hidden or imagined. The script like lines emerge as a non-cognitive language or what she has come to identify as ‘glyphs’ – a pictographic personal alphabet; where ‘glyphs’ document the days, weeks and months spent on a piece. The one actual reference that Choichun can identify in her work after the fact springs from her background in music and her fascination with its chaotic notes and interpretive patterns. These can be seen in the work’s fine, rhythmic and frenetic lines as well as in the heavier, poured-on, black & white ‘mono-glyphs’ which overtake the paintings like visual representations of a sound. Choichun paints on both wood panels and canvas, using liquid acrylic, aerosol, oil bars and thread . With sticks, brushes, trowels and vessels: applying the paint and then scratching through the layers to reveal what is underneath, scripting with ‘glyphs’ throughout, painting over, sanding down and repeating this process until an image is revealed or another is hidden.

www.choichun.com

13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.

www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org

Related SML
+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Art
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
+ SML Flickr Tags: Art
+ SML Pro Blog: Art

A few nice visual art images I found:

Nashville Union Station Hotel

Image by mollyeh11
Trip to Nashville for Voices That Matter, with a visit to the historic Union Station Hotel, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and a bit of walkabout.

Nashville Union Station Hotel

Image by mollyeh11
Trip to Nashville for Voices That Matter, with a visit to the historic Union Station Hotel, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and a bit of walkabout.

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MIT+150: FAST (Festival of Art + Science + Technology): FAST LIGHT — voltaDom

Image by Chris Devers
Quoting from the official pamphlet:

FAST LIGHT • May 7 + 8, 2011, 7 pm – 10 pm

Contemporary pioneers in art, science, and technology have come together at MIT to create one of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has ever seen. On May 7 and 8, 2011, visitors can interact with 20+ art and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River along Memorial Drive at MIT.

arts.mit.edu / fast

Installations scattered around campus (we didn’t quite see all of them), again pasting from the official flyer:

• aFloat
MIT Chapel • Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Inspired by water in the Saarinen Chapel’s moat, a touch releases flickers of light before serenity returns as a calm ripple.
By Otto Ng, Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev.

• Inflatables
Lobby 7, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture made of silver nylon resonates with gusts of air, heat from light bulbs, and the motions of passersby.
By Kyle Barker, Juan Jofre, Nick Polansky, Jorge Amaya.

• (now(now(now)))
Building 7, 4th Floor
This installation nests layers of the past into an image of the present, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.

• Dis(Course)4
Building 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell transformed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse between floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.

• Maxwell’s Dream
Building 10 Community Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural created by magnetic fields that drive patterns of light, Maxwell’s Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.

• Mood Meter
Student Center & Building 8, Infinite Corridor
Is the smile a barometer of happiness? Mood Meter playfully assesses and displays the mood of the MIT community onsite and at moodmeter.media.mit.edu
By Javier Hernandez and Ehsan Hoque.

• SOFT Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and charge your electronic devices using green solar powered technology
By Shiela Kennedy, P. Seaton, S. Rockcastle, W. Inam, A. Aolij, J. Nam, K. Bogenshutz, J. Bayless, M. Trimble.

• LightBridge
The Mass. Ave Bridge
A dynamic interactive LED array responds to pedestrians on the bridge, illustrating MIT’s ties to both sides of the river. Thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.

• Sky Event
Killian Court, Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar over MIT in celebration of the distinctive symbiosis among artists, scientists and engineers.
By Otto Piene.

• Liquid Archive
Charles River
A floating inflatable screen provides a backdrop for projections that highlight MIT’s history in science, technology, and art.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.

• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river change color as they react to the presence of people along the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.

• Unflat Pavilion
Building 14 Lawn
This freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDs flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns, and windows.
By Nick Gelpi

• Gradated Field
Walker Memorial Lawn
A field of enticing mounts create a landscape that encourages passersby to meander through, or lounge upon the smooth plaster shapes.
By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim.

• Bibliodoptera
Building 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT’s diverse library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters above, reacting to the movement of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.

• Wind Screen
Green Building Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light created by micro-turbines displays a visual register of the replenishable source of wind energy.
By Meejin Yoon.

• String Tunnel
Building 18 Bridge
A diaphonous tunnel creates a sense of entry to and from the Infinite Corridor and frames the surrounding landscape.
By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams.

• voltaDom
Building 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an innovative fabrication technique that creates complex double curved vaults through the simple rolling of a sheet of material.
By Skylar Tibbits.

• Night of Numbers
Building 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lighting installation enlivens MIT architectre with numbers that hold special or historical significance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.

• Overliner
Building E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell’s spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and busy passageway into a moment of surprise and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.

• Chroma District
Corner of Ames and Main Streets.
Lanterns react to visitors by passing sound and color from one to another, increasing in intensity along the way and illuminating the path to MIT’s campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.

Some cool visual art images:

Springtime in a Small Town

Image by ines saraiva
"SPRINGTIME IN A SMALL TOWN (2006) – PETER BOSCH & SIMONE SIMONS
This installation is all about vibrations. Wooden boxes on springs start wobbling as soon as visitors approach. In a complex system boxes influence each other. Small changes in movement may cause completely different and unexpected soundscapes. The relation order-chaos is under scrutiny in a constant stream of changes. A powerful exp
eriment by the physician Nikola Tesla that induced a tiny earthquake, inspired the creators. Hard- and software development in cooperation with Günter Geiger.

Peter Bosch (NL) has studied psychology and sonology, while Simone Simons (NL) has specialized in audiovisual design. They have been working on autonomous “music machines” since 1990. They both live and work in Spain."
IN: www.musica.be/en/springtime-small-town-2006-peter-bosch-s…

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"In Klankenbos (Sound Forest) contemporary artworks produce sounds. Not only are your ears stimulated, you’d better keep your eyes open as well, for the sound installations are fascinating visual artworks which deserve to be looked at. Thus Klankenbos is a special auditory and artistic open air experience, inviting you along a promenade walk at the Provincial Domain Dommelhof in Neerpelt. With its ten stationary and three mobile sound installations Klankenbos is quite unique in Europe."
IN: www.musica.be/en/unique-collection-sound-art-installations

"Awakening Woods
In the context of Manifesta 9 – Parallel Events, Musica is hosting a summer exhibition with three new acquisitions for the permanent Klankenbos collection and two temporary media installations."
IN: www.musica.be/en/awakening-woods-klankenbos-summer-expo

Catalogue:
www.musica.be/en/klankenbos-catalogue

Neerlpelt, Belgium, 08/2012

Molten Drip Drop

Image by bettlebrox
Mass Art’s Spring 2009 Iron Pour.

www.eworksfestival.com/index.php?page=events/4_10
The Iron Pour has a strong history at Massachusetts College of Art, beginning as a fundraiser for the Metals Department, it has grown into a celebration of art, music, and performance. Recently, the Iron Corps., the group that organizes the event, has been working in conjunction with Eventworks, who will be kicking off their annual Art Festival. This spring, we will be invoking themes of outer space and the explosive demise of stars and planets . Aside from the spectacular sculptural performances by the Iron Corps. , activities will include face painting, fire dancing, visual shows, and four musical acts throughout the course of the night.

The Mirror Log: Day 9 – DSC_1507

Image by Fabrice de Nola
Description: close-up on QR code painted in The Mirror by Fabrice de Nola.
Date: June 28, 2011.

Note: the code link to the website Backyard World.

Cite as: Fabrice de Nola, 2011. The Mirror, work in progress, detail.

Fabrice de Nola is an Italian-Belgian visual artist. He was the first artist in the world to create works of art, in 2006, using painted QR codes containg web links and texts readable through mobiles.
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A few nice visual art images I found:

Composed Nature

Image by ines saraiva
video – www.youtube.com/watch?v=do81AyTWnNA

"COMPOSED NATURE (2012) – STAALPLAAT SOUNDSYSTEM & LOLA LANSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Twenty-four birches are each fitted with a vibrating motor that can be activated from a distance. The vibration makes it possible to control the shaking of the the leaf canopy and generates noise fields that surround the visitor. The group of motorised trees form a sensit
ive but powerful and interactive instrument that invites visitors to improvise or compose. Trees, apparently passive bystanders in our everyday surroundings, are used to create a natural — or even supernatural — experience."
IN: www.musica.be/en/composed-nature-2012-staalplaat-soundsys…

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"In Klankenbos (Sound Forest) contemporary artworks produce sounds. Not only are your ears stimulated, you’d better keep your eyes open as well, for the sound installations are fascinating visual artworks which deserve to be looked at. Thus Klankenbos is a special auditory and artistic open air experience, inviting you along a promenade walk at the Provincial Domain Dommelhof in Neerpelt. With its ten stationary and three mobile sound installations Klankenbos is quite unique in Europe."
IN: www.musica.be/en/unique-collection-sound-art-installations

"Awakening Woods
In the context of Manifesta 9 – Parallel Events, Musica is hosting a summer exhibition with three new acquisitions for the permanent Klankenbos collection and two temporary media installations."
IN: www.musica.be/en/awakening-woods-klankenbos-summer-expo

Catalogue:
www.musica.be/en/klankenbos-catalogue

Neerlpelt, Belgium, 08/2012

Fluisteroren

Image by ines saraiva
"FLUISTEROREN (2005) – BAUDOUIN OOSTERLYNCK
This mobile sound installation consists of various “prostheses”. They enable the capture of sound that normally cannot be heard by the inadequate human era. The underlying question of this installation relates to where exactly the body fails and what is needed to compensate it. FluisterOren (Dutch for ‘whispering ears’) can be understood as tools to redi
scover the sensitivity of original sound. Their meaning is to be found in their use to find almost inaudible sounds.

Baudouin Oosterlynck (BE) works already 30 years on the topics of hearing and listening. He permanently studies several aspects of acoustics, and also silence intrigues him. He designed some 60 installations and 50 “listening aids” that emphasis the relation between silence and sound."
IN: www.musica.be/en/fluisteroren-2005-baudouin-oosterlynck

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"In Klankenbos (Sound Forest) contemporary artworks produce sounds. Not only are your ears stimulated, you’d better keep your eyes open as well, for the sound installations are fascinating visual artworks which deserve to be looked at. Thus Klankenbos is a special auditory and artistic open air experience, inviting you along a promenade walk at the Provincial Domain Dommelhof in Neerpelt. With its ten stationary and three mobile sound installations Klankenbos is quite unique in Europe."
IN: www.musica.be/en/unique-collection-sound-art-installations

"Awakening Woods
In the context of Manifesta 9 – Parallel Events, Musica is hosting a summer exhibition with three new acquisitions for the permanent Klankenbos collection and two temporary media installations."
IN: www.musica.be/en/awakening-woods-klankenbos-summer-expo

Catalogue:
www.musica.be/en/klankenbos-catalogue

Neerlpelt, Belgium, 08/2012

Fluisteroren

Image by ines saraiva
"FLUISTEROREN (2005) – BAUDOUIN OOSTERLYNCK
This mobile sound installation consists of various “prostheses”. They enable the capture of sound that normally cannot be heard by the inadequate human era. The underlying question of this installation relates to where exactly the body fails and what is needed to compensate it. FluisterOren (Dutch for ‘whispering ears’) can be understood as tools to redi
scover the sensitivity of original sound. Their meaning is to be found in their use to find almost inaudible sounds.

Baudouin Oosterlynck (BE) works already 30 years on the topics of hearing and listening. He permanently studies several aspects of acoustics, and also silence intrigues him. He designed some 60 installations and 50 “listening aids” that emphasis the relation between silence and sound."
IN: www.musica.be/en/fluisteroren-2005-baudouin-oosterlynck

~~~

"In Klankenbos (Sound Forest) contemporary artworks produce sounds. Not only are your ears stimulated, you’d better keep your eyes open as well, for the sound installations are fascinating visual artworks which deserve to be looked at. Thus Klankenbos is a special auditory and artistic open air experience, inviting you along a promenade walk at the Provincial Domain Dommelhof in Neerpelt. With its ten stationary and three mobile sound installations Klankenbos is quite unique in Europe."
IN: www.musica.be/en/unique-collection-sound-art-installations

"Awakening Woods
In the context of Manifesta 9 – Parallel Events, Musica is hosting a summer exhibition with three new acquisitions for the permanent Klankenbos collection and two temporary media installations."
IN: www.musica.be/en/awakening-woods-klankenbos-summer-expo

Catalogue:
www.musica.be/en/klankenbos-catalogue

Neerlpelt, Belgium, 08/2012

Some cool visual art images:

Cute Fukurou Japanese Owl Cartoon in Japan

Image by epSos.de
Free picture of the Japanese Owl Cartoon that is free and in Japan. This colorful cartoon picture is created for you by the birdy friend epSos.de and it can be used for free, if you link epSos.de as the original author of the image.

The Fukurou means Owl in Japanese and is a popular Japanese symbol for good luck and protection from hardships.

A cartoon movie is a form of the illustrated visual art of two dimensions. While the specific definition has changed with the time, the modern use refers to typically not realistic or semirealistic drawing or painting wanted for satire, caricature or humor, or to the art style of such works. They call an artist that a drawer creates cartoon movies.

The term caused in the Middle age and first it described a preparatory drawing for a work of art, like a painting, fresh air, hangings or shop window of colors. In 19no century, it came to refer to graceful illustrations in magazines and newspapers, and at the beginning of 20mo century and forward it referred to cartoon stories and cartoon.

The owls are a group of birds that belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 existing species of the bird of prey. Majority is solitary and night-loving with some exceptions (p.ej., the Owl of the Hawk of the North). The owls hunt generally small mammals, insects and other birds, although a few species specialize in the fish that he hunts. They are in all the regions of the Earth except Antarctica, most of Greenland and some remote islands. Although the owls are typically solitary, the literary collective noun for a group of owls is a parliament. The owls are characterized by his small peaks and wide faces, and they split into two families: the typical owls, Strigidae; and the owls of the granary, Tytonidae.

Another characteristic of the owl that it helps in his apprehension of the night prey is his sight. The owls are the part of a small group of birds through that they live nocturnamente, but they don’t use echolocation to direct them in the flight in situations of few light. The owls know for his big eyes disproportionally compared to his skull. An apparent consequence of the evolution of an absolutely big eye in a relatively small skull is that the eye of the owl has become tubular in the form.

The exposed owls object specialized functions that hear and forms of the ear that also they help in the hunting. They are evident for asymmetric laying of the ear in the skull in some genres. The owls can have internal or external ears, but those genres that exhibit the asymmetric geometry of the ear only have external laying of the ear. It hasn’t been reported that the asymmetry spreads to the average or internal ear of the owl. The asymmetric laying of the ear in the skull allows the owl to indicate the position of his prey. This especially is the Owl true for definitely night species like the owls of the granary ‘of Tyto’ or Tengmalm.

The beak of the owl is short, curved and line down, and typically hooked in the top to seize and to tear his prey. Once the prey is captured, the movement scissor of the summit and low account is used to tear the textile and to kill. The sharp low rim of the top account is employed at the coordination with the sharp top rim of the low account to deliver this movement. The peak that turns down allows the visual field of the owl to be clear, as well as to direct the sound in the ears without turning sonorous waves away far from the face.

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Visual Air Conditioning

Image by dianaschnuth
Seen at a glassblower’s booth at the Black Swamp Art Festival.

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Painting Vs. Photography-4

Image by zeevveez
Rain Drops on Window Network
Impressionistic Style -Cypress in Rain
Wikipedia entry Impressionism:"
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; open composition; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time); common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience; and unusual visual angles".

coyote illumination

Image by malstad
Michael Alstad’s Coyote Illumination explores concepts of human/animal territory, evolving boundaries between the constructed and natural world and the migration, growth and adaptation of wildlife within urban ecologies. The installation is a nod to Joseph Beuys famous 1974 performance, I Like America and America Likes Me, where the artist spent three days in a NYC gallery with a felt blanket, a flashlight, a cane and a live coyote. Beuys performance was interpreted as a healing and transformative ritual that acknowledged the spiritual significance of the coyote to native North Americans, and as a symbol of environmental degradation and loss through colonial expansion.

For the FiedWork site-specific installation Alstad reworked the visual elements and context of Beuy’s performance; the NYC gallery is transposed to a camping tent in a rural Ontario field, the live coyote replaced with a durable weather resistant plastic coyote decoy ‘geese repeller’ – a realistic stalking threat that creates a ‘danger zone’ where geese won’t want to linger. The felt is substituted with gardening fibre and the coyote now embodies the flashlight – solar powered LED lights are embedded inside the decoy, illuminating it at dusk.

Go Superlambananas!

Image by Mrs Magic
www.gosuperlambananas.co.uk/

59. SuperLewis’s 152 Lamb
Artist: Lewis’s in House Visual Team
Sponsor: Lewis’s
Location: Lewis’s Department Store