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Asakusa Extreme : Thunder Gate vol.2
2013/10/05 at Asakusa KURAWOOD
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LITTLE BASTARDS
AWAKED
support
EVIL
ANAL VOLCANO
NECROLUST
VEIYADRA
More my shoot with Savannah. It was her idea to use coffee and I think it turned out pretty well.
Strobist: SB-600 w' translucent umbrella at camera upper left. SB-600 at lower right.
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Tom Otterness (b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks in New York---
most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world. His style is very cartoonish and cheerful, and the forms of his sculptures often consist of many blobs and pipes, giving them a humorous look. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and crocodiles crawling out from under sewer covers. The main theme of his work seems to be the struggle of the little man against the Capitalist machine in a difficult and strange city.
As primarily a public artist, Otterness' has shown popular exhibitions in locations across the United States, including New York City, Indianapolis, and Beverly Hills. His studio is located in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn.
His most recent exhibition of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan is his largest to date, featuring more than 40 works across two miles of the city's downtown area and at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.
Otterness is best known to New Yorkers for his "Life Underground" series of sculptures, which are primarily located in the 14th St/8th Avenue subway station, which was commissioned in 2000 and fully installed by 2002.
Journalist Gary Indiana criticized Otterness for an independent work done while part of the East Village art scene in the mid-eighties called "Shot Dog Piece", in which Otterness allegedly "adopted a dog and then shot it to death for the fun of recording his infantile, sadistic depravity on film." When student Matthew Goad, a candidate for student government president at Wichita State University, learned of this act, Wichita State began questioning a USD$450,000 commission, which would cost an additional USD$150,000 for shipping, however, at present it looks as if the project continued may as planned. Otterness commented that "In 1977, I was a young artist having a very rough time. I had anger at myself and at the world. What I did was symbolic of how I was feeling internally and it is something I would never do today.
1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas
1970 Art Students League, New York
1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (Post 1984)
2004 Untitled, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
2003 The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA; to be installed in 2003
2002 Life Underground, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Arts for Transit, 14th Street and 8th Avenue, New York, NY; to be installed 2002
2002 Untitled, Branchbrook Park Station, New Jersey Transit, Newark, NJ
2001 Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Children's Hospital, Bronx, NY
2000 Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner Corporation, NYC
1999 Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Minneapolis, MN
Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)
Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Music Lesson, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)
Gold Rush, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Sacramento, CA
Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer (Architects)
1998 The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with Maya Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (Architect)
1997 Visionary, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY Law of Nature, The Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, General Services Administration, Portland, OR Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect)
1996 The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, NY
1995 Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Untitled, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California
Part of the cultural olympiad with 100 cyclists taking Lady Godiva to the Olympic Park in London.
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Asakusa Extreme : Thunder Gate vol.2
2013/10/05 at Asakusa KURAWOOD
head liner
LITTLE BASTARDS
AWAKED
support
EVIL
ANAL VOLCANO
NECROLUST
VEIYADRA
Godiva is a 33 feet high puppet which is travelling from Coventry to London as part of the Cultural Olympiad. When she arrived in Northampton she was presented with a bespoke pair of riding boots made by a local manufacturer - size 72! Unfortunately she was wearing a long skirt, which meant that we could only see a small part of them.
After receiving the boots on the Market Square she made her way around the town centre preceded by a motley crew made up of the Mayor,and some Councillors, corset wearing Morris Dancers, Belly Dancers, the 'Ministry of Cycles', and 'Wicker Maidens' - who I assume were the yong ladies bearing flowers.
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Then that quote came up as I cleared my eyes...
"If I know what love is, it is because of you".
--Hermann Hesse
I'm at war with the world
And they try to pull me into the dark
I struggle to find my faith
As I'm slipping from your arms
It's getting harder to stay awake
And my strength is fading fast
You breathe into me at last
I'm awake, I'm alive
Now I know what I believe inside
Now it's my time
I'll do what I want 'cause this is my life
(Here, right now)
Right here, right now
Stand my ground and never back down
I know what I believe inside
I'm awake, and I'm alive
.- Te mantendras despierto para mi? No quiero perder nada. Compartire el aire que respiro, te dare mi corazon en un acorde. Solo no quiero perder nada.
Di mi nombre, solo quiero escuchar tu voz,
Di mi nombre, entonces sabre que esto es verdad
Me estas cambiando, Me has dicho como vivir ..
Entonces solo dime ..
Te mantendras despierto para mi? ~
Godiva is a 33 feet high puppet which is travelling from Coventry to London as part of the Cultural Olympiad. When she arrived in Northampton she was presented with a bespoke pair of riding boots made by a local manufacturer - size 72! Unfortunately she was wearing a long skirt, which meant that we could only see a small part of them.
After receiving the boots on the Market Square she made her way around the town centre preceded by a motley crew made up of the Mayor,and some Councillors, corset wearing Morris Dancers, Belly Dancers, the 'Ministry of Cycles', and 'Wicker Maidens' - who I assume were the yong ladies bearing flowers.
www.imagineerproductions.co.uk/content/6567/godiva/godiva...
Godiva is a 33 feet high puppet which is travelling from Coventry to London as part of the Cultural Olympiad. When she arrived in Northampton she was presented with a bespoke pair of riding boots made by a local manufacturer - size 72! Unfortunately she was wearing a long skirt, which meant that we could only see a small part of them.
After receiving the boots on the Market Square she made her way around the town centre preceded by a motley crew made up of the Mayor,and some Councillors, corset wearing Morris Dancers, Belly Dancers, the 'Ministry of Cycles', and 'Wicker Maidens' - who I assume were the yong ladies bearing flowers.
www.imagineerproductions.co.uk/content/6567/godiva/godiva...
Godiva is a 33 feet high puppet which is travelling from Coventry to London as part of the Cultural Olympiad. When she arrived in Northampton she was presented with a bespoke pair of riding boots made by a local manufacturer - size 72! Unfortunately she was wearing a long skirt, which meant that we could only see a small part of them.
After receiving the boots on the Market Square she made her way around the town centre preceded by a motley crew made up of the Mayor,and some Councillors, corset wearing Morris Dancers, Belly Dancers, the 'Ministry of Cycles', and 'Wicker Maidens' - who I assume were the yong ladies bearing flowers.
www.imagineerproductions.co.uk/content/6567/godiva/godiva...