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Part of the cultural olympiad with 100 cyclists taking Lady Godiva to the Olympic Park in London.
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Toronto, Ontario, Nina Arsenault during the dismaneting of "40 Days and 40 Nights," her solo performance/installation at the Theatre Centre's pop-up space during Summerworks 2012.
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.- 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? ~
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2013/10/05 at Asakusa KURAWOOD
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LITTLE BASTARDS
AWAKED
support
EVIL
ANAL VOLCANO
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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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Good morning! So grateful to be awake and alive on this beautiful perfect Friday! So grateful to be breathing. So grateful for my health. So grateful to have my shit together. So grateful for my family. So grateful it's the weekend! So grateful for silly vivid dreams.
Grateful to remember how to act how I want to act. Grateful to be arranging all the pieces of my life experience together into a beautiful bouquet. Grateful for a full night of sleep! Grateful for my kitties. Grateful for my home. Grateful for my city. Grateful to be conscious.
I want today to feel like an art party. I want this morning to feel like perfect game of tennis. I want meditation to feel like charging a battery. I want work to feel like a theme park, and like making crafts for Easter. I want this day to feel like a middle school dance, or a roller skating party. I want this day to feel like hitting a home run in softball on a hot summer night with a storm front rolling in. I want this day to feel like an adventure. I want this day to feel like a first date. I want today to feel like getting away with anything I want. I want today to feel like freedom.
I love you, you're doing great!
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
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...
Asakusa Extreme : Thunder Gate vol.2
2013/10/05 at Asakusa KURAWOOD
head liner
LITTLE BASTARDS
AWAKED
support
EVIL
ANAL VOLCANO
NECROLUST
VEIYADRA
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.
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...
International Arts Festival giant marionettes in Perth WA.
At least 400,000 people have lined the streets of Perth for a second day to watch the two giant marionettes walk through the city as part of the International Arts Festival.
Its the middle of the week. And so time for a lie in. Even if my body and brain have me awake at half five anyway.
It is to be the warmest day of the year. Tuesday wasn't just the warmest day of the year, in Anglesey, but the 25 degrees was the highest April temperatures since records began.
I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, and we should all keep drilling for oil so the executives can make more billions, who care about a planet, anyways?
The orchid season is now three to four weeks earlier than it was a decade or so back, meaning pollinators might not yet have hatched to do their pollinating jobs, meaning plants will not get pollinated, new generations of plants will fail, and those who eat plants, or whose food chain relies on plants might starve.
But plants.
It was mighty warm at Jelltex Towers, Jools went off to her fitness class at half seven, so I stayed here and drank coffee, had breakfast, then began chores. Like watering the plants, checking the ponds, filling the feeders.
And then going out for a walk.
Reading my old blogs, I see I used to walk most days, and most times up to Windy Ridge. And I hadn't been there for months.
So I put on my boots, grabbed my camera and set off.
Off over the fields to Fleet House, pausing to take shots of the track and the view to Kingsdown Leas, before turning down by the farm and up to the not-so-new bench just before the top of the down.
I sat there for half an hour, enjoying the peace, broken only by the calls of skylarks and buzzards.
Along Green Land beside the edge of the wood, and where there were about a dozen Brimstones, one of which settled long enough for me to get a shot. I also saw a Speckled wood, a Small tortoiseshell and a Peacock, though they didn't settle.
The new owners of Windy Ridge farm have a new dog. Very barky.
It barked as I walked along the lane, when I stopped to take shots, and carried on as I walked past the farm and to the top of the track leading back down to Collingwood.
I turn for home, seeing more Lesser celandines than I have seen before along Green Lane, now spreading further and further east.
When I got home, Jools was back, so we had a glass of squash and sat on the patio until the heat forced me inside.
Yes, heat.
It had gone beyond war, which as nice as it is, means that the only place to see out the day should be the chilled interior of a nice country pub somewhere, or one at the seaside.
We can't go far, or one of us has to stay home as there's a delivery of wine coming. My only concern it arrives before dinner time so I can test one of the bottles.
Lunch is that old standard, pork pie. Bought last week before breakfast when everything looks delicious and is swiped into the trolley.
We watch more Beatles. And its clear things are going downhill, especially after the trip to Indonesia and pissing of Imelda.
Penny Lane is still the greatest moment in popular music, an to hear it again with the band on the actual Penny Lane for the promotional film, is a joyous thing.
They even managed to squeeze in a sexual act into the lyric, and the BBC missed it.
For the afternoon there was a little churchcrawling, as I took my group to Blessed St. Mary of Walmer again, having arranged it to be open. Again. And calling the warden the day before to ensure he didn't forget.
I was even able to inform him, via Hasted, when the church's tower was taken down, as in 1800 it had already partially collapsed and contained but two bells.
The group loved the church; the Chancel arch, the Duke of Wellington link, but the glass is something left to be desired.
We were done by three, so I rushed home to pop the already boiled potatoes in the oven for dinner to go with the pie and steamed vegetables for dinner.
The evening contained no football on TV, just on the radio. So I laid on the bed, then in the bed as I followed Liverpool's match in Paris.
I woke up at ten to find they'd lost 2-0, and so it was time for more sleep.
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...
I teach at a wilderness camp. The early rising can mean some spectacular sunrises. This day was somewhat dreary and overcast but these abandoned canoes just burst with color. I loved the harmony of their placement in contrast with the reflected pine trees.
Today wasn't exactly a "happy day". I took a look at my wristband and read 'Famous Last Words' (a song by My Chemical Romance). Then, I remembered some of its lyrics: "Awake and unafraid; asleep or dead". SO, in order to prevent myself from doing something...stupid...I drew this up. Awake & Unafraid are the lyrics, obviously, and the hearts are a reminder that there are people who care for me/people I care for (the people I need to stay strong for). I really hope I can get this tattooed one day because even just thinking these lyrics picks me up. I want to make these words permanent on my body as a reminder to stay strong when things go wrong.
I suck at drawing, though, so if I DO ever get this done, I'll let the tattoo artist put their own creative twist to it :P
"Si es bueno vivir, todavÃa es mejor soñar, y lo mejor de todo, despertar." " If it is good to live, it is still better to dream, and best of all, waking" Antonio Machado
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 I'll stand my ground and never back down.
I know what I believe inside. I'm awake and I'm alive.
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...
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
This is photo #1000 in the group I started, Guess Where SF! Thanks to petalum for pointing this momentous occasion out to me.