Annual and Biennial Plants
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A hardy biennial that not only looks great with its purple flower and is also good for wildlife as bees are attracted to the nectar/pollen rich flowers. This plant is also edible as the roots are said to have an oyster-like taste and the flowers can be added to salads. Native to southeast Europe and north Africa and can also be known as Salsify, Oyster plant, Jerusalem Star and Jack Go To Bed, will flower in the UK from May to September.
I must admit it was sheer bliss to take a photo standing up and give my knees a rest lol....
Garlic mustard, also known as 'Jack-by-the-hedge', likes shady places, such as the edges of woods and hedgerows. It can grow to over a metre tall and has small white flowers that appear from April. It is a biennial plant, so takes two years to complete its lifecycle. It grows young leaves in its first season, which it keeps over winter, and then flowers in the spring of its second year.
A work by Rebecca Belmore on display at the Whitney Biennial, 2022: Quiet As Its Kept
Of the work, critic Peter Schjeldahl has written for The New Yorker:
“Don’t necessarily expect to understand much at a glance. A piece by Rebecca Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist from Canada, “ishkode (fire)” (2021), centers on a representation of a sleeping bag, cast in clay, that appears to cocoon a standing figure not otherwise in evidence. Surrounding it, on the floor, are thousands of small-calibre bullet casings intermixed with copper wire. It is beautiful both before you speculate on its thematic aim and after. I single it out for the glory of painstaking design that typifies scores of works in the show. I fancy that pandemic isolation, at once depriving and disburdening artists of career exigencies, has fostered lonely cultivations of perfection.”
From the museum description card:
"The thousands of empty bullet casings that surround the ceramic form become a protective barrier. 'In some way,' [Belmore} has said, 'the work carries an emptiness. But at the same time, because it's a standing figure, I'm hoping that the work contains some positive aspects of this idea that we need to deal with violence.' ... In addition to calling attention to seemingly unending violence, the sculpture points to the centrality and precarity of Earth itself. As Belmore has observed, 'Everything we use to make our lives is of the earth, no matter how far removed its lineage. We are makers, who destroy and remake again.'"
Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC -- July 1, 2022
Installation art piece, Storm by Katie Pell at the Texas Biennial 2009 in Austin Texas, March 8, 2009. Located in the Mexican American Cultural Center.
Photo Copyright 2009, Steve Hopson.
Photos from a visit to the Whitney Biennial 2019, the preeminent survey of American contemporary art and again in the news for a controversy as several artists pull out of the exhibit to protest a museum board member who directs a company that manufactures tear gas.
2015 wurde seine Installation Secret Power auf der 56. Biennale di Venezia an zwei Orten, der Biblioteca Marciana am Markusplatz und in der Ankunftshalle des Flughafens Marco Polo, gezeigt, die sich mit dem früheren Chefdesigner David Darchicourt der US-amerikanischen National Security Agency befasst (NSA).
Dieses hier befindet sich im Flughafen Marco Polo (Venedig)
In 2015, his Secret Power installation was shown at the 56th Venice Biennial in two places, the Biblioteca Marciana at the Piazza San Marco and in the arrivals hall of the Marco Polo Airport, which is dedicated to the former chief designer, David Darchicourt, of the US National Security Agency NSA).
This one is located in the airport Marco Polo (Venice)
En 2015, su instalación de Secret Power fue presentada en la 56ª Bienal de Venecia en dos lugares: la Biblioteca Marciana en la Piazza San Marco y en la sala de llegadas del Aeropuerto Marco Polo, dedicada al ex jefe de diseño David Darchicourt de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional NSA).
Está situado en el aeropuerto Marco Polo (Venecia)
The Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 includes 140 architects and artists, exhibits, and events across Chicago and goes on until January 7, 2017.
CR510 Pennsylvania Truss Bridge
Marquette County
Background:
www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=tr...
This is one of the largest, most beautiful, and most significant truss spans in Michigan. Not only does this truss bridge display the Pennsylvania truss configuration, it appears that it may have actually come from the state of Pennsylvania. In 1919, the Michigan State Highway Department purchased the bridge which originally crossed the Allegheny River. Relocating and reusing truss bridges was not unusual in this period of history. An example notice indicating bridges for sale from 1921 is shown to the right. At this time, CR-510 was a state trunk line route and purchasing and relocating this bridge would have been an inexpensive alternative to building a new bridge from scratch. It was erected on the CR-510 location in 1921. The Michigan State Highway Department's Biennial Report stated that the bridge was one of two toll bridges crossing the Allegheny River within 500 feet of each other and was being removed due to the redundancy. Unfortunately, the report did not state exactly where on the river this bridge came from. Since most of the Allegheny River is in Pennsylvania, it is assumed the bridge came from Pennsylvania, although the Allegheny River does dip into New York State for a short time. Depending on where on the Allegheny River it was originally located, it may have been part of a multi-span bridge.
Pennsylvania truss bridges are an uncommon truss type, and the nature of their design means that they are reserved for longer truss spans. However, even among pin-connected highway Pennsylvania truss spans, this bridge's span still stands out as fairly long. It is the longest pin-connected highway truss span in Michigan. The truss type is extremely rare in Michigan, and so the bridge has additional significance in the context of Michigan. The bridge also retains excellent historic integrity with minimal alterations despite its long service and being located in two different states over its service life. The bridge has decorative details on its portal bracing, another feature that is rare among Michigan truss bridges.
In 2010, this bridge was replaced by a new high level bridge on new alignment a short distance west of the historic bridge. Fortunately, Marquette County did not demolish the historic bridge. Instead, the bridge was left standing for its historic value and remains open to pedestrians. The county even did substantial work to create a walkway that approaches the bridge on a more even grade. No work was done on the historic bridge, however the bridge is not in severe condition. At the same time it is worth noting that the paint system is failing and rust and section loss have been developing in the typical trouble spots like the bottom chord. However, now that the bridge is away from vehicular traffic and corrosive deicing salts the rate of deterioration should greatly slow. A long term goal worth considering would be to plan for a project to repair and repaint the bridge. However, in the meantime, the bridge is safe from both demolition and deterioration from vehicular traffic.
It should be worth noting that other states like Pennsylvania have refused to leave historic bridges standing when they are replaced by a bridge on new alignment. One of the reasons cited is liability. Firstly, these concerns about liability are unfounded since no proof has ever existed that a substantial number of historic bridge related lawsuits have ever occurred. Furthermore, Marquette County has demonstrated how easy it is to reduce or eliminate liability. Signs are posted at the walkway leading to the bridge that read "MCRC Property Enter At Own Risk." While these signs do not prohibit people from visiting and enjoying the bridge, they also indicate that MCRC is not responsible for any injury occurring at the bridge site.
One year ago I was on holiday in Nippon. These are some photo's of exactly one year ago.
Day five and my last full day during my first stint in Tokyo started with a visit to the Tokyo Motor Show.
Car shows around the world are in decline. The car show in my country, the Amsterdam AutoRAI, doesn't even exist anymore. Turin Motor Show? Gone! Some car shows, like Paris are now biennial. Reason is high costs and internet. Some brands find that they don't get enough attention at a car show and organize their own event, fly in some journalists and the next day it is all over the internet. More exposure, lower costs.
I think it is a pitty because it's just fun and convenient seeing all car brands with all their latest models in one place. All the latest Italian supercars, concepts, new technologies.
So a visit to the Tokyo Motor Show was pretty much a dream come true. I'm a fan of the Japanese car brands and it was great seeing cars that I don't know and which are not released in Europe.
It will be revealed on 15 February.
See more at youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JONF4tgTh34&feature=youtu.be
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The Singularity of Kumiko by Bryn Oh
Opening: February 14th 2014 on Immersiva
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Bryn Oh
Education/ Basic Training
Toronto School of Art
Zbrush computer animation
Seneca College, Toronto, Ontario.
Completed degree in Softimage computer animation program.
Bachelor of Art, A.O.C.A.D.,
Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.
Completed years 1 and 2 at O.C.A.D. in Toronto, Canada, completed my 3rd year in Fine Art at O.C.A.D in Florence, Italy, finished final year in Toronto.
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Completed 2 years of psychology before attending O.C.A.D.
Selected Independent Art Exhibitions and new media events
A "virtual environment" is an installation that takes place in a virtual world and in some cases it is a "hybrid" which means it is showing in both a virtual world and real world location at the same time. So for example Family unit was shown for a month to thousands of people in the virtual world while also playing on a monitor in a real world museum in Rome, Italy.
Independent:
2014 "The Singularity of Kumiko" immersive environment.
2013 17th Biennial of Cerveira - invited artist hybrid first life and virtual environment.
www.bienaldecerveira.pt/portal/page/portal/fbac/17bienald...
2013 "Juniper" Machinima
www.youtube.com/watch?v=urmhu0jAZD8&feature=c4-overvi...
2013 "Standby" Machinima www.brynoh.blogspot.ca/2013/05/standby-machinima-and-book...
2013 "Imogen and the pigeons" immersive environment. Patrons: Peter Greenaway, Selby Evans, Lovers land studios and Entermeta.
2013 "Virginia Alone", virtual environment hybrid exhibited at the Santa Fe new media festival. www.currentsnewmedia.org/currents2012.html
2012 Feb-April "Standby", virtual environment, support from the Ontario Arts Council grant for new media.
2012 Feb-October “Anna’s Many Murders", virtual environment. machinima www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9L7ck6fQB4
Curator: Amase Levasseur
2011 "BOX", virtual environment, Metales machinima www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCVM7aRwHXw
2011 Sept-Oct "Family Unit" virtual environment hybrid event Second Life/Musei in Commune, Rome, Italy. Curator Marina Bellini machinima www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnuvnelEJQQ&list=UUI7NrJQ5vpg...
2010 Nov-Jan “Rabbicorn2”, Virtual environment (sponsored by IBM)
Curator: Andrew Sempere
2010 July-Aug “Machinima”, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
2010 Apr-Sep World Expo 2010. Madrid Pavilion, Shanghai, China.
Exhibition of my machinima for six months on five four meter monitors.
Curator Cristina García-Lasuén
2010 Apr-May “Through the virtual looking glass”, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. Curator: Gary Zabel
2009 July-Sept “The Rabbicorn story”, virtual environment (sponsored by IBM)
Curator: Andrew Sempere
2009 Feb-Apr "26 tines", hybrid virtual installation for the University of Texas San Antonio.
Curator: Carmen Fies
2009 “How we play”, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2008 Feb-May “The Daughter of Gears”, virtual environment, IBM/Second Life
Curator: Andrew Sempere
2008 Oct-Nov Burning Life/Man hybrid virtual environment, Second Life/Nevada.
Invited artist
2007 Apr-June “Condo’s in Heaven”,hybrid virtual installation at the University of Kentucky
Curator: Andrew Sempere
2007 Mar-May “4Jetpacks4”, hybrid Virtual environment, University of Massechussets
Curator: Gary Zabel
2006 Sept-Oct "Steampunk", New Media Consortium, Princeton University.
Curator: Carol Pfeifer
Collaborative:
2013 "Danse Macabre" with Peter Greenaway. Basel, Switzerland
2013 "POLVERE DI STELLE" (Stardust) In collaboration with D. D'Art, Francesca, Barbi Marinetti, and Margutta RistorArte of Rome, MIC-Imagin@rium.
2012 SLACTIONS machinima festival.
2012 "The Cube Project" Collaborative build, Linden Endowment for the Arts
curator: Bryn Oh machinima www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9cjH-bwACs&list=UUI7NrJQ5vpg...
2012 "Further along the Path", Collaborative exquisite corpse build, Linden Endowment for the Arts.
Curator: Bryn Oh machinima www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FvFwApBjGo&list=UUI7NrJQ5vpg...
2012 Creation of art for Cao Fei. (for upcoming project)
2011 "The Path" Collaborative exquisite corpse build, Linden Endowment for the Arts.
Curator: Bryn Oh Prim perfect
2011 virtual artwork created for the movie “My Avatar and Me”, Directed by Bente Milton.
2011 creation of a virtual articulated hand for artist Stelarc.
2010 MaMachinima International Festival (second life/ first life cinema)
2010 “Big Bang” Peter Greenaway project, Warsaw, Poland.
virtual artwork created for hybrid performance/installation.
wielkiwybuch.eu/eng/projekt.htm
2009 Nov-Jan Imagine festival, hybrid virtual environment Second Life, Yoko Ono/ University of Texas, San Antonio. Curator: Carmen Fies
2009 “Words Travel Fast”, Nuit Blanche, Toronto Transit Commission video monitors.
In collaboration with the poet Catherine Graham. (machinima)
2008 Brooklyn is watching, Jack the pelican presents, Brooklyn, U.S.A. (second life/first life mix)
Awards
Received an Ontario Arts Council grant from the Canadian government for new media.
Received the Peter Greenaway prize (machinima) (An award presented/selected by Director Peter Greenaway in association with the University of Western Australia.
Received the George A. Reid Award from the Ontario College of Art and Design for painting.
Selected Publications / TV
Because I am Not Here, Selected Second Life-Based Art Case Studies. Subjectivity, Autoempathy and Virtual World Aesthetics
Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez
Download ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1031/
MediaLab - Prado (Spain) April 2012, Cristina García-Lasuén,"Open this end - Cinemapop"
medialab-prado.es/article/open_this_end
Contra - March 2012. www.thinkcontra.com/the-curious-world-of-bryn-oh/
Visual Effects Society (Los Angeles) Immersive Experiences: The Future of Entertainment.
www.visualeffectssociety.com/date/event-immersive-experie...
Vogue Magazine (Italy), September2011,Lamonaca, Simona, "Non c'e, ma si vede" p.278
Web3D presenter, Paris, France.
Digital Cafe RAI TV (Italy) - Conference on digital innovation, Christina Cilli, Italian theoretician and curator of VR art
Artpulse Magazine, June 2010, Cristina García-Lasuén, "Video Art Now: Real, Virtual, and Machinima"
Art 21, November 2009 Gaskins, Nettrice, “Virtual artists immersive discoveries in virtual 3D frontier”
Artworker,September, 2009, Barass,Judy,"Is this the real world"
16th February 2003 Turnbull, Barbara, “The True Tale of a Renovation”, Toronto Star, p.F1,F4
1997 Baines, Chris et. al., “Wind, Water, Rock and Sky,” The Cognashene Book Corporation, Port Perry Printing Ltd., Canada
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The "Somewhere in sl" picture series (or "The Adventures of WuWai in Second Life") is my guide and bookmark folder to wonderful, artful, curious or in other way remarkably sims of second life with travel guide WuWai Chun.
(More pictures of WuWai's adventures: Follow this link)
You can find and buy some of the pictures inworld at my “Gallery"
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Common Hollyhock / Alcea Rosea
Alcea rosea, the common hollyhock, is an ornamental dicot flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th century.[2] William Turner, a herbalist of the time, gave it the name "holyoke" from which the English name derives.
Cultivation
Alcea rosea is variously described as a biennial (having a two-year life cycle), as an annual, or as a short-lived perennial.[3][4][5] It frequently self-sows, which may create a perception that the plants are perennial.[3] The plant may flower during its first year when sown early.[4] It will grow in a wide range of soils, and can easily reach a height of 8 ft (2.4 m)
The flowers are in a range of colours from white to dark red, including pink, yellow and orange. Different colours prefer different soils. The darker red variety seems to favour sandy soils, while the lighter colour seems to favour clay soils.[citation needed] The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. However, tender plants, whether young from seed or from old stock, may be wiped out by slugs and snails. The foliage is subject to attack from rust (fungus), which may be treated with fungicides.[6] Commercial growers have reported that some closely related species (Alcea rugosa and Alcea ficifolia) are resistant to this fungus.[7]
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