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Free Street Exhibition by Wolfgang Sterneck
at the Blockupy Protests and Blockades in Frankfurt
31-05-2015
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Photo-Reports : www.flickr.com/sterneck/sets
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Women create terraces as their contribution to the umunsi w'umuganda program. Families who participate in the program are rewarded for their efforts with assistance on their own lands, or financial compensation. Photo: A'Melody Lee / World Bank
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Nikon D700 / Nikon 35mm f2 D
Strobist Information: Nikon SB-600 with orange gel behind subject @ 1/64 and Nikon SB-28 with Rogue Honeycomb Grid @ 1/64 lower left of subject all triggered via Cactus V5.
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"...our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution." Stephen J Gould
Farmer Anton Roets measures irrigation at Goue Akker Farm, which supplies milk to the Nestlé factory in Mossel Bay, South Africa.
Florence Welch of Florence and the machine accepts an award at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards. Created: 19th Febuary 2010; Picture: Tony Kinlan.
Feminist/Sexist
BFA Thesis Project and Gallery Show
As a twenty-one year old woman, I am often faced with the need and desire to fulfill two or more conflicting roles. By showing the audience only the black and white, I encourage them to reflect on their own gray areas. I use quilts, traditionally a woman's medium, as sites to talk about sexuality, self-image, and stereotypes.
An old photo, looked at again. Of course I've warmed the colours because they make me feel more cheery.
Mini Midi 2010 Shanghai
Mini Midi was created in 2005 as the experimental stage of the MIDI Music Festival in Beijing’s Haidian Park.
The fourth Mini Midi festival took place on May 1-3, 2008, at Beijing’s Drive-In Theater, with the theme “Noise Is Free.” The program included discussions, outdoor and indoor discussions, sonic games, special electronic music and DJ performances, film screenings, massages, and fried cakes. Participants hailed from the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. With sound artists crowding the stage and over one thousand participants, the event was a sound carnival.
Mini Midi is not only a music festival; it is a sound action gathering, a sonic amusement, a daydream. Mini Midi is a living organism, listening to every person it meets, and making sound together.
This event is a part of MIDI Festival
Curated and organized by Sub Jam (www.subjam.org) (www.minimidi.cn)
Organizer: Beijing Midi Productions (www.midimidi.cn)
Local organizing: Junyuan
Support: Yang Ge and Caotang (www.douban.com/group/caotang/)
Support: Art World magazine (www.yishushijie.com), O Art Center (www.oartcenter.com)
Program
May 1st:
Pm 8; Caotang (Dongjing Street 31, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai; TEL: 15221361365); ticket 50rmb (80 for two days)
Mafeisan, Walnut Room, Ben Houge, Anthony Carcone (from ETC)，Jacques Foschia (from ETC), Juanyuan (from MTDM)
May 2nd:
Pm 8; Caotang (Dongjing Street 31, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai; TEL: 15221361365); ticket 50rmb (80 for two days)
Yan Jun, Justin Sebastian, DFF (from ETC), Feng Hao, Li Zenghui + Junky (from Torturing Nurse)
May 3rd:
Pm 5-pm7, pm 8- pm 12; MAO (building 32, Huaihai Xilu 570, Changning, Shanghai; TEL：021-5258 9999), ticket 80rmb
Fakemistress + *LLND, Walnut Room + Tao Yi (from MTDM), Ben Houge + Justin Sebastian，Junyuan + Anthony Carcone (from ETC) + Jacques Foschia (from ETC), Xu Cheng (from Torturing Nurse) + Shu Qi, Yan Jun + DFF (from ETC), Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi (+Junyuan + Yan Jun), Junky (from Torturing Nurse) + Mafeisan, Li Jianhong solo
May 4th:
pm7:00; O Art Center (Art World magazine, Panyu Lu 888, Shanghai); ticket 50rmb
Feng Hao, Li Zenghui, Mafeisan, Yan Jun, Junyuan (from MTEM), Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi, Disfigurement Activities Room (Shu Qi + Menthae), Junky (from Torturing Nurse)
artist list
Artists from Beijing: Feng Hao, Mafeisan, Li Zenghui, Walnut Room (Feng Hao + Li Zenghui), Yan Jun
Artists from Shanghai: Junyuan, Torturing Nurse, Shu Qi, Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi, Ben Houge (US), LLND (FR), Justin Sebastian (DE)
Artist from Hangzhou: Li Jianghong
Artists from abroad: Fakemistress (DE)，Anthony Carcone (UK) and Jacques Foschia (BE) and DFF (US) from ETC
Feng Hao
Feng Hao is a Beijing based experimental music artists, also known as DJ Strausss that are his aliases used in his various projects and creative styles including noise,experimental music,sound collage, performance& video art ect.He is also a member of experimental band Walnut Room and N4A. In 2007, he release main album named Sound. His collage work Pleasure been selected in 1994-2004 China Avant-Guard Music by UBUWEB. Single Track ParaREM been selected in VA:2 by BrainWave Communication Records.He performed in exprimental music concert series Waterland Kwanyin , Art Beijing2006, Get It Louder 2007 (Beijing), MINI MIDI Festival (2006, 2007), Sally Can't Dance Festival (2008, 2009) ect.
Work:
2007 release main album 'Sound'.
2007 Ten Joint Array
2007 single track'Pleasure' in VA album'1997-2007 China Comportory Expermental Music',UBUWEB
2007 'Ring Society',Sound&Performance
Website:
Mafeisan
China, In early 2005, appears a NOJIJI tribal representative band.
Excluded all the qualitative appreciation of thinking and customary manufacturing methods; refused to compromise the truth of groups; lonely and ugly and foul licentiousness Color; otherwise not allowed to watch;
Their site can give people the central nervous speed signal transduction, inhibit anxiety, promote the secretion of adrenaline and gas field caused by intense re-thinking. They will gather thought directed at the solution, restructuring, and in an instant release, and from the gas field to show tremendous energy.
www.douban.com/artist/mafeisan/
Li Zenghui
Li Zenghui Male, born in Qingdao in 1983, relocated in Beijing in 2007. He is the most promising star in China’s free music/avant-jazz realm.Saxophone player, poet, voice experimenter.He had found indie/experimental rock band “the Tipsy Verse” in 2001. Afterwards he held a concurrent post as the keyboard player in “Pipedream Princess”. found “Walnut Room” with Feng Hao in 2007.
Walnut Room
Feng Hao and Li Zenghui.
www.myspace.cn/walnutroomchina
www.douban.com/group/WalnutRoom/
Yan Jun
Yan Jun, working on realm of sound and language.
Yan was born in Lanzhou in 1973, now based in Beijing. B.A. of Chinese Literature.
He works with feedback noise, drone sound, voice, field recording, site-specific sound installation, impro music, environmental sound, writing, publishing and curating. He regard them as one thing.
Yan has founded the Sub Jam and its sub-label KwanYin Records. He runs weekly enevt Waterland Kwanyin and annual festival Mini Midi since 2005.
He has published 5 essay collections about Chinese new music and 3 poetry collections.
Music Projects:
Tie Guan Yin: open form, varied members.
Pisces Iscariots: with Yao Dajuin and Li Jianhong.
FEN (Fareast Network): with Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai.
Junyuan
Jun-Y Ciao: born in Shanghai.2006 graduate the study at the academy of fine arts Duesseldorf, Germany. The member of the free music group MTDM.2009 make the acoustic-electronic project “Power Wood Quality” with Olaf Hochherz.
MTDM, it means “horse without legs” literally in Chinese. The band was founded in 2005 in Duesseldorf, Germany by 2 young artists, who commit themselves to the freedom of music and a pure spontaneous music. Similar to the Fluxus predecessors’ exploration into the cross-border arts, the practice of MTDM can be considered a tribute to the pioneers.MTDM seems to be synonymous with “good-for-nothing”. In almost all of the Western films, if the legs break, the horse will be killed by cowboys with no exception. The 2 members, Jun-Yuan and Yi Tao, both were born in the year of horse (in 1978). “Horse without legs”, the self-mocking name, implies exactly the profound thinking of the 2 artists on how to walk without legs.
www.douban.com/artist/powerwoodquality/
Torturing Nurse
analogue harshnoise/pure noise group from shanghai, china!
myspace.com/torturingnurseforever
douban.com/artist/torturingnurse
Shu Qi aka Shu Ride
Analog Noise & instrumental Improvization
www.noishanghai.org/shuride/index.htm
Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi
Guitat improviser from Shanghai.
Ben Houge
Ben Houge is a composer and sound artist whose attention is focused on finding connections. His areas of activity range from computer game soundtracks to sacred choral music, and he is energized by the way in which these disparate trajectories inform and invigorate each other. Much of his work employs computers to make decisions and generate sound, and he has incorporated ideas from his experience in digital media into compositions for live performance.
Ben moved to Shanghai, China, in 2004, to accept a job as senior audio designer with the French videogame company Ubisoft, a position he held for over four years. Since his arrival, he's presented his music at the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, the 2pi Festival, the Shanghai eArts Festival, and Noishanghai, alongside local musicians including Torturing Nurse and Wang Changcun. He's also transplanted the Sound Currents concert series from Seattle to present visiting artists from the US. His work has been profiled in local publications, and he served as a contributing music editor to That's Shanghai from January 2007 through September 2008.
*LLND
*LL wave constructor, circuit bender, instruments creator, programmer and *ND, anima-videiconist stage artist director.
Installations, performances, live act, VJ, their creations are like a round trip between the direct and the fictional virtual documentary
a controlled Digital Automation.
A thundering mix called Live Act Kinotoys.
Each of their performance offers a pass for traveling to multiple geostrategico-sensory destinations in a poetic network universe of immersive sounds and visuals.
*LLND's live art is a unique show where all the images and sound are created live.
using a set up of micros, cameras , objects, realtime 3d software, and a multichannels broadcast video mixer.
Justin Sebastian
Justin Sebastian hat Jazz an der Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen studiert und während seines dreijährigen Aufenthaltes in Bangkok von 2000 bis 2003 Unterricht in traditioneller thailändischer Musik genommen.
Im Alter von 13 Jahren war er bereits festes Mitglied des Peter Kowald Ort Ensembles.
Er hat als freier Theatermusiker am Schauspielhaus in Köln gearbeitet und ist seit 2007 Mitglied im WIO (Wuppertaler Improvisations Orchester). Justin Sebastian hat in zahlreichen Musik- und Tanzprojekten mit Künstlern wie: Peter Kowald, Nusara Mai-ngarm, Christoph Iacono, DJ Orson, I-Fen Lin, Sebastian Gramss, Adam Holzman, Geraldo Si, Jean Sasportes u.v.a. gearbeitet
Justin Sebastian studied jazz-trumpet at Folkwanghochschule in Essen. Between 2000 and 2003 he gained experience in Thai traditional music in Bangkok. At the age of 13 he was a member in Peter Kowald`s “OrtEnsemble”.
He has also worked at the “Schauspielhaus Cologne” as part of the music ensemble. Throughout his career he has worked independently with artists such as Nusara Mai-ngarm, Peter Kowald, Geraldo Si, DJ Orson, Sebastian Gramss, Christoph Iacono, Adam Holzman, Jean Sasportes.
Currently Justin Sebastian is a member of the “WIO” (Wuppertal Improvisers Orchestra) and is active in smaller formations and as a soloist in Germany.
Li Jianhong
With his guitar and effect pedals, Li Jianhong is one of the best noise / improv musicians in China. His guitar drifts among improvisational music, noise music, and psychedelic rock. Recently, he is trying a new way to create from the relationships between environment and performing.
The groups he formed or participates includes D!O!D!O!D! and VagusNerve. By now, he has released over 20 solo albums and collaborations in several labels including 2pi Records, PSF, Utech, Post-concrete, Archive and so on.
While being an artist, he is also managing a indie lable "2pi Records", which held an annually experimental and avant-garde music festival "2pi festival" since 2003.
www.douban.com/artist/lijianhong/
Fakemistress
voice, beats, sounds, slogans, words, noise, screams, cut-ups, melody- fake mistress is performing with voice, loop station and sampler, creating vivid images and atmospheres, exploring the limits of beauty and disharmony....what an explosive relationship!
Anthony Carcone and Jacques Foschia and DFF from ETC
ETC is a one night improvised collective, or an individual group of kindred post musical spirits
Description: improvised, sound/visual art, metal vibes, atmosphere, experimental ambient,sample ritual-like drone, post minimalism, low frequency voice...
From an Audio/Visual Art Performance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUm8-DzoRJs
Anthony Carcone - disturbed guitar and sounds disruptions
Jacques Foschia - radio waves and fog
DFF - sheet metal
1908 - soprano Maria Kuznetsova as Tosca.
She was born in Odessa, Ukraine during 1880 and died in Paris, France during 1966.
Having been a ballet dancer in St. Petersburg, she then studied singing with baritone Joakim Tartakov and made her debut as 'Marguerite' in Gounod's opera Faust at the Mariinsky Theatre during 1905.
She created the role of 'Fevroniya' in Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera the Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya on 20th Feb 1907 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
She created the role of 'Fausta' in Massenet's opera Roma world première at the Opéra de Monte Carlo on 17th Feb 1912 and created the role of 'Cléopâtre' in Massenet's opera of the same name at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 23 February 1914.
On 14th May 1914 she created the role of Potiphar's wife in the ballet the Legend of Joseph by Richard Strauss at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.
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as part of a prize draw you can now find yellow tokens at shops, cafes across Portsmouth. If you are given a token please take to aspex gallery, Gunwharf and enter our prize draw. More info - creatingbalanceproject.tumblr.com/
Here it is, folks.
It was almost destroyed. Twice.
During the making of the CBC production, the unexpected blockbuster hit movie: "The Arrow".
That be another story.
Gwen asks us, "What is it?"
We do not laugh.
A lot of people ask that question.
Before a military airplane is created live ( aluminum, steel, rubber, secret materials etc.) there will be a wooden mock-up made of the intended aircraft just to start working out some of its' design aspects.
From a hands on, three-dimensional standpoint.
Voila!
Here you have the original wooden mock-up of the COCKPIT of the CF-105 Avro Arrow!
Not the whole airplano. Only the cockpit… where special attention to detail is paramount because this is where the pilot lives. Reacts to the enemy. Or simply flies patrol. At a thousand miles-per-hour.
All the minutiae were worked out here. Before everything got stripped out, (seat, electronics, control wheel) it was pretty much a functioning cockpit. And if there was a problem in design, location of a gauge, etc., it all got settled right here.
Need more details? Read the plaque, in the picture, itself.
Housed at the Brampton Museum (Peel Heritage Museum) as an ongoing Avro Canada exhibit, it resides at 9 Wellington Street East, less than a quarter mile from my house.
But that's not the clincher.
Nope.
THE GUY who designed the cockpit was Wilf Farrance. While he now lives in London, Ontario, he used to live at 14 Crestview, in Brampton, which, by road, is just one mile and about a hundred feet south of the museum. And this exhibit.
His baby.
THREE MONTHS after Black Friday, Wilf went south to Martin Baker where he became plant manager. But had he stayed put, in retirement, he could have simply strolled up to the museum to see his former "workbench".
Nah, you're right. Too painful.
So few artifacts remain from the Arrow program… that every single one causes us to pause, and think.
What if?
It has taken us 60 years to leap back from the Avro Jetliner cancellation, and Bombardier has done well in the commercial aircraft segment…
But Canada never bounced back in the military aircraft sector.
Once the Arrow was murdered, we never went back to the military stuff. We bought it, but never again did we produce it.
But it is museum pieces like these that remind us of the tenaciousness, the intensity, and the success of Canadian ingenuity in the early part of the Jet Age, in the late 1940s and 50s. It was a new frontier, folks. New, to everybody. And a small country like Canada (through research and development) could be as successful, and even more so, than some of the more established players in the aviation field ( Britain, the USA, France).
Even if, only, for a time.
So, meander your way up to that there museum, and look at this artifact, and many other Avro Canada ones. Each will leave you with an impression of how grand the aeronautical endeavours, and undertakings were there in Malton in the 50s. You'll note at Avro Canada, their strong employee social network, this carefree and serious "country" within our country, that would eventually have such a huge impact on our tiny, tiny, nation.
And of, course the world around us. Because nothing is ever done in a vacuum, folks.
What was happening at Avro Canada was noticed worldwide. And what was learned there has been passed on through, to later aircraft design.
The BAC TSR.2 benefited heavily from the Arrow program. No less than 15 design inputs snafu'd from Avro Canada engineering data given to BAC for free, for FREE, by the Canadian government! Stupid is, as stoo'pid does—
The Concorde, and its Olympus engines both benefitted from our Canadian successes at Malton (YYZ). More freebees. To any who just asked! First "acquired" from Avro Canada, and next from Orenda Engines (the engine subsidiary of Avro Canada).
And I could go on, but won't.
Do yourself a favour.
Visit the museum, and breathe it all in.
Stop pretending you're a Canadian… be one.
And, I, am, outta, here…
Just want to share a card I made for CREATE Blog challenge: 3 flowers, 2 butterflies and 1 bird. FUN~
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CL513 Lauderdale Flower
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In 1891 work began on the construction of the Queen Hotel, overlooking The Lansdowne, at the junction of Bath Rd and Old Christchurch Rd.
A variety of shops traded at street level on the Old Christchurch Rd side.
It opened in 1894 and traded until the late 1940s and was converted into offices and renamed Jacey House in the early 1950s.
In the late 1990s it was again converted, this time into flats, with the retail units remaining on the Old Christchurch Rd side.
Today a branch of the 'Ask' Italian restaurant chain occupies the ground floor with the retail unit on the Old Christchurch Rd side having been a Slug and Lettuce pub amongst other things in recent years.
A [ VERY ] POTTED HISTORY OF BOURNEMOUTH...............
1810 - 1835
The founding of the town of Bournemouth is officially commemorated as the being 1810 the year that Captain Lewis Tregonwell and his wife Henrietta purchased a plot of land on the west bank of the Bourne stream upon which to build a large detached house that would serve as their new holiday home. The land was purchased from Sir George Tapps, Lord of the Manor of Christchurch, who became the largest landowner after what had been common land was effectively privatised in the Christchurch Inclosure Act 1802 and the subsequent Awards of 1805.
At that time the area was a remote one that lay mid way between Christchurch and Poole, themselves not the large towns they are today, on what was virtually uninhabited heathland. The house, known as the ''Mansion', was completed in 1812 with the Tregonwells purchasing further land to increase the size of their estate upon which they built a few cottages for staff members and several more to let, mainly to family, friends and associates.
Although the Tregonwells eventually rented out their Mansion, their estate, referred to as 'Bourne Tregonwell' remained all but unknown to the outside world and was somewhere they spent much of their time.
Their original holiday home still exists as part of the Royal Exeter Hotel that stands opposite the Bournemouth International Centre [ B.I.C ] on Exeter Rd.
Lewis Tregonwell died in 1832 a few short years before the next important stage in the development of Bournemouth.
1835 - 1870
In 1835 Sir George Tapps died and his son Sir George Gervis inherited his father's land, much of which lay to the east of the Bourne stream and set about creating a new development that he called his 'Marine Village', a seaside resort aimed at attracting paying guests. Early buildings included the Bath Hotel, later enlarged as the Royal Bath Hotel, the Westover Villas, a row of large detached houses or villas on generous plots that lined what is now Westover Rd, the Belle Vue Boarding House that fronted todays Pier Approach and some public baths that stood where, what was popularly known as the Imax building, was later built..
The new development wasn't a resort as we would understand it now, offering beach holidays, but more of a health resort with much being made of the area's mild micro climate and the health giving properties of the masses of pine trees that would also offer protection from the more extreme vagaries of the British weather.
Over the coming years more and more villas were built, spreading out from the banks of the Bourne stream which in turn attracted those that were needed to build the new properties and those that provided services to the well heeled residents of the fledgling town such as domestic staff, gardeners and food, grocery and household goods suppliers.
By 1856 there was a need to amalgamate the growing development and so Parliament passed the Bournemouth Improvement Act that set the town's first boundary as being within a 1 mile radius of what is today Pier Approach. it also provided for a team of Commissioners, essentially the town's first Council, charged with the power to raise funds via property rates to pay for things like highway improvements, drainage, sewers and street cleaning.
The town continued to grow within the 1 mile boundary and also led to development outside it including artisan / working class areas at Springbourne and Winton.
In 1870 the railway came to town but it was seen by many as a necessary evil and something to be kept as far away from the town centre as possible and so the station was located at the very edge of the 1 mile boundary on the opposite side of Holdenhurst Rd to the present Central Station. This arrival of the railway combined with cheaper rail fares and the creation by Parliament of the first Bank Holidays would lead to the next phase in the development of Bournemouth turning it from a sleepy seaside resort favoured by the wealthy upper classes many of whom were suffering poor health, into the large, bustling holiday destination that we know and love today. Bring it on!
1870 - PRESENT DAY
In 1871 the town's population was just under six thousand but by 1891 it had increased almost ten fold to just under sixty thousand. Most of the new citizens were new comers to the area drawn by the opportunities the fast expanding new town could offer.
In 1876 Springbourne and Boscombe became part of Bournemouth when the town boundaries were extended for the first time with a further six following including Westbourne in 1884, Pokesdown, Southbourne, Winton and Moordown in 1901, Malmesbury Park, Charminster and Strouden Park in 1914, Kinson and Holdenhurst in 1931.
The final area incorporated into the town was Hengistbury Head in 1932 which was purchased from H. Gordon Selfridge founder of the Selfridges department store chain and took the town to it's present size.
Today Bournemouth is home to more than 160,000 people and has grown at a phenomenal rate in the past two hundred years since the Tregonwells purchased that first eight and a half acres of land back in 1810.
The town is still a popular holiday destination and has had to work hard to compete against the rise of the foreign holiday and the unpredictability of the British weather by trying to attract visitors year round. Short weekend breaks, the conference trade, the annual airshow and a thriving night time economy all play their part in attracting day trippers and holiday makers, the life blood of the town's tourism industry.
Sadly Bournemouth is also a victim of it's own success and has almost reached bursting point with space for new homes very much at a premium. Many older, larger properties are being demolished to make way for more, smaller properties, many of them blocks of flats which are squeezed into every available space.
The last of the green belt clings desperately by it's finger tips to the north, rightly or wrongly the town planners and Councillors come under attack for their stewardship of the town and any resemblance to a slow paced seaside resort of old has long gone.
The pressures of modern life, traffic levels, the drinking culture and even the current economic climate all take their toll on the quality of life in the town but it's not all doom and gloom.
Bournemouth is still a great place with much to be proud of such as it's wonderful sandy beaches, cliffs, pleasure gardens, parks, some of it's buildings both old and new, oh, and it's history of course.
RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING.
'Bournemouth 1810 - 1910' by Mate and Riddle [ the full text is available as a pdf file on the internet if you have a hunt around for it.]
'The Story of Bournemouth' by David S Young. Published in 1957 it occasionally turns up on E Bay and Amazon around the £10 mark.
'A History of Bournemouth' by Elizabeth Edwards. ISBN 0 85033 412 8. Turns up on E Bay and Amazon fairly regularly for under a tenner.
'The Book of Bournemouth' by David and Rita Popham ISBN 0 86023 219 0
All titles also available at local libraries.