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We walked by a shopping mall that looked abandoned, but the construction has not started yet. I like the irony of the mess inside contrasted with the Chinese writing on the front, which translates to: “Happy Families Shopping Mall Welcomes You”. I was in a hurry so I did not explore further.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM in Sanya, Hainan, China.
被遺棄的商場 Abandoned shopping mall / 中國海南三亞 Sanya, Hainan, China / SML.20140506.6D.32068.P1.BW
Toy Story
Ernie whispers into Bert's ear: "I know just what you need to cheer you up..."
Bert: "...I think that I'd like that!"
to be continued
Strobist Info (SML Setup)
+ Canon 580EX mounted on light stand with umbrella firing from front right
+ Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2
+ Canon Timer Remote Control TC-80N3
+ f/8, 0.5, ISO 100, 70mm (EXIF)
About Bert and Ernie
Bert and Ernie are two roommates on the long-running television show Sesame Street. The two appear together in numerous skits, forming a comic duo that is one of the centerpieces of the program. Originated by Frank Oz and Jim Henson, the characters are currently performed by Muppeteers Eric Jacobson and Steve Whitmire, with Oz performing Bert occasionally since 2000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_and_Ernie
I always thought that Bert and Ernie are the perfect couple. I admire them and I cherish them. I also thought that they are the ideal husbands, and I wish that my love life is as rich and colorful as theirs.
A few years back, I met someone (who shall remain anonymous) who was an executive producer at the Children's Television Workshop, and I said: you know they are so gay... He said: They look gay because they *are* gay.
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Toy Story by SML
With a big glass of Pinot Noir in hand, Bert forgot about the pain of modeling while Ernie got trashed.
Toy Story by Erotocrat (NYC)
It was reported by Burt that the euphoria caused by Ernie is unlike hand-puppet jobs received from other muppets. I even remember my first experience with Ernie, who as a young muppet, emerged from Mr. Hooper’s bodega off of Sesame Street one crispy morning. Ernie glanced at me as though I were a masked Adonis of some sort and told me in no uncertain terms, that he felt like the letter B.
Fast forward
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There is something gritty about this scene. I was reminded of some of iD Software’s many first person shooter games when I saw this. There are the pipes, the dirt, the multiplied boxes of no-one-knows-what. And then of course there are the lights.
To me this lives in the game world. It is interesting to me.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-13 16:57:57 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5140 x 3427
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 24mm
+ ISO: 320
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L
+ GPS: 22°25'17" N 114°13'37" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山頌安商場垃圾房 中国香港马鞍山颂安商场垃圾房 Garbage Room, Chung On Shopping Mall, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6
+ Serial: SML.20130213.EOSM.01989.P1.L1
+ Series: 死園 Deadyard, 形 Forms, 商場 Shopping Malls
“死園總部之形 Deadyard Headquarters Forms” / 中國香港馬鞍山頌安商場垃圾房 Garbage Room, Chung On Shopping Mall, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong SAR, China / SML.20130213.EOSM.01989.P1.L1
/ #死園 #Deadyard #形 #Forms #SMLForms #商場 #ShoppingMalls #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #街 #street #攝影 #摄影 #photography #垃圾 #trash
I cannot always explain why I photograph the things which I do. Photography is my canvas. I paint on it through photographing existing forms, but the forms itself may not be a representation of anything. I just like the way the lines intersect in space.
The photograph is of something, so it is not intrinsically abstract, but what I wish to say is. As such it is abstract. Often people comment on the fact that abstract photography does not exist, in reality it does — it is the intention of the photographer which matters.
This was taken on a trip to Jinan, Shandong Province, China with the Canon G12 while I was smoking outside after lunch. It is the wall of a back alley where the kitchen is.
“混合媒體死園之形 混合媒体死园之形 Mixed Media Deadyard Forms”
/ SML.20121011.G12.00730
Toy Story continues
Bert is unamused when Tigger comes to play.
Bert: Tigger comes over to visit us every now and then. I think that he's cute and all but the problem is, he and Ernie would just giggle and gossip non-stop which gets really annoying sometimes.
Playing with Pixel Motion in After Effects which created this cubist motion using a series of stills. Much thanks to Daniele Grosso's Town in Pixel Motion on Vimeo vimeo.com/10549864 for this inspiration.
How to:
1. Photograph a series of images.
2. Downsize your images to the target video size. This is not really necessary but smaller images make for faster rendering.
3. Import images as a sequence into AE.
4. Create a comp and add image sequence.
5. Time-stretch image sequence to e.g. 1000%
6. Frame-blend layer using the Pixel Motion option.
7. Render and admire the wondering algorithmic engine created by Adobe.
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Char TKO 2000.
"This is our yard! Anyone who doubts... Lets Battle... We'll win and you know it... In The meantime... Your Makin Fools of yourselves... Deadyards is ours...Hit it and i'll break your face"
Caught By A. In Southern Alberta: 05-2008
I love photographing trash. I started my “Deadyard” series for a few reasons:
1. Often people respond to photography because of the intrinsically beautiful subject matter. I see it all the time. Sh!tty photos of beautiful men. Very popular photography with no inherent photographic value. It is unhealthy. I have a few of those sh!tty photos on my Flickr stream also. I have no idea why they become so popular. People are responding to the person, not the photography. So by photographing intrinsically ugly things the viewer must respond to the photography itself.
2. I am far from perfect. So in some ways these are self portraits. Broken, battered, depressed and left out to die. They are real. This is what life is. When you face life head one and be able to stay your own, you are fearless. I see beauty in everything around me. Life is much more enjoyable this way.
3. I know looking at other photography works that many people also see the beauty of decay. There are far more interesting things, textures, and forms in wasteland. No one really care to organise them. But they are beautiful. Just imagine for a second that these are not trash but forms in an abstract painting. This is what I would paint if I were a painter. This is poetry to my eyes.
Pictured: the trash file left behind on the roof of some storefront in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Photographed while walking on a pedestrian bridge and thus be able to see all the things which were left behind. Completely random, though every bit interesting.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-11 12:33:04 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 117 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°16'41" N 114°10'24" E
+ Location: 中國香港灣仔行人天橋 中国香港湾仔行人天桥 Footbridge, Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6
+ Serial: SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
+ Series: 死園 Deadyard
“屋頂垃圾 Rooftop Trash” / 死園 Deadyard / SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
/ #死園 #死园 #Deadyard #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #灣仔 #WanChai #街 #street #攝影 #摄影 #photography #垃圾 #trash
On my way up to the peak, I walked by a bridge and I thought that I would check out what is underneath. I like exploring places where I am not supposed to go, and I enjoy finding abstract forms in the trash.
Photographing trash—aka my “deadyard” series—is important to me. I do that as a reaction upon seeing photographs of beautiful people and beautiful objects which are themselves not beautiful. By choosing a subject that is intrinsically ugly, I attempt to force the viewer to react to the composition alone. If you remove the subject matter you simply see images as lines and space things will be more readily appreciated.
This capture contains a diversity of forms which contrast each other as if they are having a dialog with each other. That is interesting to me, but I am not “normal” and as such I can never predict how “normal people” will react to the things which I like.
# SML Data
+ Serial: SML.20121011.7D.09609.SQ.BW
+ Date: 2012-10-11 10:35:44 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3456 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/60 sec at f/2.8
+ Focal Length: ISO 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Setup: Handheld
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
+ GPS: 36°14'22" N 117°4'58" E (approximate. GPS unit not available)
# Related SML Universe
+ SML Photography Blog: 2012-10-24: Forms 形: photoblog.seeminglee.com/2012/10/forms.html
“軍事禁地” (军事禁地 “Prohibited military land”) / Deadyard Forms / 山東省泰山 (山东省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province) / 中國旅遊 (中国旅游 China Tourism) / SML.20121011.7D.09609.SQ.BW
WMW by Zer? TKO 2000.
"This is our yard! Anyone who doubts... Lets Battle... We'll win and you know it... In The meantime... Your Makin Fools of yourselves... Deadyards is ours...Hit it and i'll break your face""
Caught By A. In Southern Alberta: 05-2008
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From these lovely chairs in my neighbor's yard, you can sit and enjoy nice conversation, or just watch the grass grow.
Oh... wait.
One man’s trash is another’s treasure. John Angus Chamberlain (April 16, 1927 – December 21, 2011)’s sculptural works are of pure magic, where their raw materials started lives as that from old car wrecks into something which is best described as a three-dimensional Abstract Expressionist (AbEx) forms.
The downside of using trash as raw materials is that they can be misinterpreted. Apparently, in 1973, two 300-pound metal pieces by Chamberlain were mistaken for junk and carted away as they sat outside a gallery warehouse in Chicago.
“My work has nothing to do with car wrecks,” he has said. “I believe common materials are the best materials.”
In line with my own deadyard photography series, however, I love these works. It is a bouquet made out of trash but one which is fantastic in every way. Crazyisgood.
John Chamberlain
Bloodydrivetrain
2007
Painted and chromium plated steel
99 x 144.8 x 116.8 cm
39 x 57 x 46 in
# John Chamberlain (1927 - 2011, US)
+ 1927-04-16: Born Rochester, Indiana, US
+ 1943-1946: US Navy
+ 1951-1952: Art Institute of Chicago
+ 1955-1956: Black Mountain College
+ 1966: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
+ 1990: Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
+ 1993: Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
+ 1993: Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
+ 1997: The National Arts Club Artists Award, New York
+ 1999: Distinction in Sculpture Honor from the Sculpture Center, New York.
+ 2010: Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit[16]
+ 2011-12-21: Died Manhattan, New York City, NY, US (aged 84)
John Angus Chamberlain (April 16, 1927 – December 21, 2011) was an American sculptor. At the time of his death he resided and worked on Shelter Island, New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chamberlain_(sculptor)
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Drususgasse 1-5
50667 Cologne
Germany
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# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T15:58:04+0800
+ Dimensions: 4692 x 3128
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 800
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13855
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Sculpture by John Chamberlain: Bloodydrivetrain, 2007 (Painted and chromium plated steel)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13855
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