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Two Solo Exhibitions
Exhibition dates: September 26 - November 8, 2009
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm
Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto’s photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work.
Ellen Driscoll
FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2
“This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold.
The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.”
Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street @ Washington
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.
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Average Americans are up in arms over the idea that medical professionals could ever be employed by the government.
Because, you know, that's... SOCIALISM.
And that's, like, bad. And stuff. Right?
...
Apparently these people have never met a friendly teacher, police officer, or fire fighter.
Turns out it's no big deal.
Who knew?
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This image is based on this original by webchicken. Used under a Creative Commons license.
Just to say thanks to everyone who has stopped by my photos in the last four and a bit months and contributed to the million views I've had since the 11th January.
Flickr stats remain a mystery and more to the point a fairly unbelievable mystery. I am pretty glad that my first million (which took six years or so to achieve)was on the old basis - whatever that was.
My Flickr activity and interest is at an all time low at the moment. All the recent fiddling about with the format just devalues it IMHO. We seem to be stuck with the Beta format now in the UK, despite "Black Days" and what have you and it is now utter ****, IMHO.
Freakily my "multi coloured dreadlocks" photo has made a bit of a resurgence in the last couple of days. This was first posted to Flickr in December 2007 and still remains one of my most viewed and fave'd photos over the past seven years but there has been little activity of late until yesterday. Ah - the mysteries of Flickr
So, thanks for persevering and taking the trouble to view, comment and fave my photos. All the best. Dave.
Supposedly, Prospect Hill is the highest point in Somerville, but at the moment I can't find a source to back this up, or suggest some other location. In any case, looking as it does down over Union Square, it has good views of Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston, this panorama tries to convey .
The tower atop the hill commemorates the point where some of the first American colonialists fought against the British in 1775. Local legend holds that this point was the first place in America to fly a version of the American Flag (note the flag at top here, with the British Union Jack in place of the later field of stars), but then, a lot of places have a version of that local legend, so who knows?
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On 20th February 2019 this Black Diamond Images photostream passed 17 Million Views.
This Flickr account was opened on around 26th October 2006 but no images were posted until 16th August 2007.
Statistics
17 Million Views - 20th February 2019 - 16,929 photos - 7,445 Favs
16 Million Views - 12th November 2018 - 16,368 photos - 7,003 Favs
15 Million Views - 1st May 2018 - 15,524 photos - 6,390 Favs
14 Million Views - 2nd October 2017 - 15,030 photos - 6,032 Favs
13 Million Views - 2nd March 2017, 14,436 photos - 5,601 Favs
12 Million Views - 15th May 2016 - 14007 photos - 5,238 Favs
11 Million Views - 22nd November 2015 -13,591 photos - 4,926 Favs
10 Million Views - 6th July 2015 - 12,881 photos - 4,473 Favs
9 Million Views - 17th March 2015 - 12,269 photos - 4,100 Favs
8 Million Views - 17th Dec 2014 - 11,757 photos - 3,762 Favs
7 Million Views - 10th Sept 2014 - 11,355 photos - 3,468 Favs
6 Million Views - 23rd May 2014 - 10,550 photos
5 Million Views - 18th Feb 2014 - 10,246 photos
4 Million Views - 30th Nov 2013 - 9336 photos
3 Million Views - 30th Aug 2013
2 Million Views - 10th August 2012
Thanks to all who visit this photostream, particularly to those who take the time to comment. I do try to reciprocate and to respond when questions are raised in comments.
Interestingly since the 16 Million Views milestone was reached in November 2018 the number of daily views appears to have more than doubled. These fluctuations lead me to believe that Flickr under Smug Mug now, has altered its way of recording photo views.
Its too early to say yet how much impact on Groups the deletion of images from free accounts over 1000 images will have.
Not sure what "Postal Police" do, exactly, but apparently it doesn't involve needing to brush the snow off their patrol cars so that they can actually be, you know, driven around.
Is that a trailer home? I honestly thought that was a southern thing -- if I've seen one in New England, it was at least a decade or two ago. Maybe I'm just not paying attention.
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This is part of a series of four photomontages taken in Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA in November 2008.
* Province Lands beach (full circle view)
* Truro beach looking at sunset over downtown Provincetown
* Provincetown Harbor horizon just after dusk
* Provincetown Harbor horizon just after dusk (folded)
The one you're looking at is the exact same thing as this one, but split into three rows to get it to have easier to manage proportions and make it easier to see some of the detail at a glance, including the boat at lower left, the lighthouse right in the middle, and the land going up to downtown Provincetown at the top to top-right.
In hindsight, I suppose this is "upside-down", in that -- roughly speaking -- the lower band goes from east to south, the middle band goes from south to west, and the upper band goes from west to north. (Actually, the arc isn't that wide, as the whole range of this photo covers a similar ark from the view in this one, taken a mile or so away, but you get the idea.)
Turns out a lot of this stuff is just as funny in a photo as it is if you spent the $2.99 to take it home.
UPDATE 3 April 2010: Isaac got one of these for his 4th birthday! His friends have the bestest parents ever :-)
In hindsight... why the heck did I crop it this way? Must have been trying to catch it from the car or bus or something.
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Recently Flickr published the historical referrer data, and I fell in love with Couchdb, So making a long story short I've downloaded all the csv files from 2007 to 2010 and have I put them into a database.
Now I'm wondering about which queries code first .
Can you help me.. ?
I've made great findings digging into what people search when stumble on my stream.
Thanks
Angela & Max
Recentemente Flickr ha pubblicato i dati storici sui referrers (ovvero da dove arrivano i visitatori nel nostro stream, con quali parole chiave, e da quale sito ) e siccome sto studiando un database che si chiama Couchdb ho pensato di unire l'utile al dilettevole. Ho caricato tutti i dati dal 2007 al 2010 e ho creato diverse viste sui dati. Tuttavia forse ci sarebbero alcune viste interessanti che mi sono sfuggite. Mi potete aiutare ?
E' stato veramente divertente e informativo vedere le parole chiave che la gente cerca quando arriva sulle mie foto
Grazie
Angela & Max
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Not shown in this photo: the approximately 400,000 people we had to elbow past to get close enough to see this. On up ahead, beyond the angels but before the Christmas Tree, is the well-known open-air skating rink, but the crowds got even worse to go there, so this is all you get.
I guess I hit a milestone a couple of days ago...according to the flickr stats, my images reached the half a million views mark today. photo taken inside the Luna theatre in Clayton, Oklahoma.
This statue is notorious, because it's claimed by some to depict a Jew eating children -- or at least that's what the travel book said.
According to Wikipedia, that's just one interpretation, and it could just as easily be a Fasnacht statue admonishing kids to behave for the holiday.
Anyway, it had that "creepy funny" vibe nailed. This photo shows the statue in a broader context, with the fountain, surrounding people, etc, while this one shows the top statue section in more detail.
Yesterday I went the usual way, down Storrow Drive, along the south bank of the Charles River.
Today I went the other way, along Memorial Drive on the north bank of the river, going by MIT and Harvard Square, and a lot more red lights than on the other side of the river.
This route is 6.2 miles.
The accelerated video is 68 seconds.
That works out to 328 mph.
But then, I did have to stop for a lot of red lights.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Montreal)
Long sordid history short:
* Audacious design for 1976 Olympic Stadium
* Incomplete for the Olympics due to strikes in France
* Finally completed a decade or so later (!)
* Required renovations & redesigns throughout the rest of its life to the present day
* Was way over budget (naturally)
* Used as a baseball stadium for a while, but was never very suitable for the purpose
* No significant tenants since 2004 (two years after this photo)
* For all that, still kinda neat looking
June 2009 update: The building sat there this way for well over a year -- maybe even two years? -- but is now undergoing extensive renovations, and seems slated to become yet another CVS. Yay?
The Fischer design appears to have some merits. From the top-down view, it's easier to spot the bishops vs the pawns!
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2006.03.05.10D.38909
See-ming Lee at Robert Irwin's Studio in New York, 2006.03.05.
Photography by Robert Irwin using SML's Canon EOS 10D + Canon Macro 100 f2.8 USM + Canon MT-24EX.
Copyright 2006 See-ming Lee. All rights reserved.
I liked the angle on this one when I took the photo. I only realized after I got home that apparently the Delano Hotel is a pretty famous art deco landmark.
Two Solo Exhibitions
Exhibition dates: September 26 - November 8, 2009
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm
Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto’s photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work.
Ellen Driscoll
FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2
“This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold.
The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.”
Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street @ Washington
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.
Related SML
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+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
15/08/2015 completes four years on Flickr and despite being aware that the statistics provided cannot always be relied upon, here's the four year summary:
Total aggregate of ................ 1,280,838 views
All time daily average of ................ 876 views
Last year daily average of ........... 1,451 views
Highest day of ................................. 6,711 views on 14/10/2013
(the image is from December 1951 showing the Richmond Times-Dispatch press photographers outside the Virginia State Capitol)