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Founded in 1683, The Ashmolean re-opened on Saturday 7th November 2009. Their new display approach is "crossing culture crossing time." It was my first glimpse today, the much loved older museum is still here, but now enormously extended and plenty more to enjoy.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Ashmolean is currently undergoing a £61 million redevelopment. Award-winning architect Rick Mather has designed a new building to replace all but the Grade I listed Cockerell building. His design will double the existing gallery space, allow environmental control, and create a dedicated Education Centre and conservation facilities.
I've tried to show something of the atmosphere and texture of the museum in many of the photos, I also wanted to convey the sense of movement and people's interaction with the art objects, therefore razor sharp clarity (were I to achieve that) was not my number one objective. This set will grow as I explore the new galleries, I hope you'll forgive me if I do not tag or describe everything right away as there is so much to take in!
Martin Beek Oxford, November 2009
The CUSP bus.
Made by Bradford based papier-mache artist John Shanks.
We have taken commissions for many of these over the years to be made to commemorate births, Christenings, weddings and retirements.
After nearly 13 years trading Cusp will close tomorrow.
We had a good ride.
We had a conversation about the bits and pieces that collect in our house and the objects that map how you live. Great idea lets gather some of them together and see what they look like as a whole. With little thought other than this here is the resulting image. Yep, it's just so much c--p, but then, what about the... this could run for some time as an idea.
Objectivity, truth, are tricky. There's the linguistic complexity and the abstracts.
I used to work for an organisation who called themselves 'neoplatonist', simplistically considering that Plato's Ideals existed in the real world, somewhere, and applied themselves to material objects in various ways. Maybe I misrepresent them - but I didn't buy much of their philosophy. One Idea was that there was an Ideal Science. I read the booklet (generated may years before by the Leader of the time, a prolific man, but a man of libraries, archives and words) but made neither head not tail of it in scientific terms. There was no understanding of the Method, or Process, Ideal Science was just a static thing, so - no spiralling round the 'Truth' to get closer to it.
This Order also placed high value on the Will as an aspect of Mind/Intellect. They did indeed show remarkable willpower and staying power since 1947. But each individual Willed towards slightly different objectives, according to character. This could, at times, generate considerable conflict, especially with employees! I thought they paid insufficient attention to the physical body and the 'heart's' emotions. These three (or two if you consider the mind a strange emergence of the body) in fluctuating balance is what is required in my life, sometimes more, sometimes less.
The objective lens of a microscope is the one closer to the Object, the other is the eyepiece, maybe there's something in that. The Eye is further from the real thing which is too small to see unaided. The eye gives perspective, two eyes give distance, the mind extrapolates with imagination.
I like the upper case and the lower case, they can be so subtly expressive.
There is value in examining the past, enjoying or at any rate dealing with the present and speculating about the future.
This is an image of an icy puddle, now employed as background on my laptop. It froze, melted and sank into the mud ages ago, cycling and re-cycling itself. I'm looking at it in a different way, now, and I'm feeling that I could work.
Ho fotografato una mongolfiera dalla finestra di casa, una serie di circa 10 scatti.
In tutte compare uno strano oggetto (abbastanza statico rispetto al possibile movimento di un uccello od altro) che non avevo notato in fase ripresa. Sembra un calamaretto volante... che dire?
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I made several pictures of this hot-air balloon and, after having downloaded on my PC I noticed that - in all of them - appears a very strange flying object. It really does not look as a bird of a plane...I do not know what to think, really!
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Analysis in Sketch Book
I have used a camera as a object to create a shadow, in relation to using a similar camera to take the actual pictures. The video has a black and white filter to force the shadows to be emphasised by the setting making the black areas deeper and have more contrast to their surroundings. I have used multiple light sources to have a second shadow overlaying the other. One shadow is stationary, while the other orbits the object (camera). I have tried to demonstrate Apart and Together by using the multiple shadows, rather than one, to show togetherness within the shadows, as they overlap. The black and white filter also enhances the overlapping shadows as the darkest areas are further deepened and have more depth. One of the light sources was turned off half way through the animation in order to demonstrate the "Apart" feeling of the theme. If I were to do this again, I would take the photos more carefully and try to stop moving as much and to keep the shadow's tones the same when necessary, and not accidentally change the tone of the shadow when it should only be moving. I was unable to fix the shadow's tones in the photos as there were too many photos and the background tone would also change and therefore make the mistake stand out even more than before.
15th centuary, brass.
This object is called panchatirthi because it depicts five icons together. Such objects were very popular in Jainism, depicting as many as twenty-three Tirthankaras in one panel. The central figure here is identifiable as the Jaina Tirthankara Parsvanatha because of the snake hood over his head. The other images flanking him are other Jainas. They are unidentifiable, except for the srivatsa (diamond shaped mark) on their chests and silver enamelled eyes. The row of nine figures on the pedestal is the nine planets personified (nava-grahas) and the central shrine includes a goddess (Vidyadevi).