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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.
model: object
designer: David Brill
folder: David Brill
I met with David Brill second time at the convention in Poland this year (Kazimierz 2010). He was so kind and borrowed to us several of his folds. This is pointed cube. Thank David very much!
4 octobre 2013, 7h14 heure locale
Aujourd'hui, l'objectif est l'ascension du Piton de la Fournaise, l'un des volcans en activité dans le monde.
Au programme, 5h30 de marche et d'ascension dans un environnement difficile et avec un sac photo de 7kg sur le dos.
Les vacances, c'est pas toujours de tout repos.
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.
model: object
designer: David Brill
folder: David Brill
I met with David Brill second time at the convention in Poland this year (Kazimierz 2010). He was so kind and borrowed to us several of his folds. This is very special piece - the cube with parts of the sphere piked on its apexes. The major of the arranging city was especially fascinated by this object. Thank David very much!
I have always enjoyed table top RPGs (think Dungeons and Dragons). I wanted to capture the anticipation and uncertainty in rolling a die that would have an impact on the story and game you are playing in. For this object photo I also wanted to experiment with some photo editing software. I used GIMP, a free Photoshop like program, to manipulate "color balance" and "hue saturation" in order bring out the purples, greens, and blues in what was originally a clear, somewhat bland, die. I took the photo on a piece of felt with all the lights turned off in my house, using only the flash.
An 11 is not a great roll when you can get a 20, but the imperfect roll of the die, with the tantalizing prospect of seeing a perfect 20, makes this a meaningful image to me.
Aperature: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/125
ISO: 800
Auto Flash
Auto Focus
Focal Length: 55.0 mm
Raw to JPEG edited with GIMP
Original Photo: flic.kr/p/yJ6k8f
Detail of A Cultural Object (1985), by Dawn Scott, in the National Gallery of Jamaica; Kingston, Jamaica, 22 May, 2007
Been keeping an eye on this one for a few months now but took my eye off when David created a similar way to do these in G'MIC. Just found out about the beta and only now have a week to still play with it before the beta ends. Pretty much plan on getting this one regardless though since $15 isn't going to break the bank. lol
This one took around 2.08 minutes to render. :)
There's a place in South Yarra called Misty's Diner that sells what I gather is considered authentic American food. Naturally, it's a total hit amongst my friends, what with us tending toward the "robust", but my friend Brendan and I had never been. Until yesterday. I think I'm now addicted to Chil ... Via my Posterous blog, view the entry here