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The National Stadium (国家体育场), a.k.a Bird’s Nest (鸟巢), is a stadium at Olympic Green in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. The National Stadium, covering an area of 204,000 square meters with 91,000 capacity, broke ground in December 2003, officially started construction in March 2004, and was completed in June 2008.
Taken in May 2014.
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
Exposure: 70mm, 1/60 sec, f/8, ISO 125
Date: 2014-05-02 14:39:22 UTC+8
Process: 2024-05-02 23:24:19 UTC+8
Series: Forms, Architecture
GPS Altitude: 52.5 m Above Sea Level
GPS Date/Time: 2014-05-02 06:39:10Z
GPS Latitude: 39 deg 59' 29.89" N
GPS Longitude: 116 deg 23' 11.80" E
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Choreography of Lines in Red and White 紅白線舞 / Bird’s Nest, Beijing National Stadium, China. 鳥巢, 中國北京國家體育場 / SML.20140502.6D.31814
Emperor’s path to the Hall of Supreme Harmony with black and white edits to accentuate the dragon marble carvings.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM at Forbidden City, Beijing, China.
太和殿 Hall of Supreme Harmony / 中國北京紫禁城 Forbidden City, Beijing, China / SML.20140430.6D.31410.P1.BW
In Renaissance oil paintings there were often these magical cloudscape which seems out of this world, and yet nature presented itself as such outside my window yesterday. Stunning and majestic.
8 captures with the 6D + 24-70 handheld.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-08-27T18:41:29+0800
+ Dimensions: 8644 x 3897
+ Exposure: 1/80 sec at f/11
+ Focal Length: 70 mm
+ ISO: 320
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
+ Panorama FOV: 58 degree horizontal, 38 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Spherical
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'25" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Workflow: Autopango Giga 3, Lightroom 5
+ Serial: SML.20130827.6D.26923-SML.20130827.6D.26930-Pano.i8.58x38
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
黃昏雲霞 Sunset Cloudscape / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130827.6D.26923-SML.20130827.6D.26930-Pano.i8.58x38
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The night was calm and quiet, until I heard music which sounded like ice cream trucks coming and going everywhere. At first I thought that it was weird — why would they come at this hour? Apparently, those were garbage trucks! In Taiwan, they are equipped with speakers that play music to alert citizens to take out their trash. It was truly bizarre.
I had no tripod with me so I shot this two-image “pano” handheld at ISO 8000.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L. Processed in Lightroom 5 + Photoshop CC 2014 + Autopano Giga 3.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamsui_District
淡水夜全景 Tamsui Panorama at Night / 台灣台北 Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140212.6D.30717-SML.20140212.6D.30718-Pano.i2.C.L.P1.BW
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/ #淡水 #Tamsui #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #Pano #SMLPano
Situated around the parks are multitudes of these bird observation decks, which are essentially wooden huts fitted with telescopes and openings for photographers to fit their lenses and cameras. Spotted in the packs are 1Ds and 400mm f/2.8’s. These people mean serious business here.
I have done multi-strobes in the studio before [1], but mostly by moving my hands because I can see the results better in my head. But recently I saw a hyperrealist painting by 李永斌 Li Yongbin at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 [1], which depicts an artist’s face in multiple stages. I thought that it was interesting, so I created a series of self-portraits by moving my head around. Here is one such result.
Interestingly, the imperfect black canvas actually created a somewhat painterly effect which I liked — sometimes imperfection has its purpose, I guess?
Manual exposed at ISO 400, 104mm, f/7.1, 1.0 sec — when multi is at 10Hz you are effectively seeing 10 exposures of me in a single capture.
# Technical Info
+ Canon 580EX mounted on 6D set to manual 1/128 power and strobe at 1Hz.
+ Canon 430EX with umbrella on left hand side to slave and multi strobe with the 580EX.
+ Canon EOS 6D with EF 70-200 f/4L interval shooting with the Canon TC-80N3 remote.
# Notes
1. SML Flickr Tags: Multistrobe: flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/tags/multistrobe
2. “Painting by 李永斌 Li Yongbin: 臉 Face, 2006 (Acrylic on canvas)” / 程昕東国际当代艺术空间 Xin Dong Cheng Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13841: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8878283339/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-07-23T17:25:13+0800
+ Dimensions: 5472 x 3648
+ Exposure: 1.0 sec at f/7.1
+ Focal Length: 104 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Canon 580EX + Canon 430EX
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/4L USM
+ Accessories: Canon 580EX (hotshoe) + Canon 430EX (umbrella) + Canon TC-80N3 + Manfrotto tripods
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Workflow: Lightroom 5
+ Serial: SML.20130723.6D.21600.L1
+ Series: SML Me, SML Labs
Copyright See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
See also video interview with the artist (Flickr HD video).
Deadly Sins
A new collectible, slated to set the mark as an icon for the 22nd Century - collect all Seven Deadly Sins. Due out by December in an exclusive limited edition set.
Pure Products USA | Ligorano/Reese Collaboration in Art
Towards a Surreal Politik…
In 1992, we began Pure Products of America as a series of multiple editions focusing on the impact of marketing on politics. Over the past 17 years, the series has expanded and now includes 14 pieces running the gamut from snow globes to underwear (our underwear was the first to pack a political message), to happy meals.
Each object is signed and numbered in various sized editions. When we introduce Pure Products, we send some of them as gifts to government officials. Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton, members of the Supreme Court and various Senators and Congressional representatives have all received a pure product at one time or another.
Pure Products also function as discreet elements in installations. The installations The Bible Belt, Pillars of the Clean Order, and Steel Nipples incorporated them in sculptural settings with video and other media. In 2001, we expanded on this idea with the inauguration of an online retail website as part of the project.
Each piece is grounded within a framework that satirizes political values and, often, lampoons morality. Some pure products, like Line Up and Contract with America underwear, became media sensations, reported in the press, on television and radio. The commentary surrounding the artwork is a mixture of absurdity and culture jamming, amplifying how much the media interprets and misinterprets contemporary art and blurs the connections between art, activism and commerce.
ligoranoreese.net/pure-products-usa
Bio
NORA LIGORANO and MARSHALL REESE have collaborated together as Ligorano/Reese since the early 80’s. They use collaboration to blend diverse talents into a singular voice and vision. In the process of creating their work, their individual contributions cross and criss-cross between each other from brainstorming to realizing and making the art on location or in the studio.
They use unusual materials and industrial processes to make their limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations, moving easily from dish towels, underwear, and snow globes, to electronic art and computer controlled interactive installations.
They take and manipulate images, audio and text from old media: print, television, radio and combine that with the new: internet and mobile telecommunications. Their pursuit is an ongoing investigation into the impact of technology on culture and the associations and meanings that the media brings to images, language and speech in politics.
They have an interest with using open forms to involve community interaction, like their drawing contests, Crater Bay Area for the 01 Festival in San Jose and Crater New York at Location1. Installations that combine sculpture with public participation in drawing, within the context of a contest that is also streamed on the internet and in Second Life. Their ice sculptures, “Main Street Meltdown” and “The State of Things” share that same sense of open possibility, fusing natural processes of erosion and decay as flexible durations and markers to determine the experience of the work.
Many of their sculptures and installations reinterpret and reexamine older forms of technology - using objects that signify truth, authority and manifest cultural historicity. Ligorano/Reese use mirrors, clocks, metronomes and medieval codex bindings and combine them with video screens. They have invented micro-projection systems to display films on the head of a pin or the counterweight of a metronome.
Since 2004, they’ve investigated portraiture as a construct of social representation. Line Up (2004-5), their series of portraits of Bush administration officials in mug shot, acknowledges that the mug shot is the preeminent form of portraiture now that more people are incarcerated in the U.S. than any other country in the world. In December, 2007, the exhibition of these photos at the New York Public Library caused a firestorm of controversy with heavy rotation on FoxNews, DrudgeReport’s homepage and many, many other publications.
In 2001, they launched www.pureproductsusa.com, the online retail website for their infamous political art series the Pure Products of America. Since 1992, Ligorano/Reese have made 11 multiples in signed editions of 3 to 100. They are best selling editions at Printed Matter, artbook@ps1 and the New Museum store and have prompted, at least on one occasion, the RNC to threaten them with copyright infringement.
For more information see “The Joy of Collaborating: recipes for time-based art.”
Eyebeam Open Studios: Fall 2009
eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-fall-2009
Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design.
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Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Founded in 1996 and incorporated in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.
Since then, Eyebeam has supported more than 130 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists; we've run an active education program for youth, artists' professional development and community outreach; and have mounted an extensive series of public programs, over recent years approximately 4 exhibitions and 40 workshops, performances and events annually.
Today, Eyebeam offers residencies and fellowships for artists and technologists working in a wide range of media. At any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists and fellows onsite at Eyebeam's 15,000-square foot Chelsea offices and Labs, developing new projects and creating work for open dissemination through online, primarily open-source, publication as well as a robust calendar of public programming that includes free exhibitions, lectures and panels, participatory workshops, live performances and educational series.
I enjoy works which have multiple levels of reading — the macro view vs the micro views. For these kinds of captures, however, I have wished that I would have the tools which have a high enough resolution (detail) for both views to register.
From afar (or if you view the photo as a thumbnail), you should see some very abstract lines. There are horizontal lines running from top to bottom, large strokes which are left behind by ships. From left to right, there are curves which is a reflection of the water current, ever so slightly.
But as you look closer, you would see that there are some tiny lines which go across the the frame. There is a tiny figure on the lower left, which is in fact a person windsurfing on the surface. There is in fact another person windsurfing at the far end of the sea also.
At the macro level, you will see the reflected sun as molten silver, which is another level of reading.
The figures in this photographs are participants of an otherwise abstract image. If the windsurfers are the focus, I would have photographed him directly with a long lens, which you can in an earlier capture shot at 400mm [1].
Life action shots cannot really be tiled easily, so as much as I would have loved to shoot the whole image with a 400mm, it could not possibly register as a single continuous image. Maybe if I have an array of 400mm + cameras? Or maybe a large format can do. 20 years later when I have that budget, perhaps. For now, just this bit.
# Notes
1. 滑浪風帆 Windsurfing / 香港水上運動 Hong Kong Water Sports / SML.20130526.7D.42169: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9107548809/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-26T16:29:26+0800
+ Dimensions: 5472 x 3648
+ Exposure: 1/800 sec at f/9.0
+ Focal Length: 70 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'33" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Workflow: Lightroom 5, Photoshop CC
+ Serial: SML.20130526.6D.15016.P1.BW
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature, 抽象 Abstract, 形 Forms
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
水 Water / 自然抽象之形 Nature Abstract Forms / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130526.6D.15016.P1.BW
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #Seascape #windsurfing #sports
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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9709341714/sizes/o/ (5472 x 3648)
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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Chinese guardian lions, traditionally known in Chinese simply as Shi (獅, literally “lion”), are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. Statues of guardian lions have traditionally stood in front of important Chinese architectures, and were believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits.
The lions are usually depicted in pairs. When used as statuory, the pair would consist of a male resting his paw upon an embroidered ball (in imperial contexts, representing supremacy over the world) and a female restraining a playful cub that is on its back (representing nurture).
Pictured is one of the bronze guardian lions outside the Gate of Supreme Harmony (太和門), the second major gate encountered when entering the Forbidden City from the south.
Photographed at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_of_Supreme_Harmony
太和門青銅獅 Bronze guardian lion at the Gate of Supreme Harmony / 中國北京紫禁城 Forbidden City, Beijing, China / SML.20140430.6D.31382.P1.BW
The signage is split into two halves. On the left side of the panel shows where the train is at while the train is stopped (with a flashing bounding box), and when it's in motion, it displays the next stop. The name of the next 10 stops, in yellow, are displayed to the right of 'you are here sign post'. Each station name is accompanied with designation in green which shows the additional lines you can do an interchange. A red handicapped icon designate whether there it is a station equipped with accessibility access.
At the end of the right half of the panel shows the last stop of the train, and the LED displays loops through the rest of the stop in multiple of 10s, so you can get a glance of all the stops while keeping the display small enough so as not requiring an extra large panel for the longer lines.
See SML Pro Blog: New York City Subway LED Signage for complete description, photos and videos.
I have been experimenting with using my own photography as a source image to influence image generation with Stable Diffusion. seeminglee.com/blog/serenity-ai-purple/
The rationale behind this is straightforward — I have taken lots of photos over the years, but the conditions under which they were taken were not always ideal. Photography is subject to a myriad of influencing factors, and even with a specific vision in mind, nature may not cooperate to allow that vision to be captured perfectly. Similarly, the ideal setting we imagine might simply not exist in reality.
That’s where the power of AI comes in. I’ve discovered its phenomenal ability to materialize the concepts I feed into it. A potential point of contention is that since these images are AI-generated, they might be perceived as the product of AI rather than my own creativity. This viewpoint occasionally arises among those unfamiliar with AI work. I personally disagree, but I’ll reserve that discussion for a separate post.
Considering these images are the fusion of my original photographs and my descriptive text prompts, the notion that they’re devoid of human creative input seems baseless. As such, in my opinion, they are completely entitled to copyright protection.
I plan on experimenting this further, exploring diverse series and themes. My archive is filled with photographs that I find intriguing but seem to be missing that final touch to elevate them. I’m optimistic that by leveraging text prompts, I’ll be able to address these shortcomings and conceive new creations that blend my photography and the power of imaginative prompting.
1-9. Night Serenity 夜之寧
Stable Diffusion with SDXL, using my own photography as source image.
- 50 Steps, DPM++ 2S a Karras
- SDXL Base 1.0, SDXL VAE 1.0
- Automatic1111 Version: v1.6.0
10. 春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝 / 香港中文大學夜之寧 CUHK Night Serenity (60-sec LE) / SML.20130513.6D.06547
- Canon EOS 6D
- Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L
- Manfrotto tripod
- Remote release with Canon TC-80N3
- f/11, 24mm, 60 sec, ISO 100
I bought the 100-400 to photograph birds. Most of the time is waiting for them to do something interesting. Some people go fishing. I stand around all afternoon waiting for the birds to go fishing.
It’s harder than you think. Occasionally, I get lucky.
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
- Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
- Exposure: 400mm, 1/640 sec, f/8, ISO 320
- GPS: 22°23'25" N 114°12'3" E
- Location: Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong
- Date: 2013-08-09
Copyright 2013, 2024 See-ming Lee / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Caught Fish. Little Egret in Flight. Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong / SML.20130809.7D.49397
I am usually not a big fan of these typographic lightbulb installations. However, the installation seen here at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia works well with its environment, and establishes a bit of interaction with the bystanders.
“You imagine what you desire” is the title of the 19th Biennale of Sydney which was on view from March 21st til June 9th. I had a brief visit when they were still putting the show up and the works were quite good. I even saw some of these pieces shown there at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014 (to be posted).
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), 140 George St, The Rocks NSW 2000, Australia.
You imagine what you desire (art installation) / Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, Australia / SML.20140314.6D.30836.P1
Water hoses connecting fish tanks and the like are tied up and hung dried after a day of work. Not a whole lot can be said for these utilitarian items. I just like the lines and forms they have created with the surroundings.
Photographed at the fish market in Lau Fau Shan, Hong Kong (香港流浮山魚市場).
Isolated being after a day’s work / 香港流浮山魚市場之形 Fish Market’s Forms / SML.20131118.7D.51347
# 錢騁新 CHIN Chun-San, Francesca
Time Sculptor
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錢騁新 CHIN Chun-San, Francesca: Time Sculptor: Look 2 / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.17069
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Do artists adapt their language to suit the audience that they intended? Some apparently do. This is a large scale installation by Jaume Plensa, an Catalan Spanish artist and sculptor. Using stainless steel to string along latin alphabets to form human forms is a motif dominant in his sculpture works [1], but this might be the first instance of them in Asian characters.
Unlike latin characters which can form all kinds of different meanings just by the jumbling of a limited character set, seen here are a collages of selected scripts. Perhaps most bizarre though is that it features characters from both the Japanese Kanji to Japanese Kana, some simplified Chinese characters. I cannot read Japanese so I do not know if they say anything specific, But there are some recognisable characters, such as 時 (time), 建 (architecture), 男 (Men), 界 (world, division), 案 (document, project), 力 (strength).
Only the artist himself would know what all these mean to him, but being able to relate more succinctly to the works (which often feel alien to me because they reference cultures in another world) is very welcoming indeed.
Jaume Plensa (b. 1955)
Islands, 2012
Stainless steel and stone
Overall dimensions (as installed) 10.4 x 21 ft (3.2 x 6.4 m)
Comprised of 18 elements of varying sizes, including 3 figurative elements each approximately 41 x 34 x 20 inches (105 x 88 x 52 cm)
沙瑪•帕蘭沙 (生於 1955)
島嶼, 2012
不銹鋼及石頭
總體積 (安置後) 10.4 x 21 英尺 (3.2 x 6.4 米)
共18個不同體積之組元 包括3個比瑜性組元
每個約 41 x 34 x 20 寸 (105 x 88 x 52 厘米)
# Notes
1. Jaume Plensa: Sculptures: jaumeplensa.com/web/index.php/works-and-projects/sculptur...
# Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b.1955) is one of the world's foremost sculptors working in the public space, with over 30 projects spanning the globe in such cities as Chicago, Dubai, London, Liverpool, Nice, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Over the past 25 years, the artist has produced a rich body of work in the studio and the public realm. By combining conventional sculptural materials (glass, steel, bronze, aluminum) with more unconventional media (water, light, sound, video), and frequently incorporating text, Plensa creates hybrid works of intricate energy and psychology. From his delicately textured, intimate works on paper—like his 2005-06 series of ethnographic portraits that resemble worn, 19th century photographs—to monumental outdoor sculptures like Nomade (2007) and a range of cityscape-altering public projects like the Crown Fountain in Chicago (2000-05), Plensa's work takes many forms.
Plensa's work is invested in evoking emotion and stimulating intellectual engagement. By posing conceptual dualities in his work (inside/outside, front/back, light/dark), Plensa seeks to connect with his viewers on an intuitive level. Often, the viewer participation, or the object/viewer relationship, is what completes Plensa's work.
The winner of many national and international awards, Jaume Plensa has had solo exhibitions at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Spain; the Musée Picasso, Antibes, France; the Arts Club of Chicago; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid and Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris among many others. He lives and works in Barcelona
www.richardgraygallery.com/artists/jaume-plensa/
+ Jaume Plensa (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʒawmə ˈpɫɛnsə]) (b. 1955 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Catalan Spanish artist and sculptor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume_Plensa
# Richard Gray Gallery
Founded in 1963. Specializing in contemporary art and European and American modern master paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
1018 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10075
USA
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:00:37+0800
+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 174 mm
+ ISO: 4000
+ 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.13867
+ 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
“Installation by Jaume Plensa (b. 1955): Islands, 2012. (stainless steel and stone)” / Richard Gray Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13867
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# Vincent Lam (LAM Chong Yu)
Tonatiuh
lamchongyu@gmail.com
+852 6331 6191
# Sponsors
+ Pine Hover Ltd.
+ Winning Textile Co. Ltd.
+ UPW
+ Jetco Zipper
+ Long Tai Hong (Holding) Limited
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Vincent Lam (LAM Chong Yu): Tonatiuh: Look 1 / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.16856
The boys (and some girls) are out for dragon boat practice this afternoon. These athletes appear to be in significantly better shape then the other university teams I have been spotting, so I looked them up.
Turns out that 貴良龍 is the the part of the official dragon boat team of the Hong Kong Police Force, and its team members come from all ranks and departments, though most of them are part of the Hong Kong Marine Region.
The name 貴良龍, as with the rest of the six dragon boats which make up of the team, is named after retired police commissioners.
Also of note which is dissimilar to the other teams I have seen so far is the fact that they wear gloves to sail, as I gathered they must thrust quite vigorously.
I can’t wait til the festival starts this year, which should be fairly soon in June. I was told that I should be able to see the contest outside my window. Stay tuned.
# References
1. 香港警察龍舟會（英文：Hong Kong Police Dragon Boat Club）於2002年成立，是香港警務處的官方龍舟隊伍，是香港龍舟協會的屬會成員。香港警察龍舟會的成員來自各個香港警察部門及職級，當中又以水警總區人員為主。香港警察龍舟會主席為警務處高級助理處長卓振賢博士，副主席為女性警司邱倩雯。
除了於端午節當日或者前後所舉辦的比賽，香港警察龍舟會亦會派遣隊伍於香港、中國大陸及海外參與。
至2012年，香港警察龍舟會總共有6艘龍舟，可以供予會員練習之用。6艘龍舟各有功能，同時各有名字；當中4艘（學林龍、貴良龍、慕絲龍及綺蘿龍，全部為退休警官名稱）屬於小型，兩艘（五周年紀念龍和富利龍）屬於中型。
zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/香港警察龍舟會
2. The Hong Kong Police Force (香港警務處, HKPF; HKP), also known as the Hong Kong Police, is the largest disciplined service under the Security Bureau of Hong Kong. It is the world's second, and Asia's first, police agency to operate with a modern policing system. It was formed on 1 May 1844, with a strength of 32 officers. Queen Elizabeth II granted the Royal Charter to the Hong Kong Police Force in 1969 for their handling of the Hong Kong 1967 riots—renaming them: the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. Following the transfer of sovereignty, the Force is once again named the Hong Kong Police Force. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Police_Force
3. 香港警務處（副名香港警察；英文：Hong Kong Police Force，縮寫：HKPF，英文副名：Hong Kong Police，副名縮寫：HKP）是香港特別行政區保安局轄下編制最龐大的紀律部隊及香港特別行政區政府轄下編制最龐大的的部門，於1844年5月1日成立，為世界之次及亞洲之首個以現代警察制度運作的警察機關；於1969年，獲得英女皇賜封皇家名銜，從而成為皇家香港警務處（副名：皇家香港警察隊；英文：Royal Hong Kong Police Force，縮寫：RHKPF），為英聯邦5支獲得賜封的警察隊之一，直至1997年香港主權移交，除去皇冠封號。
香港警務處有近170年的專業經驗，規模廉潔、警察力量規模龐大、高度效率及破案率，於1960年代開始，被國際、亦被國際刑警評定為亞洲最佳警隊，為世界上最優秀及專業的警察機構之一。香港警務處是香港政府的最後可依賴力量（Agency of Last Resort），於香港境內及外全天候為香港社會服務，為香港治安及社會穩定，奠定基礎。
# SML Data
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+ Focal Length: 400 mm
+ ISO: 125
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°25'11" N 114°13'20" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 中國香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130518.7D.41823
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 體育 Sports, 男 Men
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“貴良龍” / 香港警察龍舟會 Hong Kong Police Dragon Boat Club / 香港水上體育運動 Hong Kong Water Sports / SML.20130518.7D.41823
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www.rabbitholestudio.com/gallery/
Underground
The Fall 2009 Emerging Artists Show
September 25 - October 28, 2009
Opening Reception
Friday September 25, 2009, 5-9pm
On view: Mon-Fri 1-6p and by Appointment
RABBITHOLESTUDIO is pleased to present Underground: the Fall 2009 Emerging Artists Show, featuring the work of 16 new talents across a diverse range of painting, drawing, photography and mixed media. Explored are the layers beneath the physical and non-physical surface, the porous, unpredictable home of ontological curiosity, dark visions and fragments of the unconscious.
+ Louise Barry
+ Lindsay Chandler
+ Carrie Christian
+ Lindsay Comstock
+ Heather Culp
+ Amanda Dandeneau
+ Michael Dickey
+ Samantha French
+ Jae Kyung Kim
+ Caroline McAuliffe
+ Rachel Meuler
+ Jungmin Park
+ R Wayne Reynolds
+ Yunfan Sun
+ Margaret Inga Wiatrowski
+ Joshua Zucker-Pluda
With a hull length of 820 ft (250 m), the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) amphibious assault ship [1] is gigantic when compared to the green and white Star Ferry [2], which is a passenger ferry service with its principal routes across Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong.
# Notes
1. Wikipedia: EN: USS Peleliu (LHA-5): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Peleliu_(LHA-5)
2. Wikipedia: EN: Star Ferry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ferry
# SML Data
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+ Focal Length: 100 mm
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+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°17'41" N 114°10'3" E
+ Location: 中國香港九龍尖沙咀海港城 Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
+ Subject: USS Peleliu (LHA-5) + Star Ferry at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130418.6D.01867
+ Series: Photojournalism
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“大巫見小巫: 美國軍艦與天星小輪 Big Daddy + Mini Me: US Assault Ship vs Star Ferry” / USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong / SML.20130418.6D.01867
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
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Girl power—Kendo (剣道 kendō) makes its mark in womenswear in this look, complete with Koi 錦鯉（ニシキゴイ）prints and mini-skirt “flap” details.
(I’m not a fashion designer, so please excuse my silly interpretation)
# LEUNG Shuk Han, Stella
Kyotokyo
shukhan0126@hotmail.com
+852 9201 5598
# Sponsors
+ Colorway Graphics Limited
+ Numb
+ Long Tai Hong (Holding) Limited
# SML Data
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+ Dimensions: 3177 x 4766
+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 260 mm
+ ISO: 3200
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" 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.20130626.6D.16779
+ Series: PolyU Fashion Show 2013, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
LEUNG Shuk Han, Stella: Kyotokyo: Look 3 / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.16779
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When you are driving, it is hard to see the speed limits. But traffic signs in Hong Kong are often placed on the ground. They are vertically scaled to match the eyesight of the driver.
These speed limits signage are seen on 西沙路 Sai Sha Road in 馬鞍山 Ma On Shan, a road in Hong Kong, which links together from Sai Kung District to Sha Tin District in the New Territories.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Sha_Road
# SML Data
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+ Exposure: 1/640 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 280 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'15" N 114°13'36" E
+ Altitude: 17.3 m
+ Serial: SML.20130303.7D.24958
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms
“50 / 50 / Maybe” / 人流指示之形 Human Logistics Signage Forms / SML.20130303.7D.24958
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #街 #Street #指示 #Signage
See SML Triptych (Flickr set) for the full collection. This was produced at 1920x1080 for HDTV use :)
# LIU Chun Ki
Dasein
lck_25@yahoo.com.hk
+852 5132 7223
# Sponsors
+ Hale Textile Ltd.
+ Novetex Textiles Limited
+ Winning Textile Co. Ltd
+ Long Tai Hong (Holding) Limited
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
LIU Chun Ki: Dasein: Look 6 / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.16970
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The serenity series are mostly photographs taken outside my window. It is the same exact view, but the scenery changes quite often—drama by nature!
The cloudscape at sunset this evening is simply too incredible not to capture it—nature never repeats itself so if I don’t do it today there will be no tomorrow to capture the same thing. Just wow! A panorama is currently being processed to show the full view. But since I already have a wide angle shot, I generally like to also do the detail view—with only the essence.
# SML Translate: 藍空看黃昏 雲海錦西山
+ 藍: blue.
+ 空: sky.
+ 看: view.
+ 黃昏: yellow sunset.
+ 雲: cloud.
+ 海: sea (describes vastness of clouds).
+ 錦: brocade (describes thickness of clouds).
+ 西: west (directional).
+ 山: mountain.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-02T18:13:38.00+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 70 mm
+ ISO: 125
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'25" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130402.7D.37459
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“藍空看黃昏 雲海錦西山” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130402.7D.37459
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape #天 #空 #Sky
(ABHK B-Reel)
At first I did not notice the humanoid in red jeans with a scruffy beard. I was all too focused on the installation hanging from the ceiling made with mirrors and wires.
But the sculpture was small—so small that I moved closed enough to examine further. But then within my wide angle lens came a pretty face who asked if I am interested in the work.
There is quite a bit of charm in finding a well-dressed, good-looking, soft-spoken, and intellectual cuteness within all the insanity at an art fair. I supposed this is why girls love going to galleries?
I never exchanged contact information with him. But as you can see, I do know where he works now, so it should not be too hard for me to locate him in the future. Perhaps when I am in Denmark for vacation I will give him a hola — after all, they do show truly brilliant works.
(to be continued…)
# Andersen’s Contemporary
Amager Strandvej 50B
2300 Copenhagen
Denmark
# SML Data
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+ Dimensions: 3264 x 3264
+ Exposure: 1/50 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" 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.14279.SQ
+ Series: SML Ideal Husbands, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Fine Art + Fine Men: Gallerist at Andersen’s Contemporary in Copenhagen / SML Ideal Husbands at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14279.SQ
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Forms in space with lines and curves of the shot put circle at the Ma On Shan Sports Ground in Hong Kong.
# SML Data
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+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 121 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'17" N 114°13'43" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆康街1號馬鞍山運動場 中国香港马鞍山恒康街1号马鞍山运动场 Ma On Shan Sports Ground, 1 Hang Hong Road, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130221.7D.23986
+ Series: 形 Forms, 體育 Sports, 界 Division
“鉛球之圓 Shot Put’s Circle” / 體育運動指示形之界 Sports Signage Forms Division / SML.20130303.7D.25336
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I dread it when people ask me what I photograph, because I don’t really photograph anything particular that is deemed interesting to normal humans.
This is Hong Chong Road (康莊道), a road next to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel (海底隧道) in Hung Hom (紅磡). Far in the background is Hotel ICON (唯港薈), which is the teaching and research hotel built for The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM 酒店及旅遊業管理學院) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) [1].
I photograph this because I like how the lines lead the eye through the frame. This is for my 中文字形 Chinese Typographic Forms series, where I find Chinese characters in a frame after noting that the concept of 形 Forms is not readily appreciated by the Chinese audience but they can relate to Chinese characters.
# SML Translate: 央
+ noun: center, middle.
+ verb: beg. (I know, Chinese is weird like that)
# Notes
1. Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel and Tourism Management: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hotel_and_Tourism_Management
# SML Data
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+ Exposure: 1/800 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°18'10" N 114°10'48" E
+ Location: 香港理工大學 Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130425.6D.02966
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms, 中文字形 Chinese Typographic Forms (ZhTypography)
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“央” / 香港理工大學與人流建築中文字形 Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) and Human Logistics Chinese Typographic Forms (ZhTypography) / SML.20130425.6D.02966
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Born Ralf Winkler in Dresden, Germany in 1939, A.R. Penck is the pseudonym for the artist, a name he used as he attempted to go under the radar to exhibit his artworks for the international audience while being actively pursued by the East Germany communist regime. His relationship with Galerie Michael Werner is significant, as it was this gallery where Penck would have his first public one-man show in 1969.
Penck’s paintings are known by its flat and pictographic imagery of human figures seen in Egyptian hieroglyphs—what the critics called “neo-primitivist”—and other totemic forms. His early works suggest influence from Picasso, but having been turned down by academies in Dresden and East Berlin in his academic years, his work is different than those with more formal attitudes.
Besides art, Penck also has his love for jazz music. A keen drummer, he took every opportunity to play with the best jazz musicians of the late 1980s. His love for music has obvious influence, as his paintings also often feature lively improvisation of forms and compositions.
A.R. Penck lives and works in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and New York.
A.R. Penck
City of Memories, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
63 x 78 3/4 inches
160 x 200 cm
# A.R. Penck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Penck
www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4546
# Michael Werner Gallery
4 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10075
USA
22 Upper Brook Street
London W1K 7PZ
United Kingdom
# SML Data
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+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 36 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ 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.13897
+ 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
“Painting by A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler): City of Memories, 2005 (Acrylic on canvas)” / Michael Werner Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13897
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British artist Michael Price spent seven years researching the techniques of pigment preparation from the Renaissance masters and prepares natural pigments from minerals. Azurite gets separated into different particle sizes to reveal different hues of blue which possesses quality far superior to modern-day synthetic pigments.
Taken during a visit to Michael Price's studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn NYC.
Marina Abramović
Golden Mask, 2009
framed chromogenic print
print: 50 x 50 inches (127 x 127 cm)
framed: 52 x 52 inches (132.1 x 132.1 cm)
edition of 9 with 2 APs
Inv# MA-218
Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th Street, New York, NY
+++
Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since the beginning of her career, during the early 1970s where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramović has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden, Abramović created some of the most historic early performance pieces and continues to make important durational works.
Abramović has presented her work with performances, sound, photography, video, sculpture and Transitory Objects for Human and Non Human Use in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe. Her work has also been included in many large-scale international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1976 and 1997) and Documenta VI, VII and IX, Kassel, Germany (1977, 1982 and 1992). In 1998, the exhibition Artist Body - Public Body toured extensively, including stops at Kunstmuseum and Grosse Halle, Bern and La Gallera, Valencia. In 2004, Abramović also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York and had a significant solo show, The Star, at the Maruame Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.
Abramović has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America. In 1994 she became Professor for Performance Art at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig where she taught for seven years. In 2004 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Art Institute in Chicago.
She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her extraordinary video installation/performance piece Balkan Baroque‚ and in 2003 received the Bessie for The House with the Ocean View‚ a 12-day performance at Sean Kelly Gallery.
In 2005, Abramović presented Balkan Erotic Epic at the Pirelli Foundation in Milan, Italy and at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. That same year, she held a series of performances called Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She was honored for Seven Easy Pieces by the Guggenheim at their International Gala in 2006 and by the AICA USA with the "Best Exhibition of Time Based Art" award in 2007. Abramović's work is included in numerous major public and private collections worldwide. She will be the subject of a major retrospective at the MoMA - The Artist is Present - from March 14 through May 31, 2010.
Marina Abramović lives and works in New York.
www.skny.com/artists/marina-abramovi/
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The Armory Show 2010
The Armory Show is the United States’ leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.
The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show – Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 4–7, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.
Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC
March 4-7, 2010
eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-fall-2009
Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design.
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Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Founded in 1996 and incorporated in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.
Since then, Eyebeam has supported more than 130 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists; we've run an active education program for youth, artists' professional development and community outreach; and have mounted an extensive series of public programs, over recent years approximately 4 exhibitions and 40 workshops, performances and events annually.
Today, Eyebeam offers residencies and fellowships for artists and technologists working in a wide range of media. At any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists and fellows onsite at Eyebeam's 15,000-square foot Chelsea offices and Labs, developing new projects and creating work for open dissemination through online, primarily open-source, publication as well as a robust calendar of public programming that includes free exhibitions, lectures and panels, participatory workshops, live performances and educational series.
(B/W edit)
This is one of Chiang’s official state cars, donated by overseas Chinese in the Philippines. The 1955 GM-manufactured Cadillac is a four-door, seven-seat limousine that measures 610 (L) x 200 (W) x 163 (H) cm and weighs three tons. It is fitted with bulletproof glass and other security measures. Chiang, however, only used the vehicle once.
In countries that have indigenous automobile manufacturers, the government will usually commission one of the national automakers to provide a state car, or allow several to provide cars for an official state fleet. That the Taiwanese government picked something from an American manufacturer certainly shows the intimate relationship between the US and Taiwan.
Also of note is the car plate, which reads 0888. In Chinese language, the number 8 sounds similar to the word for abundance and good fortune, and is often the preferred number used for car plates, street numbers, cell phone numbers, etc.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_state_car
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Chiang_Kai-shek_Memorial_Hall
蔣中正總統座車 Chiang’s official state car / 中正紀念堂 Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall / 台灣台北 Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140213.6D.30806.P1.L2.BW
/ #台灣 #臺灣 #Taiwan #台北 #Taipei #TW #SMLTravel #旅遊 #旅游 #Travel #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #cars #Cadillac #security #government #GM
I have always wanted to take photographs of the moon, but I think that my lenses are just not long enough. Every telephoto beyond the 400mm range are all > US$10,000+ — where do people get that kind of dough to buy those lenses? I can’t quite justify that yet. I wish that Hong Kong has a place for lens rentals. There must be something like this here. Or maybe in mainland China?
# SML Translate: 藍空掛白月 雲澌獨自寧
+ 藍: Blue.
+ 空: Air, sky.
+ 掛: Hang, hook. Metaphor for the moon floating in air.
+ 白: White.
+ 月: Moon.
+ 雲: Clouds.
+ 澌: Disappeared.
+ 獨: alone.
+ 自: by oneself.
+ 寧: Serenity.
+ 藍空掛白月 雲澌獨自寧: The moon floats by itself in a clear blue sky without clouds and finds serenity on its own. (It contains an autobiographical suggestion where I generally prefer not interfacing with humans and that I find comfort being on my own)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-22 17:17:33 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3376 x 5064
+ Exposure: 1/640 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 280 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'8" N 114°13'35" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山遊樂場 中国香港马鞍山游乐场 Ma On Shan Recreation Ground, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130222.7D.24506
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“藍空掛白月 雲澌獨自寧” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130222.7D.24506
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #自然 #Nature #藍 #Blue #天 #空 #Sky #月 #Moon
Todd Lehman
Ancient Silence No. 3
Oil on paper
21" x 17", 2009
Todd Lehman – Artist Statement
Nineteenth-century English critic Walter Pater said that all art aspires to be music. More recently, in a ''New York Times'' interview, Spanish painter Antoni Tapies said, "One should compare modern art to music." Who can argue with that? Abstract painting then is about visual noise and energy-and about the beauty of silence-all of which are certainly related to music.
While I sometimes work on large canvases, I prefer the hard surface of paper and often collage newspaper or various handmade papers, including rice papers, into a painting. Tools? Brushes, of course, but also a variety of scraping and scratching tools.
What inspires my paintings? Two things-landscape and architecture. Well, maybe three things. The energy of New York City is inescapable. We New Yorkers are addicted to the visual noise and drive of the city, but for obvious reasons we relish moments of solitude and meditation. So my paintings are sometimes like a raucous traffic jam, other times like the quiet of a leaf falling in a Japanese garden. They are the pages of a visual autobiography.
I have always enjoyed the moment right after the rain. Water drops attached to all the plants, leaving a bit of shiny coating while water drops are found everywhere, giving a bit of life to all the botany around the neighborhood. The water drops add a bit of tension to an otherwise still capture. It is almost dropping—but not quite. It suggests motion while sitting still. In many ways, that water drop is like me stuck in some boring meetings—luckily that does not happen much anymore now that I only work on things which I love. :)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-31T15:49:48.05+0800
+ Dimensions: 3456 x 5184
+ Exposure: 1/60 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 196 mm
+ ISO: 3200
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'37" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山西沙路 Sai Sha Road, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130331.7D.37336
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 自然 Nature, 形 Forms
“雨後一滴水 Water drop after the rain” / 自然之形 Nature Forms / SML.20130331.7D.37336
/ #自然 #Nature #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #植物 #Plants #綠 #green #葉 #叶 #leaf #水 #Water
Miroslav Olsak (Number 4) from the Hong Kong Falcon Football Club sitting by the sides of the soccer pitch for his turn to play. Originally from Zlín (Czech Republic), he is the winger for the team [1].
# Notes
1. Hong Kong Falcon Football Club: 4. Miroslav Olsak: Born in 1976 (age 36) from Zlin, Czech Republic.
www.hkfalconfc.com/?tb_player=miroslav-olsak
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-28T19:41:14+0800
+ Dimensions: 5325 x 3550
+ Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/4.5
+ Focal Length: 120 mm
+ ISO:1250
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°25'15" N 114°13'41" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆康街1號馬鞍山運動場 中国香港马鞍山恒康街1号马鞍山运动场 Ma On Shan Sports Ground, 1 Hang Hong Road, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130428.6D.03359
+ Series: 體育 Sports, 男 Men, Photojournalism
“HKF 4: Miroslav Olsak” / Sunday League: Hong Kong Falcon vs Paulista / 香港足球 Hong Kong Football (Soccer) / SML.20130428.6D.03596
/ #Photojournalism #體育 #体育 #Sports #男 #Men #SMLMen #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #足球 #Football #Soccer #HongKongFalcon #Paulista #MiroslavOlsak #Nike #Adidas
An extreme close-up of the camouflaged naval officer courtesy of the 100-400.
His carbine is loaded, but I am not sure why it was taped together with masking tape. At 400mm, I noted that he is married, as a silver wedding ring is on his left hand holding the massive gun.
Interestingly I note that his pants are either button-flied or ripped. If you look at full resolution you can see the torn stitches so I think that they are ripped. I do like these boots though. Note that the ties are completely concealed inside. Also, apparently the US Navy uses Motorola radios.
Photographed at ISO 12800 + 400mm: and you see why this recent purchase was a very sound decision indeed. It really is great for photojournalism uses.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-18T17:34:35+0800
+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472
+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 400 mm
+ ISO: 12800
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°17'41" N 114°9'60" E
+ Location: 中國香港九龍尖沙咀海港城 Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
+ Subject: US Navy Officer, USS Peleliu (LHA-5), United States Navy
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130418.6D.01504
+ Series: Photojournalism, 男 Men
“These boots are made for walking” / 持槍武裝美國海軍 Armed camouflaged US Navy / USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong / SML.20130418.6D.01504
/ #Photojournalism #男 #Men #SMLMen #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Marines #USS #Peleliu #LHA6 #mil #military #guns #NavySeals #boots #camouflage
The National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine (國民革命忠烈祠) is considered a must-see attraction for visitors to Taiwan. It was built to honor the 390,000 Chinese soldiers killed during the Xinhai Revolution, Northern Expedition, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, and the First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises.
The ceremonial changing of the guards, seen here, occurs every hour. The military officers stand still until they are replaced in the next hour.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40 f/L USM. Processed in Lightroom 5.
# More Information
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Revolutionary_Martyrs'_Shrine
國民革命忠烈祠儀隊交接儀式 Changing of the Guards at the National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine / 台灣台北 Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140211.6D.30702.SQ
/ #台灣 #臺灣 #Taiwan #台北 #Taipei #SMLTravel #旅遊 #旅游 #Travel #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #男 #Men #SMLMen #人 #people #兵 #soldier #軍 #military
Interesting forms where building collide.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-10 15:50:01 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5099 x 3399
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 240 mm
+ ISO: 640
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°16'52" N 114°13'22" E
+ Location: 中國香港西灣河筲箕灣道與海寧街交界 中国香港西湾河筲箕湾道与海宁街交界 Intersection at Shau Kei Wan Road and Hai Ning Street, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130210.7D.21906.P1
+ Series: 形 Forms, 抽象 Abstracts
“金寶大廈 Golden Mansion + 協青社賽馬曾大樓 Youth Outreach Jockey Club Building” / 城市建築抽象之形 Urban Architecture Abstract Forms / SML.20130210.7D.21906.P1
/ #形 #Forms #SMLForms #抽象 #Abstracts #SMLAbstracts #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #西灣河 #SaiWanHo #建築 #建筑 #architecture #街 #Street #攝影 #摄影 #photography
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)
Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards
"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.
Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."
Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.
Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.
Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.
Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Not mine. I was just photographing Nicolai Howalt's gigantic print at the Silverstein Gallery. It's also not the complete frame of his work because I was shooting with my 24-70 f2.8L and it's not wide enough.
In any case, it's obvious that I dig these studies!
www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/4613
Bruce Silverstein presents Car Crash Studies, a thought provoking photographic study of cars that have been involved in severe and potentially fatal accidents. The series moves between documentation and abstraction. While the car crash studies are typographical in nature, seeming in some instances to be closer to sterile accident report photographs, the subject matter most obviously begs the viewer to confront the human fear of trauma and death.
Although Car Crash Studies is specifically based on cars that have been involved in accidents, Howalt's works rather attempt to portray an abstract, mental state, namely the duality we feel in relation to accidents or catastrophes when experienced from a distance - as spectators. The exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery thus approaches classical themes, but in contemporary interpretation.
Left: Twinkle Skirt by Diana Eng
LED circuits are hand embroidered with silverized thread and a custom sewable circuit board Twinkle Pad, developed specially for the Fairytale Fashion Collection.
Right: Cameo by Diana Eng
Peach silk organza edged with electroluminescent wire. Circuit boards are housed in 3-D printed Cameo.
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Fairytale Fashion Show
2010-02-24
7pm - 9pm
Eyebeam
Diana Eng presented the Fairytale Fashion Collection in a technology fashion show on Wed., February 24, 7PM, at Eyebeam. Models hit the runway while an orchestra of circuit bending DJ’s create music from hacked video game consoles.
The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an educational tool that teaches about science, math, and technology through fashion. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by mechanical engineering. She is a designer from Bravo’s Emmy nominated TV show, Project Runway season 2 and author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Diana is cofounder of NYC Resistor hacker group. Diana is currently a resident artist at Eyebeam.
Mixed media paintings by Dean Russo (Facebook). Photographed inside the artist's studio during Dumbo Art Festival in 2009.
Dean Russo on the Web
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Buses in Hong Kong serve an important function—it transports people traveling long distances between remote areas and downtown. Although the metro (MTR) is fast, it is also very crowdy. The last thing you want after a day of work is stand inside a compressed train being pushed around.
Pictured is a bus terminal located in Central, the financial district in Hong Kong. It is situated at the ground level of Exchange Square, the building which also houses the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A time lapse video of this area can be seen earlier in the stream [1].
This 360-degree panorama was stitched together using 15 captures on the 6D + 17-40 f/4L mounted on the Manfrotto 303SPH. Many people walked by as I was photographing this, but you do not really see them as this was shot with a relatively long exposure. I do this intentionally to hide the identity of the pedestrians.
# Notes
1. 香港中環 Hong Kong Central / 人流 Human Logistics 延時攝影 Time Lapse Photography / SML.20130717.6D.20604-SML.20130717.6D.21 490-TL
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9328613536/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-07-17T19:21:35+0800
+ Dimensions: 18332 x 5467
+ Exposure: 0.8 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ Accessories: Manfrotto 303 SPH pano head, Canon TC-80N3, Manfrotto tripod
+ Panorama FOV: 360 degree horizontal, 95 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Cylindrical
+ GPS: 22°17'3" N 114°9'28" E
+ Location: 香港中環交易廣場巴士總站 Exchange Square Bus Terminal, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3, Lightroom 5
+ Serial: SML.20130717.6D.21492-SML.20130717.6D.21506-Pano.i15.360x95.Cylindrical.BW
+ Series: 人流 Human Logisitics, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
交易廣場巴士總站 Exchange Square Bus Terminal / 香港中環人流全景 Hong Kong Central Human Logistics Panorama / SML.20130717.6D.21492-SML.20130717.6D.21506-Pano.i15.360x95.Cylindrical.BW
/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #全景 #Pano #Panorama #SMLPano #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #中環 #Central #Urban #city #people