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The Hong Kong Museum of Art (香港藝術館) is the main art museum of Hong Kong [1]. It was originally established as the City Hall Museum and Art Gallery at the City Hall in Central in 1962 before moving to its present location at 10 Salisbury Road in 1991.
Unlike almost all art museums int the world, the Hong Kong Museum of Art does not take donation—a fact which I thought was somewhat bizarre. When I lived in New York, the annual tax-deductible membership to MoMA and the Whitney is part of my yearly expenses. When I went to the Hong Kong Museum of Art and paid for my annual membership, it was 100 HKD (~13 USD) which is a far cry from the 250 USD which I am used to. I asked the woman if they have other perhaps “patron level membership levels” and she looked at me oddly with a blank stare.
The permanent collections include many Chinese traditional landscape paintings (山水畫) as well as artworks by local artists. The landscape paintings in particular had much impact on my current photography work as it was from there that I learned the concept of 人氣, the presence of humans—no matter how small—to breathe life in otherwise cold compositions.
# Notes
1. Hong Kong Museum of Art: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Museum_of_Art
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-26T22:48:25+0800
+ Dimensions: 3526 x 5138
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.5
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 12800
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°17'37" N 114°10'19" E
+ Location: 香港九龍尖沙咀梳士巴利道10號香港藝術館 Hong Kong Museum of Art, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130426.6D.03246.BW
+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“香港藝術館 Hong Kong Museum of Art” / 香港文化建築夜之形 Hong Kong Cultural Architecture Night Forms / SML.20130426.6D.03246.BW
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #尖沙咀 #TsimShaTsui #夜 #Night #城市 #Urban
The first time I saw this I wanted to photograph it, but I don’t know how. I usually walk by this place on my way home. It is not really one of these things where I would lug my tripod with me really.
So what’s different now? Usable ISO 12800 on the 6D! I have repeated many times that you do not need an expensive camera to do photography, but for some shots you do need the right tools for it. In most cases a point and shoot will suffice. But for extreme cases like this even the 7D’s ISO 3200 will not cut it.
A generous amount of luminance noise reduction has been applied in Lightroom—but not really out of the ordinary. The 6D sensor is quite good really. This camera really does magic. Very happy with it so far—not to mention not having to lug the GP-E2 to get GPS readings. Less attachment, quicker snap.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-16T20:30:15+0800
+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472
+ Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 208 mm
+ ISO: 12800
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'14" N 114°13'38" 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.20130416.6D.00804.BW
+ Series: 體育 Sports, 建築 Architecture
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“球場燈光 Stadium Lights” / 香港體育建築 Hong Kong Sports Architecture / SML.20130416.6D.00804.BW
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Matthew Borgatti (Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / Twitter / Vimeo) at the Eyebeam Open Studios Fall 2009, a biennial event in New York City celebrating the synergy between art + technology. Matthew graduated from RISD in 2007 majoring in industrial design. You can check out his portfolio at sinbox.org
Biography
Matthew Borgatti was born with a painfully overactive imagination, grew up a perfectionist and will probably die on a runaway carnival ride. He went to the Rhode Island School of Design and took summers off to build movie monsters in Burbank beginning with Snakes on a Plane and working his way through Aliens VS Predator II: Requiem. After graduating with his degree in Industrial design he moved out to California to make his fortune. Although this didn't exactly work out he spent his time there interning at Instructables, building boats for Makani Power, publishing a book called Show Me How, running industrial robots for a show called Prototype This! and helping everyone from independent inventors developing their first product to artists working on giant sculptures for Burning Man through Instinct Engineering. He once wore a tshirt so witty that people thought he was both sarcastic and sincere at the same time. The paradox stretched the fabric of spacetime so thin that he was able to high five himself. He's currently working at Eyebeam, developing prototypes for and directing the filming of Diana Eng's project Fairytale Fashion.
Video interview
02. Projects
03. Public Collaboration + Feedback
Fairytale Fashion
Diana Eng: As a fashion designer who works with science and technology, I've learned about some really amazing things. I've had some great experiences as a designer: sitting front row at fashion week, working at various fashion companies, researching at the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Dept., being a designer on Project Runway, working in Victoriai's Secret Research and Development department, and co-founding NYC Resistor hacker group. When I was a little girl, I wish that my friends and I knew about some of the things I know today. We would have loved to play with them. Dress-up with super sparkling LED's. Imagining worlds made of deployable structures. I want to share all of the neat things I've learned, because no matter what your age, science and technology are always fun to play with.
You may not be able to sew or solder or draft a pattern or program a microcontroller. But that's okay because Fairytale Fashion is about imagining the possibilities. I will be trying my best to make them happen.
Fairytale Fashion is produced with the support of Eyebeam.
Diana Eng
Resident, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by the mechanical engineering of biomimetics. In 2005, she was a designer on Season Two of the Emmy nominated hit TV show, Project Runway. She won Yahoo Hack Day in 2006 along with her two-team mates for designing and creating a blogging purse in less than 24 hours. She has worked as an assistant designer in research and development at Victoria’s Secret. She is the author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Her work has been featured in exhibits both in the U.S. and internationally around the globe, and has graced the pages of such publications as Women’s Wear Daily, Wired, Craft Magazine, and the cover of ID Magazine. Diana currently designs in the NYC fashion industry and is a founding member of Brooklyn based hacker group NYC Resistor.
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.
Telephoto lenses have an amazing way of compressing distances, and you can see this fairly well with this capture.
These are street lights on the highway near the Hong Kong International Airport leading to Terminal 1. On the far side is the ocean and mountains which are approximately 3 km (10k ft) away, but they appear fairly close by because it was shot with the 100-400 at 310mm with the 7D = 496mm on full frame.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-25T08:27:43+0800
+ Dimensions: 4789 x 3193
+ Exposure: 1/800 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 310 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°18'51" N 113°56'12" E
+ Location: 香港國際機場機場路 Airport Road, Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130425.7D.40103.C23.BW
+ Series: 形 Forms
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“機場路街燈 Airport Road Street Lamps” / 香港國際機場 Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) / SML.20130425.7D.40103.C23.BW
/ #形 #Forms #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #機場 #Airport #街 #Street #Lines
Francisco Andaur (Flickr:silentzephyr)
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
A black kite (Milvus migrans) holds onto his fresh-caught fish tightly with its big claws near the water surface at Tolo Harbour. I have often seen fishermen nearby so I guess I should be able to find more of these sightings in the future.
Unlike the previous shot which was photographed from the 27th floor down [1], this one was shot on ground level. To be frank was his quick dive into the sea. This shot was mostly made possible by 7D’s fast 8fps burst rate and AI Servo tracking. Everything happens so quickly that there is not really any time to think about how to compose the image, so it was cropped after the fact.
# Notes
1. “痛下殺手 In for the kill” / 自然 Nature / SML.20130502.7D.40945.SQ: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8701585828/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-09T13:42:40+0800
+ Dimensions: 3468 x 2312
+ Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/11
+ Focal Length: 400 mm
+ ISO: 160
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°25'22" N 114°13'29" E
+ Location: 香港馬鞍山海濱長廊 Ma On Shan Promenade, Hong Kong
+ Subject: 香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong
+ Serial: SML.20130509.7D.41640
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 自然 Nature, 鳥 Birds, 形 Forms
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“V: 麻鷹捕魚記 Black Kite (Milvus migrans) Goes Fish-Hunting” / 自然之形 Nature Forms / SML.20130509.7D.41640
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #麻鷹 #BlackKite #鷹 #鹰 #Kite #MilvusMigrans
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
Of course, I shot a whole lot of this bird in flight. I have wanted to do a video, but I am not skilled at videography, so instead I thought that I would utilise the 7D’s 8fps to collect a range of stills to potentially create a stop-motion video of them.
These were shot handheld using AI Servo with the IS in Mode 1 as it was handheld, but I do wonder if I should have shot in Mode 2 perhaps — though in previous attempts when I shot in Mode 2 for some eagles, they did not come out sharp enough.
You see the birds are quite fast — here although the shutter speed is at 1/640 sec, it still does not appear to be fast enough. Perhaps I should look into shooting with Tv instead of Av for birds in the future.
For this I also tried out the well-hyped “camera shake reduction” filter inside Photoshop CC and decided to not process with it after seeing the result — it is rather artefact laden. I supposed that it would have some use for some if you intend the photo to be outputted in lower resolution, though for 1:1 output I think that those noise are quite noticeable.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-08-09T16:35:23+0800
+ Dimensions: 4350 x 2900
+ Exposure: 1/640 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 330 mm
+ ISO: 250
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°23'25" N 114°12'3" E
+ Location: 香港沙田賽艇中心 Shatin Rowing Centre, Hong Kong
+ Subject: 香港沙田城門河 Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 5, Photoshop CC
+ Serial: SML.20130809.7D.49421.P1
+ Series: 鳥 Birds, 自然 Nature
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
是日海鮮 Fresh catch of the day / 亞洲水鳥捕魚記 Asian Waterbird catching fish / 香港自然 Nature in Hong Kong / SML.20130809.7D.49421.P1
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A large part of this trip consists of me sitting on the deck doing nothing looking at the sea. But you’d notice the small little things when “nothing” is happening.
A seagull appearing on the surface creates enough interests to take a photo — and so of course this god ray during sunset.
These things happen very quickly. The ship is moving. If you miss it, they’re gone forever. Photography reminds me to treasure every moment — for the things I see and the people I meet.
I saw a few god rays (crepuscular rays) during this trip, but this one was the most spectacular.
Canon EOS 6D
Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
Sunset God Rays, Scotia Sea / Antarctica 2015 / SML.20151204.6D.35159
Bombonia aka Celina Alvarado has worked in the media for over 10 years as a producer and director for advertising, tv and music videos. Once in New York she has also directed film campaigns and styled 2 long features. She photographs aliens and makes strange video pieces. Celina uses technology to express herself in a more playful and accurate way.
Celina makes her living as an information architecture and user experience designer.
Happiness is... seeing your photography published inside the season catalog of a world-class symphony orchestra in Germany.
+ Original photo published on Flickr in 2006: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/169367424
+ Reprocessed for Gewandhaus in 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3060160837/
SML Thank You!!!
www.newmindspace.com/photograph.php
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
The circuit-bending orchestra putting the final touches on their Max/MSP hacks on the their computers before the Fairytale Fashion Show begins.
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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.
The urban landscape is filled with billboards and other distraction, so it is often hard to find a perspective which is void of all the visual distraction when using a wide angle lens. However, I think that I have identified the way out—look up and remove everything except the sky.
This is another shot of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Unlike the previous shot which is about the architecture’s overall recognisable form [1], this one is a minimalist take on one of the facade which lights up with tiny spots at night.
The irregular and almost organic light fixtures echoes the slightly cloudy sky, whereas the linear angular architecture creates contrast to the otherwise dark sky.
# Notes
1. “香港文化中心 Hong Kong Cultural Centre” / 香港文化建築夜之形 Hong Kong Cultural Architecture Night Forms / SML.20130426.6D.03214.BW: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8683034427/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-26T22:42:41+0800
+ Dimensions: 3359 x 5038
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 1600
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°17'35" N 114°10'14" E
+ Location: 香港九龍尖沙咀梳士巴利道10號香港文化中心 Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130426.6D.03230.BW
+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms, 抽象 Abstracts
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“上 Up” / 香港文化中心 Hong Kong Cultural Centre / 香港文化建築夜之形 Hong Kong Cultural Architecture Night Forms / SML.20130426.6D.03230.BW
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #夜 #Night #城市 #Urban
A group of high school students circled around a leather castle hanging from the ceiling. At first glance, it resembles something not dissimilar to that of a group of LV luggage bags. So they are all too busy taking photos with their cell phone. A boy was seen explaining what he sees to his female classmates.
There does not appear to be anything wrong with this scene, except that the castle was not made with ordinary leather — these are kinky leather sex toys. If the girls had known, they probably would have all screwed “Eww” and disappeared into Neverland.
Oh the joy of fine art — once elevated to a stage for excellence, no one even thought of the impossible. But it is. Demented? Yes, absolutely — which is precisely why I loved it.
Crazyisgood.
See www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8976721751/ for the full-color scientific shot without the humans around.
# Notes
1. “Installation by 没顶公司 (沒頂公司) MadeIn Company: Play (201301), 2013 (leather, rope, mixed media)” / 长征空间 (長征空間) Long March Space / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14071:
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8976721751/
# Art Info
MadeIn Company
Play - (201301), 2013
# MadeIn Company
MadeIn Company was established in 2009 in Shanghai by Xu Zhen, it is a contemporary art creation company, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities.
没顶公司是由艺术家徐震创办于2009年。 是一个当代艺术创作型公司，以生产艺术创造力为核心，致力于探索当代文化的无限可能。这对当代艺术的创作模式、收藏消费系统以及作者权等问题开始了全面挑战和标准的刷新。
沒頂公司是由藝術家徐震創辦於2009年。是一個當代藝術創作型公司，以生產藝術創造力為核心，致力於探索當代文化的無限可能。這對當代藝術的創作模式、收藏消費系統以及作者權等問題開始了全面挑戰和標準的刷新。
Personnel:
徐震 Xu Zhen, 金利萍 Vigy Jin, 关超群 (關超群) Alexia Dehaene, 俞玮 (俞瑋) Yu Wei, 陆平原 (陸平原) Lu Pingyuan, 郁天柱 (鬱天柱) Yu Tianzhu, 奶粉 Nathan Zhou, 林晓彤 (林曉彤) Louise Lam, 沈崴崴 Shen Weiwei, 汪嘉伦 (汪嘉倫) Wang Jialun, 沈卿 Shen Qing, 朱慧 Zhu Hui, 郭利 Guo Li, 余菲菲 Yu Feifei, 周菁 Zhou Jing, 王强 Wang Qiang, 张俐 (張俐) Zhang Li, 夏云飞 (夏雲飛) Xia Yunfei, 孙崴 (孫崴) Sun Wei, 何越 He Yue, 何雪峰 He Xuefeng, 仇银美 (仇銀美) Chou Yinmei, 李强 Li Qiang, 江国雄 (江國雄) Jiang Guoxiong
1/F, Bldg 8, 18 Wuwei Road, 200331 Shanghai, CHINA
上海普陀区武威路18号桃浦创意园8号楼1楼
# Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間)
Founded by Lu Jie in the 798 Art District of Beijing in 2002, Long March Space plays a vital role in pursuing new avenues of production, discourse, and promotion of contemporary art in China. Working to advance the careers of eighteen artists across three generations, the gallery looks to establish a portfolio of the most progressive artists working in contemporary China today.
4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015
China
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T17:10:41+0800
+ Dimensions: 5434 x 3623
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 2000
+ 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.14073.BW
+ 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
Leather fetish installation + high school students: When 没顶公司 (沒頂公司) MadeIn Company’s Play was on view at ABHK recently / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14073.BW
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #没顶公司 #MadeInCompany #installation #leather #rope #WTF #LOL
Learning to Network
2010-04-26
Mary O's, 32 Avenue A, New York, NY
Are you intimidated by large groups of people you don't know? Afraid to ask people for help or don't know how to sell yourself? Don't assume that your Yale education will open doors all by itself!
Networking is a skill that everyone needs to master in today's economy. The best way to improve any skill is to practice over drinks and conversation.
Learn how to maximize your networking experience and make contacts with other Yalies at Mary O's on April 26th.
Enjoy door prizes, appetizers and drink specials!
yaamnynetworking.eventbrite.com
About YAAMNY
The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) creates a welcoming community for all Yale alumni in the metro area through a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, and a broad range of opportunities for engagement with Yale and each other. YAAMNY is a charitable 501(c)3 organization that enables Yale alumni to share their talents, education, and leadership for the benefit of others.
I can certainly see why crazy people across the globe chase the storms. I can’t wait til the typhoon seasons to hit Hong Kong again this fall.
# SML Translate: 天翻雲怒 孤航快步
+ 天: sky.
+ 翻: flips over. Metaphor for the storm.
+ 雲: clouds.
+ 怒: angry. Also metaphor for the storm.
+ 孤: single. alone.
+ 航: navigate. sail.
+ 快: quick, fast.
+ 步: steps.
+ 天翻雲怒 孤航快步: a single ship sails swiftly across the ocean under the stormy weather.
# SML Data
+ Date: 3289 x 4934
+ Exposure: 1/800 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 26 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'19" N 114°13'30" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 中國香港吐露港 中国香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130226.EOSM.02558.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“天翻雲怒 孤航快步” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130226.EOSM.02558.BW
/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #雲 #clouds #cloudscape #風暴 #Storm
The space between the buildings which almost collide create a visual tension which allows for a dynamic play between positive and negative space.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-19T18:57:49+0800
+ Dimensions: 3310 x 3310
+ Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°18'17" N 114°10'48" E
+ Location: 香港理工大學 Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130619.6D.16393.SQ
+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms, 抽象 Abstract
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
直線條紋匯聚Gathering of lines and stripes / 香港理工大學建築之形 Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) Architecture Forms / SML.20130619.6D.16393.SQ.BW
/ #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #形 #Forms #SMLForms #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #理工大學 #PolyU #城市 #Urban #大學 #University
Strobist info: Handheld Canon 580EX with Canon ST-E2 on Canon 10D
SML Pro Blog: Web Trend Map 4 by iA (Information Architects Japan)
So I was walking around Times Square and saw these people holding signs of "Free Hugs." Spread the love — what a nice idea. I saw some videos on YouTube a while back and it was simply great. Interesting that the love has landed in New York! ...or so I thought.
I didn't participate in being hugged, but I snap their photos. Milliseconds after my shutter was released, the guy on the left attacked me and demanded that I give him $2 for donation. Then two more of them surrounded me and began to threaten me.
This is yet another example of acts that will severely hurt the tourism industry in New York.
Street performers in New York have no class. "No money, no photos!" he said. This was seen everywhere as I walked around Times Square - a traditional tourism magnet in New York. If the city wishes to maintain a good image to travelers, it needs to do a better job at tackling this problem.
Donald Hanson (Flickr:dbhanson1129)
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
柳宗元《江雪》
千山鳥飛絕，萬徑人蹤滅。
孤舟蓑笠翁，獨釣寒江雪。
Technically there is no snow in this photo but every time I see a tiny boat sail by the sea outside my window, I am reminded of this poem by poet 柳宗元 Liu Zongyan [1], especially in the winter.
# SML Translate
+ 孤: single, alone, lonely.
+ 舟: ship.
+ 蓑笠: 蓑衣與笠帽。 《儀禮·既夕禮》：“道車載朝服，稾車載蓑笠。” 鄭玄注：“蓑笠，備雨服。”《後漢書·蔡邕傳下》：“故當其有事也，則蓑笠並載。” 清唐甄《潛書·明鑑》：“茅舍無恙，然後寳位可居；蓑笠無失，然後袞冕可服。” [2]. Coat and hat for the rainy day.
+ 獨: single, on one’s own.
+ 釣: fish (v), fishing.
+ 寒: cold.
+ 江: sea, lake, ocean.
+ 雪: snow.
# Notes
1. Liu Zongyuan (Chinese: 柳宗元; pinyin: Liǔ Zōngyuán; Wade-Giles: Liu Tsung-yuan) (773–November 28, 819), courtesy name Zihou (子厚; Wade-Giles: Tzu-hou), was a Chinese writer who lived in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi, along with Han Yu, he was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement. He was traditionally classed as one of the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Zongyuan
2. ZDic: 蓑笠: www.zdic.net/cd/ci/13/ZdicE8Zdic93Zdic91231378.htm
# SML Workflow
Taken with the Canon EOS M with Canon EF 17-40 f/4L. Handheld. Processed in Lightroom 4.
# SML Data
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
+ Date: 2013-01-28 16:04:37 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3268 x 4902
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 25 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°24'58" N 114°12'49" E (SML Universe HKG)
+ Serial: SML.20130128.EOSM.01593
“孤舟蓑笠翁 獨釣寒江雪”
/ 寧 Serenity
/ SML.20130128.EOSM.01593.C23.BW
The circuit-bending orchestra putting the final touches on their Max/MSP hacks on the MacBook before the Fairytale Fashion Show begins.
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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.
Go-Go Harder Faster Stronger (Facebook) at !BOYLESQUE!, 87 LUDLOW - a weekly gay burlesque show on Saturdays 11pm-4am at Uncle Charlie's LES in New York City.
Recently I came across a WTF question on Quora asking why queuing in China is less orderly than most Western countries [1]. Really? Seriously? I never witnessed this behavior in China. Often people in Hong Kong queue up better than any queues I have seen in the US.
Pictured is the queuing at bus stops at night. Most of these buses arrive completely empty, making the act of queuing completely unnecessary, but people do queue up regardless. Since queuing is unnecessary, I usually don’t and I usually take my time to run around the neighborhood doing photography until the bus arrives and I will wait til everybody is aboard before getting on.
Perhaps that would make me “less orderly” but I am not normal and certainly in this photo you would see that people do line up very orderly. Point.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-17T21:41:08.75 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3281 x 4921
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 1600
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'39" N 114°10'23" E
+ Altitude: 134.5 m
+ Location: 中國香港灣仔軒尼詩道與柯布連道交界 Intersection at Hennessy Road and O’Brien Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130317.7D.35558.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 黑白 Black and White
# Notes
1. Quora: Chinese Etiquette and Behavior: Why does it seem that queuing in China is less orderly than in most Western countries? www.quora.com/Chinese-Etiquette-and-Behavior/Why-does-it-...
“排隊等巴士 Queue up and wait for the bus” / 香港夜人流 Hong Kong Nighttime Human Logistics / SML.20130317.7D.35558.BW
/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #灣仔 #Wanchai #街 #street #夜 #Night
A collage of architectural forms in Central / Admiralty, the financial downtown district of Hong Kong.
In the center, the unmistakable triangular forms of the Bank of China Tower (中銀大廈 BOC Tower). Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M.Pei, it is one of my favorite architectures in Hong Kong. It is currently the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza. But while the those tallest three buildings have no character (IMAO) to speak of besides being tall, the BOC Tower is a modern structural engineering marvel, and the first composite space frame high-rise building [1].
On the right is also one of my favorite architectures in Hong Kong. Standing 25-storey in total, 8 levels of the The Hong Kong Club Building (香港會) is owned by the Hong Kong Club while the other floors are leased for office lease. What I love about it is its simple curved facade which is extremely identifiable despite its small size [2].
On the left is the AIA Central. It was originally named the AIG Central, but it switched hands in 2009 after the global financial crisis. I mostly included this building in the frame to show the contrast in scale by the workers tending the windows via the outdoor elevator [3].
# Notes
1. Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_China_Tower,_Hong_Kong
2. Hong Kong Club Building: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Club_Building
3. AIA Central: Wikipedia: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIA_Central
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-24T16:33:21+0800
+ Dimensions: 3445 x 5168
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 400 mm
+ ISO: 200
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°17'8" N 114°9'39" E
+ Location: 香港中環 Central, Hong Kong
+ Serial: SML.20130424.6D.02685.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms
“中銀大廈 Bank of China Tower + 香港會 Hong Kong Club + 友邦金融中心 AIA Central” / 香港中環金融建築之形 Hong Kong Central Financial Architecture Forms / SML.20130424.6D.02685.BW
/ #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #形 #Forms #SMLForms #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #中環 #Central #城市 #Urban #攝影 #摄影 #photography #skyscraper
Matthew Borgatti (Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / Twitter / Vimeo) at the Eyebeam Open Studios Fall 2009, a biennial event in New York City celebrating the synergy between art + technology. Matthew graduated from RISD in 2007 majoring in industrial design. You can check out his portfolio at sinbox.org
Biography
Matthew Borgatti was born with a painfully overactive imagination, grew up a perfectionist and will probably die on a runaway carnival ride. He went to the Rhode Island School of Design and took summers off to build movie monsters in Burbank beginning with Snakes on a Plane and working his way through Aliens VS Predator II: Requiem. After graduating with his degree in Industrial design he moved out to California to make his fortune. Although this didn't exactly work out he spent his time there interning at Instructables, building boats for Makani Power, publishing a book called Show Me How, running industrial robots for a show called Prototype This! and helping everyone from independent inventors developing their first product to artists working on giant sculptures for Burning Man through Instinct Engineering. He once wore a tshirt so witty that people thought he was both sarcastic and sincere at the same time. The paradox stretched the fabric of spacetime so thin that he was able to high five himself. He's currently working at Eyebeam, developing prototypes for and directing the filming of Diana Eng's project Fairytale Fashion.
Video interview
02. Projects
03. Public Collaboration + Feedback
SML Simulcast
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+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4044770281
+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGh62oxxQ8
Fairytale Fashion
Diana Eng: As a fashion designer who works with science and technology, I've learned about some really amazing things. I've had some great experiences as a designer: sitting front row at fashion week, working at various fashion companies, researching at the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Dept., being a designer on Project Runway, working in Victoriai's Secret Research and Development department, and co-founding NYC Resistor hacker group. When I was a little girl, I wish that my friends and I knew about some of the things I know today. We would have loved to play with them. Dress-up with super sparkling LED's. Imagining worlds made of deployable structures. I want to share all of the neat things I've learned, because no matter what your age, science and technology are always fun to play with.
You may not be able to sew or solder or draft a pattern or program a microcontroller. But that's okay because Fairytale Fashion is about imagining the possibilities. I will be trying my best to make them happen.
Fairytale Fashion is produced with the support of Eyebeam.
Diana Eng
Resident, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by the mechanical engineering of biomimetics. In 2005, she was a designer on Season Two of the Emmy nominated hit TV show, Project Runway. She won Yahoo Hack Day in 2006 along with her two-team mates for designing and creating a blogging purse in less than 24 hours. She has worked as an assistant designer in research and development at Victoria’s Secret. She is the author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Her work has been featured in exhibits both in the U.S. and internationally around the globe, and has graced the pages of such publications as Women’s Wear Daily, Wired, Craft Magazine, and the cover of ID Magazine. Diana currently designs in the NYC fashion industry and is a founding member of Brooklyn based hacker group NYC Resistor.
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.
James Cospito (Flickr), seen at the Brooklyn Art Project HQ (Flickr Group) during the Dumbo Art Festival 2009.
See also James Cospito talks about his NYC Subway series (Flickr HD video)
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
I often tell people that photography is not necessarily a reflection of reality. Even without any manipulation in the dark room or heavy montage action inside Photoshop, what is depicted may be a mind trick.
Seen here was taken through my window. At first I was wondering why there appears to be “speed boats” running in curves. Then I realized that those were cars on the highway from the fainted reflection by the window. The reflection on the sea is also a reflection. The sun was so strong that it would in fact be impossible to photograph directly, yet here it works somewhat, thus superimposing two images to one in one shot.
The mountains were superimposed similarly. One is actually present, the other is reflected. The rectangular forms far down are private housing development, whereas the structures to the left is a construction site, I think.
The scene is completely unreal, yet it is very interesting. So next time you see an UFO photograph, think twice about all the physical possibilities you can do with using the camera alone. I am not trying to defunct any UFO theories, and I certainly entertain any possibilities, but in many instances photography does lie.
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8396741473/
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8396741473/sizes/o
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-01-19 16:46:32 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 2219 x 3944
+ Color: Black and white
+ Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 66mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山沙田海 中国香港马鞍山沙田海 Sha Tin Hoi, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Photographed at: SML Universe Limited, Hong Kong.
# SML Workflow
+ Photographed with Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L, cropped as 16:9 aspect ratio, processed in Adobe Photoshop CS6, metadata tagged in Adobe Lightroom 4.
# Related SML Universe
+ SML Flickr set: 寧 Serenity: sml8.it/smlflickr-serenity
+ SML Photography Blog: Serenity: Part 1: photoblog.seeminglee.com/2012/10/serenity.html
+ SML Photography Blog: Serenity: Part 2: photoblog.seeminglee.com/2012/12/serenity-part-2.html
+ SML Serenity Tumblr: smlserenity.tumblr.com
+ SNL Serenity Twitter: twitter.com/smlserenity
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
”海市蜃樓 海市蜃楼 Mirage” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130119.7D.20632.C169.P1.BW
Inflatable Dress by Diana Eng
Cream silk chiffon, draped over plastic inflatables and white silk flowers.
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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.
Dr Shamil is a PhD scientist with an innate ability to mix science and art. He is an expert in healthy, creative and smart living for the 21th century in New York City. As a nutritionist and ex-model, he talks about how to be physically fit and lead a fabulously chic lifestyle at drshamilsmartliving.blogspot.com/
Dr. Shamil SmartLiving is for the new millennials who want to look and feel healthy & fabulous while being surrounded in style and elegance using intelligent, economical and time-efficient approaches. Dr. Shamil SmartLiving offers a holistic solution to a smarter 21st century living involving healthy diet, exercise and personal grooming and style without spending too much money or impacting the environment. The subject matter of the posts span across all these essential elements.
Type A
Untitled, 2009
Plumb-bobs and thread
Variable dimensions, site specific
Price on request
www.goffandrosenthal.com/storage/exhibitions/TypeAPressRe...
Goff + Rosenthal is pleased to present an exhibition of new works entitled Ruled by the New York-based artist duo Type A. Type A is made up of Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. This is their first exhibition in New York City since 2004.
Continuing with their ongoing interest in rules and regulations surrounding traditionally masculine activities, Type A explores the intrinsic authority and aesthetic of everyday objects, especially construction and sports equipment. Otherwise innocuous pieces of plastic, rubber, string and metal carry expectations of success and failure, dependability, predictability, competition and collaboration with them. Ruled is comprised of various installed ready-mades, a collection of ink on paper drawings, and chalk wall drawings.
The entire space in the front gallery is taken over by a single installation consisting of approximately 2000 plumb bobs—a reference tool used for millennia by surveyors, masons and builders that indicates a perfect vertical line pointing to the center of the earth. The objects themselves are pointed, sharp, and made of solid metal, both phallic and weapon-like. However, when they are installed, these objects have a slight and fragile simplicity that is uncharacteristic of their singular purpose as a reference tool. For the artists, they “determine the viewer’s path and present a staccato of lines that is both lyrical and dictatorial. They are as much a source of anxiety as beauty.” Used as a drawing device, the plumb bob becomes a simple pendulum that can illustrate the direction and, to a certain extent, the velocity with which the bobs were released. The character of the line shows a relationship between the plumb bob’s/pendulum’s displacement and its tendency towards equilibrium, as well as the irregularities that arise when the simple motion meets interference. In essence, each drawing shows the relationship of the variables that were in effect among the pen, paper and individual throw of each member of Type A as he released the plumb bob.
In the rear gallery, there are additional works which often allude to very specific Minimalist artists, albeit from a new critical (and subtly humorous) perspective. For example, the line of bronze-colored anodized aluminum relay batons has a De Maria-like simplicity and repetition. Type A is not only drawing out ideas of play, gamesmanship and competition within the canon of contemporary art and art history, they also exhibit here an “anxiety of influence” in which they question the unsure trajectories of the post-minimal.
Taken together, the objects used take on an entirely different meaning when configured to acknowledge the work of Carl Andre, Walter De Maria, Donald Judd, Fred Sandback, and others. Most compelling is not how the Minimalist aesthetic informs the new configurations but how this secondtier equipment, stripped of its intended purpose and context, was part and parcel of the very culture-- with its assumptions, references and tropes of masculinity and nationality—that inspired the original art.
Type A currently has a solo exhibition at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and upcoming solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Type A will also be included in the inaugural exhibition of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new 100 Acres Art & Nature Park opening in June 2010. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. They have been reviewed in The New Yorker, Time Out New York, The New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, Art on Paper, Artnet, and The Village Voice.
Furthermore, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is producing a documentary about Type A for its Art Babble website, and the German publisher Hatje Cantz will be releasing a monograph to coincide with the IMA show in June 2010.
Goff + Rosenthal, 537B West 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
I've done multi-strobes before. But only in the studio, and always with a tripod.
Tonight I went to see Arthur's Landing and I took some photographs. The place is completely dark and I'm using my flash. The dynamic energy and motion of the musicians were lost, so I thought to myself, why not try it out with multi-strobes - it's silly to get the 580EX and just stick it on with TTL all the time.
So here it is. Hand-held at a live event, with no tripod, trying to hold the camera still while setting the flash to multi at 10Hz. It's pretty clear that I couldn't really hold still, as there are double-image of the drums, but the musician's motion were captured. I will definitely shoot more in multi-strobes in the future.
The event
Arthur's Landing
Genre: Pop / Experimental / House
A celebration of musical genius Arthur Russell
www.myspace.com/arthurslanding
About Arthur Russell
Wikipedia: Arthur Russel (musician)
Charles Arthur Russell, Jr. (May 21, 1951 – April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success in dance music, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his lifetime, a series of reissues and compilations have raised his profile in the 2000s.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Tags: Arthur's Landing
Simplicity. Division. Accented by surprise on top.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-24T18:33:31+0800
+ Dimensions: 4960 x 3307
+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 220 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°17'35" N 114°10'11" E
+ Location: 香港尖沙咀海濱長廊 Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, Hong Kong
+ Subject: 香港九龍尖沙咀梳士巴利道10號香港文化中心 Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130524.7D.42089.BW
+ Series: 形 Forms, 界 Division, 建築 Architecture
# Media Licensing
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