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Photographed with Canon EOS M and the Canon EF 17-40 f/4L lens mounted on tripod at SML Universe Limited (Hong Kong). Imported into Premiere Pro and sped up 1000%. In the middle you will see a ship hurry quickly by. There is a long version for this also but no one really have the time to look at 10 min of “artsy” video so hereby sped up ten times to 53 sec total.
Soundtrack composed using the iPad app Orphion (playing live). First exported as m4a in-app, then imported into Ableton Live 8 to manually wrap points. Added some Lexicon reverb and then mastered using iZotope Ozone 5. The full-length 24-bit 48 kHz track can be downloaded on SML SoundCloud. See link below.
# SML Translate
+ 雲: clouds.
+ 蒸: steam; metaphor for rising slowly.
+ 霞: red cloud.
+ 蔚: lush, colorful.
+ 雲蒸霞蔚: Rich and luxuriant clouds rise slowly as steam from the horizon [1]. Metaphor for colorful scenery [2]. Describes things are booming [3].
+ 嘯: howl, roar, whistle, the sound from nature. [4]
+ 咤: scold, bellow, shout at, roar. [5]
+ 風: wind.
+ 雲: clouds.
+ 嘯咤風雲: Describes something as being powerful, as if the winds ands clouds are roaring.
# Notes
1. 漢典 ZDic: 雲蒸霞蔚: www.zdic.net/cd/ci/4/ZdicE4ZdicBAZdic91263325.htm
2. 比喻絢麗多彩。清侯方域《新遷顏魯公碑記》：“獨斯碑者，雲蒸霞蔚，筆既斷而還連；鳳翥龍蟠，勢如斜而反正。” 劉白羽《紅瑪瑙集·長江三日》： “抬頭望處，已到巫山。上面陽光垂照下來，下面濃霧滾湧上去，雲蒸霞蔚，頗為壯觀。”參見“ 雲興霞蔚”。[1]
3. 形容事物蓬勃興起，蔚為大觀。清顏光敏《顏氏家藏尺牘·馮溥》：“且海內人文，雲蒸霞蔚，鱗集京師，真千古盛事。” 清王韜《論日報漸行於中土》：“今日雲蒸霞蔚，持論蠭起，無一不為庶人之清議。” [1]
4. 漢典 ZDic: 嘯: www.zdic.net/zd/zi/ZdicE5Zdic98ZdicAF.htm
5. 漢典 ZDic: 咤: www.zdic.net/zd/zi/ZdicE5Zdic92ZdicA4.htm
6. 漢典 ZDic: 嘯咤風雲: 形容威力極大。同“叱吒風雲”。http://www.zdic.net/cy/ch/ZdicE5Zdic95ZdicB821384.htm
# SML Photography
Series: 寧 Serenity
Camera: Canon EOS M
Lens:Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
Video: H264 MP4, 1080x1920 (1080p HD portrait), 25fps, Progressive, 10 Mbps
Audio: AAC, 320 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo
Length: 53 sec
Color: Color
Location: Sha Tin Hoi, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong SAR, China
Date: 2013-01-21 (recorded) 2013-01-21 (processed)
Photographer: See-ming Lee 李思明, SML Photography
Music: Orphion Ping Pong 005 / SML Music
Media Production: SML Universe
Copyright: 2013 See-ming Lee 李思明, SML Universe Limited
Serial: SML.20130121.EOSM.01542
# SML Music: Orphion Ping Pong / SML: Bits and Pieces (2012)
The instruments we use changes the way we play. The track was recorded and played live directly on the iPad using Orphion’s “3rds Matrix” grid.
The natural position of my right hand touches A4 and A#4. The natural position of my left hand touches F4 and D4. By shifting my hands a note to the left and to the top right, I get RH: F4 F#4 LH: C#4 A#3 and then RH: A#4 B4 LH: F#4 D#4.
1L: D4 F4 1R: A4 A#4
2L: A#3 C#4 2R: F4 F#4
3L: D#4 F#4 3R: A#4 B4
I don't know what key this is in. I just play. And so while as a classically trained pianist I am conscious of the notes and key signature when I play on a conventional keyboard, Orphion’s seemingly illogical layout renders some nice experimental results which I enjoy.
I use the in-app recorder to record my live playing which I then email myself as an M4A file. The file is then placed into Ableton Live where I manually wrap my human-playing into something which sounds somewhat on time — though obviously the nice rubato are lost. I will work on getting something that is less machine like perhaps.
Then I layered some repeated tracks, and added some ping pong to the piece to give it some nuance together with some Lexicon reverb goodness. Mastered with Ozone 5 and voila.
24-bit 48 kHz AIFF download:
+ soundcloud.com/seeminglee/orphion-ping-pong-sml-bits-and
# SML Workflow
Photographed with Canon EOS M with Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM mounted on Manfrotto tripod. Video production in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Soundtrack written using iPad app Orphion; imported to Ableton Live, manual beat wrap, added some Lexicon reverb, mastered with iZotope Ozone 5.
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Music / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“雲蒸霞蔚 嘯咤風雲” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130121.EOSM.01542
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLMusic #SMLUniverse #SMLBW #SMLVideography
/ #山水 landscape #攝影 #摄影 #photography #海 #Sea #自然 #nature #山 #mountains #雲 #cloud #cloudscape #風 #wind #video #videography
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan
/ #CanonEOSM #Canon1740 #Canon1740f4L SML:Projects=Serenity
/ #Orphion #music #soundcloud #soundtrack
I got inspired looking at Daniel Molina's gorgeous abstract a couple of days ago so I went out and look for layers of color fields. I am nowhere near his mastery, but I tried.
This was taken at a parking lot behind a building on Leroy Street in West Village.
I bought the Canon EOS 6D today, and of course the first thing I did is drop in the 17-40 and check out the wide end. Wow incredible—drama! I have not really used a full-frame body since the analog days so it is a very welcoming experience so far. And of course I see now that the natural vignette from the lens is quite serious—something which I never noticed previously with the 7D because it has an APS-C CMOS.
Before picking the 6D, I have thought it long and hard if I should get the EF-S 10-22, but noting that my goal as always been to get a full-frame body eventually, I hesitated. Trust that you will see more use of this camera soon on my stream.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-11T16:38:22.00+0800
+ Dimensions: 3583 x 5375
+ Exposure: 1/320 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°25'9" N 114°13'25" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 中國香港八仙嶺和吐露港 Tolo Harbour + Pat Sin Leng, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130411.6D.00004.BW
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“風雲再現 孤舟過江” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130411.6D.00004.BW
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #自然 #Nature #山水 #Landscape #山 #Mountains #水 #Water #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape
See also video interview with the artist (Flickr HD video).
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.
See also video interview with the artist (Flickr HD video).
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.
Brooklyn Art Project (FriendFeed / Twitter) is a free online social network that connects 5500+ artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts from over 44 countries featuring over 44,000 artworks and 800+ short films and videos.
Members can participate in collaborative exhibits in Brooklyn and beyond while enjoying unlimited online gallery space, blogs, forums, chat, and tools to share / promote their artwork across the web.
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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+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Jiyeon Jung
The Walter Wickiser Gallery, located in the prestigious Fine Art Building in Chelsea – located at 210 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 303, New York, NY 10001 – was established in 1992. As the son of artist and art educator Ralph Wickiser – who was former the Chairman of the graduate art program at Pratt University from 1962-1978 – Walter Wickiser was born and raised in the American art world amongst internationally renowned modern artists including Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, George McNeil, Stephen Pace and Phillip Pearlstein. Friendship, at a very early age, with the Milton Avery and Yasuo Kuniyoshi families provided a special mentoring and education which proved very beneficial to his career as an art dealer.
Walter Wickiser’s career as an art dealer formally began in 1990 in Soho, NY, when he became the first director of the first gallery to be established in the United States, from main land China. This led to establishing his primary direction as a gallerist to exhibit work by both American and Asian-American painters, as well as artists from China, Japan and Korea. It has always been the focus of the Wickiser Gallery to create a visual dialogue between these cultures, and simultaneously remind us of the ability of the arts to transcend cultural boundaries. Early in the history of the Wickiser Gallery in 1993, the United States State Department and Art For Embassy’s Program became interested in exhibiting Wickiser’s choice of Asian artist in United States Embassy’s in Seoul, Korea, Manila, Philippines, Quatar, Bucharest, Romania and Cypress, to name a few. Currently, Wickiser’s collection is being exhibited in the United States Embassy in Moscow. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have invited Wickiser to the White House.
Clients and visitors to the gallery have included Woody Allen, Betsy Bloomingdale, Kim Catrall, Leo Castelli, Michael Douglas, Alex Katz, Phillip Pearlstein, Sally Michel Avery, Sarah Kuniyoshi, Ted Koppel, Jacklyn Kennedy Onassis, Geraldo Rivera, Sam LeFrak and Paul Volker.
The Wickiser Gallery has received numerous reviews in ARTnews, Art In America and many other internationally recognized publications. Work by many of the gallery’s artists have been exhibited at American museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the High Museum of Art in Georgia, the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.
Sean Chappin + Juan Valdez: just friends - cute!
SML Thank You for contributing to my Kiss project!
Photographed at !BOYLESQUE!, 87 LUDLOW - a weekly gay burlesque show on Saturdays 11pm-4am at Uncle Charlie's LES in New York City.
CC Photo Use
+ www.rue89.com/rue69/2010/02/19/draguer-gay-entre-gens-de-...
The one thing constant about the ever-changing urban landscape is the cranes at the construction sites.
I was born in Hong Kong, but I went to the US for college (university) in 1995, and after graduation I moved to New York and have been living there ever since. But in 2012, I moved back to Hong Kong to start my own company. And I definitely notice the change.
Most of the newer architecture in Hong Kong is built upon landfill, so in many ways the Victoria Harbour just got smaller. It seems that even the Star Ferry ride as a result is shorter. Could that possibly be?
Pictured is a set of cranes seen outside the International Finance Centre (IFC). It seems that they are building even more structures over there but exactly what is unclear.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-24T16:29:43+0800
+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472
+ Exposure: 1/800 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 105 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°17'7" N 114°9'36" E
+ Location: 香港中環龍和道 Lung Wo Road, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130424.6D.02643.BW
+ Series: 形 Forms, 建造 Construction
“/||\” / 香港建造之形 Hong Kong Construction Forms / SML.20130424.6D.02643.BW
/ #建造 #Construction #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 #城市 #Urban #FormFollowsFunction #Cranes #Lines
An oriental magpie robin (鵲鴝, Copsychus saularis) is a small passerine bird that is also known as 豬屎渣 (?!), 吱渣, 信鳥 or 四喜 in Chinese [1, 2].
They are very common birds in urban areas (pictured) as well as forests. They are particularly well known for their songs and were once popular as cage birds.
Photographed with the 100-400 and the 7D.
# Notes
1. Oriental Magpie-Robin: EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Magpie-Robin
2. 鵲鴝: Wikipedia: ZH: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鵲鴝
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-02T13:26:41+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/640 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 400 mm
+ ISO: 1250
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°25'15" N 114°13'29" E
+ Location: 香港新界馬鞍山海濱長廊 Ma On Shan Promenade, New Territories, Hong Kong
+ Serial: SML.20130502.7D.40900
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 自然 Nature
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“鐵絲網鵲鴝 Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis) on Barbed Wire” / 自然 Nature / SML.20130502.7D.40900
/ #自然 #Nature #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #鳥 #Birds #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #鐵絲網 #barbedwire #鵲鴝 #OrientalMagpieRobin #Robin #Green #bokeh
水 Water is an important element in 風水 Feng Shui—if you know Chinese, you would know that the two characters 風 Feng means wind, and 水 Shui means water.
Water is important because it flows. In Cantonese, the character is synonymous with money. And money should always be flowing, thus at the garden downstairs at 聽濤雅苑 Vista Paradiso, where I live, water flows continuously on many manmade falls.
I took my tripod with me to do some panorama in the neighborhood. On my way back I passed by the garden and took some photos. It is rainy today so even though I did not have an ND filter, I was able to photograph this under a long exposure (5 second to be exact, but enough to render water is silk).
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-26T14:00:10+0800
+ Dimensions: 3123 x 4685
+ Exposure: 5.0 sec at f/45
+ 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
+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 Timer Remote Release, tripod
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'32" E
+ Altitude: 10.8 m
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆明街2號聽濤雅苑二樓花園 Garden, 2nd Floor, Vista Paradiso, 2 Hang Ming St, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130326.7D.36470.C23.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature, 黑白 Black and White
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“流水 Water Flow” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130326.7D.36470.C23.BW
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #水 #Water #石 #Rocks
Back for more waterfall. I shot a series of these. The one which is actually correctly exposed (1 second) has so much water that I cannot really make out the rocks it is falling into, so I shot this one which is not correctly exposed (0.3 second) but then it has the correct amount of water splashing, then I overexpose it back inside Lightroom.
In the analog days we call this push and pull. In digital photography, it is often better to underexpose then to overexpose, because underexposing usually mean that you can push the whites, but overexposing and you are pretty much through. Of course this is not a golden rule but in most cases it is true.
This is also me placing my camera in awkward position. No tripod is used. I never really do photo trips—I just take my camera everywhere I go.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-31T16:04:35.37+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 0.3 sec at f/32
+ Focal Length: 98 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'30" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆明街2號聽濤雅苑二樓花園 Garden, 2nd Floor, Vista Paradiso, 2 Hang Ming St, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130331.7D.37395.C23.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature, 黑白 Black and White
“聽濤 Listening to the sound of water” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130331.7D.37377.BW
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #水 #Water #石 #Rocks #山水 #Landscape
In art school, we were taught to “draw what [we] see.” The philosophy is simple: when the left brain get involved and proceed to interpret what “must” be reality, what is drawn is never a representation of reality. Of course, an artist is up to his/her own interpretation, but if the intention is to represent reality, then this is a very good way of achieving it.
These bizarre patterns are seen every night outside my window. Photography captures reality so it is interesting to note how it seems completely illogical that water should appear like this—but yet it does.
Ships disturbs the flow of water, so under long exposure, it renders a matte surface which reflects the lights + shadows from the tree-lined Tolo Highway. The undisturbed water is left behind with a clear dark divide, brightened only by the light anchor floating in the sea.
The capture is mounted on a tripod and captured using a remote, so trust that everything is lying still, but the water moves, so the light anchor is moving quite a bit, even though we might think that it should not.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-21 00:27:34 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 4265 x 2843
+ Exposure: 29.0 sec at f/8.0
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+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 + Canon GP-E2 + tripod
+ GPS: 22°25'4" N 114°13'7" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 中國香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130321.7D.35757.C23.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 形 Forms, 自然 Nature, 黑白 Black and White,
“自然城市夜倒影之形 Nature Reflected Urban Night Forms” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130321.7D.35757.C23.BW
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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.
These two in the back are stuck in this position for a very long time. I don't know *what* they are trying.. but they certainly look like a cute couple - if they were.. :)
Located on the 20th floor of iSquare in Tsim Sha Tsui, the Canon Customer Care Center provides support for both in-warranty and out-of-warranty care for its customers.
I went there yesterday mainly to get the battery grip for 6D as the retailer who sold me the body did not carry it, and also to send my 7D to be looked at.
None of the camera bodies except the 1D series are weather-sealed, and after leaving the 7D near my opened window during stormy weathers in Hong Kong, it kept on going to Err 70 which bothered me. My 7D is well out-of-warranty but paying 300 HKD (38.65 USD) is a fair price to pay to make sure that everything is operational inside.
Aside from providing excellent service, the interior architecture filled with organic forms is a feast to the eyes, making the experience quite pleasant.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-12T14:55:41.09+0800
+ Dimensions: 3406 x 5108
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 17m
+ ISO: 160
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Camera: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°17'47" N 114°10'22" E
+ Altitude: 137.3 m
+ Location: 中國香港九龍尖沙咀彌敦道63號國際廣場20樓佳能客戶服務中心 Canon Customer Care Center, 20/F, iSQUARE, 63 Nathan Road,Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130412.6D.00124.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 形 Forms
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“香港佳能客戶服務中心 Hong Kong Canon Customer Care Center” / 形 Forms / SML.20130412.6D.00124.BW
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/ #中國 #中国 #china #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #佳能 #Canon #CRM #people #urban
B likes to give me sh!t about “not appreciating the local cultures”. He likes to try to “convince” me that what makes Hong Kong special are the random “Dai Pai Dong”s (大牌檔) that are made for “commoners” (LOL). And I often have to tell him — I do appreciate the local cultures. I do sometimes go to local places. It’s exceptionally strange that he would have the opinion that I’m not “local” enough.
I don’t go to them often — not because I “have” to go to nice places. But if I go out at all, I want to have a decent time — i.e. I don’t want to have to self-serve, be yelled at by the waiters, and is it so bad to want seats that have a back?! But would I go to local places from time to time — absolutely!
There’s this place close to my home where you could find construction workers visit during lunch time, and it’s actually quite the experience to enjoy dim sum while having some “delay no more” (very vulgar Cantonese slang that I would never write or say) going on in the background continuously. You can’t get more local than that!
This photo was taken at a local “food area” near the Mui Wo ferry, where we had dinner. It’s literally one of the four restaurants that serve local seafood by the pier. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant — it’s not the type of place you would really care what they’re called, but referencing the map, it’s called Ke Ho Restaurant 幾好餐廳. It’s actually a funny name now that I realize it. “Ke Ho 幾好” literally means “pretty good”. There’s some humor in it because it’s odd to say “pretty good” — i.e. it’s not exceptionally good, just decently consumable. It’s Chinese humility yo. It’s funny — and the food? Actually pretty good.
B took the photo with my camera. I post-processed it. I kept the chaos in the background mainly to show what the place is like. Happy? Me in a random place. No more sh!t about me not being local, please. If you know me, I rarely care where I eat. I am a picky eater, but truly I will eat anything. I care more about the company I share.
See-ming Lee / Mui Wo, Hong Kong / SML + BAI / SML.20231219.6D.38638.T1.BW
#seeminglee #muiwo #daipaidong #smlphotography #smluniverse #smlbai
Matthew Borgatti talks to See-ming Lee about his concept, idea and inspiration behind his Spaceman Lamp project. Filmed during the Eyebeam Open Studios Fall 2009, a biennial event in New York City that showcases artists who work with both art and technology.
SML 720p HD Simulcast
+ www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=186389218034
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4049360660/?likes_hd=1
+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ99mQuw-7k
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.
www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbor...
Credits
Still photography by Matthew Borgatti
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/3908348419/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/3908348433/
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+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/3924346168/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4047543667/
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+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4047543805/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4047544501/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4047559507/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4048284882/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4048299914/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4048299984/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/gianteye/4048300114/
Still photography by SML Photography
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4047303638/
Videography + video production by SML Channel
+ produced in Sony Vegas Pro
Original soundtrack by SML Music
+ Composed, mixed and mastered in Ableton Live
CC-BY-NC-ND 2009 See-ming Lee / SML Universe
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.
A lot of the shopping malls I have visited in Hong Kong features open skylight ceilings, which makes it much less claustrophobic as well as being energy efficient.
I discovered that the autofocus on the 50/1.4 was dead, and I probably will never go fix it because it is probably not worth it, but luckily manual focus is rarely an issue.
# SML Data
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+ Exposure: 1/1000 sec at f/1.4
+ Focal Length: 50 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
+ GPS: 22°25'27" N 114°13'54" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山新港城中心 Sunshine City Plaza, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130320.EOSM.03531.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 商場 Shopping Malls, 形 Forms
“新港城中心 Sunshine City Plaza” / 香港商場建築之形 Hong Kong Shopping Malls Architecture Forms / SML.20130320.EOSM.03531.BW
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Ignacio Rivera and her personal assistant Natalie Patrice Tucker (Flickr) looking fab at Sex Wroker Literati.
Ignacio Rivera is a Queer, gender fluid, Trans- Entity, Black Boricua performance artist, lecturer/trainer, activist, new filmmaker, sex worker and self-proclaimed sex educator.
Ignacio is the founder of Poly Patao Productions. P3 is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, films, play parties, panel discussions, social/political groups and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming and gender variant people of color. Ignacio is also one of the founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice, a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.
Source: www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com/september-3-2009-sex-...
Sex Worker Literati (Flickr Group) is a monthly readings series happening in NYC on the first Thursday of the month at Happy Ending.
The series is hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry - these photos are from the readings and starring all of our fabulous performers! See videos and read stories at hoshookerscallgirslrentboys.com/
Behind the bumps and the grinds, under the garters and the pasties, in between the booze fueled clients and the stiletto heels there is in the exchange of sex for money a power dynamic that opens a window into the soul. Sex Worker Literati features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who will read, monologue, perform, and shimmy their ways into your hearts, minds, and naughty bits.
Happy Ending, 302 Broome St between Forsyth and Eldridge
First Thursday of Every Month
Doors at 7, Reading from 8-10. FREE.
Portion of proceeds from the bar supports sex workers rights groups
Related SML
Floating Dreams Dress by Diana Eng
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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.
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
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.
I'm not a car freak... probably because i don't drive... I love great designs... We went into Tesla's showroom because it was originally a gallery space.
This is probably the first time I saw an American car that I like. Aside from having a beautiful body, Tesla runs completely on electricity so it is environmentally friendly. Each complete charge lasts for approximately 245 hours, the company spokesman (who's a cutie) said.
Completely unexpected, someone wakeboarded outside the window yesterday, creating some truly wicked forms on water—sweet. For these kinds of photos you really need an SLR—but if you can do it with a point+shoot + able to focus then kudos to you—please remember to share your secret. :)
Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snowboarding and surfing techniques.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakeboarding
# SML Data
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+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 280 mm
+ ISO: 320
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'18" N 114°13'17" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 中國香港馬鞍山聽濤雅苑對外的吐露港 中国香港马鞍山听涛雅苑对外的吐露港 Tolo Harbour outside Vista Paradiso, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130317.7D.35254.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 體育 Sports, 男 Men, 形 Forms, 黑白 Black and White
“滑板 Wakeboarding” / 香港水上體育運動之形 Hong Kong Water Sports Forms / SML.20130317.7D.35254.BW
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Sven 't Jolle
[Casse-toi alors] Pauvre canard, 2009
Metal, plaster, feathers, asphalt
5'5 h x 12' l x 2'5 w
galerie laurent godin
5, rue du Grenier Saint Lazare 75003 Paris
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Born in 1966 in Antwerp, Belgium, Sven ’t Jolle lives and works in Melbourne and Antwerp. ’T Jolle uses a range of media including drawing, sculpture and installation. His practice engages with current socio-economic formations that stem from Post-Fordist modes of production, such as the implementation of abusive managerial strategies like Toyotism within the work force to regulate and maximize productivity as well as labour relations. Often departing from real situations and actual events, his works are constructed as social commentaries that nonetheless acknowledge the rhetorical limits of aesthetic forms, and the art market’s own problematic economies of exchange. ’T Jolle uses various stylistic devices including caricature to materialize his critical content, acknowledging the futility of any attempt to circumvent art’s inevitable commodification. The title of his works further sharpen his proposals through their calculated use of word plays and metonymies that open up his poignant commentaries to a wider range of playful, yet related associations.
Sven ’t Jolle has an up-coming solo show at Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (2009-2010) and has recently presented solo exhibitions and projects at Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp (2009), Vera Gliem Gallery, Cologne (2007), Stroom, The Hague (2007) and SMAK, Ghent. His work has also been shown as part of “Beaufort 03”, Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst at Kunstmuseum aan zee, Oostende and different locations (2009), “Corpus Delicti” at Justitiepaleis, Brussels (2008), “Parkhaus” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2008), “Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous)” at Extra City - Centre for Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2008), "Die Geschichte Sich Nicht! " at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2007) and "Come-Back / le retour" at CRAC Alsace - Altkirch, France (2005).
Sven ’t Jolle is represented by Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne and Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris.
www.aptglobal.org/artist_profile_page.asp?ID=5788&Ima...
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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
Recently I went to meet up with the founders of Nomiku, the first immersion circulator designed for the home cook who got its start from a successful Kickstarter campaign and successfully raised $600,000 over its targeted $200,000 from 1,800 backers back in 2012.
The team is now in Hong Kong as they work on getting their production lines going in China to fulfil orders. After many delays, I was told that it should be shipped by July in 2013.
Pictured is the Nomiku founders Lisa Q. Fetterman (CEO, currently pregnant), Abe Fetterman (CTO, Lisa’s husband) and Wipop Bam Suppipat (product design) doing tricks with the spoon after a meal at a Spanish restaurant in Hong Kong.
# References
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomiku
+ nomiku
# SML Data
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+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
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+ GPS: 22°16'40" N 114°9'34" E
+ Location: 香港中環德己立街55號蘭桂坊大廈蘭桂坊酒店 Hotel LKF, LKF TOWER, 55 D'Aguilar Street, Central, Hong Kong
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+ Serial: SML.20130608.6D.15651.BW
+ Series: Crazyisgood, 香港人 Hong Kong Humans, Hackers
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Crazyisgood: Nose spooning Hackers / Nomiku Founders: Lisa Q. Fetterman + Abe Fetterman + Wipop Bam Suppipat / 香港人 Hong Kong Humans / SML.20130608.6D.15651.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.
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.
When I document events I find it more interesting to capture both the subjects _and_ the photographers rather than the subjects alone.
Leung Kwok-hung 梁國雄 (born 27 March 1956 in Hong Kong) is a Left-wing political activist and a member of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. He is also known as “長毛” (Long Hair) in Hong Kong because he has long hair, which is an uncommon feature among politicians in Hong Kong (and perhaps in the global arena as well).
I could not readily identify the reporters for this team, but if you know please do comment below. As with most productions, I am always interested in the amount of work which goes behind the scene which the viewer would never see.
# References
+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leung_Kwok-hung
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+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
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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.
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.
Model: SML Me. Photo credit: Aaron Johnson (Flickr:Erotocrat)
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Eli Livingston at Agata Olek's Christmas party held on 2009-12-19 at Olek's Brooklyn studio in Gowandus.
Eli Livingston is the proprietor of 'Monster House Creations', famous sculptor and fx artist, known for extensive sculpture, prop and FX effects work on feature blockbuster motion picture 'DOGMA' by director Kevin Smith (MIRAMAX), the film 'Modern Vampires' and television H.B.O.'s 'From Earth to the Moon' , M.A.X. F/X TV commercial advertisements and his work for Barany Artists. Eli crafted prosthetic molds on Broadway in NYC for the Paramount Theatre for productions 'Beauty and The Beast',' A Christmas Carol', and 'Wizard of Oz'.
Eli received his B.F.A in Industrial Design Technology in 1995, and has been perfecting his craft for over a decade.
He has sculpted for a variety of fine art, jewelry and display projects, that have gained him recognition in both commercial and fine art fields. Contracts he acquired included custom work for Barany Artists; Viktor Koen, as well as musical clients Celtic Frost, Heaven and Hell, Ibanez Guitars and SilverTone. Also, his stage display fabrications for NBC, Ibanez, Webster Hall NYC, Acid Inc., Toy Fair and Burton Snowboards.
His work has been featured in the Body Art Tattoo Convention 2004 in Woodstock NY, The Dark Arts Festival 2006 in Brooklyn NY, and 2006 Living Dead Doll Art Show and Charity Event where he was interviewed by Fangoria TV and many more.
Eli is also known through his projects sculpting for industry leaders in the comic and toy industry, Art Asylum, Marvel Comics, Fisher Price, Toy Biz, Hasbro, Diamond Select, Mattel, Nintendo, Mezco, Play Along Toys, Living Toys, Chaos Toys, Ningyoushi, Upper Playground, Grey Publishing. He has procured a variety of characters, villains and superheros alike, the most notable being signature-limited edition sculptures for Marvel Comics.
His abilities range from character and creature design, initial concept sketches to final airbrushed product, large or small. Whether the medium be wax and clay sculpts, fiberglass and silicone molds, latex prosthetics: on location, as part of a team or working at in his Brooklyn studio; the articulate precision of Eli's work is second to none. His most sought after skill is his expertise to mimic ones style or likeness into traditional 3D sculptural form. Meticulous about detail and perfection, he does not rest until he is satisfied with the quality product he's creating. Additionally, he is known for delivering quality under deadline. In his spare time he continually searches out new exciting projects and challenges his own imagination to breathe life into the artistic visions of his own reality.
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Photographed at !BOYLESQUE!, 87 LUDLOW - a weekly gay burlesque show on Saturdays 11pm-4am at Uncle Charlie's LES in New York City.
Jenny Eisenpresser showing off her custom-made Scrabble necklace. Photographed at the artist's studio during the Dumbo Art Festival 2009 in New York City.
Jenny Eisenpresser was born in New York city and studied art earning a BFA and BA at Cornell University. She worked several years as a commercial artist: designing book covers; doing exhibition signage and freelance illustration. Currently she is pursuing her art and experimenting daily in her studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, where she'll be unless she accidentally blows it up.
Her portfolio is available at jennyeisenpresser.com
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.
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The changing landscape of Downtown Brooklyn.
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