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Edward Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. He often collaborated with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, from 1972 until his death. Collectively, they are referred to as "Kienholz".

 

Edward Kienholz was born in Fairfield, Washington in 1927. He grew up on a farm in the eastern part of the state, learning carpentry and drafting and mechanical skills in his youth. He studied at Eastern Washington College of Education and, briefly, at Whitworth College in Spokane, but did not receive any formal artistic training. After a series of odd jobs, such as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, the manager of a dance band, a used car salesman, a caterer, a decorator and a vacuum cleaner salesman, Kienholz settled in Los Angeles, where he became involved with the arts.

Together with other avant-garde artists in the area, such as the youthful Michael Bowen, he opened art galleries. In 1957 Kienholz started the Ferus Gallery with Walter Hopps. In 1961 he completed his first installation, "Roxys", which caused a stir at the documenta 4 exhibition in 1968.

 

Despite his lack of formal artistic training, Kienholz began to employ his mechanical and carpentry skills in making collage paintings and reliefs assembled from materials salvaged from the alleys and sidewalks of the city. In 1960 he withdrew from the Ferus Gallery to concentrate on his art, creating free-standing, large-scale environmental tableaux. Kienholz's assemblages of found objects—the detritus of modern existence, often including figures cast from life—are at times vulgar, brutal, and gruesome, confronting the viewer with questions about human existence and the inhumanity of twentieth-century society. Because of their satirical and antiestablishment tones, his works have often been linked to the funk art movement based in San Francisco in the 1960s.

 

A 1966 show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art drew considerable controversy about his assemblage, Back Seat Dodge ‘38 (1964), said by some in the press to be pornographic or at least vulgar.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kienholz

 

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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

 

thearmoryshow.com

 

Mixed media painting with typography influences by Jenny Eisenpresser. Seen at 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.

 

www.dumboartscenter.org

www.dumboartfestival.org

www.video_dumbo.org

  

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+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)

+ SML Flickr Collections: Events

+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009

+ SML Flickr Tags: Art

+ SML Pro Blog: Art

A three-legged pot hung from the ceiling is heated by the piles of wood in the large fire pit.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM in Sanya, Hainan, China.

 

煮食 Cooking / 黎苗少數民族文化 Culture of the Li and Miao minorities / 中國海南三亞 Sanya, Hainan, China / SML.20140506.6D.32025.P1.BW

Some captures are prime candidates for black and white—and this is one of those instances, and it will probably eventually also processed as such.

 

But there is something interesting about that little bit of color—the very fainted yellow from the sun contrast with the blue gray clouds.

 

The bird is technically both over and under exposed, and there is nothing I could do about it. Following things flying in air is a lot harder than I first imagined. Hopefully I can get better at this—maybe use spot metering next time. But again, when it is in black and white, the hard white / black is much less distracting. There is something magical about B+W that can often turn fail into win!

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-09T13:42:12+0800

+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456

+ Exposure: 1/640 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

+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130509.7D.41593.P1.L1

+ Series: 自然 Nature, 鳥 Birds

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“亞洲水鳥藍空獨航 Asian Waterbird in Flight” / 自然 Nature / SML.20130509.7D.41593.P1.L1

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Contrast makes for interesting compositions.

 

In colors: orange vs blue. In materials: reflective vs matte surfaces. In age: old vs new. In size: large vs small. In forms: curves vs lines. In proportion: majority vs minority. In brightness: dark vs light.

 

When all the elements are there they sing to my eyes. Everyday found art in the urban landscape is a living poetry waiting for the eyes to explore.

 

The thing which applies to photography also applies to design. The visual art language is the same for food—food tastes best when it hits all the taste buds: sweet, sour, salty, heat. Visual pleasures work best when it hits all the visual notes: hues, colors, brightness, proportion, size.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-01-11 12:33:56 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 3456 x 5184

+ Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/5.6

+ Focal Length: 183 mm

+ ISO: 160

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III

+ GPS: 22°16'43" N 114°10'24" E

+ Location: 中國香港灣仔謝斐道香海大廈附近 中国香港湾仔谢斐道香海大厦附近 Near the Heung Hoi Mansion at Jaffe Road in Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China

+ Serial: SML.20130211.7D.22547.P1

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6

+ Series: 形 Forms

 

“對比 Contrast” / 城市建築之形 Urban Architecture Forms / SML.20130211.7D.22547.P1

/ #形 #Forms #SMLForms #抽象 #abstract #SMLAbstracts #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #SMLOpinions

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #灣仔 #Wanchai #建築 #建筑 #architecture #攝影 #摄影 #photography #對比 #Contrast #opinions

This highly recognisable building requires no introduction. It is of course the Bird’s Nest in Beijing. Officially known as the National Stadium, it was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

 

I have wanted to photograph this architecture since its inception, and am happy to finally have seen it. The architecture was designed by Herzog & de Meuron. It is both a visual as well as structural marvel.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM.

 

# More Information

+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_National_Stadium

 

鸟巢 Bird’s Nest (National Stadium) / 中國北京體育建築之形 Sports architecture forms in Beijing, China / SML.20140502.6D.31732.P1.BW

In March 2014, I went to the Sydney to attend a wedding. After four months, I finally have the time to process those photographs. These are what I saw…

 

Pictured is the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Australian flag high on top. The bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore.

 

Photographed with the 6D + 100-400.

 

# More Information

+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Harbour_Bridge

 

Flags of Australia + Sydney Harbour Bridge / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30923.P1

Galería Leandro Navarro in Madrid, Spain gave a solo show to Picasso during Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.

 

Titled “Les Trois Baigneuses” or “The three bathers” in English, this painting was drawn on September 15, 1932 while Picasso is having his summer vacations in the South of France—at Boisgeloup.

 

Picasso is one of my favorite artists of all times. As a creator, his work is always changing and fresh, independent of gallery demands. His lines are brief, which shows decisiveness and maturity of a painter.

 

Pablo Picasso

Les Trois Baigneuses

Signed and dated lower right Picasso

Boisgeloup 15 Septembre 1932

Oil on canvas

10 5/8 x 16 1/8 in

27 x 41 cm

Painted 1932-09-15

 

# Description by the Gallery

In 1932, inspired by his summer vacations in the South of France, Picasso executed a number of paintings of figures on a beach. This work is most closely related to two similar sized compositions, both titled Baigneuses, painted during the same period (Zervos, vol.8, nos. 61 and 62). The first (no. 61) was painted one week earlier on September the 6th and was also dean with a dense line and darkly coloured passages in the background. That work appears to contain four figures in a mostly triangular grouping. The present work contains three figures and the added element of the dressing huts in the right background. The final work (no. 62) painted on the 28th of November shows the figures more clearly delineated and the whole composition is far more sophisticated. While the last work most clearly shows the figures as play, this and the earlier painting both have an element of foreboding as the lower figure relates to the image of the drowned woman which appears in other beach scenes. With this association in mind, the scene shifts between exuberant play and a moment of highly charged distress.

 

# Provenance

Paris Galleries, New York

Richard A. Loeb, New Jersey

Constance W. Stafford

Private collection, California

 

# Exhibited

Stuttgart, Staastgalerie, Picasso - Betende, 18 June - 16 Ocrober 2005, no. 72, p. 111 (Illustrated in colour)

 

# Bibliography

The Picasso Project, ed. Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Surrealism, 1930-36, San Francisco 1996, no. 32-128, p. 136 (Illustrated)

 

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Maya Widmeiser Picasso and dated Paris, 22 January 2007.

 

# Galería Leandro Navarro

Amor de Dios, 1

28014 Madrid

Spain

www.leandro-navarro.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:39:31+0800

+ Dimensions: 3895 x 2508

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 360 mm

+ ISO: 160

+ 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.13976

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Pablo Picasso: Les Trois Baigneuses (Signed and dated lower right Picasso, Boisgeloup 15 Septembre 1932, Oil on canvas)” / Galería Leandro Navarro / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13976

/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #PabloPicasso #Picasso #GaleriaLeandroNavarro #paintings #oiloncanvas #masters #FR #ES

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9016539194/

A pair of birds hanging out on the roof at the Forbidden City.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

 

Love birds / 中國北京故宫 Forbidden City, Beijing, China / SML.20140430.7D.51995.P1

A city never sleeps because inside which lives humans which never stops going somewhere. This time-lapse video shows the pulse of a city through the rush hour traffic in Central in Hong Kong one gloomy evening.

  

For the soundtrack I had wanted something repetitive and Philip Glass came to mind. I had originally written something but thought that the video works best with something by Glass. To avoid licensing issues (mostly because I publish everything via CCBY), I found a MIDI file performed by Bertrand Robion on the web [1] and mixed it with some piano samples.

  

# Notes

1. www.glasspages.org/audio.html

  

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-07-17 (recorded) 2013-07-20 (processed)

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3, Manfrotto tripod, Manfrotto head

+ Workflow: Lightroom 5, LRTimelapse 2, After Effects CC, Ableton Live Suite 8

+ Video: 1920x1080 (1080p), 24fps, Progressive

+ Location: 香港中環 Central, Hong Kong

+ Photographer: See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography

+ Soundtrack: Philip Glass: Metamorphosis 1 by Bertrand Robion (solo piano) mixed by SML Music

+ Media Production: SML Universe

+ License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CCBY)

+ Copyright: 2013 See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Universe Limited

+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics

+ Serial: SML.20130717.6D.20604-SML.20130717.6D.21490-TL

  

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Music / SML Universe Limited

  

香港中環 Hong Kong Central / 人流 Human Logistics 延時攝影 Time Lapse Photography / SML.20130717.6D.20604-SML.20130717.6D.21490-TL

/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLMusic #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #延時 #TimeLapse #PhilipGlass #BertrandRobion #piano #中環 #Central #Urban #city #people

Photographing birds was not as easy as I originally expected. Pictured is a wild eagle flying into the sea to catch a fish swimming near the surface. Seriously.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-02T15:05:12+0800

+ Dimensions: 2948 x 2948

+ Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/7.1

+ Focal Length: 360 mm

+ ISO: 800

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'27" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Location: 香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130502.7D.40945.SQ

+ Series: 自然 Nature

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“痛下殺手 In for the kill” / 自然 Nature / SML.20130502.7D.40945.SQ

/ #自然 #Nature #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #鳥 #Birds #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #水 #Water #鷹 #Eagle #海 #Sea

In May 2008, just months before the Beijing Olympics, a devastating earthquake struck Sichuan Province, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Chinese artist 陳秋林 Chen Qiulin’s 漂浮Floating series responds directly to that catastrophe, adding a distinctly personal tenor to an event many only learned about through the media.

 

These floating human figures, sculpted in papier-mâché made primarily with paper scavenged from the detritus of the disaster, have the rough surfaces of industrial materials. At first glance, their texture, heft, and mass resemble that of concrete structures—a reference to the recent industrialization of the artist’s homeland.

 

Yet as the forms sway gently in space, suspended by nearly invisible pieces of fishing line, their apparent heaviness gives way to an essential weightlessness. The sculptures’ movements likewise suggest multiple possible readings, alternately evoking the graceful postures of dance and traumatic visions of bodies falling in space. Personal history drives Chen’s practice, but in creating such plays between opposites, she asks viewers to bring their own histories to their encounters with her work.

 

(retrieved from gallery description with some edits, 1)

 

陳秋林 Chen Qiulin

漂浮 Floating No. 1, 2008-2009

Edition 3

Sculpture, Wastepaper Pulp

172 x 89 x 60 cm

 

# Notes

1. www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/index.php5?id=1411158&...

 

# Chen Qiulin 陈秋林 (陳秋林)

Chen Qiulin (b. 1975) is an emerging artist who is deeply concerned with the impact of urbanization in China. Her practice includes performance, photography, video, installation and most recently sculpture. She combines personal history with themes of demolition, migration, and transformation to express the reality for "ordinary people" living in China today. Born in Hubei Province, Chen Qiulin graduated from the Printmaking Department at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and currently divides her time between Chengdu and Beijing.

 

www.chartcontemporary.com/artist_chen_qiulin.html

 

# A Thousand Plateaus Art Space 千高原艺术空间 (千高原藝術空間)

87 Fangqin Street

Chengdu 610041

China

 

www.1000plateaus.org/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T15:42:20+0800

+ Dimensions: 5316 x 3544

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8

+ Focal Length: 30 mm

+ ISO: 800

+ 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.13846

+ 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

 

“Sculpture by Chen Qiulin 陈秋林 (陳秋林 b. 1975 China): Floating 漂浮 No. 1, 2008-2009 (Wastepaper Pulp)” / A Thousand Plateaus Art Space 千高原艺术空间 (千高原藝術空間) / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13846

/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #陈秋林 #陳秋林 #ChenQiulin #1000plateaus #千高原艺术空间 #千高原 #sculpture #papiermache

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8933516366/

 

This capture has most of the elements that I look for in this series. God rays: check. Wild patterns on the water surface: check. Tiny boats on the water surface which references that of Chinese traditional paintings: check. Puffy clouds on the distant: check. The only thing it lacks is some more dramatic clouds on the top. But still, what are the chances? I shall meditate on this to will it to happen…

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-08-25T17:58:43+0800

+ Dimensions: 5038 x 3358

+ Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/11

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Workflow: Lightroom 5

+ Serial: SML.20130825.6D.26876.BW

+ Series: 寧 Serenity

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

風暴雲光 God rays during the storm / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130825.6D.26876.BW

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #HDR #SMLHDR #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #自然 #Nature #cloudscape #clouds #storm #godrays

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9688106256/

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9688106256/sizes/o/ (5038 x 3358)

See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)

 

Agata Olek (Flickr)

100% Acrylic Art Guards

 

"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.

 

Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."

  

Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.

 

Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.

 

Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.

 

Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.

 

Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.

 

agataolek.com

agataolek.com/blog

  

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.

 

www.dumboartscenter.org

www.dumboartfestival.org

www.video_dumbo.org

  

Related SML

+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)

+ SML Flickr Collections: Events

+ SML Flickr Sets: Art

+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009

+ SML Flickr Tags: Art

+ SML Pro Blog: Art

See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)

 

Agata Olek (Flickr)

100% Acrylic Art Guards

 

"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.

 

Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."

  

Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.

 

Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.

 

Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.

 

Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.

 

Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.

 

agataolek.com

agataolek.com/blog

  

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.

 

www.dumboartscenter.org

www.dumboartfestival.org

www.video_dumbo.org

  

Related SML

+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)

+ SML Flickr Collections: Events

+ SML Flickr Sets: Art

+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009

+ SML Flickr Tags: Art

+ SML Pro Blog: Art

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.

 

eyebeam.org

Pieter Hugo (South Africa, b. 1976)

From the series Nollywood

Escort Kama, Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

Digital C-print

68 x 68 inches (172.72 x 172.72 cm)

Edition of 5

 

www.pieterhugo.com/selected-work/nollywood/nollywoodescor...

www.pieterhugo.com/

 

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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

 

thearmoryshow.com

 

Inflatable Dress by Diana Eng

Cream silk chiffon, draped over plastic inflatables and white silk flowers.

 

+++

 

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.

 

eyebeam.org/events/fairytale-fashion-show

fairytalefashion.org

 

Inflatable Dress by Diana Eng

Cream silk chiffon, draped over plastic inflatables and white silk flowers.

 

+++

 

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.

 

eyebeam.org/events/fairytale-fashion-show

fairytalefashion.org

 

I just started watching Fringe season 5 [1], which was just concluded. I generally prefer to do season-long marathons over watching things weekly. Pacing is better for me this way.

 

What I used to do is chain-smoke while watching TV. But I can’t do it in Hong Kong so I started eating pistachios instead. One bag of pistachios span approximately 3 40min episodes. A bit fattening I think.

 

For those of you who commented that I should quit smoking, I think that I will pick getting skinny with a potentially shorter lifespan over getting fat and thus minimizing chance to get suitable mates.

 

Besides, SML Family has a history of long life anyway. Everybody who has passed away in the previous generations are over 90yo. I would much rather rip the benefits of smoking over living til I am over 100.

 

# Notes

1. Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series)

 

# SML Workflow

Photographed with the iPad 3 at SML Universe HKG, processed in Snapseed.

 

“過道開心開心果 Fringe + OD’ing on pistachios” #biohacks #food #tv / SML.20130201.IP3.08258.SQ

/ Biohacks #SMLOpinions #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLLifeLog #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood

/ #OD #overdose #Fringe #US #television #media #opinions #life #pistachio food TV #fat #SMLFamily #crazy #snacks #hongkong #china #香港 #中國 #中国 IP3 SQ

Chinese artist 朱金石 Zhu Jinshi’s abstract paintings are incredible—mostly as they resemble more as sculptures than paintings. Born in Beijing in 1954, the artist is known to apply his oil paint with spatulas and shovels.

 

“Thickness … visually guides you to change your worldview,” he said. “It can be used as a point of breakthrough.”

 

This head-on view does not really showcase the brilliance of this work, so I have also photographed another one from the side so you can see how the oil paints leave the canvas and protrude a great few inches from the surface.

 

Zhu Jinshi was born in Beijing, China in 1954, where he currently lives and works.

 

Zhu Jinshi 朱金石

Great White Shark No. 1, 2012

Oil on canvas

70 7/8 x 63 inches

180 x 160 cm

 

# Zhu Jinshi 朱金石 (b. 1954 Beijing, China)

www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitions/zhu-jinshi

 

# Blum & Poe

2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90034

USA

 

www.blumandpoe.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:15:53+0800

+ Dimensions: 2656 x 2961

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/9.0

+ Focal Length: 20 mm

+ ISO: 400

+ 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.13919

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by 朱金石 Zhu Jinshi: Great White Shark No. 1, 2012 (oil on canvas)” / Blum & Poe / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13919

/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #朱金石 #ZhuJinshi #Blumandpoe #paintings #oil #abstract #Shark #Beijing

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8876417085/

  

# 黃嘉麗 WONG Ka Lai, Kali

Monsters Family

kalai.w1990@gmail.com

+852 6849 7416

 

# Sponsor

+ China Union (Cashmere) International Group Limited

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

黃嘉麗 WONG Ka Lai, Kali: Monsters Family: Look 5 / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.17004

/ #PolyUFashionShow2013 #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #Crazyisgood

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #理工大學 #PolyU #fashion #design #people #WongKaLai #KaliWong #黃嘉麗 #MonstersFamily #womens #women #models #cashmere

Designed by Arquitectonica, the building complexes at 貝沙灣 Residence Bel-Air located at 數碼港 Cyberport feature many of the key ingredients in Hong Kong’s luxury residential properties, as well as some WTF sceneries:

 

+ “風水洞 Feng Shui Hole”, the hole in the middle of the building which allows the dragon to fly through.

+ High density which soars to the sky. Higher density means more space around for scenery. This allows everyone to have a good view.

+ Ocean view. No one wants to be looking at humans when they are indoors. Well, I don’t.

+ Clothes hanging dry on the balcony. Hong Kong does not have a lot of space so everyone regardless of their income level dry their clothes outside. Truly WTF, yes I know.

+ Swimming pool with a view. This seems almost standard. There is a swimming pool at my place, too. But alas they are always surrounded by buildings so if you are super-private like me you will never swim there. Public swimming pools actually are more private because at least no one can see you.

 

Pictured is the view from the balcony of one of the apartments at 貝沙灣 Residence Bel-Air. Stitched together using 16 RAW captures with the 6D + 17-40 f/4L, processed with Autopano Giga 3.0 and Lightroom 4.

 

# References

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberport

2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquitectonica

 

# SML Data

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+ Dimensions: 11226 x 3996

+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ Panorama FOV: 262 degree horizontal, 95 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Spherical

+ GPS: 22°15'20" N 114°7'57" E

+ Location: 香港數碼港貝沙灣 Residence Bel-Air, Cyberport, Hong Kong

+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130608.6D.15455-SML.20130608.6D.15471-Pano.Spherical.262x95.BW

+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“數碼港貝沙灣 Residence Bel-Air, Cyberport” / 香港住宅建築全景之形 Hong Kong Residential Architecture Panoramic Forms / SML.20130608.6D.15455-SML.20130608.6D.15471-Pano.Spherical.262x95.BW

/ #建築 #Architecture #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #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 #山水 #landscape #城市 #Urban

This temple is called 慈誠宮 “Temple of Compassion and Sincerity” (Cíchéng Gōng), and is where I see the festive lanterns. The temple was built in 清嘉慶元年 (1796). It is considered a “Level-3 Historic Site” (三級古蹟) in Taiwan, and is a representative model of Chinese historic temple architecture.

 

It is located at Great South Road, Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan (台灣台北市士林區大南路).

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM. Processed in Lightroom 5.

 

# More Information (English Unavailable)

+ zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/士林慈誠宮 (the temple)

+ zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/台灣古蹟列表 (the list of Taiwanese historic sites)

 

慈誠宮 “Temple of Compassion and Sincerity” (Cíchéng Gōng) / 台灣台北士林市 Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30698

/ #台灣 #臺灣 #Taiwan #台北 #Taipei #SMLTravel #旅遊 #旅游 #Travel #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #temple #士林 #Shilin #燈籠 #lantern #古蹟 #HistoricSite #History #architecture #建筑 #建築

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/14543861755/

With its signature blue jogging lane and wonderful sea breeze, the Ma On Shan Promenade was one of the nicest thing available in my neighborhood. It looks great up on top peering from the 27th floor down [1], and is relaxing just to walk around or do some landscape photography, as can be seen in my serenity photo series [2].

 

Completed in three phases between 2009 and 2010, the whole stretch of the promenade is 3.2km long and covers an area of 5.2 hectares. Besides jogging trails, it has children’s playgrounds, elderly fitness corners as well as fitness stations.

 

It is also a great place to photograph Pat Sin Leng (the long stretch of mountains in the back) as well as Tolo Harbour, as can be seen on my stream as well.

 

# References

1. GovHK: Leisure and Cultural Services Department: Ma On Shan Promenade: www.lcsd.gov.hk/parks/mospd/en/index.php

 

# Notes

1. “晨光慢跑 Morning Jog” / 體育之形 Sports Forms / SML.20130418.6D.00964: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8685039597/

2. 寧 Serenity / SML Projects: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/sets/72157631563218620/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-09T13:46:23+0800

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+ Exposure: 1/1250 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 17mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L 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

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130509.6D.05668

+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 體育 Sports

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“馬鞍山海濱長廊緩跑徑 Ma On Shan Promenade Jogging Trail” / 香港康樂建築 Hong Kong Leisure Architecture / SML.20130509.6D.05668

/ #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #體育 #体育 #Sports #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #海濱長廊 #Promenade #緩跑 #jogging

 

# SML Thank You

+ Cathay Pacific: discovery.cathaypacific.com/cpa/en/hong-kong/walk/seaside...

Using her feet as supports for her tools, a Miao (苗族) woman sits on the floor to knit traditional Hmong textile art for sale at the store nearby.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM in Sanya, Hainan, China.

 

# More Information

+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_textile_art

+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miao_people

 

苗族紡織藝術 Miao (Hmong) Textile Art / 中國海南三亞 Sanya, Hainan, China / SML.20140507.6D.32163.P1.BW

A collage of forms which create a nice “swoop” in the form of the letter “J“ at the back alley of 港威大道 Gateway Boulevard, the back alley which connects every single shopping mall complex at 廣東道 Canton Road including the 港威大廈 Gateway Tower, 海港城 Harbour City, 海洋中心 Ocean Centre and 海運大廈 in Tsim Sha Shui, Hong Kong.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-27 16:01:46 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 3050 x 4575

+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 40 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS M

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°17'58" N 114°10'3" E

+ Location: 中國香港尖沙咀港威大道 中国香港尖沙咀港威大道 Gateway Boulevard, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130227.EOSM.02681.P1.L1

+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 形 Forms, 人流 Human Logistics

 

“JJ” / 人流建築之形 Human Logistics Architecture Forms / SML.20130227.EOSM.02681.P1.L1

/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #尖沙咀 #TsimShaTsui #建築 #建筑 Architecture #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #街 #Street

Round 3: The lines becomes curve for this one.

 

The building on the left is Exchange Square. The one on the right is still Jardine House. With its circular windows, Jardine House has an interesting facade which makes it beautiful to photograph. In many ways, when I first saw the Maritime Hotel in New York, the first thing I was reminded of is how much better Jardine House looks comparatively speaking.

 

This photo might look better in black and white—so it will be processed as such later—if I have learned anything looking at the Flickr stream of Thomas Hawk, it is that interleaving photographs from different places and series generally look better than streaming the same kind of photos continuously. Diversity makes life interesting…

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-26T18:02:31.40+0800

+ Dimensions: 3069 x 4589

+ Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/2.8

+ ISO: 1250

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

+ GPS: 22°17'1" N 114°9'30" E

+ Altitude: 122.0 m

+ Location: 中國香港中環交易廣場 Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong, China

+ Subject: 中國香港中環交易廣場和怡和大廈 Exchange Square and Chater House, Central, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130326.7D.36607

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“曲線與圓點: 交易廣場與怡和大廈 Curves vs Dots: Exchange Square vs Jardine House” / 香港金融建築之形 Hong Kong Financial Architecture Forms / SML.20130326.7D.36607

/ #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #中環 #Central #Office #lines #circles

When does street art end and fine art begins? It is hard to make that distinction anymore, and the pieces seen at ABHK certainly reflects the trend.

 

For over 40 years, two artists in the UK collaborated under the name “Gilbert & George,” which is comprised of Gilbert Proesch (b. 1943-09-17 in San Martin de Tor, Italy) and George Passmore (b. 1942-01-08 in Plymouth, UK).

 

This mixed media painting titled “Jacksie” were done in 2008, when both artists are well in their 60s, but there is no shortage of WTF in their work—which has elements similar to that of graffiti seen on the streets of London except that they are shown in well known galleries.

 

It is awesome to find a partner in crime—life long marriage in art. Sweet.

 

Gilbert & George

Jacksie, 2008

Mixed Media

254 x 453 cm

100 x 178.35 in

 

# Gilbert & George

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_%26_George

 

# Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ropac.net/

 

7, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

69 avenue du Général Leclerc

93500 Paris-Pantin

France

 

Mirabellplatz 2

5020 Salzburg

Austria

 

# SML Data

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+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 31 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14232

+ 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

 

Gilbert & George: Jacksie, 2008 (Mixed Media) / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14232

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Photo by request. Chinese men playing basketball at night. Panorama stitched using 18 7D RAW handheld capture. Thus seams are not perfect and people are seen with their body chopped off, some even have body doubles. But what was requested is depicted. You can always crop out what you want to have a perfect photo. This beats posting 18 boring image on my stream.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-17 21:30:10 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 19388 x 3289

+ Exposure: 1/30 - 1/80 sec at f/4.5

+ Focal Length: 40 mm

+ ISO: 2000 - 3200

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ Panorama FOV: 196 degree horizontal, 36.9 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Cylindrical

+ GPS: 22°16'37" N 114°10'21" E

+ Location: 中國香港灣仔莊士敦道111號修頓遊樂場 Southorn Playground, 111 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130317.7D.35490-SML.20130317.7D.35510-Pano.Cylindrical.196x36.9

+ Workflow: Hugin 2012, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 體育 Sports, 男 Men, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

“夜間籃球 Nighttime Basketball” / 香港體育全景攝影 Hong Kong Sports Panoramic Photography / SML.20130317.7D.35490-SML.20130317.7D.35510-Pano.Cylindrical.196x36.9

/ #體育 #Sports #男 #Men #SMLMen #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #街 #Street #灣仔 #Wanchai

Some of you asked me for EOS M samples — Here's one taken tonight at dinner. EOS M with EF 17-40 f4L. It feels really more like holding the lens then holding a camera — it's a weird thing. The CMOS sensor seems the same as the 7D — it creates 25MB RAW files!!! #crazyisgood #smllove :)

 

金滿庭京川滬菜館

鑽石山龍蟠街3號荷里活廣場3樓312A舖

Modern China Restaurant

Shop 312A, Level 3, Plaza Hollywood, 3 Lung Poon Street, Diamond Hill

The elevated footbridge in Central near Exchange Square. Here you see one expect about pano which makes things interesting—it is possible to capture the same person twice. The guy on the right is the same person walking in the middle ground. The seams are not perfect because it is handheld but it shows just how extensive the footbridge network is in Hong Kong.

 

Stitched in Hugin using 7 RAW captures of the EOS M + 17-40 f/4L.

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8562303588/sizes/o/ (8214 x 2805)

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-15 14:39:25 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 8214 x 2805

+ Exposure: 1/60 - 1/125 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Camera: Canon EOS M

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ Panorama FOV: 174 degree horizontal, 72 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Cylindrical

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°9'30" E

+ Location: 中國香港中環康樂廣場2號交易廣場 中国香港中环康乐广场2号交易广场 Exchange Square, 2 Connaught Pl, Central, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130315.EOSM.03319-SML.20130315.EOSM.03325-Pano.Cylindrical.174x72

+ Workflow: Hugin 2012, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

“中環行人天橋 Pedestrian Footbridge in Central” / 香港人流全景攝影 Hong Kong Human Logistics Panoramic Photography / SML.20130315.EOSM.03319-SML.20130315.EOSM.03325-Pano.Cylindrical.174x72

/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #街 #Street #中環 #Central

More work from A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) seen at the Art Basel Hong Kong which I liked.

 

The primitive cave paintings at Lascaux are often considered by art historians as the beginning of art, and in many ways Penck’s stick figures and his flat and pictographic symbols resemble that of the past as well. In some ways they remind me of the drawings by Keith Haring, but obviously Penck came from a completely different line.

 

It looks almost like an artefact justifying the “ancient aliens” theory by many ufologists, but of course it was painted rather recently. It is fantastic though.

 

Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

A.R. Penck (b. 1939-10-05, Germany)

The Cosmonaut (Center), 1991

Oil on canvas

67 x 59 inches

170 x 150 cm

RP 738

 

# A.R. Penck

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Penck

www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4546

  

# Michael Werner Gallery

 

www.michaelwerner.com/

 

4 East 77th Street

New York, NY 10075

USA

 

22 Upper Brook Street

London W1K 7PZ

United Kingdom

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:11:29+0800

+ Dimensions: 2405 x 2709

+ Exposure: 1/50 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 32 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13901

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

  

“Painting by A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler): The Cosmonaut (Center), 1991 (oil on canvas)” / Michael Werner Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13901

/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #Crazyisgood #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #painting #oiloncanvas #ARPenck #Penck #MichaelWerner #Germany #DE #neoprimitivist

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8909167095/

 

These appeared new to me but I am not sure if it's just that I have not been on the newer trains. These newer signage, seen on the M train today is very user-friendly. Easy to quickly tell what the next stop is and easily reusable for all different lines.

 

See SML Pro Blog: New York City Subway LED Signage for complete description, photos and videos.

  

Chinese imperial roof decoration (檐獸 yán shòu) was only allowed on official buildings of the empire. Along the ridges, near the corner, a row of small figures is placed. The imperial yellow glaze is reserved for the emperor.

 

At the tail of the procession will be an imperial dragon, representing the authority of the state. At the head of the procession will be a man riding a Phoenix, one legend suggests that this represents a minon of the emperor who grew greedy for power and was hanged from the roof gable for treason.

 

In between will be mythical beasts, usually an odd number of them. The mythical beasts are set to pounce upon the man and devour him should he stray from performing his duties with faithfulness and rectitude.

 

Pictured is the imperial roof decoration seen at the Hall of Supreme Harmony (太和殿), featuring the maximum nine mythical beasts. The order of the beasts are: 1. evil-dispelling bull, 2. courageous goat-bull (獬豸), 3. wind-summoning fish (狎魚), 4. storm-summoning fish (狎魚), 5. mythical lion (狻猊), 6. auspicious seahorse, 7. heavenly horse, 8. lion, and 9. chiwen (鴟吻, a son of dragon). Additionally, an immortal guardian (行什, hangshi) is in front of the dragon holding to a sword like a cane.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM.

 

# More Information

+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_roof_decoration

 

太和殿檐獸 Imperial Roof Decoration, Hall of Supreme Harmony / 中國北京故宫 Forbidden City, Beijing, China / SML.20140430.7D.51965.P1

# LIU Chun Ki

Dasein

lck_25@yahoo.com.hk

+852 5132 7223

 

# Sponsors

+ Hale Textile Ltd.

+ Novetex Textiles Limited

+ Winning Textile Co. Ltd

+ Long Tai Hong (Holding) Limited

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

LIU Chun Ki: Dasein: Collection / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.7D.43065

/ #PolyUFashionShow2013 #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLMen #Crazyisgood

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #理工大學 #PolyU #fashion #design #people #LIUChunKi #Dasein #womens #women #models

A few people have commented that the previous motion series was a bit “sinister,” [1] so here I give you another rendering, where I was completely oblivious to the surrounding even now I am logically aware of my intention…

 

There are still a few of these which I haven’t gotten the time to work on but thanks to my data serialisation methodology I can still find it in my 100,000+ RAW Lightroom catalog…

 

# Notes

1. SML in Motion / SML Me (See-ming Lee 李思明) / SML.20130723.6D.21600.L1: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9366030820/

 

# Technical (Strobist) Info

+ Canon 580EX mounted on 6D set to manual 1/128 power and strobe at 10Hz.

+ Canon 430EX with umbrella on left hand side to slave and multi strobe with the 580EX.

+ Canon EOS 6D with EF 70-200 f/4L interval shooting with the Canon TC-80N3 remote.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-07-23T17:22:32+0800

+ Dimensions: 5472 x 3648

+ Exposure: 1.0 sec at f/7.1

+ Focal Length: 104 mm

+ ISO: 400

+ Flash: Canon 580EX + Canon 430EX

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/4L USM

+ Accessories: Canon 580EX (hotshoe) + Canon 430EX (umbrella) + Canon TC-80N3 + Manfrotto tripods

+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Workflow: Lightroom 5

+ Serial: SML.20130723.6D.21584.L1

+ Series: SML Me, SML Labs

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

What I never see… / SML in Motion / SML Me (See-ming Lee 李思明) / SML.20130723.6D.21584.L1

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9642502459/

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9642502459/sizes/o/ (5472 x 3648)

Anthony McCall

White Noise Installation, Two Room Surge (II), 1973/2008

Ink and wash on paper

paper: 14 3/8 x 23 inches (36.5 x 58.4 cm)

framed: 16 3/4 x 25 inches (42.5 x 63.5 cm)

Inv# AMc-60

 

Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th Street, New York, NY

 

+++

 

Anthony McCall is, without question, one of the seminal artists of American avant-garde cinema. His films and installations from the seventies such as Line Describing a Cone, Long Film for Four Projectors, and Four Projected Movements, represent an extraordinarily corporeal and sensuous meditation on the medium of film and the politics of the audience's physical and conceptual relationship to it. All of these works took as their starting point the irreducible, necessary conditions of cinema: projected light, and real, three-dimensional space.

 

Philippe-Alain Michaud, the Film Curator at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, writing about Anthony McCall's work stated: "Instead of a perspectival, illusionist space that brings cinema close to painting, McCall's films use a projective space that makes it into sculpture. The film is no longer a projected image that bores a fictive depth into the surface of the wall, but constitutes an actual field that merges with the event of projection itself. In this way Anthony McCall's light-beams, outlined against mist, expanding upon the specifically plastic properties of film, cross the frontiers of cinema history to join the minimalist propositions of 1970s sculpture and rank alongside the geometric structures of Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt or Carl Andre, Dan Flavin's fields of color, or Fred Sandback's spans of colored yarn."

 

Beginning with Doubling Back in 2003, McCall returned to the 'solid light' form. Since then, with works like Breath, Exchange, and Between You and I, he has developed a group of important new installations which radically expand on the earlier series.

 

Anthony McCall's work is included in many major public collections worldwide including: the Tate Gallery, London, England; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.

 

Anthony McCall lives and works in New York.

 

www.skny.com/artists/anthony-mccall/

 

+++

 

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

 

thearmoryshow.com

 

Melacca, Melaka, Malaysia

 

Back in Melaka, we rode on these colorful tricycles man-powered by a diligent rider as we storm through the nights in vibrant colors.

Thank you for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day is a performance piece by Agata Olek (Facebook / Flickr / Portfolio) created for Art in Odd Places:SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

 

Curated by Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramaniam

Director of AIOP: Ed Woodham

 

Artist Statement

"Inspired by a uniformed attendant holding the sign Hold the Handrail in a Taipei metro station, I've created this moving installation/performance piece. In wearable sculptures of multicolored crocheted camouflage, my performers appear in various sites on 14th Street, displaying photographs of signs I've collected from different countries that are in emphatic, ironic or amused dialogue with their location."

 

See also video by Technology Artist filmed on the same day at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXrKQVwPU

 

More information about the festival

+ www.artinoddplaces.org

 

Press

+ Timeout New York: Fall Preview 2009

+ Timeout New York: Own this City

+ New York Times: Spare Times

 

Related SML Univese

+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group) (FriendFeed / Twitter)

+ SML Flickr Collections: Art + Artists

+ SML Pro Blog: Art

 

The signage is split into two halves. On the left side of the panel shows where the train is at while the train is stopped (with a flashing bounding box), and when it's in motion, it displays the next stop. The name of the next 10 stops, in yellow, are displayed to the right of 'you are here sign post'. Each station name is accompanied with designation in green which shows the additional lines you can do an interchange. A red handicapped icon designate whether there it is a station equipped with accessibility access.

 

At the end of the right half of the panel shows the last stop of the train, and the LED displays loops through the rest of the stop in multiple of 10s, so you can get a glance of all the stops while keeping the display small enough so as not requiring an extra large panel for the longer lines.

 

See SML Pro Blog: New York City Subway LED Signage for complete description, photos and videos.

 

SML 720p HD Simulcast

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3950329846/?likes_hd=1

+ www.vimeo.com/6781662

+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHOFR3X-4Bc

  

Georgia Russell (b. 1974) is a Scottish artist who slashes, cuts and dissects printer matters, music scores, maps, books, newspapers and photographs into beautiful sculpted forms.

 

This particular piece caught my attention mostly as it bears resemblance to African masks—though its execution is abstract in nature. In some ways it reminded me of the “OMG LOL” sculpture by Michael Mandiberg [1] which I saw in 2009 at Eyebeam in New York. Both use a large hard cover book as their raw materials; both cut them out and turn them into something else. But Manidberg’s piece is one which talks specifically to the technological generation which we are in, where as Russell’s piece is organic in its formation and subconsciously references history in my own memory.

 

Another fine example of how an everyday object transformed through pure imagination into one such is fantastically extraordinary. Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

Georgia Russell studied Fine art at Aberdeen University and the Royal College of Art and is a visiting lecturer at universities and art schools.

 

Georgia Russell 喬治亞•羅素

Unknown remedy I

2013

Cut Paper 剪紙; plexiglass 塑膠玻璃

91 x 65 x 65 cm

35 3/4 x 25 2/3 x 25 2/3 in

 

# Notes

1. Sculpture: OMG LOL by Michael Mandiberg / Eyebeam Art + Technology Center Open Studios: Fall 2009 / 20091023.10D.55420.P1.L1. / SML: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4041872282/

 

# Galerie Karsten Greve

 

www.galerie-karsten-greve.com

 

Drususgasse 1-5

50667 Cologne

Germany

 

5, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T15:38:46+0800

+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ ISO: 320

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13859

+ 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

 

“Georgia Russell: Unknown remedy II, 2013. (Cut paper; plexiglass)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13859

/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #Crazyisgood #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #GeorgiaRussell #sculpture #paper #GalerieKarstenGreve #UK

GettyImages: gty.im/170024046

 

After taking some 15-minute shots, I thought why not take some 30-minute ones, and so here it is. Unlike the purple one which was shot from the horizon [1], this one was shot from the 27th floor near my bedroom window.

 

For this one I left the white balance at the “natural” settings, so you can see that normally the sky is just a very reddish glow . I also had a 15-minute shot for this, and for that capture you can see the clouds more clearly. But for pure illustration of the mood, you can’t beat the sky on this capture.

 

There is this odd streak in the middle of the frame, which I think might be a boat, but I was not looking at this capture the whole time I was photographing this so I cannot be sure.

 

This might eventually be reprocessed as black and white. As you can see there is really no “correct” way of setting the white balance on these night long exposure shots, which might be precisely the reason that most photographers just process them as black and white.

 

# SML Translate: 夜照金空

+ 夜: night. (time)

+ 照: brightens. (describes the lights)

+ 金: golden. (the color)

+ 空: sky.

+ 夜照金空: At night the lights renders a golden sky

 

# Notes

1. “春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝” / 香港中文大學夜之寧 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Night Serenity (60-sec LE) / SML.20130513.6D.06547: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8737183033/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-20T02:08:32+0800

+ Dimensions: 5051 x 3367

+ Exposure: 1806.0 sec at f/20

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 Timer Remote Release, Manfrotto tripod

+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Subject: 香港中文大學 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) + 吐露港 Tolo Harbour

+ Serial: 22°25'12" N 114°13'24" E

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, Long Exposure 長時間曝光

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“夜照金空” / 香港中文大學夜之寧 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Night Serenity (1806-sec / 30-min LE) / SML.20130520.6D.06972

/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #LongExposure #LE #SMLLE #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #Landscape #夜 #Night #城市 #Urban #中文大學 #CUHK

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8756279751/

Two people face each other. A man on the right sitting on his own giving a glance. The woman does not gaze back—she is too busy texting on her cell phone. In between there are some form of lights—I do not know what they are. Perhaps they are traffic signs. They could also be a reference to the LED pulses of electronic devices. The three paintings are grouped together. They are connected yet separated.

 

Contemporary Chinese art is interesting to me as they deal with something both familiar and distant. Growing up in Hong Kong, I am well versed in Chinese history, but that of modern communist China is one which is unfamiliar to me. Chinese contemporary works root from something completely alien because the culture of Hong Kong is also very different than that in China.

 

A graduate of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, WANG Jianwei 汪建伟 (汪建偉 b. 1958 Sichuan Province, China) is a Chinese artist best known for his installation and video works. ‘Connection’ (鏈接) and ‘relationship’ (關聯) have been the key phrase in his vocabulary.

 

(Note: the reference image on Art Basel’s website shows the middle panel upside down. It is unclear if the website made a mistake or whoever installed this painting at the HKCEC did)

 

WANG Jianwei 汪建伟 (汪建偉)

Surface II, 2013

overall: 200 x 429 cm

each panel: 200 x 143 cm

This work is composed of 3 panels

 

# WANG Jianwei (b. 1958 Sichuan Province, China)

+ Art|Basel Hong Kong: WANG Jianwei: Surface II: www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/index.php5?id=1410208&...

+ 汪建伟 WANG JIANWEI: www.wangjianwei.com/

+ Long March Space: Artists: WANG Jianwei: www.longmarchspace.com/artist/list_28_brief.html

+ 长征空间: 艺术: 汪建伟: www.longmarchspace.com/artist/list_28_brief.html?locale=z...

 

# 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

 

www.longmarchspace.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:23:17+0800

+ Dimensions: 5277 x 2681

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 21 mm

+ ISO: 1250

+ 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.13934

+ 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

 

“Paintings (Triptych) by WANG Jianwei 汪建伟 (汪建偉): Surface II, 2013” / Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間) / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13934

/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #WANGJianWei #汪建伟 #汪建偉 #LongMarchSpace #长征空间 #長征空間 #Beijing

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8876561514/

A man running on red tracks in black shorts and cyan sneakers.

 

I had originally not wanted to post this because it was shot without a model release. But it is a perfect collage of forms + human forms. So what the heck—if he happened upon my Flickr stream the worse is that he would ask me to put it down for good. Not a big problem.

 

Maybe what I should do in the future is find a runner who can sign me a model release but I honestly do not know where to find people to do TFCD in Hong Kong.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-21 14:20:42 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 4900 x 3266

+ Exposure: 1/800 sec at f/5.6

+ Focal Length: 280 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III

+ GPS: 22°25'14" N 114°13'40" E

+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆康街1號馬鞍山運動場 中国香港马鞍山恒康街1号马鞍山运动场 Ma On Shan Sports Ground, 1 Hang Hong Road, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130221.7D.23986

+ Series: 形 Forms, 體育 Sports, 男 Men

 

“跑 Run” / 體育之形 Sports Forms / SML.20130221.7D.23986

/ #形 #Form #SMLForms #體育 #Sports #男 #men #SMLMen #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLMen #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #人 #people #城市 #Urban #攝影 #摄影 #photography #跑 #Run

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