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i bought this vintage bag a couple of weeks ago and haven't gone out of the house without it ever since.
German Currents 2013
7th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles
presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque
with the support of Deutsche Welle, German Films, the Friends of Goethe and ELMA.
In cooperation with the Consulates General of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Opening Night.
October 4th -7th, 2013, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood
Microcrystalline wax, wood, steel, digital eye ball
24" x 16" 12"
What would be a good title to this piece? Domestic Police, Freedom Officer 4891....?
Current mood ... Out on the Jim Guard, first ride on it this year. Followed our noses so quite a few wrong turns. Two ferries to get here! Getting the train back as no lights and very misty ...
German Currents 2013
7th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles
presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque
with the support of Deutsche Welle, German Films, the Friends of Goethe and ELMA.
In cooperation with the Consulates General of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Opening Night.
October 4th -7th, 2013, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood
Kenyan warplanes have bombed two camps in Somalia belonging to the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, according to military sources. – We attacked these two areas because we had information that they were about to carry out attacks in Kenya, says an unnamed source told...
www.broadleak.com/2015/04/06/kenya-bombing-al-shabaab-camps/
Currently in the Scottish portrait gallery, this statue used to stand in St. Paul's then in Westminster Cathedral. It is due to head to Herriot Watt University.
James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736, the son of a ship's chandler (trader in canvas, etc). Watt had little formal education due to poor health in his youth, but pottering about in his father's shop he developed an interest in trying to make things "work like clockwork".
In his late teens he went to London to learn to be a "mathematical and philosophical instrument maker", and when he returned to Glasgow he got a job making instruments with Glasgow University, who gave him accomodation and a workshop.
In 1763 John Anderson asked him to repair an early steam engine he had acquired. This early model, known as a Newcomen engine, was very inefficient. The cylinder (where the piston was) had to be heated when steam was admitted, and then gradually cooled again to condense the steam. This wasted a lot of time and fuel. Two years later, while wandering aimlessly through Glasgow Green, Watt hit upon the idea of condensing the steam in a separate vessel. This removed the need for heating and cooling, making the engine faster, safer, and more fuel-efficient. A stone in Glasgow Green marks this spot, where the industrial revolution really began.
inside Eleven homes
The series Eleven is a collection of images documenting the interiors of
Frank Relle’s immediate families’ homes. Below is an excerpt from Frank’s
interview with writer Patrick Strange.
Relle’s current creations reveal bare portraits of interior spaces-often eye-level
accounts of everyday household objects and furniture. Like an inventory of life’s
generic commodities, many of the new images border on the mundane, centering
on such items like Norman Rockwell-screened throw pillows, dirty oven mitts, a
set of kitchen knives, a stack of paperback books, an over-sized plastic coin bank
shaped as a Budweiser bottle. At first, the images seem unremarkable, but as one
follows the pathways of Relle’s wandering eye, a pattern begins to emerge. These
photographs are not just a catalogue of materials, but attest to the fragile lives of
those who possess them and-in the regional context of southern Louisiana—they
suggest the nature of things that can so quickly be lost.
“After the scare of Hurricane Gustav, I started thinking, ‘Why the hell do we
keep doing this?’” Relle says. “And I realized that it was because of family.
My connection to New Orleans is more than habit, it’s because my family is here.
So, I started to ask myself what that really means—what it means to build a life that
can be washed away.”
Thus, Relle’s inquisitions have led him to the countertops and bedposts of his
childhood, and forced him to reconsider the worth of objects that have been
present from his earliest memories.
“It becomes a question of why the objects in our daily lives are important and
why they are glorified,” Relle says. “Is it because they are glorious before they are
destroyed, or is it only in the drama of loss that they are glorified? All I can do is
keep asking.”
Such questions may never be answered, but that doesn’t seem to keep Relle from
pondering the meaning of that which surrounds him. And as long as he continues
to investigate the objects and spaces that populate our lives-no matter the method
or the final result-those inanimate things will only continue to reveal secrets about
our inner selves.
Is it only in the drama of loss that the objects
of our daily lives are glorified?
Well, this has become a hobby that I simply can't stop. Reading is considered a hobby and it something that I most definitely enjoy!
I used to read hardback books but now I read from my Kindle and Kindle App which I love! My current reading statistics show that I am on a streak of reading for 1,169 days which will soon be 1,170 days and I'll keep going!!
Presently, I am reading Phantom Prey by Lucas Davenport and I must say that I love his books!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Hobbies ...
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Current Disturbance is a room-filling environment made from stacked wire cages, light bulbs and the amplified sound of electric currents. As the bulbs light up and fade out at irregular intervals, they sporadically illuminate the surrounding room and the unruly mass of wiring covering the floor.
This installation by renowned British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, whose ambitious work in sculpture and video is rooted in her early performances, emanates a pervasive sense of threat as much as it generates an alluring spectacle.
Referencing both the human body and rigid systems of abstraction, it combines sound and vision to create a highly charged experience.
(Text taken from the Whitechapel Gallery website)
My Last.fm Mainstream-O-Meter via George by way of karsh.
My least obscure artists: The Beatles (101.48%), Björk (55.99%) and Christina Aguilera (36.48%). My most obscure: Wendy & Lisa (0.32%), Larry Heard (0.39%), Lewis Taylor and Clara Hill (0.54%).
And yes, it sort of pisses me off that only 2200 listeners are spinning Wendy & Lisa. Perhaps a new release would help.
Need a closer look?
German Currents 2013
7th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles
presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque
with the support of Deutsche Welle, German Films, the Friends of Goethe and ELMA.
In cooperation with the Consulates General of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Opening Night.
October 4th -7th, 2013, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood
German Currents 2013
7th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles
presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque
with the support of Deutsche Welle, German Films, the Friends of Goethe and ELMA.
In cooperation with the Consulates General of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Opening Night.
October 4th -7th, 2013, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood
Currently this is my favorite photo of myself. I took this for Be Your Own Beloved in February and it struck me how I looked flirty, mysterious, and sultry. All words I would never use to describe myself and thought when I saw this picture. A reclaiming of those words for myself :)
My re-done desktop with an Ableton wallpaper I made quickly. I <3 Ableton. I also did one for Live. If anyone wants it just comment and I'll upload it.
Ableton logo vector found at:
Currents
Accession No. IMG_2035.CR2 / 06-14-2015 / Digital
Detail of the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is a toned black & white (digital) image of the shallow water near the river bank. Fairbanks is built around the Chena River and it has major significance in the founding of the city in the years following Felix Pedro's (Felice Pedroni's) gold strike in 1902.
Canon Rebel T2i camera, Tamron 80-210mm f/4.5-5.6 lens.
German Currents 2013
7th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles
presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque
with the support of Deutsche Welle, German Films, the Friends of Goethe and ELMA.
In cooperation with the Consulates General of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Opening Night.
October 4th -7th, 2013, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood