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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 Pro Blog: Art

After some recent success photographing panorama with the 100-400, I tried to photograph the cloudscape with the super telephoto to see if I can get similar results. What I aim for, as always, is the resolution which a regular lens would not provide

 

Unlike landscape which I can easily determine whether or not I have made a shot, I find the abstract forms in the sky a bit harder to track. So I will likely get a pano head soon. For now I have somewhat decided that I would just go with the Manfrotto 303SPH instead of the robotic heads.

 

Photographed with the 6D + 100-400. 20 image stitch inside Autopano Giga 3, processed in Photoshop CS6.

 

# SML Transalate: 千層雲匯

+ 千: a thousand.

+ 層: layers.

+ 雲: clouds.

+ 匯: converges.

+ 千層雲匯: a thousand layers of clouds converge.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-06-13T18:52:13+0800

+ Dimensions: 21440 x 4048

+ Exposure: 1/160 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 190 mm

+ ISO: 125

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

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

+ Panorama FOV: 43 degree horizontal, 16 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Planar

+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'25" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG (Vista Paradiso, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China)

+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130617.6D.16226-SML.20130617.6D.16245-Pano.i20.43x16.BW

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

千層雲匯 / 香港日落全景之寧 Hong Kong Sunset Panoramic Serenity / SML.20130617.6D.16226-SML.20130617.6D.16245-Pano.i20.43x16.BW

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #全景 #Panorama #Pano #SMLPano #自然 #Nature #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #雲 #Cloud #天 #空 #Sky

No books? No problem. The only book I really need is my notebook. Of course it must be a Moleskine!

 

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Updates

+ Used by The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/reinventing-th...

The Hong Kong Cultural Centre (Chinese: 香港文化中心) is a multipurpose performance facility in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Cultural_Centre

 

中國香港尖沙咀梳士巴利道10號

中国香港尖沙咀梳士巴利道10号

10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong SAR, China

 

# SML Workflow

Captured with the iPhone app 360pano, processed in Lightroom 4. Unprocessed original: 360.io/gzrvMq

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-01-19

+ Dimensions: 4096 x 1875

+ Camera: iPhone 5

+ GPS: 22°17'38" N 114°10'16" E

 

# Related SML Universe

+ SML 360pano: sml8.it/sml360pano

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

”香港文化中心晚上全景 Hong Kong Cultural Center Panorama at Night ” / SML.20130119.IPH5.360pano.gzrvMq

A collection of numbered signs used to identify orders at the restaurant of Löyly, a renowned public sauna, restaurant, and bar located in the Hernesaari district of Helsinki, Finland.

 

Numbers, Löyly Helsinki / SML.20220924.6D.38198.E2

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

 

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

+ SML Flickr Collections: Art + Artists

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Todd Lehman

Venice Afternoon No.3

Oil on paper

11" x 15", 2006

 

Todd Lehman – Artist Statement

 

Nineteenth-century English critic Walter Pater said that all art aspires to be music. More recently, in a ''New York Times'' interview, Spanish painter Antoni Tapies said, "One should compare modern art to music." Who can argue with that? Abstract painting then is about visual noise and energy-and about the beauty of silence-all of which are certainly related to music.

 

While I sometimes work on large canvases, I prefer the hard surface of paper and often collage newspaper or various handmade papers, including rice papers, into a painting. Tools? Brushes, of course, but also a variety of scraping and scratching tools.

 

What inspires my paintings? Two things-landscape and architecture. Well, maybe three things. The energy of New York City is inescapable. We New Yorkers are addicted to the visual noise and drive of the city, but for obvious reasons we relish moments of solitude and meditation. So my paintings are sometimes like a raucous traffic jam, other times like the quiet of a leaf falling in a Japanese garden. They are the pages of a visual autobiography.

 

www.conradwildegallery.com/lehman_hiFiber.html

 

This is a panorama of the Victoria Harbour stitched together using 13 full-resolution handheld 6D RAW captures.

 

I used to avoid taking photographs at “touristy” spots, but I really hope to document the change of the architectural landscape over time, and so I will be doing more of these in the future.

 

On the left hand side of the photo, there is a crane doing some heavy lifting on the sea. Most of the newer skyline of Hong Kong were built upon landfills, so my guess is that they are probably in the process of reclaiming more lands.

 

This was photographed at the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade looking across the harbour so what you see in the middle is Wan Chai with the unmistakeable HKCEC. The tallest building in the center is Central Plaza. The gigantic object rising on the right is IFC (International Financial Centre).

 

Densely packed skyscrapers against rolling hills is one of the key distinctive features of Hong Kong which is unusual when compared to other international metropolis in the world.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-04-12T15:37:34+0800

+ Dimensions: 9517 x 2688

+ Exposure: 1/160 - 1/250 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 40 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

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

+ Panorama FOV: 136 degree horizontal, 60 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Cylindrical

+ GPS: 22°17'36" N 114°10'21" E

+ Location: Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, Hong Kong

+ Subject: Hong Kong Island + Victoria Harbour

+ Workflow: Hugin 2012, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130412.6D.00198-SML.20130412.6D.00210-Pano.Cylindrical.136x60

+ Series: 山水 Landscape, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

“城市山水 Urban Landscape” / 香港維多利亞港全景 Hong Kong Victoria Harbour Panorama / SML.20130412.6D.00198-SML.20130412.6D.00210-Pano.Cylindrical.136x60

/ #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #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 #Seascape #Harbor

 

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Test Card 8.5x11 for a black & white photocopy machine / 1998 / SML Graphic Design

 

Assignment

 

Art 366a Visual Studies

Fall Semester 1998

 

T-TH 1:30-3:20, 215 Park Street

Paul Elliman, Instructor

paul.elliman [at] yale.edu

 

1. Testcard

 

(Week 1-2) Devise a testcard, 8.5x11, for a black & white photocopy machine

 

The card is basically a set of questions or exercises - point, type specimen, line, pattern, half-tone, grey-scale spectrum, moire - designed to test the machine's effectiveness or value.

 

The testcard should explore not only the effective (proper?) function of the photocopier, but also any other qualities (Test the limits of its language/your language)

 

Investigate both the history and teh working mechanics of thsi machine, then (week 3-4) extend the scope of the testcard to include this kind of informaion.

 

Process (42 pages)

+ 1: Assignment

+ 2: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.64: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 3: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.65: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 4: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.66: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 5: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.67: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 6: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.68: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 7: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.69: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 8: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.70: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 9: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.71: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 10: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.72: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 11: Research: The Atlantic Monthly: 2006-02: pp.73: Copies in Seconds by David Owen

+ 12: Research: Anatomy of a Xerox test card

+ 13: Research: Anatomy of a Xerox test card

+ 14: Sketches: 1

+ 15: Sketches: 2

+ 16: Sketches: 3

+ 17: Sketches: 4

+ 18: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 1

+ 19: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 2

+ 20: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 3

+ 21: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 4

+ 22: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 5

+ 23: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 6

+ 24: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 7

+ 25: Xerox: Historial Highlights: 8

+ 26: Sketches: 5

+ 27: Skethces: 6

+ 28: Research: Basic Copier Operation: 1

+ 29: Research: Basic Copier Operation: 2

+ 30: Design: The working of a xerox machine: 1

+ 31: Design: The working of a xerox machine: 2

+ 32: Sketches: 7

+ 33: Sketches: 8

+ 34: Research: Basic Copier Model: 1

+ 35: Research: Basic Copier Model: 2

+ 36: Design: Anatomy of a Basic Copier

+ 37: Design: The Basic Copy Process

+ 38: Design: Anatomy of a basic copier

+ 39: Design: Anatomy of a basic copier

+ 40: Design: The Basic Copy Process

+ 41: Design: The Basic Copy Process

+ 42: Design: The Basic Copy Process

 

SML Copyright Notice

Copyright 1998 See-ming Lee / SML Flickr / SML Universe. All rights reserved.

日觀峰 (日观峰 “Sun observation peak” Rì guān fēng) is located at the south east to 玉皇頂 (玉皇顶 Yù huáng dǐng). In ancient times it was called 介丘岩 (Jiè qiū yán) and is famed for its view of the sunrise. The entire 觀日長廊 (观日长廊 “Sun view gallery” Guān rì cháng láng) spans 30 meters in length.

 

At the northern side of the gallery, there is a 6.5-meter-long boulder named 拱北石 (“North cove rock” Gǒngběi shí). It is considered the best location to view the sunrise. (1. Baidu: 日观峰 / SML Translate)

 

日觀峰,山東遊覽名勝。位於玉皇頂東南,古稱介丘岩,因觀日出而聞名。觀日長廊全長30米,亭廊銜接,似仙閣矗立,鮮豔奪目。拱北石又名觀海石。石長6.5米,北西8度,與地面夾角30度。登臨其上可盡賞旭日東昇場面。(1. Baidu: 日观峰)

 

日观峰,山东游览名胜。位于玉皇顶东南,古称介丘岩,因观日出而闻名。观日长廊全长30米,亭廊衔接,似仙阁矗立,鲜艳夺目。拱北石又名观海石。石长 6.5米,北西8度,与地面夹角30度。登临其上可尽赏旭日东升场面。(1. Baidu: 日观峰)

 

Pictured: lodging option: 日觀峰賓館 (日观峰宾馆 “Sun observation Guest House”)

 

# SML Translate

+ 日: Sun.

+ 觀: Observation, view.

+ 峰: Peak.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2012-10-11 09:47:57 GMT+0800

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

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

+ Serial: SML.20121011.7D.09570

+ ISO: 100

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ Exposure 1/1250 sec at f/3.2

+ GPS: 36°14'22" N 117°4'58" E (approximate. GPS Unit not available)

  

# SML References

1. Baidu: 日观峰 baike.baidu.com/view/133902.htm

 

“日觀峰賓館” / 山東省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province 山东省泰山 / 中國旅遊 中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121011.7D.09570.SQ.ChinaTourism.CN.Shandong.MountTai

 

# SML Tags (#N/ZH)

 

2012 CC-BY CN Canon.24-70.f2.8L Canon.7D China China.Tourism Jade.Emperor.Peak Qingdao SML SML.Photography SML.Projects SML.Travel SML.Universe SML:Projects SML:Projects=ChinaTourism SML:Projects=Landscape SML:Projects=SML.Travel SML:Projects=SQ SML:Travel SML:Travel=Qingdao SQ Shandong Tai'an Taishan Tourism Travel architecture boulder cn company:name=SML.Photography company:name=SML.Universe hotels humans landscape lodging mountains nature path people photographer:initials=SML photographer:name=See-ming.Lee photography rocks sky square.format tourism tourists travel 中国 中国旅游 中國 中國旅遊 人 天 山 山东 山東 山水 建筑 建築 摄影 攝影 旅游 旅行 旅遊 日觀峰 日观峰 泰安 泰山 游客 玉皇頂 石 空 自然 路 遊客 酒店 青島

Sometimes the simplest things are the most beautiful. These are water patterns left behind by the boat during my boat ride in Sanya.

 

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

 

水 Water / 中國海南三亞 Sanya, Hainan, China / SML.20140507.6D.32155.P2.BW

Ever since the EOSM has disappeared into the SML Blackhole [1], 彩熊 Rainbow Teddy (RT) has been working hard to continue doing photography with the 7D. Most recently, he became interested in the 100-400 because with the super telephoto he deduced that he might be able to find some other teddies nearby.

 

But in reality, this photo was mainly to show what that US$4 umbrella looks like. It is not silky smooth—to be frank, it has all kinds of wrinkling on its surface, even the bokeh could not hide that fact. But as you can see, a reflector is a reflector is a reflector. It does its job, and for a starving artist like SML, any penny saved is another bread on the table…

 

RT needed a stool on the chair because alas the Manfrotto tripod could only go as low as that, apparently.

 

Pictured: RT with the 7D + battery grip + 100-400 unextended. Shot with the 6D + 24-70 f/2.8L with 90EX as remote strobe + 580EX with bargain umbrella on top left, and another 430EX bargain umbrella on top right. At this rate SML should be able to afford some lightbox + monolights soon. Stay tuned!

 

# Notes

1. A term coined by Louis Seigal (Instagram:@seigalphoto) on SML’s supreme ability to lose things inside SML Universe’s chaos.

 

# Strobist Info

+ Canon 580EX with umbrella on top left

+ Canon 430EX with umbrella on top right

+ Canon 90EX as remote strobe (replacing the ST-E2) to trigger the two strobes, which is set to A:B 4:1.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-07-05T20:04:26+0800

+ Dimensions: 3648 x 3648

+ Exposure: 1/180 sec at f/2.8

+ Focal Length: 32 mm

+ ISO: 400

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

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

+ Flash: Canon 580EX + Canon 430EX + Canon 90EX

+ Accessories: Manfrotto tripod, light stands, 鑫威森 umbrellas

+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'26" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG (Vista Paradiso, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 5

+ Serial: SML.20130704.6D.17984

+ Series: 彩熊 Rainbow Teddy, Toy Story, Crazyisgood

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

Rainbow Teddy (RT) plays with Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 100-400 f/4-5.6L IS USM / Crazyisgood Toy Story / SML.20130705.6D.18046

/ #RainbowTeddy #彩熊 #ToyStory #CreativeCommons #CCBY #LifeCelebratesDiversity #Crazyisgood #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #gay #Teddy #WTF #instagay #gaybear #LGBT #LOL #geekporn #7D #Canon100400 #Canon #Manfrotto #strobist

 

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Several hundred people gathered at Chater Garden in Central, Hong Kong yesterday to show their support for Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who recently made the US NSA PRISM electronic surveillance program public.

 

Since the PRISM program does not really distinguish its users — and specifically if is _really_ is to protect the American public from terrorism, then it is clear that foreign traffic is its target, banners and signs specifically call on the US government to stop spying on foreign data.

 

Snowden has also mentioned that the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), its being the main backbone of Hong Kong’s internet traffic, has been one of the hacking target by the NSA, including other private businesses and citizens. The locals are specifically enraged by this fact, especially since the US has called on China for doing cyber espionage on American technology companies.

  

Perhaps China is also trying to do anti-terrorism? Hey, you never know.

 

# SML Photography Workflow

 

This panorama covering 360-degree horizontally and 96 degree vertically was stitched doing using 22 full res capture with the 6D + 17-40 f/4L. It is hard to get an aerial vantage point on this gathering, and noting that the event already has many public media presence, I chose to do panoramic photography for the most part of this event.

 

This is stitched together using Autopano Giga 3, with the anti-ghost algorithm. Since the program cannot output layered PSD files with layer masks I can only utilise their algorithms to managing ghosting vs missing body parts. You will see mostly odd time-variable missing body parts in this case.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:30:33+0800

+ Dimensions: 18543 x 5432

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/9.0

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

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

+ Panorama FOV: 360 degree horizontal, 96 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Cylindrical

+ GPS: 22°16'53" N 114°9'37" E

+ Location: 香港中環遮打花園 Chater Garden, Central, Hong Kong

+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130615.6D.15735-SML.20130615.6D.15756-Pano.i22.Cylindrical.360x96

+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

遮打花園遊行人群 Crowd at Chater Garden / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行全景 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden Panorama / SML.20130615.6D.15735-SML.20130615.6D.15756-Pano.i22.Cylindrical.360x96

/ #SnowdenHK #新聞攝影 #Photojournalism #全景 #Panorama #Pano #SMLPano #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLPublicMedia

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #people #Rally #Snowden #EdwardSnowden #events #protest #US #NSA #PRISM

 

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Originally I had come here to do time-lapse of the sunset, though right before I started the timer, I was working on an HDR panorama of the scenery, and had forgotten to turn off AEB (auto-exposure bracketing) setting when the timer started running. So what ended up happening is that I now have a series of HDR time-lapse footage.

 

In the perfect world, perhaps, these captures will automatically be stacked to HDR, then perhaps with a script I will be able to batch-process them throughout. But since I have not yet figured out how to do this, here I present you with a still capture from one of the series, here I present you with one of the HDR captures instead.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-08-07T19:02:31+0800

+ Dimensions: 5431 x 3621

+ Exposure: 0.4, 1/20, 1/160 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 400

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

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

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

+ GPS: 22°23'16" N 114°11'58" E

+ Location: 香港沙田翠榕橋 Banyan Bridge, Shatin, Hong Kong

+ Subject: 香港沙田城門河 Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong

+ Workflow: Photomatix Pro 4.2.5, Lightroom 5

+ Serial: SML.20130807.6D.25123-24-25.HDR.BW

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, HDR

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

如上以下 As above, so below / 香港沙田城門河之寧 Hong Kong Shatin Shing Mun River Serenity (BW HDR) / SML.20130807.6D.25123-24-25.HDR.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

 

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See also video interview with the artist (Flickr HD video).

 

Deadly Sins

 

A new collectible, slated to set the mark as an icon for the 22nd Century - collect all Seven Deadly Sins. Due out by December in an exclusive limited edition set.

 

Pure Products USA | Ligorano/Reese Collaboration in Art

 

Towards a Surreal Politik…

 

In 1992, we began Pure Products of America as a series of multiple editions focusing on the impact of marketing on politics. Over the past 17 years, the series has expanded and now includes 14 pieces running the gamut from snow globes to underwear (our underwear was the first to pack a political message), to happy meals.

 

Each object is signed and numbered in various sized editions. When we introduce Pure Products, we send some of them as gifts to government officials. Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton, members of the Supreme Court and various Senators and Congressional representatives have all received a pure product at one time or another.

 

Pure Products also function as discreet elements in installations. The installations The Bible Belt, Pillars of the Clean Order, and Steel Nipples incorporated them in sculptural settings with video and other media. In 2001, we expanded on this idea with the inauguration of an online retail website as part of the project.

 

Each piece is grounded within a framework that satirizes political values and, often, lampoons morality. Some pure products, like Line Up and Contract with America underwear, became media sensations, reported in the press, on television and radio. The commentary surrounding the artwork is a mixture of absurdity and culture jamming, amplifying how much the media interprets and misinterprets contemporary art and blurs the connections between art, activism and commerce.

 

ligoranoreese.net/pure-products-usa

 

Bio

 

NORA LIGORANO and MARSHALL REESE have collaborated together as Ligorano/Reese since the early 80’s. They use collaboration to blend diverse talents into a singular voice and vision. In the process of creating their work, their individual contributions cross and criss-cross between each other from brainstorming to realizing and making the art on location or in the studio.

 

They use unusual materials and industrial processes to make their limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations, moving easily from dish towels, underwear, and snow globes, to electronic art and computer controlled interactive installations.

 

They take and manipulate images, audio and text from old media: print, television, radio and combine that with the new: internet and mobile telecommunications. Their pursuit is an ongoing investigation into the impact of technology on culture and the associations and meanings that the media brings to images, language and speech in politics.

 

They have an interest with using open forms to involve community interaction, like their drawing contests, Crater Bay Area for the 01 Festival in San Jose and Crater New York at Location1. Installations that combine sculpture with public participation in drawing, within the context of a contest that is also streamed on the internet and in Second Life. Their ice sculptures, “Main Street Meltdown” and “The State of Things” share that same sense of open possibility, fusing natural processes of erosion and decay as flexible durations and markers to determine the experience of the work.

 

Many of their sculptures and installations reinterpret and reexamine older forms of technology - using objects that signify truth, authority and manifest cultural historicity. Ligorano/Reese use mirrors, clocks, metronomes and medieval codex bindings and combine them with video screens. They have invented micro-projection systems to display films on the head of a pin or the counterweight of a metronome.

 

Since 2004, they’ve investigated portraiture as a construct of social representation. Line Up (2004-5), their series of portraits of Bush administration officials in mug shot, acknowledges that the mug shot is the preeminent form of portraiture now that more people are incarcerated in the U.S. than any other country in the world. In December, 2007, the exhibition of these photos at the New York Public Library caused a firestorm of controversy with heavy rotation on FoxNews, DrudgeReport’s homepage and many, many other publications.

 

In 2001, they launched www.pureproductsusa.com, the online retail website for their infamous political art series the Pure Products of America. Since 1992, Ligorano/Reese have made 11 multiples in signed editions of 3 to 100. They are best selling editions at Printed Matter, artbook@ps1 and the New Museum store and have prompted, at least on one occasion, the RNC to threaten them with copyright infringement.

 

For more information see “The Joy of Collaborating: recipes for time-based art.”

 

ligoranoreese.net/about

  

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.

 

eyebeam.org

 

Red ribbons with locks were seen all over the 碧霞祠 Azure Clouds Temple.

 

Similar sightings were seen in almost every temple I have been to during this trip, so I asked the local what it was about. They told me that Chinese couples visit the temples before they get married, and the locks were used to “bind” their love together forever.

 

“紅絲帶和鎖” (红丝带和锁 Red Ribbons + Locks) / 山東省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province 山东省泰山 / 中國旅遊 中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121011.7D.09549

 

# SML Data

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# Related SML Universe

+ SML Flickr Set: 中國旅遊 中国旅游 China Tourism: sml8.it/smlflickr-chinatourism

 

# SML Flickr

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8357585327/

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8357585327/sizes/o/

 

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#CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #中國旅遊 #中国旅游#ChinaTourism #SMLProjects

Facebook Event: Pizza Tour NYC

 

Event Info

Name:Pizza Tour NYC

Tagline: for friends and family

Host:Vladimir Cole (Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter)

Type:Other - Carnival

 

Time and Place

Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm

Location: NYC

City/Town: New York, NY

 

Description

Purpose: Tour some of the best Pizza in NYC. Now that I’m on the West Coast, this is a very important “keeping it real” event for me. I mustn’t forget what real pizza tastes like. Seattle’s pie sucks, for the most part.

 

Timing: Start at 10am and end at 10pm. Feel free to join in at any point by calling me (212.281.1090) for current location and next stop. Also, you can follow along via Twitter (twitter.com/vladcole).

 

Itinerary (in rough order):

 

DONE .... Rose & Joe's Bakery (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)

DONE .... Rosario's (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)

DONE .... Joe’s (7 Carmine Street, West Village) … walk to:

DONE .... Grandaisy Bakery (73 Sullivan St., SoHo) … walk to:

DONE .... Lombardi’s (32 Spring St., SoHo) … walk to:

DONE .... Luzzo's (1st Ave. & 12th St.) …

DONE .... Fornino (187 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn)

DONE .... Franny’s (295 Flatbush Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)

 

Google Maps: Brooklyn Section: Pizza Crawl by Brian Carp (Facebook)

 

Franny's Guests

+ Brian Carp

+ Dr Sam

+ Eugene Auh

+ H. Paul H. Le

+ Jane Doe

+ Mike Smith

+ Rebecca Carman

+ See-ming Lee

+ Vladimir Cole

 

© 2007 See-ming Lee (Blog / Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / Network / Orkut / Twitter / Wiki)

A woman in Chinese traditional dress 旗袍 Qipao lies in a bed of colorful flowers served in a highly decorated dinner plate fitting for a banquet. She is headless and armless except with her legs extending out in a highly sexualised pose. She is without identity, and she does not appear to have a choice but to lie there for all to feast on.

 

This ceramic / porcelain sculpture by Chinese artist Liu Jianhua 刘建华 (劉建華) may be funny at first, but is a social commentary about the anonymous and exploitable exoticism once associated with China in the West.

 

The imagery of the limbless sends a shock down my memory lane, as it reminds me of one of ancient China’s most torturous punishment: removing every limb from a person and stick them onto a vase as a permanent fixture of shame. And for this commentary it is both brilliant and depressing.

 

Before Liu Jianhu went to study sculpture in art school, he spent many years working at porcelain factories in Jingdezhen (景德镇市 景德鎮市). Jingdezhen was known to be the finest city for porcelain / china production since the Song Dynasty (宋朝), and it is no doubt from his years of working which allowed the artists to excel in producing such exquisite craftsmanship.

 

Liu Jianhua 刘建华 (劉建華)

Painted Sculpture Series 彩塑系列 - Play No. 16

porcelain

72.3 x 72.3 x 23.6 cm

2003-2009

 

Beijing Commune

 

# Liu Jianhua 刘建华 (劉建華)

b. 1962 in Ji’an, Jiangxi Province, China

生于中国江西省吉安

生於中國江西省吉安

www.artspeakchina.org/mediawiki/Liu_Jianhua_刘建华

 

# Beijing Commune 北京公社

 

Founded in 2004, Beijing Commune is located in the 798 Art Zone, Beijing. Its initial programs were mainly group shows exploring various currents in contemporary art, while now it focuses primarily on solo shows to carry on its in-depth research. Beginning with a core list of established artists, the gallery has maintained a sharp awareness of developments in the community and has responded by introducing young artists and new topics of discussion into the program.

 

P.O. Box 8503, 798 Art Zone, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100015

China

 

www.beijingcommune.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

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+ 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

 

“Liu Jianhua 刘建华 (劉建華): Painted Sculpture Series 彩塑系列 - Play No. 16, 2003-2006 (porcelain 陶瓷)” / Beijing Commune 北京公社 / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13948

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8900014203/

GettyImages: gty.im/163186272

 

I have always wanted to photograph tracks, but I am not athletic so I don’t visit these places often. But I discovered about the Ma On Shan Sports Ground yesterday. And their tracks are pristine, with very beautiful forms.

 

# SML Data

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+ Focal Length: 109 mm

+ ISO: 125

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

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

+ GPS: 22°25'13" N 114°13'43" E

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

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130220.7D.23625

+ Series: 形 Forms, 體育 Sports

 

“跑道 Tracks” / 香港體育建築之形 Hong Kong Sports Architecture Forms / SML.20130220.7D.23625

/ #形 #Form #SMLForms #體育 #Sports #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #城市 #Urban #攝影 #摄影 #photography #紅 #red

Did Flickr change its view counting method after the recent UI change which shows photos in a never-ending scroll?

 

In the past, my typical daily view count circles around 3000 views per day, but as you can be seen in the screenshot here, it has gone up to the 5-digit range. So much so that in typical Flickr fashion they have probably locked my account two days before which moved view count to zero.

 

I know that they do inspect “suspicious activities” by temporarily locking accounts because every time my photos get used on prominent web sites, my view count will soar, and then immediately the next day I would see my view count drop to zero. But I am fairly certain that this is not such instance.

 

Also noted: normal new photo views typically circles around 50 at most daily but something posted yesterday now will circle in the 200+ values, leading me to suspect that something is going on — though exactly what is unclear.

 

SML Flickr Stats: 2013-08-01 / SML Data / SML.20130801.SC

/ #SMLFlickrStats #SMLScreenshots #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLData #SMLOpinions #SMLAnalytics #SMLUniverse

/ #Flickr #Stats #FlickrStats #screenshots #data #views #opinions #analytics

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9412440671/

Left: Twinkle Dress and Twinkle Caridgan by Diana Eng

LED circuits are hand embroidered with silverized thread and a custom sewable circuit board Twinkle Pad, developed specially for the Fairytale Fashion Collection. Twinkle Dress's removable grey silk chiffon twinkle pad circuit overlays washable black cotton American Apparel dreww. Twinkle Cardigan's removable black wool melton shoulder patches overlay a cotton sweater.

 

Right: EL Wire Dress by Diana Eng

Aqua silk chiffon organically draped dress edge with electroluminescent wire controlled by an accelerometer. Circuit boards are housed in 3-D printed neck piece.

 

+++

 

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

 

Here is another sculpture by Chiharu Shiota seen at ARNDT during Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.

 

A sea a black threads attached to a metal frame suspends a horn in mid-air. The threads create a cocoon, a place for the musical instrument to float in air like magic. It feels like that you should be able to reach it, but you cannot as the web is in the way. The thread web creates the volume, even though the volume is mostly made with air. It is contained, yet it is not.

 

It is an academically sound creation. Serious yet fun at the same time — and it is easy to see why I absolutely adore this artist by the end of the show.

 

Chiharu Shiota

Zustand des Seins (Horn) / State of Being (Horn)

2013

Metal, vintage horn, black thread

35 x 35 x 35 cm

13.78 x 13.78 x 13.78 in

 

# Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972 Japan)

 

Chiharu Shiota (塩田 千春 Shiota Chiharu) is a Japanese installation artist born in 1972 in Osaka. She has been living and working in Berlin since 1996.She studied at the Seika University in Kyoto and at various schools in Germany and is represented by ARNDT in Berlin and Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiharu_Shiota

 

# ARNDT

 

Arndt & Partner was established in 1994 as one of the first contemporary art galleries in former East Berlin with an international profile. In the gallery's eighteen years of operation, it has presented more than 270 exhibitions, produced sixty publications, and participated in approximately ninety international art fairs. In January 2013 Arndt opened a project space, viewing room, and Asian office in Singapore: Arndt Singapore is situated in Gillman Barracks, the new art destination located in the center of Singapore, which houses galleries and creative businesses as well as the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), opening in 2013.

 

Potsdamer Strasse 96

10785 Berlin

Germany

 

Lock Road 22 #01-35

108939 Singapore

Singapore

 

www.arndtberlin.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T14:06:37+0800

+ Dimensions: 4342 x 2894

+ Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/2.0

+ Focal Length: 22 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Camera: Canon EOS M

+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM

+ 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.EOSM.03958

+ 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

 

“Mixed Media Sculpture by Chiharu Shiota: Zustand des Seins (Horn) / State of Being (Horn), 2013 (Metal, vintage horn, black thread)” / ARNDT / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.03958

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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #ChiharuShiota #ARNDT #music #cocoon #sculpture #installation

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8920747730/

Agata Olek (Flickr) talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards public installation (wearable sculpture / performance art) during the annual Art Under the Bridge Festival in 2009.

 

SML Simulcast (720p HD video)

+ www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=169626383034

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3978552638

+ www.vimeo.com/6894288

+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq-ciqfWaw

 

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

  

Colophon

Original soundtrack written by SML Music using Ableton Live. Still photography by SML Photography captured handheld with the Canon 10D body with the Canon EF 24-70 f2.8L lens and the Canon 580EX flash. Interview video taken with the Canon SD850 IS. Photo editing done in Lightroom and Photoshop. Video production done in Sony Vegas Pro.

 

Still photography utilized

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+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3976287643/

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3977093736/

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+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3976363405/

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+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3977211894/

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3976525467/

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3977316586/

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3976656111/

  

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

The Shilin Night Market (Chinese: 士林夜市; pinyin: Shìlín Yèshì) is a night market in the Shilin District of Taipei, Taiwan, and is often considered to be the largest and most famous night market in the city.

 

The food court used to be on ground level, which was probably rather unhygienic. Nowadays the food court has been relocated underground, as can be seen here in this panoramic view. This was taken around 5pm, right before it becomes crowdy. By six o'clock the place was so packed that I could barely move around.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM, handheld, 8 captures. Stitched with Autopano Giga 3. Processed in Lightroom 5.

 

# More Information

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilin_Night_Market

 

士林夜市美食區全景 Shilin Night Market Food Court Panorama / 台灣台北 Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30686-SML.20140210.6D.30693-Pano.i8

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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.

 

eyebeam.org/events/fairytale-fashion-show

fairytalefashion.org

 

The architectural facade of the public housing developments at (恆安邨 Heng On Estate) were painted in 紫色 purple and 綠色 green. These color choices seem completely random at first, but when the 洋紫荊 Bauhinia blakeana bloom from early November to the end of March, it made a lot of sense.

 

These orchid trees, also known as 香港蘭 Hong Kong Orchid Trees, could be seen were planted in rows near the entrance to the 恆安 Heng On MTR station in 馬鞍山 Ma On Shan.

 

洋紫荊 Bauhinia blakeana is an orchid tree of the genus Bauhinia with large thick leaves and striking purplish red flowers (豆科蘇木亞科羊蹄甲屬有花植物). Although now cultivated in many areas, it originated in Hong Kong in 1880 and apparently all of the cultivated trees derive from one cultivated at the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens and widely planted in Hong Kong starting in 1914.

 

In 1965, it was officially adopted as the floral emblem of Hong Kong (香港法定代表花卉 aka 香港市花) by the Urban Council. Since 1997 the flower appears on Hong Kong's coat of arm, its flag and its coins.

 

# SML References

1. Wikipedia: EN: Bauhinia blakeana: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia_blakeana

2. Wikipedia: ZH-HK: 洋紫荊: zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/洋紫荊

 

# SML Workflow

+ Photographed with iPad 3 using the 360pano app.

+ Uploaded to server as interactive pano: 360.io/YUmbrr

+ Downloaded from server as stereographic pano: 360.io/YUmbrr/s

+ Imported into Lightroom 4 for metadata tagging.

+ Processed in Photoshop CS6’s Lab color mode in 16-bit ProRGB color space.

+ Minor adjustments in Lightroom 4.

+ Exported as 8-bit sRGB image.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-01-26

+ Dimensions: 2048 x 2048

+ Camera: Apple iPad 3

+ GPS: 22°25'3" N 114°13'35" E

錦鞍苑C座樓,恆錦街,

+ 綠色 Green 建築 建筑 architecture: 錦鞍苑C座寶鞍閣 Kam On Court Block C Po On House

+ 紫色 Purple 建築 建筑 architecture: 恆安邨恆日樓 Heng On Estate Heng Yat House

+ 紫色 Purple 學校 school: 青年會書院 Chinese YMCA College

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

“紫荊綠葉小星球 Little Planet w/ purple orchids and green leaves”

/ 香港公共屋邨全景之形 Hong Kong Public Housing Panoramic Forms

/ SML.20130126.360pano.YUmbrr.stereographic.SQ.P1

/ #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #SMLPano #SML360pano

/ #形 #Forms #建築 #建筑 #architecture #全景 #pano #攝影 #摄影 #photography

/ #洋紫荊 #BauhiniaBlakeana #荊 #Orchids #樹 #trees #花 #flowers #人 #people #自然 #nature #街 #street

/ #色 #Color #綠 #Green #紫 #Purple #學校 #school #錦鞍苑 #KamOnCourt #恆安邨 #HengOnEstate #恆日樓 #HengYatHouse

/ #中國 #中国 #China CN #香港 #HongKong #HK #HKG #公共 #public #屋邨 #housing #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan

Search Engine Masturbation = Google Search + Live Search + Yahoo Search + RSS

 

Concept

Instead of daily vanity/ego search, create a Yahoo Pipe to search simultaneously using Google, Live and Yahoo and turn them into an RSS feed. In other words, instead of turning yourself into a bot to monitor the bots' activities, spend your time to create relevant content be indexed instead!

 

1. SML Flickr: SEM: Source

2. SML Flickr: SEM: Run Pipe

3. SML Flickr: SEM: Run Pipe: See-ming Lee

 

SML Pro Blog: Yahoo Pipes: Search Engine Masturbation

SML Wiki: Search Engine Masturbation

  

An infinity figure 8 accented with lines and circular spheres. It looks like the top of a gift wrap to me, but when I first saw it I thought of the highway in China.

 

Haluk Akakçe (born 1970 in Turkey) is a contemporary artist living and working in New York and Istanbul whose work explores the intersections between society and technology through video animations, wall paintings and sound installations.

 

His other work which integrates technology is more interesting. Though as an expression of forms this is worth a look.

 

Haluk Akakçe

Untitled

2013

Acrylic on wooden panel and mirror plexi

230 x 170 x 13 cm

  

# Haluk Akakçe (b. 1970 Ankara)

+ 1970: Born in Ankara

+ 1993: BFA, Bilkent University, Andara, Turkey

+ 1996: MA Erasmus, Royal College of Art, London, UK

+ 1997: MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haluk_Akakçe

 

# Galerist

Mesrutiyet Cad. No. 67/1 Beyoglu

34430 Istanbul

Turkey

www.galerist.com.tr/

  

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T17:44:42+0800

+ Dimensions: 5382 x 3588

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 29 mm

+ ISO: 250

+ 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.14127

+ 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

 

Mixed media installation by Haluk Akakçe (b. 1970 Ankara, Turkey): Untitled, 2013 (Acrylic on wooden panel and mirror plexiglass) / Galerist / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14127

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

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #HalukAkakçe #HalukAkakce #Gallerist #sculpture #installation #mixedmedia #Turkey #abstract #forms

Teenagers playing a game of basketball until the wee hours in Hong Kong.

 

The basketball courts in New York always appeared somewhat rundown for my taste. Here in Hong Kong the sports facilities are fairly well run and maintained. They have opening hours. The gates are locked after closing. People sign up for use of facilities in person or online (I believe). Typical fees are around HK$20 (~US$2.50) per hour.

 

Also here you see the interesting urban planning by the Hong Kong Government. They would pack high-rise residential areas really dense and then plant a giant park in the middle. It is a lot like how you would do it SimCity. A bit fun.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-16 22:59:06 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 2995 x 4493

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/2.0

+ Focal Length: 22 mm

+ ISO: 1000

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS M

+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM

+ GPS: 22°25'11" N 114°13'40" E

+ 中國香港馬鞍山遊樂場籃球場 中国香港马鞍山游乐场篮球场 Basketball Courts, Ma On Shan Recreation Ground, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130216.EOSM.02219

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

 

“夜間籃球 Nighttime Basketball” / 馬鞍山遊樂場 Ma On Shan Recreation Ground / SML.20130216.EOSM.02219

/ #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #籃球 #Basketball #人 #people #男 #Men #運動 #Sports #綠 #Green #夜 #Night #攝影 #摄影 #photography

 

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8481017480

A man in his 40s running along the red tracks at the Ma On Shan Sports Ground in Hong Kong.

 

Look at those thighs! I have always thought that Chinese have good thigh jeans. It does not take much exercise to get them into shape. So when they are actually exercised thoroughly they get very interesting.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-03 15:28:30 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 4733 x 3155

+ Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/5.6

+ Focal Length: 263 mm

+ ISO: 250

+ 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°13'41" E

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

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130303.7D.25690

+ Series: 形 Forms, 體育 Sports, 男 Men

 

“Runner’s thighs” / 男運動員體育之形 Men in Sports + Form / SML.20130303.7D.25690

/ #形 #Forms #SMLForms #體育 #Sports #男 #Men #SMLMen #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #跑 #Run #Running #跑道 #Track

Tools matter. James Cospito's (Flickr) weapon of choice for his Moleskine sketches: the Rotring rapidograph, for its ability to draw very fine lines as well as its archival quality.

 

Photographed at the Brooklyn Art Project HQ (Flickr Group) during the Dumbo Art Festival 2009.

 

See also James Cospito's Subway Drawings (Flickr Set) and James Cospito talks about his NYC Subway series (Flickr HD video)

  

13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)

www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

 

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.

 

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

 

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.

 

www.dumboartscenter.org

www.dumboartfestival.org

www.video_dumbo.org

  

Related SML

+ 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

People walking at Festival Walk, a shopping mall in Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong—like clockwork. Photographed using the Canon EOS M with the 17-40 f/4L. Original soundtrack written using NodeBeat HD, a fun interactive music composition iPad app. Mastered in Ableton Live 8 using iZotope Ozone 5.

 

Series: Human Logistics 人流

Camera: Canon EOS M

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

Video: H264 MP4, 1920x1080, 25fps, Progressive, 10 Mbps

Audio: AAC, 320 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo

Length: 1 min 30 sec

Color: Color

Language:Cantonese, Mandarin, English

Location: Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CCBY)

Date: 2013-01-09 (recorded) 2012-01-21 (processed)

Photographer: See-ming Lee 李思明, SML Photography

Soundtrack: SML Music

Media Production: SML Universe

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

Serial: SML.20130109.EOSM.01537

 

/ Festival Walk Escalator Dance 又一城電梯的舞 / Human Logistics 人流 / SML.20130109.EOSM.01537

 

+ SML Facebook: www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151440107343035

+ SML Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8402882370/

+ SML Vimeo: vimeo.com/57904391

+ SML YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIChJ3rFpg&;

+ SML Universe YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFitNM1lxM

  

# Soundtrack

 

1. Soundtrack for videography series “Human Logistics 人流”.

2. Written completely in NodeBeat HD, an interactive iPad app.

3. Mastered with Ozone 5 in Ableton Live.

 

Download 24-bit 48 kHz AIFF on SML SoundCloud:

soundcloud.com/seeminglee/festival-walk-escalator-dance

 

/ SML.20130122.Music.HumanLogistics.FestivalWalkEscalatorDance.Soundtrack

 

# Media Licensing

All media: soundtrack / videography / photography licensed via Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Universe Limited

 

Gilles Barbier

In the soup, a cheddar fondue and three nightmares, speech bubbles (tenant & owner), isolated segments (the infinite assassin) and bananas

2010

Mixed media

180 x 100 x 95 cm (70 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 37 3/8 in)

 

+++

 

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

 

A surfer walks down the beach holding a water bottle and a pair of flip flops.

 

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

 

Surfer / Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia / SML.20140317.7D.51926.P1.S1.BW

Facebook Event: Pizza Tour NYC

 

Event Info

Name:Pizza Tour NYC

Tagline: for friends and family

Host:Vladimir Cole (Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter)

Type:Other - Carnival

 

Time and Place

Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm

Location: NYC

City/Town: New York, NY

 

Description

Purpose: Tour some of the best Pizza in NYC. Now that I’m on the West Coast, this is a very important “keeping it real” event for me. I mustn’t forget what real pizza tastes like. Seattle’s pie sucks, for the most part.

 

Timing: Start at 10am and end at 10pm. Feel free to join in at any point by calling me (212.281.1090) for current location and next stop. Also, you can follow along via Twitter (twitter.com/vladcole).

 

Itinerary (in rough order):

 

DONE .... Rose & Joe's Bakery (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)

DONE .... Rosario's (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)

DONE .... Joe’s (7 Carmine Street, West Village) … walk to:

DONE .... Grandaisy Bakery (73 Sullivan St., SoHo) … walk to:

DONE .... Lombardi’s (32 Spring St., SoHo) … walk to:

DONE .... Luzzo's (1st Ave. & 12th St.) …

DONE .... Fornino (187 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn)

DONE .... Franny’s (295 Flatbush Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)

 

Google Maps: Brooklyn Section: Pizza Crawl by Brian Carp (Facebook)

 

Franny's Guests

+ Brian Carp

+ Dr Sam

+ Eugene Auh

+ H. Paul H. Le

+ Jane Doe

+ Mike Smith

+ Rebecca Carman

+ See-ming Lee

+ Vladimir Cole

 

© 2007 See-ming Lee (Blog / Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / Network / Orkut / Twitter / Wiki)

Windsurfing (滑浪風帆) is an important sport in Hong Kong—mainly because the only athlete to ever win an Olympic medal representing Hong Kong is a woman named 李麗珊 [1] Lee Lai-Shan [2].

 

Last year some friends from Sydney asked if I ever see people surf at the harbor outside my window, and I said probably not. And as usual, I stand corrected. I spotted four this afternoon. Super sweet.

 

Nice minimalistic geometric forms cast against the very complex forms of the waves. I especially like the impressionistic reflection on the water. I think that I will likely process this into a black and white in the future because it is screaming for it.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-23 14:55:51 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456

+ Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/9.0

+ Focal Length: 280 mm

+ ISO: 160

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

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

+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'19" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Serial: SML.20130223.7D.24672.P1.L1

+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 體育 Sports, 形 Forms, 寧 Serenity

 

# Notes

 

1. 李麗珊,BBS,MBE,MH(1970年9月5日-),暱稱珊珊[1],生於香港,為長洲原居民,香港著名滑浪風帆運動員[2]。她為香港取得歷史性首面奧運會獎牌兼首面金牌(滑浪風帆),因而被香港傳媒冠以「風之后」的美譽。 zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/李麗珊

 

2. Lee Lai-shan MBE BBS (Chinese: 李麗珊) (born in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 5 September 1970) is a former world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning professional windsurfer from Hong Kong. She is the only athlete to win an Olympic medal representing Hong Kong, not as part of China. Since 1997, Hong Kong has been stipulated to append the word "China" after its name in all Olympic events. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lai_Shan

 

“滑浪風帆 Windsurfing” / 香港體育之形 Hong Kong Sports Forms / SML.20130223.7D.24672.P1.L1

/ #體育 #Sports #形 #Forms #SMLForms #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #自然 #Nature #滑浪風帆 #Windsurfing #水 #water

Enduring parish featuring Romanesque & Gothic architecture & a large church clock.

# 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.20130626.6D.16975

/ #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

Most of my friends who work in finance work in this building or the IFC next door—whereas I usually come here to dine in many of the restaurants downstairs.

 

The Exchange Square (Chinese: 交易廣場) is a building complex located in Central, Hong Kong. It houses offices and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange [1].

 

It is also one of my favorite architectures in Hong Kong—featuring a beautiful striped facade accented by curves and lines.

 

Unlike IFC (also pictured: the skyscraper going upwards to the clouds to the left) which besides being super tall but otherwise have rather dull character, this cluster of buildings designed by Palmer & Turner and completed in 1985 (Phase 1 + 2) 1988 (Phase 3) is a feast to look at. Like many of the architectures in Central, its entrance is located not on the ground floor but the pedestrian footbridge level.

 

On the fourth floor is 翠玉軒 The Square, one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong. I was told that the view up there is spectacular also—but I am not a banker so I won’t know for sure. But one of these days I will try to make it up there to see what the fuss is all about. Stay tuned…

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-26T18:04:04.85+0800

+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456

+ Exposure: 1/50 sec at f/2.8

+ Focal Length: 28 mm

+ ISO: 500

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

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

+ GPS: 22°17'1" N 114°9'29" E

+ Altitude: 150 m (I am beginning to think that the altitude reading on the Canon GP-E2 cannot really be trusted)

+ Serial: SML.20130326.7D.36611.BW

+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms, 黑白 Black and White

 

# Notes

1. Wikipedia: Exchange Square (Hong Kong): EN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_Square_(Hong_Kong)

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

“交易廣場 Exchange Square” / 香港中環金融建築之形 Hong Kong Central Financial Architecture Forms / SML.20130326.7D.36611.BW

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

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #中環 #Central #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #金融 #Finance

丁乙 Ding Yi, born 丁荣 in 1962 in Shanghai, is an artist in China most well known for his “Appearance of Crosses” 十示 abstract paintings.

 

Together with his contemporaries 徐红明 Xu Hongming (b. 1971), 李华生 Li Huasheng (b. 1944) and 余友涵 Yu Youhan (b.1943), these abstract works from China [1] is known as “中國極多主義 (中国极多主义) Chinese Maximalism”, a term coined by 高名潞 GAO Minglu where the intention for abstraction in China differs that from the west [2].

 

Aside from painting, Ding Yi is also the first Chinese artist to collaborate with French luxury fashion label Hermès and has his own line of silk scarves in the “Hermès Editeur” collection [3].

 

Ding Yi 丁乙

Appearance of Crosses 十示 2012-4

2012

Acrylic on canvas

120 x 140 cm / 47 1/4 x 55 in

 

# 丁乙 Ding Yi

b. 1962 Shanghai, China

www.baike.com/wiki/丁乙

 

# Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz

 

Drususgasse 1-5

50667 Cologne

Germany

 

5, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

Via Maistra 4

7500 St. Moritz

Switzerland

 

www.galerie-karsten-greve.com/

  

# Notes

1. www.wikipaintings.org/en/ding-yi

2. www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/Details/5165

3. editeur-en.hermes.com/hermes-editeur.html

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T15:57:38+0800

+ Dimensions: 3173 x 2701

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 27 mm

+ ISO: 640

+ 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.13852

+ 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 丁乙 Ding Yi (b. 1962 China): 十示 Appearance of Crosses 2012-4, 2012 (Acrylic on canvas)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13852

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

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #丁乙 #DingYi #GalerieKarstenGreve #acrylic #painting #abstract #maximilism

Someone on Flickr commented that an earlier shot of the plane + Aqua Luna Junk would look far better if I crop out the wing bits [1]. But of course they have no way in knowing that I in fact already have a shot which is even better.

 

For each capture that I make, I make a quick decision at the moment of capture on what it is that I wish to say. For the previous shot, it was about the wings of the plane vs the wing form of the HKCEC, so the contrast of forms is there.

 

For this shot, it is about the contrast of forms: the straight red sails of the boat vs the curves of the planes accented with reds.

 

To achieve maximum resolution which I seek, I try to assert an editorial eye at the moment of capture at different zoom length rather to resort to cropping after the fact.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-04-18T17:37:32+0800

+ Dimensions: 5472 x 3648

+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/7.1

+ Focal Length: 400 mm

+ ISO: 2000

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

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

+ GPS: 22°17'41" N 114°10'1" E

+ Location: 中國香港九龍尖沙咀海港城 Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

+ Subject: USMC AV-8B Harrier, USS Peleliu (LHA-5), United States Navy + Aqua Luna Junk

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130418.6D.01581

+ Series: Photojournalism, 形 Forms

 

# Notes

1. “Aqua Luna Junk + USMC AV-8B Harrier” / USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong / SML.20130418.6D.01570: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8664252713/

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

“紅與紅形之別 Contrast of Forms: Red vs Red” / Aqua Luna Junk vs USMC AV-8B Harrier / USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong / SML.20130418.6D.01698

/ #Photojournalism #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #USS #Peleliu #LHA5 #USMC #planes #AquaLuna #紅 #Red #ships

What continues to amaze me about Chinese landscape is that they really look like Chinese paintings. I used to think that the Chinese paintings look the way they do because it‘s a stylistic interpretation. It turns out that I was wrong—they really do look like that.

  

中國山東省泰安市泰山

中国山东省泰安市泰山

Taishan Mountain, Tai'an City, Shandong Province, China

More photographs shot for personal stock use. The annoying bits is that whoever designed this area decided that it is great to plant some weird plants right outside, so it looks like that it has pubes or something…

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-21 14:32:36 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 5143 x 3429

+ Exposure: 1/1000 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°25'11" N 114°13'37" E

+ Location: + 中國香港馬鞍山遊樂場籃球場 中国香港马鞍山游乐场篮球场 Basketball Courts, Ma On Shan Recreation Ground, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130221.7D.24070.P1.L1

+ Series: 形 Forms, 體育 Sports

 

“籃球架 Basketball Hoop” / 體育之形 Sports Forms / SML.20130221.7D.24070.P1.L1

/ #形 #Forms #SMLForms #體育 #Sports #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #城市 #Urban #攝影 #摄影 #photography #籃球 #Basketball #架 #Hoop

Situated adjacent to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Water Sports Centre (Chinese: 香港中文大學水上運動中心), there is a ferry pier which provides regular ferry service to remote areas including Tap Mun and Ping Chau in the northeast New Territories [1, 2].

 

Pictured is a 15-second long exposure of the pier at night shot across the harbour from Ma On Shan. As with most super telephoto photos, I was quite surprised to see the details. For example, there is no way for me to see that someone is on the pier from so far away, and yet there he is, sitting by the pier. He appears to be fishing while a woman look on on the side.

 

Photographed with the 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L + 1.4x Extender, which effectively created a 560mm f/8L lens. With the exception of the Canon EOS 1D lineup, none of the other cameras can auto-focus at this size so it is manual focus. This also means that it is probably not going to be possible for me to use this combo for sports photography.

 

# Notes

1. Wikipedia: EN: Ma Liu Shui: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Liu_Shui

2. Wikipedia: ZH: 馬料水: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/馬料水

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-04-18T00:43:11+0800

+ Dimensions: 5341 x 3560

+ Exposure: 15.0 sec at f/10

+ Focal Length: 560 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III

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

+ GPS: 22°25'22" N 114°13'8" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Subject: 中國香港馬料水渡輪碼頭 Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier, Hong Kong, China

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130418.6D.00932

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

 

# Media Licensing

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

 

“馬料水渡輪碼頭 Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier” / 香港夜之寧 Hong Kong Night Serenity (15-sec LE) / SML.20130418.6D.00932

/ #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 #碼頭 #Pier

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