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Where does the phrase bushed come from? Does sitting in a bush make you tired? Will being beaten with an uprooted bush make you weary? I don't know so why are you asking? Put it this way. I am so tired that if I was attacked by one I probably wouldn't notice.
Funnily enough I was attacked by a bush once. Well really it was a man holding a bush, but you get the idea. We were walking along Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco and the man with the bush jumped out out at me and I let out a girly scream. This was all the more embarrassing as the day before he did it to someone else and I claimed that he would never surprise me. So I guess my punishment for being such a big head was to not only get the fright of my life but also to let out a girly scream too.
Apparently it's a tourist attraction, the man with the bush that is not me screaming like a girl. Although if I could make a living out of it I'd probably give it a go. There was another guy begging further on from bushman and he had a sign that said "please give me a dollar, I don't need it to travel anywhere nor to buy a cup of tea, I just want to buy some booze and get loaded." I'm all for honesty in advertising so I expect you are wondering what all this has to do with land art?
Your guess is as good as mine.
I shared my land art excursion with three others today. A worm, a beetle and a bloke called Dave. They don't know each other, they came along separately. The worm emerged from the mud canvas and inched his way along the sculpture, the beetle scuttled across the leaves in a strident manner as though he was trying to lay claim to the sculpture by saying "mine!" And Dave is doing an MA.
He emailed me last week to ask if he could come out a-sculpturing with me some time. I said "sure, if you don't mind sharing the limelight with a worm and a beetle." He seemed to be okay with this so I squared the deal by offering him the opportunity to take pictures of me whilst I was covered in mud. If it catches on I might offer myself up for parties and barmitzvahs.
Just to be serious for second, as though that would be likely, Dave is studying an MA in decay. He is interested in finding out about how things change and degrade and thought my land art would be interesting.
Decay is a big part of nature. It is just a point in the whole cycle of life. Decaying matter becomes nutrients for the next new growth, before its death eventually comes around for the next round in life.
If I was to offer up some symbolism for this sculpture then I would say that the mud canvas is the nutrient rich food for all the new life and what the oak tree feeds on to grow and flourish. The leaves fall and rot onto the woodland floor and all their stages are present across the slab. The whole cycle of life is here.
Or as I said to Dave today: "well, that's one point of view, or to look at it another way. It's just some bloke using the excuse that he is making a 'serious' sculpture, to act like a kid and get messy and smear mud on a rock."
Metra Electric District train 334 makes its stop at Bryn Mawr, in the middle of 71st Street on the South Chicago Branch during a light snowfall on a frigid evening that was making a filling dinner at this barbecue joint more and more attractive as the minutes wore by.
This station- not to be confused with the stop of the same name on CTA's Red Line- almost as far up on the north side of the city as this one is on the south side (public transit travel time between the two, for what it's worth, is about 90 minutes on a good day)- bears the original name of the neighborhood, as christened by early real estate developers. The area has long been known as South Shore, however, and has always been an important commercial and high-density residential area, abutting the lakefront and Jackson Park as it does. Though the area increasingly faces serious crime and violence, the commercial strip along 71st, anchored by the Metra Electric line, remains one of Chicago's densest and busiest south-side neighborhoods.
An NS steel slab train crosses Rockville Bridge on a frigid January evening just after sunset. The Susquehanna River is mostly frozen and its icy blue color contrasts with the clouds reflecting a pink winter sunset.
Digital illustration/ Spread
SLAB
The SOUND + LITERARY ART BOOK of Slippery Rock University
Design + Illustration: David Pohl
SLAB logo design: Hyla Willis
Client: Mark O'Conner / Slippery Rock University
Copyright© 2006 David Pohl
HOP | House of Pingting Archives
Digital illustration/ Spread
SLAB
The SOUND + LITERARY ART BOOK of Slippery Rock University
Design + Illustration: David Pohl
SLAB logo design: Hyla Willis
Client: Mark O'Conner / Slippery Rock University
Copyright© 2006 David Pohl
HOP | House of Pingting Archives
Je vous propose aujourd'hui un gros plan sur une aile de papillon bien colorée, un Urania ripheus.
Les petites écailles que vous voyez ici sont cette espèce de poudre que vous avez sur les doigts après avoir touché un papillon.
Sony A7III + Soufflet + Raynox DCR150 + Olympus UplanFl 10x
Stackrail SR90
2 Lampes Jansjö + Panneau Viltrox L116T + Diffuseur
1/3s, iso 100
Stack de 35 clichés
Rapport 12:1 + léger crop
Capture One, Zerene, Bugslabber et CS6
Taken on a long hike in the upper reaches of the Paterson River. This abandoned hut was likely the home of a farm hand many years ago. There was an empty sauce bottle marked with 1960 inside. The hut was constructed from iron bark slabs.I decided to give these images a monochrome treatment in keeping with the history and the setting.
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This Photo was taken in a condominium in Kuala Lumpur. The Carpark Slab is using precast waffle slab which was not popular now anymore.
Slab City is one of the most famous and interesting communes in the world, a place where hundreds of people go to live off the land for free. It was a former military base in the desert of Southern California, and now it provides another way of life for many, and there are many artistic displays up to see in the area.
CSX B522 passes under the B&O signal bridge at South Deshler while L318 waits in the siding with a SD50 leader.
Deshler, Ohio
Some recent heavy duty pruning at Vigo Bridge had opened up this area of the embankment to enable this early 2003 view of EWS 60083 'Mountsorrel' to be taken. It was heading for Llanwern with a consignment of steel slabs forming the 6V40 06:02 from Lackenby.
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66075 heads the 1332 Dalzell Steelworks-Tees Yard empty slab carriers around the S-bends at Auchengray, between Carstairs and Midcalder Jn, 21st August 2020.
Stumer’s Slab Hut 1879. This hut was built at Milford near Boonah by Carl and Marie Stumer (German settlers) in 1879. They had 7 children in this home.
This hut has been transported to Templin Historical Village
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