Cleopatra.
Date taken: May 10, 2008.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
366 Pictures: #108 House
This is one of the outdoor exhibits at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The house is made out of glass and is an optical illusion. As you walk, the house moves! I love how cartoonish it looks against the building.
Date taken: May 10, 2008.
366 Pictures: #55 Rubbish
For those of you who were with me in NYC you may remember one particular installation at the Brooklyn Museum that fascinated me. Hew Locke's El Dorado (pictures are on the third row) is a mixed media portrait of Queen Elizabeth, however, it's made out of all sorts of crazy, lowbrow items. It's incredibly intricate and was probably my favorite piece of art at the museum.
So, imagine my giddiness when I saw this . . .
Okay, okay, it isn't the actual installation, it's a framed poster, but it's still incredibly neat. This is Vik Muniz's Kyber Pass, Self-Portrait as an Oriental, After Rembrandt (Pictures of Junk). All of the items were gathered from the streets and dumps in Rio de Janiero and assembled in an airplane hanger! Once the giant sculpture was all put together, Muniz took a picture of it from a crane.
How cool is that!? I've included a couple of the close-up pictures I took. They give you an idea of the sorts of things that make up the portrait. I thought it was a pretty creative twist on rubbish.
Date Taken: May 10, 2008.
So, imagine my giddiness when I saw this . . .
Okay, okay, it isn't the actual installation, it's a framed poster, but it's still incredibly neat. This is Vik Muniz's Kyber Pass, Self-Portrait as an Oriental, After Rembrandt (Pictures of Junk). All of the items were gathered from the streets and dumps in Rio de Janiero and assembled in an airplane hanger! Once the giant sculpture was all put together, Muniz took a picture of it from a crane.
How cool is that!? I've included a couple of the close-up pictures I took. They give you an idea of the sorts of things that make up the portrait. I thought it was a pretty creative twist on rubbish.
Date Taken: May 10, 2008.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
I'm Such a Dork . . .
Seriously, every time I start thinking or researching my trip to Puerto Rico I get one particular song in my head. I honestly have no idea why. The only thing I can think of is the one word they each have in common.
I'm going to link over to the song since my attempts to embed it resulted in my blog refusing to upload.
Major Dorkiness Found Here
Please, please send help immediately!
I'm going to link over to the song since my attempts to embed it resulted in my blog refusing to upload.
Major Dorkiness Found Here
Please, please send help immediately!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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