Stephen loves capes (and as of that Saturday morning, we now know he loves tempeh marinated in Braggs) and Bryn loves my iPhone. After the last leaf of baby bok choy was sauteed, we downloaded the Monkey Flight app and I passed out. That last picture is what it looks like when you go out Friday night, wake up at 7:30 the next morning, and cook for four hours.
29 April 2010
Veggies
Tomorrow is another Silverlake Farms CSA pickup. The last time around, my mom and I went to my sister Noreen's house where she, Bryn and Stephen helped us cook.
Sailing on the Brain
The third sailing post in a row, I know.
A month ago, I said there was a sailing timelapse forthcoming. I still haven't done it. I can't decide on a song!
Until then, here are a few stills from it.
28 April 2010
Senior Sailing
A friend's husband told me the other day that when his parents retired, they sold their house and bought a sailboat. They've been sailing around the world since, and indefinitely, docking where they want and casting off again when they want.
I saw this impeccably designed sailing boat the other day and thought that there's a slight possibility that in 30 years, this model will have depreciated enough to be my floating house. maybe. but probably not.
I love how the waterline (where the top of the water touches the outside of the boat) is brought inside. Everything under the waterline is walnut, and everything above is white. The kitchen is all white because it's all above the waterline.
25 April 2010
Beach House does TLC
Beach House does a really nice little performance of "Used to Be" on an Australian beach... and then a verse of TLC's "Waterfalls". The only way this could be better is if she did Lisa Left Eye Lopes' rap verse.
while i'm at it...
24 April 2010
23 April 2010
To Have & To Hold
To Have and To Hold is a documentary that explores vinyl. The passion/importance/unique qualities/it's role in our lives.
included are:
+ Bobbito
+ ?uestlove
+ Chuck D
+ Bruce Ludvall [CEO of Blue Note Records]
and
++ great music
++ cool visuals
++ a celebration
++ tap dancing on a floor made of vinyl
their trailer:
22 April 2010
Karl Martin Holzhäuser
Painting with Light :: Karl Martin Holzhäuser
Operating in total darkness, he moves a "light-brush" (a lamp inside a narrow oblong box with variable openings in the bottom) along horizontal and vertical rails over sensitized paper, thus exposing it directly, without an interfering lens. Small parallel slides in the bottom of this "brush" enable the artist to control the quantity of light emerging from his device.
Operating in total darkness, he moves a "light-brush" (a lamp inside a narrow oblong box with variable openings in the bottom) along horizontal and vertical rails over sensitized paper, thus exposing it directly, without an interfering lens. Small parallel slides in the bottom of this "brush" enable the artist to control the quantity of light emerging from his device.
Holzhäuser says:
"For the time being I am still very busy exploring the possibilities of the fundamental photographic process, especially as I feel increasingly free in handling it, in reducing its material and technical aspects to a minimum in order to create a picture purely from light. Probably this urge "back to the roots" also explains my present predilection for black and white, the inspiring association with the original and fundamental photographic process; I am working right at the basis. The process itself is the origin of the picture. Nothing but light touching paper: That is painting with light in its purest form. Maybe some day I'll really become a painter in the traditional sense of the word. It is possibly significant that the darker parts of my present black-and-white "paintings" often assume a peculiar velvety materialness and a strikingly graphic note. Perhaps the borderline turns out to be fluid, somewhere very far underneath."
From an article on Holzhäuser's process:
"For the time being I am still very busy exploring the possibilities of the fundamental photographic process, especially as I feel increasingly free in handling it, in reducing its material and technical aspects to a minimum in order to create a picture purely from light. Probably this urge "back to the roots" also explains my present predilection for black and white, the inspiring association with the original and fundamental photographic process; I am working right at the basis. The process itself is the origin of the picture. Nothing but light touching paper: That is painting with light in its purest form. Maybe some day I'll really become a painter in the traditional sense of the word. It is possibly significant that the darker parts of my present black-and-white "paintings" often assume a peculiar velvety materialness and a strikingly graphic note. Perhaps the borderline turns out to be fluid, somewhere very far underneath."
From an article on Holzhäuser's process:
The individual colors are obtained by the use of filters whose tints must be complementary to the intended colors because the sensitized paper is being exposed directly, without any intermediary steps. The mechanical part of the technique consists of cutting pieces of filter foil to the width of the intended color stripes, applying translucent coats of the respective colors to the foils, and gluing them onto the predesignated sections of the light brush.
The color ultimately shown on the paper is determined, on the one hand, by the tint and density of the coating, and, on the other, by the speed of moving the light brush during the exposure. Although Holzhaeuser conducts meticulous test series in order to define the filter colors, chance influences remain, particularly during the exposure and the subsequent chemical process.
Since his first experiments in this area, the artist has pursued mainly three directions of coloration, namely (1) combinations of the three primary optical colors blue, green and red, (2) monochromatic light/dark graduations created by successive exposures (as against the simultaneous use of several filters for the multicolored paintings), and (3) color chords either comprising the entire spectrum or composed of colors complementary to one another.
16 April 2010
15 April 2010
Every painting in MoMA
Every painting in MoMA in 2:00.
When I read the title of the video, I was afraid it would feel cheap. It doesn't. It's respectful of the collection. Nice little video.
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