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Showing posts with label BC Place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BC Place. Show all posts
23 December 2010
15 December 2010
13 December 2010
24 November 2010
Structural Constructivism
No. 6973 - 08 Nov 2010 - 07:45:20Accidental art forms and formalism at work on the landscape.
23 September 2010
10 May 2010
Icon Gone
No. 1829 - 30 Apr 2010 - 09:32:10Gastown, Vancouver
Quelle domage! I was away from my studio perch when the roof was deliberately and finally dropped after 27 years. Before the Olympics, I posted a picture of the roofless dome taken in 2007 after a rip in the fabric caused collapse due to a heavy, wet snowfall. I regret not being present while this one slipped away. This is the last image I took, after hundreds, of a favourite architectural canvas and, although there are no special light effects on it's surface, the gull flying overhead suitably finalizes this aspect of my landscape project. And now, GM (needs a new name) Place, marks the spot in Yaletown.
Quelle domage! I was away from my studio perch when the roof was deliberately and finally dropped after 27 years. Before the Olympics, I posted a picture of the roofless dome taken in 2007 after a rip in the fabric caused collapse due to a heavy, wet snowfall. I regret not being present while this one slipped away. This is the last image I took, after hundreds, of a favourite architectural canvas and, although there are no special light effects on it's surface, the gull flying overhead suitably finalizes this aspect of my landscape project. And now, GM (needs a new name) Place, marks the spot in Yaletown.
04 March 2010
17 February 2010
12 February 2010
Puffy Muse
No. 9763 - 02 Jan 2010 - 17:01:59
Gastown, Vancouver
Behold the marshmallowy softness of BC Place - scene of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 21st Winter Olympics. So close and yet so far away; I remain on the outside of this event by choice. I am concluding a three year practice of recording the daily landscape and enjoy watching the Trojan horse roll by my third eye like the clouds in the sky.
Here are some pretty pictures of one of my favourite lit objects on the Vancouver skyline.
Gastown, Vancouver
Behold the marshmallowy softness of BC Place - scene of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 21st Winter Olympics. So close and yet so far away; I remain on the outside of this event by choice. I am concluding a three year practice of recording the daily landscape and enjoy watching the Trojan horse roll by my third eye like the clouds in the sky.
Here are some pretty pictures of one of my favourite lit objects on the Vancouver skyline.
08 February 2010
Technical Glitch
No. back-up 170 - 08 Jan 2007 - 14:21:33Not unlike the failure of the BC Place roof to stay up three years ago, my site was down recently, due to technical difficulties. I would like to thank my many readers (my mother) for their patience and continued support during this trying time in my junior internet-publishing career.
My bloG will now be redirected to my own domain because apparently a .ca looks neater and more official than a .blogspot. (The weird truth is that the bloG format is a livlier form of communication, with a dumb name, than a website that often sits on the screen looking static and poorly tended). I will report daily from the outside at street level during the 2010 Winter Olympics and in conjunction with the Safe Assembly events planned by VIVO .
BTW how warm is it? There was more snow on the local mountains last May than there is now in February. CLIMATE CHANGE OLYMPIC GAMES - just kidding. It's probably one of those cyclical things although I admit that while the warmness is normal, the dryness is not. Our secret weapon, no matter the weather, will be the weather. The obvious climactic livability of the place will convince a bunch more people to move here and live in all of the new downtown towers and townhouses and condo-complexes filling up our once lovely view corridors.
*Update: 11 Feb 2010, The Waters of March are upon us.
03 January 2010
Always Chronological Never Re-touched...
Olympic Marshmallow 08 Apr 2008 - 16:21:04Gastown, Vancouver
. . . is my motto as a documentary photographer and the technical advancements make accurate record keeping a no-brainer. Naturally this rule does not apply to my work as an artist.
For the 25 years prior to this technology entering my life, I mostly pushed black and white 35mm film and occasionally dipped into a dark room or slides. By retrieving one great shot and a few good ones from a 36-frame roll of film I could remain intrigued enough to keep looking. Eleven of those years were spent in New York City where I often watched Andy Warhol , in the clubs, shooting off boxes of Polaroid film from his personal, cultural observation post. Any lingering envy was alleviated upon the purchase of my first digital camera: the feeling is referred to as my Andy Warhol moment.
And now, after only four years, I have more images than I can ever process and cameras within democratic reach no longer have an optical eye piece. Perhaps this is why I insist upon maintaining consistent standards as much as possible. If a bit of art falls off the back of my documentary truck, it is a good thing, but it is not the reason I keep looking. Two things: first, I like nailing history to the old-growth and second, light is my muse.
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