No. 1256 - 17 Dec 2010 - 08:52:02 * No. 1257 - 17Dec 2010 - 08:52:14
Showing posts with label metro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metro. Show all posts
26 December 2010
03 December 2010
10 November 2010
20 October 2010
Bejewelled
No. 3561 - 12 Jul 2010 - 22:12:03Here is a thin-slice of landscape from a random perspective: eight storeys over the last hill before sea-level, facing southwest, in the downtown of Metro Vancouver. This image signals the transformation of a three year practice, which is drawing to a close at the end of the year, as the bloG continues from fresh perspectives.
The building in the foreground is 100 years old in 2011. Although it is handsome from afar it is also neglected by the not-for-profiteers of the social housing society; exploited for its unfortunate location at the southeast corner of Gastown.
In the background, City Hall shines bright white on the left side of the skyline, while Library Square emits red beams of light on the right.
Little Sky House sits mid-ground, off the centre line adjacent to Yaletown's towers of lit windows.
The sky is a moving backdrop.
I watch for signs.
14 October 2010
12 October 2010
In Urbanity
No. 1678 - 05 Oct 2010 - 07:30:17 * No. 1784 - 05 Oct 2010 - 16:53:56
No. 1685 - 05 Oct 2010 - 07:31:12 * No. 1776 - 05 Oct 2010 - 16:52:20
11 October 2010
28 April 2010
22 January 2010
Skying Burnaby
No. 3240 * No. 2023
08 March 2008-18:38:11 * 21 June 2008-20:53:53
08 March 2008-18:38:11 * 21 June 2008-20:53:53
Gastown, Vancouver
English landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837) was inspired to convey the effects of weather, cloud formation and changing light on the scenes he painted repeatedly and named his outdoor practice "skying". "My first lesson was when Benjamin West* told me not to forget that light and shadow never stand still", claimed Constable of his teacher at the Royal Academy. Perhaps that is why his manner of painting the appearance of changing light on a landscape was prescient of a photographic approach even though he died just before the invention of photography. Forty years after his death, Eadweard Muybridge's action photographs proved that a trotting horse has all four feet off the ground at times, thanks to the invention of faster photographic plates.
I have a superb physical perspective from which to record the aspects of weather and light on my urban landscape; on a daily basis and with the assistance of a digital camera. Burnaby, a municipality of Metro Vancouver, rises in the distance between two buildings in the east end neighbourhood of Strathcona. The upcoming VANCOUVER Portrait of a City features 13 scenes, including Burnaby Corridor, that diversely document the city through all seasons, weather, and times of day. Vancouver: more north than Montréal, more overcast than rainy, more psychologically affected by light than by temperature.
Sky over land never stands still. One must look between the light - quickly and often.
*American born painter Benjamin West spent most of his life in London where he was patronized by George III for 40 years and was a founder of the Royal Academy in 1768. He innovated the representation of modern rather than classical costume in his best-known picture The Death of General Wolfe (c.1771) which is of particular interest to Canadian and British history.
English landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837) was inspired to convey the effects of weather, cloud formation and changing light on the scenes he painted repeatedly and named his outdoor practice "skying". "My first lesson was when Benjamin West* told me not to forget that light and shadow never stand still", claimed Constable of his teacher at the Royal Academy. Perhaps that is why his manner of painting the appearance of changing light on a landscape was prescient of a photographic approach even though he died just before the invention of photography. Forty years after his death, Eadweard Muybridge's action photographs proved that a trotting horse has all four feet off the ground at times, thanks to the invention of faster photographic plates.
I have a superb physical perspective from which to record the aspects of weather and light on my urban landscape; on a daily basis and with the assistance of a digital camera. Burnaby, a municipality of Metro Vancouver, rises in the distance between two buildings in the east end neighbourhood of Strathcona. The upcoming VANCOUVER Portrait of a City features 13 scenes, including Burnaby Corridor, that diversely document the city through all seasons, weather, and times of day. Vancouver: more north than Montréal, more overcast than rainy, more psychologically affected by light than by temperature.
*American born painter Benjamin West spent most of his life in London where he was patronized by George III for 40 years and was a founder of the Royal Academy in 1768. He innovated the representation of modern rather than classical costume in his best-known picture The Death of General Wolfe (c.1771) which is of particular interest to Canadian and British history.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
