I still love looking at photographs of icebergs. Mostly only older photographs though, as many nature photographers today are far too fond of the saturation and contrast effects in photoshop.
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Showing posts with label icebergs. Show all posts
Icebergs Again
I still love looking at photographs of icebergs. Mostly only older photographs though, as many nature photographers today are far too fond of the saturation and contrast effects in photoshop.
Art I Like: Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy is a Scottish environment artist. These partially submerged pieces are great. They look like drawings. I only stumbled upon the second piece now, while I was looking for an image of the first, it's perfect. Reminds me of the drawing I just did that I showed in the previous post.
Drawings
Recent drawings. I think drawing is very important and is a stand alone art practice. In fact, I recall I did my thesis on drawing. I like that drawing reveals the progression of an idea. It shows the bigger picture.
Anyway, here is a little number that seem to reflect my current fascination from icebergs and such.
Mountains & Glaciers
Reference Material: Old photographs of glaciers. The first image shows a glacier in Canada. The second two images are Alaskan glaciers. Those photographs are from a 1946 LIFE magazine article which, advices me that the Alps and Himalayas have the most glaciers but Alaska has the best glaciers. That is informative, unbiased advice.
Image 1.
Art I Like: Crystal Brass Knuckles
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| Debra Baxter, Crystal Brass Knuckles ( I am going to realign your chakra motherf*****) 2009 |
This piece is many thing; fabricated sculpture, conceptual art and jewelery craft. (And they say art has no use!) But the best aspect of this piece by Debra Baxter is the name. At the moment crystals are big in art, really big, getting bigger. I like that this is a great big crystal that pokes fun at itself with its title; I am going to realign your chakra motherf******. I like jokes in art and I like art that references art, though I can't say if this was the artist's intention.
Estonia joins the Eurozone
Continuing on reoccurring themes of economics, politics and icebergs. I would like to share the news
that Estonia, our USSR→EU friend, has adopted the euro. Huzzah! Anti-euro types have criticized this move, saying in a statement that "Estonia was getting the last ticket for the Titanic".
Recently, my boyfriend's parents told us about a vacationing American couple that they had met in a bar. By vacationing I mean they were planning to land in the UK but were diverted due to the weather. They were surprised that everyone here was so happy because they had heard how terrible the financial situation was. Irish people do love to have something to moan about and it was Christmas, the season of good cheer. When I told my boyfriend about our new shipmates he joked, "if Estonia bought the last ticket for the Titanic, Ireland must be the band that kept spirits up and continued to play as the ship sank!"
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| Scene from one of the older Titanic films. Image found here. Other image found here. |
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