I woke up today to perfect lighting and made some video clips. These are a few stills from the footage. I have a new sound recorder so I plan on making some audio later (if I ever read the manual).
I have to get up early for the right light for video and stay up late to record audio when the traffic is not so noisey. I am thinking of taking up insomina.
Arts Council Project Award Clinic will be taking place tomorrow at 11.30am in the Half Moon Theatre, Cork. The Limerick, Galway and Dublin ones have already taken place.
I am curious to have an insight into application or submission procedures which seem to be shrouded in mystery for many. I have only on occasion spoken about it with others and have found that everyone has a different techniques and layouts and styles. I am hoping that it will be useful and not just a recital of the online guidelines.
{Edit} It was primarily a walk through of the guidelines. Though there were a few interesting parts. It was a charged room, it was clear that many people were a little annoyed at the Arts Council. A few people left early.
On a different note, I was quite annoyed at persons sitting near me who were making jokes and chatting throughout. They laughed a few times after people had asked questions. Whether or not they were laughing at people I do not know, but it seemed that way. I despise that kind of parasitic behaviour. I recognised them from the local arts circles.
I read about Herbert and Dorothy Vogel sometime ago but heard, only recently, about the documentary. Herb and Dorothy are a long time married couple/long time art collectors based in New York. Though well known in the New York art scene for decades, in recent years they gained notoriety for their charming story.
At the beginning of their marriage Herb was taking art classes and, as the good wife, Dorothy took classes in order to take an interest in her husbands interests. Eventually they both decided that they were not talented enough and instead began to collect. The most sensational part of their story is that they managed to accumulate an enormous collection of contemporary art on a modest income. Herb was a postal clerk and Dorothy was a librarian. Apparently they lived on Dorothy's salary and used Herb's to buy the work.
They went to every opening, bought only what they liked provided that they could fit it in their apartment and could carry it home. Seemingly their interpretation of "fitting in the apartment" was quite literal as their one bed was stuffed with most things were stacked under tarps. Their appreciation of minimalism doesn't extend to interior design.
The documentary film was made in 2008. The story has a little magic to it, their interest in art was not motivated by financial gain, the bought unlikable work and they wanted to pay a fair price. It has cleansed my critical pallet.
Undoubtedly these two have a huge cult following. Oh they seem to tick a lot of the boxes; quirky, cat loving, art loving, stylish and elderly(vintage), hoarding and anti-establishment. That's hipster heaven!!
All images were obtained from a google image search, no copyright infringement intended.
For a brief moment the setting sun reflected off a window of a building in the horizon and into mine, causing a tight beam of glowy light to illuminate my tea. The steam looks like flames. I had to dash to find my camera, the focus isn't quite right as it lasted for only a minute, no time for fiddling with settings. 5.15, it's magic!
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