UFA 3D MAPPING COMPETITION

I am taking a break from my vacation because my dear friend from high school, Leyla Nahas, just sent me an email about this 3D mapping competition she has been organizing in Lebanon and I thought it was absolutely amazing. And since it's going on now... I couldn't wait until Janurary 6th to talk about it. So here it is.

What is 3D mapping ?

A new form of urban art is popping up in cities throughout the world. Urban Projection Mapping, as it is loosely known, is the art of creating video displays that make buildings come alive in light, color and motion. Armed with powerful technology, a handful of enterprising video artists create vivid, visually arresting video displays that are projected on urban architecture. These videos tell stories, form abstract imagery and in some cases, sell products.

So this is the first 3D mapping competition held in the Middle East. It is a non commercial urban art event that takes place over 6 days on the facade of UFA's building in Martyr's square, Beirut, starting on December 22nd until December 31st.

15 competing visual artists are giving life to the UFA building and the event is open to the public for free. Here's the trailer :

If you're interested, read more about it here and here.

Ok. Well now, see you next year!


☁ UFA COMPETITION
☁ NOW LEBANON

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR...

Yes, it is that time of the year again. That time of the year where I leave and abandon a little my blog... I am sorry to announce that I will get away and won't be back until JANURARY 6 , 2011.
So in the meantime, I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year. May you all have a safe holiday season.

See you next year!!

xxx Marie xxx

FRANÇOIS GABOURY

I have been following this blog for about three years now, and it is still one of my favorites to visit. It is photographer FRANÇOIS GABOURY's blog. He presents some of his photographs and always makes comments about books he's reading or movies he has seen or funny news he's heard. It's a bit like reading his personal journal illustrated. Anyways, since I have been reading and enjoying it for so long, I thought it was about time I'd share.


☁ PHOTOGAB

KELLY REEMTSEN

KELLY REEMTSEN/// IT'S MY PARTY

KELLY REEMTSEN is one of my favorites painters. I love her settings. I love to imagine what could have happened or what is about to happen.... Is she going to kill her husband or is she really just going to cut trees wearing that beautiful dress? It's almost like a Clue game... pick the dress, pick the tool, pick the room and you're in for a perfect murder. A friend once told me the paintings reminded her of Kate Winslet's character in the movie Revolutionnary Road (with Leonardo Decaprio). And I thought she was absolutely right. I feel like these women are on the verge of neurosis, yet I assume this and all I see is a dress and a tool. Funny how my mind can get wondering with just these 2 facts...

☁ KELLY REEMTSEN
☁ KELLY REEMTSEN @ ALDER & CO
☁ KELLY REEMTSEN PREVIOUSLY ON LE ZÈBRE

VÉRONIQUE LA PERRIÈRE M.

VÉRONIQUE LA PERRIÈRE M.
EDUCATION
2009-PhD in Humanities - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal.
2008 Independent student – Museum studies MA program, Université de Montreal.
2003-2006 MFA - École des Arts Visuels et Médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal.
1998-2002 BFA, Major in Studio Arts - Concordia University, Montreal.

☁ VÉRONIQUE LA PERRIÈRE M. @ SAS

TRISTAN HUTCHINSON

TRISTAN HUTCHINSON /// GHOSTS
Short 1 minute piece, with soundtrack by Tom Hill (Origami Biro).

TRISTAN HUTCHINSON Photographer and Filmmaker based in Dublin, born in 1980.

"I studied Fine Art after an art teacher of mine in school pulled me aside and told me that one day I would surprise people. I had no idea whether that was a good or bad thing.

I did a degree and gravitated towards photography and video, because I was rubbish at painting and too afraid of sculpture.

I had to work a lot during this time (for a cinema) and found myself spending more and more time at work at not in college. The natural conclusion was to combine the two, so I made work about the physical spaces of cinema and the human nature within it. People shuffle and move in their seats at exactly the same time. Its a collective consciousness.

I then moved to Ireland and forgot about all of this.

After working in various jobs, I came back to making, video-ing and taking pictures. An MA in Film Production provided me with enough drive to move away from what I feel, at least for myself, was the lazy awkwardness that was gallery-based, ‘abstract’ artwork, and the MA gave me a grounding in producing narrative based work.

I am equally interested in film and photography and find often that the two medium (though not too distinct in form) inform each other - still, filmic portraits, documenting spaces, places and people.
Its about capturing that beauty in the mundane, the everyday and lives lived in spaces. The evidence of the human in occupied and modified landscapes, traces left behind in contemporary nature by man yet appearing largely absent in their obvious forms. I shoot anonymous places – street corners, sea fronts, forests, neighborhoods and places passed by momentarily on the train. Along with an aesthetic of lines and boundaries, these landscapes offers up a vision of the ‘place’ being stage-like, a theatre where everything exists both for a finite amount of time, and trapped forever within the imagination.

This liminality also serves as the possibility of what lies beyond – over the horizon, past and beyond the frame of the image. It is not about being trapped within the confines of the space, but what lies within and what could lie outside; the limitlessness of imagination. Hope, expectation and possibility." (TRISTAN HUTCHINSON)


Just slow down and look at this ordinary moment of life. See how beautiful it is, see how life flows around us, how everything shimmers with possibility. - Paul Graham


☁ TRISTAN HUTCHINSON

GREGOR GAIDA

GREGOR GAIDA
Born in Chorzów, Poland, 1975

1999-2002 : Apprenticeship as wood sculptor in Flensburg,Germany
2003-2009 : University of the Arts (HfK), Bremen, Germany and auditing student at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany
2009-2010 : master class of Prof. Bernd Altenstein

☁ GREGOR GAIDA

ADAM FUSS

The photographer ADAM FUSS  is best known for arresting, brilliant colored photograms that break habits of seeing. His work investigates the elements of life and the basic materials of photography. Part of the appeal of the photogram for Fuss is its directness. The objects depicted in the photogram came into physical contact with the very paper on which the final print appears. The experience is somehow more tactile, more visceral.

Fuss was attracted to photography at school in England in the 1970s and his first photogram was the result of an accident. While Fuss was taking a pinhole photograph using a homemade cardboard-box camera, the opening that served as the camera's lens was accidentally closed off. However, light leaked in from a corner of the box. It struck the color film at a sharp angle, resulting in a graduated color field dotted with the elongated shadows of dust particles floating around the interior of the box. "Light played across the film... When I processed it, I saw this world, this other world of image that I was unaware of. And that showed me that I didn't need the camera any more."

Over the years, Adam Fuss has been placing a variety of objects with different levels of translucence directly onto Cibachrome paper and exposing them to light. For example, brightly colored balloons, egg yolks, sunflowers in full glory and in various states of decay, and pieces of stained glass are just some of the materials explored in the pursuit of images that emphasize the play of light and color. Fuss has also made photograms of moving subjects such as psychedelic spirals of light created by swinging a flashlight from a pendulum over photosensitive paper, snakes slithering through sand or water, and babies in pools of water. Rather than striving for perfection, Fuss courts blemishes and imprecision, emphasizing that his experiments are always in a process of revision and refinement. The photograms that involve plants and animals seem not to depict -they invoke the moment of photographic creation, and the life of the organic material, with an eerie immediacy.(TUFTS)

Details of Love Series
Fuss began to wonder what photograms of the internal organs of a mammal would look like and in 1992, at a time of emotional turmoil in his life, began the series Details of Love. "The rabbit was the perfect animal," explains Fuss, "because it's a creature that absorbs a tremendous amount of symbolism - reproduction, fertility, sacrifice, innocence." The chemical process in the images required that the internal organs be fresh so a steady reserve of rabbit intestines from a local restaurant supplier allowed Fuss to continue his work. In order to get the desired effect, Fuss experimented with laying the intestines on photographic paper for varying lengths of time - from a few hours to a full day and night - often moving them around in the dark. The whole setup was then exposed to a flash of light from a hand-held strobe. The longer the intestines lay on the paper, the more they ate into the surface, destroying the emulsion. Where they were left overnight, the image is pure white with a faint outline of the intestine and where they were placed for only a few hours, a Technicolor impression resulted.



☁ ADAM FUSS @ TUFTS
☁ ADAM FUSS @ V&A
☁ ADAM FUSS @ CHEIM & READ