Wutherings

Firekites

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Exposure

The Justice & Police Museum at Circular Quay in Sydney launched a new photography space earlier this year called the Archive Gallery. The gallery shows the work of forensic photographers from the 1940's and 1950's from its extensive forensic photography negative archive.
The photos document the harsh reality of crime in poetic black and white square format images taken with a steady hand. The stillness that is conveyed contrasts with the hurried phone camera shots we see on the news and internet today.

Photo: Aerial view of police attending a fatal fall in Sydney in 1954 photographed by Police Photographer Ross

source: Historic Houses Trust

(Not) Living in Public

Ondi Timoner's documentary 'We Live in Public' is a cautionary tale that documents the crazy projects of dot com bubble millionaire Josh Harris. In the film we get to see the surveillance of one pre-911 art scene in New York: the hedonistic, pointless performances by those who wished to validate their lives by living them on camera. The film highlights some of the tacky aspects of humanity that are played out both on line as well as off line.

Unfortunately the mogul's 'art' projects lack design integrity. His social experiments are intrinsically cruel and paint a very bleak picture. They are devoid of any kind of conscience not to mention basic netiquette. They are to discerning audiences what junk food is to those of us who eat organic. We don't buy it.

It is my hope that we can educate the myspace generation to cherish their privacy and value the communities that support healthy limits.

77 Million Paintings

77 Million Paintings.
Conceived as 'visual music' and using 'self-generating' software, three hundred of Brian Eno's hand-drawn images are cut-up, rearranged and realigned to produce infinite variations. Completely random, entirely original, constantly evolving, the results come to life on luminous screens in a brilliant display of colour, shape and form. To complete the experience, layers of ambient sound interweave to create a mesmerising soundscape.
Shown at the Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale, as well as in Tokyo, London and San Francisco, 77 Million Paintings will run throughout the whole of LUMINOUS as a free event in The Studio at the Sydney Opera House from 26 May to 14 June 2009.

source: Luminous

Savant Art

Megalopolis 22, by George Widener

This picture of an imaginary future city shines light on a common savant fascination: calendars. The artist George Widener is both a calendrical and artistic savant. He says that the numbers in this painting reflect numerical patterns that emerge when he plays with dates. “I find many strange things happening,” he says. Although his pictures are almost impenetrable to the viewer, Widener is convinced that thinking machines of the future will at least appreciate them: “I really do believe that superintelligent machines will explore my pics, with thousands of dates with thousands of connections and patterns in them, someday, for relaxation.”

source: news scientist

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Public Ad Campaign

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So All May Eat

It is the intent of SAME Cafe to build a healthy community by providing a basic need of food in a respectful and dignified manner to anyone who walks through the door.
SAME Cafe is unique in the lack of a set menu as well as set prices. Daily selections are made using fresh, organic ingredients, and funded by the donations of patrons. Instead of a cash register, a donation box is available for one to pay what they felt their meal was worth, or to leave a little more and help out someone less fortunate. If a diner does not have sufficient money to leave, they are encouraged to exchange an hour of service. Our philosophy is that everyone, regardless of economic status, deserves the chance to eat healthy food while being treated with dignity.