Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
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I took Dusk At Mary Bartelme Park on May 31, 2014 at 09:39PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on June 01, 2014 at 05:25PM
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Libatique 73
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
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I took Fanoenix by Debbie Mullins on March 15, 2013 at 12:07PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 15, 2013 at 05:10PM
Name: FINE ARTS BUILDING
Alternate Name: GLOBAL MARINE HOUSE
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Artist, actual title unknown. If you know any history of this architectural detail, I’d love to hear it.
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I took Scvlptvre – Global Marine House, Los Angeles on January 31, 2013 at 02:41PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 13, 2013 at 03:28PM
Walter De Maria’s The 2000 Sculpture
For some reason, when I saw the above sculpture installation at LACMA, I didn’t remember that Walter De Maria was part of the NYC underground scene that also evolved into The Velvet Underground…
Walter De Maria, a reclusive American sculptor whose multifaceted achievement and sly Dadaist humor helped give rise to earthworks, Conceptual Art and Minimal art, on an often monumental scale, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 77 and lived in New York.
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In a career of more than 50 years Mr. De Maria made drawings of all-but-invisible landscapes, gamelike interactive wood sculptures and a record of himself accompanying the sound of crickets on the drums.
Mr. De Maria himself was a sometime percussionist who played in jazz and rock groups in New York in the 1960s, including one that evolved into Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground. Yet as an artist in later years he avoided the limelight, rarely giving interviews or letting himself be photographed.…
In other works Mr. De Maria favored shiny metals and pristine floor-hugging geometric forms that were often repeated in great numbers.
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From 1953 to 1959 he attended the University of California, Berkeley, studying history and painting, the latter under the painter David Park, who was also a musician and had a jazz group in which Mr. De Maria occasionally performed.
During these years Mr. De Maria was part of San Francisco’s developing avant-garde scene, participating in “Happenings” and theatrical performances and turning increasingly to three-dimensional works. His friends included the composer La Monte Young (later to become another Dia beneficiary) and the dancer Simone Forti, whose task-oriented choreography made him interested in interactive sculpture. Mr. De Maria moved to New York in 1960 and immersed himself in the downtown scene. He participated in Happenings with Robert Whitman (who was then married to Ms. Forti) and briefly ran a gallery on Great Jones Street with him, exhibiting Minimalist sculptures made of wood.
The sculptures were often Dadaist in intent. A piece called “Ball Drop” consisted of a tall columnar structure with a small hole at the top and bottom and a small wood ball. The viewer could drop the ball in the top hole and retrieve it from the bottom.
During this time Mr. De Maria performed with jazz musicians, including the trumpeter Don Cherry, and joined a band called the Primitives. It would evolve into the Velvet Underground.
(click here to continue reading Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 – NYTimes.com.)
George Contemplating Walter De Maria’s The 2000 Sculpture
Sculptor: Dessa Kirk. Sculpture apparently reclaimed Cadillac parts.
Northerly Island f/k/a Miegs Field
No Need To Hide It
Cadillac Daphne – Northerly Island
Late Afternoon – Northerly Isle
(( The Sears Tower is n/k/a Willis Tower – but you knew that, right? ))
Eye (embiggening)
By Oak Park artist, Tony Tasset
Temporary Exhibit: From July to October, 2010.
Location: Pritzker Park, at the corner of State and Van Buren.
Insallation in progress of the 30-foot tall, giant eyeball made of fiberglass and steel, allegedly modeled on his own eye.
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Pistil
Flash: Off
took a brief walk before lunch today to gaze at this three story eyeball as best as I could from behind the construction fences. Isn’t officially completed until July 7th, wonder what else remains to be done? Maybe just shoring up the base.
Anyway, very cool.
Madison, WI. Artist name, Jill Pfeiffer.
from 2007
sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
from last year
Sculpture found somewhere near Northwestern Hospital (aka Chicago Memorial, if you’ve ever seen the movie, The Fugitive). Flipped around in Photoshop because they wanted to play full court.
Note: aliens use multiple balls/goals, so their game is faster moving than the NBA. Sort of like 3-D chess as played on Star Trek.
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from my archives, circa 2005
of course, no idea about the real artist/title. Sculpture carved of wood.
Scanned from a 4×6 print.
really need to retrieve my negatives from Austin – would love to scan from the originals
sure looks like the Darwin Fish (the answer to the Jesus fish often found on car bumper-stickers)
Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent 1557 Istanbul, Turkey.
from the Chicago Tribune building, of course.
Forget the exact building, business is defunct I believe
not sure if this compass rose is there anymore
detail, sculpture
Skokie, I think, but I could be mistaken.
Lincoln Park. Probably (based on style) by Pat McDonald who also did this piece
and here is a closeup taken more recently
A few interesting links collected May 12th through May 14th:
"It's very sexually charged," said University of Tuebingen archeologist Nicholas Conard, whose team discovered the figure in September."
I am impressed that the Trib, which is upending its business model as quickly as any major media organization and has been pilloried for some elements of that, is doubling down on local watchdog info, going so far as to court the FOIA-filing crowd."
