Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts
08 March 2011
07 March 2011
It's been raining a lot lately
but it hasn't stopped this guy* from enjoying his shower:
He's part of a cool rain catchment/bioswale system* at the Seven Corners New Seasons on SE Division. I actually went to the store at that particular location with a certain A. Humphrey on one of my earlier trips to Portland just before we moved here. In fact, we ate there right after he took me to an interview I had which eventually landed me my first job in Oregon (not counting tour guide/roadie extraordinaire during the Winter of 2004) Here is a potentially more zazzling shot of our showering friend:
(*As of publication time: unknown artist(s), bioswale designer(s), title)
He's part of a cool rain catchment/bioswale system* at the Seven Corners New Seasons on SE Division. I actually went to the store at that particular location with a certain A. Humphrey on one of my earlier trips to Portland just before we moved here. In fact, we ate there right after he took me to an interview I had which eventually landed me my first job in Oregon (not counting tour guide/roadie extraordinaire during the Winter of 2004) Here is a potentially more zazzling shot of our showering friend:
(*As of publication time: unknown artist(s), bioswale designer(s), title)
04 March 2011
The Aaron Choate Collection
This was an art exhibit in Portland in which some of my books and such were displayed (thanks, Grandma, for the Nixon era Presidential Poster!). A personal experience of the boundary (or lack thereof) between art and life, 'twas. Perhaps an alternate title could be "My Shelflife"! The project is explained by the text in the last photograph. It ran from March 1-7th at the Field Work gallery (www.fieldworkspace.org). There also exist some set up photos and other information. Here is an in progress link, which also includes my box o' stuff as well as someone else's "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. Kirsten's blue birthday mug makes a guest appearance (i snuck it into the display for the photograph), and i had to wait to publish this until now 'cause it wasn't her birthday yet and thus i still hadn't given it to her!
Recently i sat in on a German philosophy course in which the professor outlined how existence (la exsitencia, Existenz, etc.) comes from the Greek "Ekstatika" (ουσ. ύπαρξη? Sorry, not sure if that's right - "it's all Greek to me!" :o), but anyway, it basically means "to see oneself outside of one's own body". Nice! I used this concept recently in my German class by taking photographs of students and then displaying them immediately as a slide show with the projector. A sort of out of body experience, and it was a success i think. Hopefully i'll have more chances like this to do art-type things in the near future!
Recently i sat in on a German philosophy course in which the professor outlined how existence (la exsitencia, Existenz, etc.) comes from the Greek "Ekstatika" (ουσ. ύπαρξη? Sorry, not sure if that's right - "it's all Greek to me!" :o), but anyway, it basically means "to see oneself outside of one's own body". Nice! I used this concept recently in my German class by taking photographs of students and then displaying them immediately as a slide show with the projector. A sort of out of body experience, and it was a success i think. Hopefully i'll have more chances like this to do art-type things in the near future!
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