Thanksgiving Eve Sunset

Tributes in Light

“The Icelandic Postal Company has released a new series of stamps in October 2008 depicting the Imagine Peace Tower, which is dedicated to the memory of Beatle John Lennon. The stamp is printed in a traditional offset format and then overprinted with phosphorus in silk screen which causes the picture to accumulate light and then glow in the dark. When exposed to ultraviolet light, a picture of John Lennon appears on the stamp.”

“On October 9, 2007 legendary artist, musician and peace advocate Ms. Yoko Ono, unveiled an artwork in Iceland to remind us all of the importance of world peace. The Imagine Peace Tower, as the monument is called, will consist of a simple column of light that will be located on the island of Videy, where it will be visible from the capital, Reykjavik.
This project is based on a piece of conceptual art that Ms. Ono conceived in the 1960s entitled “Light House”. Her late husband, John Lennon, had expressed interest in the “Light House” and the two intended to bring the concept into reality. It was Ms. Ono’s wish that this beacon of light be sited in Reykjavik because Iceland has never maintained an army and is a world-leader on environmental issues.”

photo : Barry Yanowitz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomvu/2854548068/in/set-72157594280480906/

The “Tribute in Light”, a tribute to all those who were lost on September 11th as well as those who worked hard to get New York City through its darkest hour, will be on for one night on September 11, beginning at sunset and fading away at dawn on September 12th.

The lights are best seen when it is completely dark. Sunset is expected to occur at 7.11 p.m. local time that night and sunrise is expected to occur at 6.34 a.m. the next morning.

http://panoramas.dk/fullscreen/fullscreen17.html

Dream Bike

An old neighbor rode by today on a bike I could only ride in a dream.

http://www.santacruzmtb.com/home/

The Slack Family

We were invited last night to a reserved table to eat dinner and see The Slack Family at Shenanigans Eatery & Pub (the old “Cock and Bull” where all the greats of Bluegrass played in it’s HeyDay). The food was good and it was excellent to see the tradition of Bluegrass is still being carried on! I probably hadn’t seen The Slack Family in a decade and they have just gotten better with age. I still miss that female singer they started with, she really added a High Lonesome sound.

Page Wilson with his mighty band probably about a decade ago at Shenanigans.

 

Tesla & Twain

I read Tesla’s bio which was in Ginter Community Center library in 1967-68, it may have been from Major Ginters collection? A friend down the street had built a tesla coil and had enlighten us of this book about Nikola Tesla.

Unknown Fir

M. Conway has two beautiful evergreen trees in his front yard that he’s been told are Balsam Firs???

http://otway.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/b-a-3.jpg
http://otway.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/the-kit-kat-club/

http://otway.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/ghd-muse/

Route 1 Downtown

Last night when I shot this panorama I took two shots of every frame of panorama. I found with moving cars for some reason my camera goes out of focus (good thing to know).

DADA self-portrait with Wife

Science & Art

O3 image

basic O3 collage : With great glee I find it pretty wild that Nikola Tesla and Frank Zappa are the spitting image of one another.

DADA

Raoul Hausmann’s Self-portrait of the Dadasopher, collage- photomontage, 1920.

Raoul Hausmann, Austrian (1886-1971)
Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age), ca. 1920
Hairdresser’s wigmaking dummy, crocodile wallet, ruler, pocket watch mechanism and case, bronze segment of old camera, typewriter cylinder, segment of measuring tape, collapsible cup, the number “22,” nails and bolt
12 13/16 x 8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. (32.5 x 21 x 20 cm)
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Purchase, 1974
© CNAC / MNAM / Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY
© 2006 Raoul Hausmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Photo © Philippe Migeat

I’ve been looking for ”Definition of Photomontage” by Raoul Hausmann and this is all I’ve been able to find so far: 

In his article “Definition of Photomontage”, Hausmann seems to pin down its power: “…its contrast of structure and dimension, rough against smooth, aerial photograph against close-up, perspective against flat surface, the utmost technical flexibility and the most lucid formal dialectics are equally possible…The ability to manage the most striking contrasts, to the achievement of perfect states of equilibrium…ensures the medium a long and richly productive span of life…”

Ø3 Says:

June 14, 2009 at 9:51 PM

From “Lecture on Dada” [1922], translated from the French by Robert Motherwell

“As Dada marches it continuously destroys, not in extension but in itself. From all these disgusts, may I add, it draws no conclusion, no pride, no benefit. It has even stopped combating anything, in the realization that it’s no use, that all this doesn’t matter. What interests a Dadaist is his own mode of life. But here we approach the great secret.

Dada is a state of mind. That is why it transforms itself according to races and events. Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and grasshoppers.

Like everything in life, Dada is useless.

Dada is without pretension, as life should be.

Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions.”

Tristan Tzara

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html

Two Young Girl’s Promenade Across the Sky, 1920 Collage using wood engravings, Max Ernst

I took this photo influenced for my love of the avant-garde. It’s a telephone pole cover with a lifetime of flyers (probably photographed alot, always changing). June 2009

Early O3 image (slide) influenced by DADA and The Mothers of Invention.