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Ingredients of a Subway Car – Performance Art and Installation /
This is what i call putting needles in a haystack.
ideas and sketches for ingredients of a subway car /
ideas usually work in odd ways, they camouflage
Ingredients of a Subway Car – Simulation with Pen And Ink Drawings /
INGREDIENTS OF A SUBWAY CAR – Spacesuit /
ingredients of a subway car /
Simulation with Pen and ink Drawings in Unity 3D
The subtle and not so subtle life of red /
Also decorating my chandelier with ingredients of a subway car. The subtle and not so subtle life of red - about the reds that are gentle - old masters technique of gentle blending, starring a jar of Damar varnish made with Damar crystals melted in turpentine.
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What My Mac Reads to Me - plus INGREDIENTS OF A SUBWAY CAR installation /
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I have discovered that just like any good pet macs have special hidden talents to please their owners - right click any text in you OS X and add to iTunes as a Spoken Track - choose the default Alex voice, it is pretty good - and voila - now your mac can read to you any text, book, website.
I frequently add whole books and make instant audiobooks to entertain myself while I work. In the past artists used to have musicians and clowns entertain them in the studio, I have my mac read to me.
Here is the folder on dropbox -i'll be dropping stuff in here once in a while:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gyg34txz05kgact/AADAynfol9TNzg5D7FaecoKLa?dl=0
Here is
Disneyworld Company essay by
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jy0khl2h1f8pqm6/Jean%20Baudrillard%20-%20Disneyworld%20Company.m4a?dl=0
Here is the article online:
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=158
The perspective of others is about the perceived reality of others and I am really not fond of news as i much rather listen to smart people pondering odd stuff, it really makes using my organs of hearing all the more worthwhile.
Ingredients of a Subway Car /
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is a series of drawings, installations, simulations with Unity 3D using the pen and ink drawings, animations, and of course photographs i took of the subway which strangely have nothing to do with my vision for the world i am creating. The nyc subway has always provided great comfort and stories and I find it more interesting than any stage production. It has always provided endless fascination for me and filled my imagination.
Installations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl9XJDcVINfMCv3r27CLejJRb_0_kKi_q
Drawing: http://mirenarhee.com/drawings/mirena-rhee-hands-chart-pen-and-ink-drawing.jpg
Photographs: http://dimmerlight.com/portfolio/subway-grids/
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More MESSAGES WRITTEN DURING TODAY LONDON – THE FLIP SIDE PERFORMANCE ON LEICESTER SQUARE IN LONDON /
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on another note - Lisbon smelled so good this one morning.. i don't think i have ever been in a place so fragrant with sea smell... that early and that airporty.. 7 am\
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Messages written during Today London - The Flip Side Performance on Leicester Square in London /
Drawing and Painting /
Working on Automatic Red - Acrylic and Oil on canvas.
the story of the red i have been looking for is a long one - I once set out to find a perfect red and experimented in various reds. the red i liked turned out to be a never drying printers ink red. Six months out it was still wet to the touch. So i ended up photographing the resulting test and making an animation ( Winter Diagrams ) with it. later, after the fact, i found a corresponding fabric red in a store in the garment district in Manhattan, on 38th street. They had the most amazing collection of textiles in an enormous warehouse. i remember getting a roll of this beautiful red silk like fabric and hauling it back to Chelsea. And after came the acrylic paint i found.. a winsor and newton. and after that came vermillion and some cadmiums in oil. It's kinda the reverse of what you'd expect but these are the best kind of stories.
Happy Bright Friday - have your Memory Replaced with cats. /
Have your Memory Replaced with cats. This pic was indeed taken on Union Square so these aren't ordinary cats - they are freedom loving, new yorker, union square cats. Will explain the leashes later.
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Pics from my Memory Replacement performance.
it doesn't take too long before people grab the paints and the brushes. It is a beautiful thing to paint. And what brings people together is doing an entirely odd thing for an entirely odd reason.
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Ingredients of a Subway Car, pen and ink drawings installation, dimensions variable, 2016 /
Ingredients of a Subway Car, pen and ink drawings installation, dimensions variable, 2016
Ingredients of a subway car at Hudson Yards. I love this station and it is a nice home for animated hands and other objects and villains. .. I like setting up my installation in a porous and transient spaces.. with the station attendants pushing trash cans around it. Too bad my plans for Kings Cross in London din't materialize because I came down with the most unpleasant cold.. and wet. ..
Messages written during my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square. The wing of a public opinion airplane shot down over election day on Union Square /
Messages written during my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square /
One of the aims of the work is honesty via immediacy, unexpected interaction, friendly confrontation on the street and eliciting the same in people I met. Because I was not protected or tasked by an institution and there was no institutional context to my work - myself, the work and the result were entirely at the mercy of complete and unbridled honesty. .
I surely relied on everyone being at least a bit nonplussed and curious and to have no time to feel self-conscious or deliberate.
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And thirdly ( something imagesurgeon correctly noted ) I was a living sounding board placed on one hand between a guy who was shining shoes and on the other a couple of masked guys who were selling bricks (yeah, the real kind). With the understanding that Union Square has always been a place of gathering and dissent.
via imagesurgeon: . The People have the power! ( if they did but realise it?) Iconoclasm is a way of intelligently re establishing that power. . .
Memory Replacement – Election Day /
During my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square.
Memory Replacement was a success.
This is about giving people weapons - little arrows of brushes and sharpies, and oddly enough people use these weapons to express their feelings of belonging and joy of one another. I want to use these tiny weapons to bring the best in people, a moment of joy with an arrow of paint. Where people from all walks of life put there heads together in a brief moment, a second of color.
Where day traders and day schoolers doodle together on the sidewalk.
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Photos by Ian Mack - ianmackstudios.com
