Post Modernism - GOAD

The feature in the Garden of Australian Dreams that I have decided to write about is the Blue Telegraph Poles. These poles are an obvious reference to Jackson Pollock's painting "Blue Poles".


This feature appeals to me because of the controversy behind the blue poles, and how the inclusion of blue poles in this landscape is an obvious reference to that moment our history.

The Garden of Australian Dreams is considered "Postmodern" landscape architecture because it fits quite comfortably inside the "criteria" or common themes of postmodern art. Things like the complex symbolism and multiple meanings, the social commentary being made, the culturally specific references and the un-originality of the elements (such as the blue poles).

Jeremy

Bauhaus

My Bauhaus inspired house object was my bedside lamp.. It is simple in design, functional and made up of geometric shapes..

The double arm design means that as you tilt the light forwards, the arm holding the globe, remains parallel to its initial position. The arm holding the globe also has a piece of strong wire used to shift the arm around to direct the light. The base is broad and has a hemisphere to provide a stable support and the switch is situated in a practice position..

Dada Poem

Sooo my Dada Poem..

Click on the image to make it bigger, but if you can't be bothered the poem goes

"

Sun card by free canon off-site $60.00
on each sun canon work book price year
camera equipment when studio folio
year digital discount folio technician
regular studios selected off lense sensor
slr off you on-site workshop free sun
digital purchase canon when free
workshop cleaning 2gb for purchase

"

So to create my poem, I used a promotional article from sun studios. This way I figured it would be slightly photography related. I then used google image search to the nouns in the poem. However I used a random number generator to generate a number between 1 and 100.. I then went to the appropriate image that matched this number in the image search and used that photo in my collage.

This kept with the "random" and "chance" theme of Dada. The randomness was also detailed with the ambiguous nature of some of the words. Things like, when searching SLR it came up with a plethora of photos of a Mercedes SLR, when in the article the acronym refers to a single lense reflex camera.

There was also an element of not so randomness when the word digital was searched and the number 74 was generated, a Canon camera was the image selected amongst all of the possible images for the word digital.

"Tazzy" Pt 1

Some of you may have noticed a blog called "Tazzy" appear a little bit ago.. That was when I started this one.. I managed to hit post straight after writing the title.. So I not a few you may well have been hanging on with baited breath hoping to see the blog post coming!

Soo.. My trip to "Tazzy"..

Well.. It was a long trip, and I'm thorough in my descriptions and I like lots of photos to make it attractive and readable. So they'll be posted in few day bursts.

So far here is

Day 1 and 2

Day 3 and 4

Day 5 and 6


More to come!

Jez

More Photos

Sooo.. Starting a blog post at 1:35am at night.. isn't exactly smart, esp when you haven't prepared for school the next day.. Meh..

So here are a few shots from the weekend, when I went for an adventure at 6am in the morning at lake burley griffin, and ending up at lake bathurst by 10am.. for those playing at home, lake bathurst is between bungendoor and goulburn... near tarago.. yeah.. wtf!!



Theeeen, today, after doing my scanning assignment and the lense testing assignment, Dan, Nikky, Mel and I decided to shoot some schnappers in the studio to get a "feel" for things..







Sooo.. I'm pretty sure Mal is one of the most photogenic peoples I know.. and Nikky has the most natural and contagious photo smile of anyone ever..

Dan.. well.... Yeah..

Anyways.. Loves the fan!! haha... annnd check out Dans blog, he has more shots, all of which I think are aweeesome.. And he has some extra's of Nathan that I wasn't there for..

Peace..

Jez

PS 1:50am.. cooooool...

NPPP

Sooo.. we visited the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.. Have to say I was pretty impressed.. The level of the entires was pretty high.. So the Image I would have seleted to be the winner?? Well that was harder than I thought. I liked quite a few of the images and selecting the single most impressive/technically correct/and all around "best" image was pretty hard!

Surrounded by Music 2008

by Heide Smith

Surrounded by Music is an image that struck me straight away as a powerful image. The spot lit subject in the middle of the frame draws attention to the main focus, while the darkness around the rest of the frame, reduces its importance. The books provide a great background, it is simple and repetitive and doesn't distract the viewer, but if you want to spend some more time looking at the image you could spend ages looking at the finer details. Technically it is correct, and the subject and the details around it match well.

After deciding which image I liked, I had an easier time deciding which I didn't.. I decided on

Paddy Mann 2008
by David Van Royen

I decided on this image for a few reasons. Firstly because to me it simply looks like a snapshot.. Why, it is dull, flat and poorly composed.. Also the "concept" behind the image is "It's a visual metaphor of struggle and making the bar!".. To me it seems like a shot that was taken with a camera-phone then the photographer made up a concept behind it..

Ah well.. Overall I enjoyed all of the images..

btw.. Hi Class!!

Jez

Primitivism

I opened this blog post.. wrote Primitivism as the title and then left the page open for 3 hours while talking to people online and on the phone... no.. there goes another hour after writing that line.. I love a short attention span combined with procrastination..

Wasn't as sure how to approach this one as the others.. To be honest I've never been much of an art historian..

The pic I decided that had an element of Primitivism was L'Enlevement d'Europe by Henri Matisse..

L'Enlevement d'Europe (The abduction of Europa) , Henri Matisse 1929

This painting has a few of the elements of primitivism first in the cow (or minator) the flattened plane, the childlike drawing, the full frontal nudity..

These are some of the characteristics of primitivism, some others are reference to "primitive people" and naievity..

Primitive in the terms it was used in the day of most of these paintings is now seen as racist because of the implications of an un-intellegent, un-educated and.. apelike person based on where they came from and their ethnicity..

Primitivism on the other hand refers to the artistic movement that tried to get away from the social norms.. very well summed up by google definitions actually.. "A belief that it is best to live simply and in a natural environment" ref

"Contemporary Primitivism" can be seen in any form of lashing out against society or going against the norm.. in graffiti, in rap music and hip hop dance.. even people going to live in the bush in an eco friendly, self sustainable lifestyle..

Ciao

Jez