Photo 365 - Day 234 (RoboAtlas)

Day 234 (February 22nd, 2011)
Title: RoboAtlas

In Greek mythology, Atlas was tasked (punished) to hold all of the heavens for all time.  That myth has been symbolized by Atlas holding the Earth on his shoulders.  I saw this statue, and the first thing I thought was: "Well, there's your problem - if they had gotten a robot to do it, it would have been done in a snap!" 


Enjoy!

Photo 365 - Day 211 (Intersection)

Day 211 (January 30th, 2011)
Title: Intersection

There are some pictures, that I really have no idea why I took them.  Perhaps I thought they would look interesting or have some sort of compositional element that would be fun to look at, but most of the time I think its just because I'm nuts.  I was taking some shots from the top of our building (18 stories high) and I looked down and saw the tennis court and though: "Hey, white lines!  Those are cool!" and shot away. Afterward, I downloaded the photos, looked at them and thought: "Well, that was just stupid.  Its just white lines." 

After basically ignoring them for a while, I decided to come back to them and see if I could "play around" with just white lines and try and make them a bit more fun to look at.  Here is the end result! 

Enjoy

Photo 365 - Day 176 (Negative Killer)

Day 176 (December 26th, 2010)
Title: Negative Killer


Completing my "fun with modern art" trifecta, I saw this display.  I'm not really sure how I feel about it, because in essence I think that projecting photographs is good and I generally appreciate anytime a photographer gets featured in a museum.  Conversely, I'm not sure I can count Mr. Buckingham as a photographer, because most photographers that I know (not mixed-media artist mind you), wouldn't create an exhibit which sole purpose is to destroy the photograph over time. 


Basically, Mr. Buckingham took a photo of a man on horse (via slide film) and placed it into a slide projector.  That's been on for nearly 10 years now, with the purpose of using the light (which is quite strong) to slowly destroy the image.  When I saw the exhibit, the image is nearly impossible to identify. 


I'm not really going to say one way or another whether this is "art" or not (or perhaps it started as art and has now changed).  I'll leave that judgment to each viewer, but I will say, sometimes a horse is just a horse.  Even when its not. 


Enjoy

 

Photo 365 - Day 175 (String Bored)

Day 175 (December 25th, 2010)
Title: String Bored


Continuing with my exploration of modern art, after yesterdays Giant Whisk, I found this... thing.  As I've mentioned in the past, normally I'm not one for modern art, and this piece is kind of why I'm not really a fan.  Its a board.  With string on it.  The string, which is multi-colored, is hanging down.  That's it.  String.  Board.  I have no problem with folks making stuff like this, quite the contrary, I do silly things like this all the time (in my attempt to make things to take macro photos), but I would never be so egotistical to call it modern art and place it in the center of a museum.  Its a board with string on it!  Perhaps it has some deeper, metaphysical meaning that I just can't see, something that would explain the universe, perhaps prove God exist, or just explain String Theory (pun!), but really, it me is just a board with string on it! 


Perhaps their art is related to cat toys.  Who knows. 


Enjoy

Photo 365 - Day 174 (Giant Whisk)

Day 174 (December 24th, 2010)
Title: Giant Whisk

Modern art just confuses me.  I think that modern art is trying too hard to make me "see beyond what's here" or "understand the deeper meaning" and I just don't think I have that special artist gene that would allow me to see the deeper anything when I see, what is basically, a giant whisk.  At least with this piece, there is some actual effort involved - the artist really spent time and built a 'thing', whereas others... well, lets just wait till tomorrow for that.  I mean, perhaps this artist just really liked waffles and this is their homage to the process.  Or perhaps they are very keen on scrambled eggs.  Either way, its still a neat thing to look at, even if its a bit abstract for me to grasp. 

Enjoy!