- 26 Apr 10
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+ 5 lens
I got a Close-up NL +5 Glass Lens today. I am doing some test shoots today. It has an amazingly shallow focal depth.
I got a Close-up NL +5 Glass Lens today. I am doing some test shoots today. It has an amazingly shallow focal depth.
these are the working images for the first three paintings I am making for my upcoming exhibition, which will focus on the various models of gas stations I have built—isolated models (partial model) made real, as it were.
Unrelated to Art:
I watched a passenger in a car stopped car open his door and carefully place an empty starbucks plastic cup on the road before the light turned green. This is one of the most extreme cases of littering I have witnessed; it seemed unnecessary and overly done. If one wants to litter, toss it out of a moving vehicle like the rest of America.
I guess Earth Day is over.
also, from CNN
— Utah judge signs death warrant allowing state to execute Ronnie Lee Gardner using firing squad, court official says.
My latest model is half of a gas station completed by a piece of mirrored plexiglass.
This is a test section of a video for an upcoming show. It will have several sections, similar to the Cuties video I made a while ago. The idea is a sort of a flip book. There were some sections where the camera was error-ing and I didn’t realize it until it was too late.
The MOCA Contemporaries are having a home tour of Rudolf Schindler’s Buck House on Sunday, April 25.
featuring Country Club Projects’ exhibition of Fritz Chesnut: Peak and Flow
cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Price: $35 for MOCA Contemporaries members
$45 for non-members
RSVP: 213-633-5348 or click here for ticket
ABOUT THE BUCK HOUSE
Country Club operates its Los Angeles location from Rudolf Schindler’s Buck House, a landmark modernist residence built in 1934. The Buck House is one of the most important examples of Schindler’s application of his theories of Space Architecture to create expansive spaces within a modest footprint. Country Club is actively engaging in a new mode of presentation, exhibiting modern and contemporary work in an architecturally significant space and building an experimental program that encourages intimate gatherings and intense communication between the audience and the work on view.
The Buck House is one of Schindler’s projects closely tied to the International Style. The architect demonstrated his use of geometry in order to communicate his theory of Space Architecture in this project. Unlike many of Schindler’s projects, the Buck House is situated on a flat site surrounded by other residences. The horizontal arrangement of the house is emphasized by its flat roofs of different heights that appear to float above the house due to a continuous strip of windows.
The program of the Buck House includes three bedrooms and three garages located at street level, with a one-bedroom apartment that sits on top. Its layout is made up of two L-shapes that actually interlock three-dimensionally. The house is visually opened in the back, where the house embraces and acts as a frame around the patio. The overall structure is made up of wood frame with stucco.
Clerestory windows were used to allow the penetration of light into all spaces. Interior partitions of translucent glazing break down the scale of the interiors and add visual interest and continuity to the house. However, these were probably created by J.J. Buck, who designed the interiors of clothing stores for women. Built-in cabinets run along an entire wall as a dining room installation. Some remodeling has occurred: a modern kitchen was installed, a bedroom has been opened up to its adjacent breakfast room, two columns have been added under the overhang of the main house, and a shading device was designed to shade the porch. Still, the space of the house has remained mostly unchanged and consistent with Schindler’s style of design. By controlling views with windows and visually extending the experience beyond enclosed space, the Buck house is an example of Schindler’s mastery of making space seem larger than it really is.
Eames House, Pacific Palisades, CA
Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, CA
on Daily Lit, a website that sends you sections of various pieces of literature (in the public domain) via email on a daily basis till the work is complete (one can adjust the delivery options). They are sending out a short poem every day this month.
* I should have posted this a few days ago, as we are two days in.
** Auden is not in the collection, but I like all pictures of him holding a cigarette.
click here to get a poem a day from Daily Lit and check out their other titles
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355-2340
CalArts MFA Program to Hold Open Studios
Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m.
as a note: I am trying to keep these models I have been posting at the level of a thumbnail sketch or preparatory drawing