Isn’t it odd that this downright silly post follows such a very very serious post about Lucille Rathyen. Some truths: You’re born. You live. You die. How well that middle part goes is entirely up to you.
I’d pay at LEAST $25 to see a 300 meter long banana in geostationary orbit over Texas. I put myself in for $25 and said I’d chip in more when they answered a couple questions like what the actual conditions for “success” were.
Are you in? (update 3-10-12: sadly, the geostationarybananaovertexas.com website exists no more so I removed the link)
The Totemobile is cubism in action. The iconic object is radically fragmented as it grows upwards. Its several sides are seen simultaneously from all sides.
A Citroën DS transforms through three stages of abstraction. First the structure separates into its geometric parts. These parts become organic forms, and by the time the sculpture reaches its 20 meter “totem” stage, the organic forms bloom with pure light.
“During my first visit to Citroën’s Champs-Elysees showroom, I was very excited about the possibilities offered by the height and windows in the architecture. I clearly saw an image of a totem growing from a car to great heights.
“I chose the Citroën DS, not because of Citroën’s sponsorship, but because it is an icon for European cars, and I felt that the live qualities it represented (hydraulic suspensions, organic curvature, and mechanical ingenuity) were emblematic of the time. I also chose the DS because it influenced my Mexican-American low-rider car culture. A low-rider was used by the Latin culture as a medium of expression… converting classic cars with hydraulic suspensions, utilizing elaborate paint jobs, became an art form.”
Charlotte was interviewed by a live internet television show called Church of the Perpetual Party when we were at the Fire Arts Festival in July. Here’s the entire show.
Interesting bits:
Gaspo’s Chakratron at 7:20
Dance Dance Immolation at 15:20
interview with Charlotte and Serpent Mother footage at 23:00
It might take a while for the whole 50mb show to stream onto your computer.
FLG is a female-driven collaborative arts group and we made a calendar. Help us fund big flaming metal art by getting our calendar. Forward and post this freely!
I don’t think I mentioned this here before but the Serpent Mother made the centerfold (yes, literally the centerfold) of the November 2006 edition of IEEE Spectrum magazine. Spectrum is the Time Magazine of the professional geek world.
Here’s a couple SWARM Glamour Shots that Mark Alexander shot of Erik and myself. It’s mid-August and we’re working at the Box Shop on getting the batteries for the 6 orbs up to snuff for the playa.
On November 2nd, there was a talk given at Swissnex in San Francisco titled “Fire Arts and Burning Desires: Flame as a creative medium with Burning Man fire artists”. The presenters were Dave X, Crimson Rose, Lucy Hosking, Wally Glenn, Bill Codding, Louis Brill, and (certainly not least) several Flaming Lotus Girls!
You can watch the entire 100 minute presentation on Fora.tv!
I created and submitted a video for the VIDA 10.0 international competition with help from my friends.
VIDA 10.0 is an international competition created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the fields of Artificial Life and related disciplines, such as robotics and Artiftcial Intelligence.We are looking for artistic projects that address the interaction between “synthetic” and “organic” life”.
In previous years prizes have been awarded to artistic projects using autonomous robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user participation, and works that highlight the social side of Artificial Life.
You can make the video below play full-screen by clicking one of the buttons on the toolbar.
Whether you haven’t quite decompressed from the Burn, or perhaps you missed this year’s trek to the desert, there’s one last opportunity to experience a little taste of the playa for 2007. On Saturday October 20th, XEssential presents, “Best of the Burn”- featuring some of the best music and art from Burning Man 2007.
Bringing you the sounds of the playa…
Zach Moore [Deep End Sound Camp]
Friction [Purgatory Cruiser Art Car]
Tamo [Garage Mahal Art Car]
Ross Barringer [BrassBunnyRita Sound Camp]
Featured Art from the playa…
Belisama of the Celtic Forest [Laura Kimpton] – www.celticforest.net SWARM autonomous machines [Michael Prados] – www.orbswarm.com Equatorial Encounter [Matt Evans] – www.xessential.net Sunflower Robots [Stefano Corazza] – www.sunflowerrobots.com
For more details on the djs and art of this event, please visit:
www.xessential.net
supperclub sf
657 harrison st @ 3rd
doors open @ 10pm
cover::$10 in playawear – $15 w/out
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We will be updating our site with artist info and links. If you have any special requests pertaining to this, please let me know.
Glad to have you all part of the event. See you Saturday.
