Kew Gardens is always a pleasure. Its South Eastern corner, Victoria gate entrance, is formal in the landscape gradually relaxes towards the North Western corner where a wild conservation area lies behind protective 'do not enter signs'. There are many attractions en route, including
Stag beetle loggery, Rhododendron Dell, Bamboo garden, badger sett- this is an interactive 'be a badger installation', its fun and gets everybody interested and engaged.
as . The woods here are managed as a nature reserve and native plants and animals are encouraged, using traditional methods and management techniques such as coppicing. Kew also grows many non native species including Sweet Chestnut coppice's. Bluebells flourish in the spring and among the birds that can be seen are tawny owls, blue and great tits, sparrowhawks and green woodpeckers. The area also supports many insects, including rare hover flies.
the redwood grove is striking in age (Many of the redwoods are 150 years old) and colour and attracts the most beautiful exotic birds.
Ancient, dwindling specimens conserved with railings, the railings are ugly but strangely increase interest
The current Henri Moore exhibition is a bonus
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I feel the sculptures sat in the Bretton Hills of the Yorkshire Sculpture park more fittingly, where they have more space. The large sculptures at Kew seem a crammed and plonked in, as do some of the attraction landscapes. I think the sculptures should have been placed further apart across the entire site rather than being bunched togeather in a formal area near the Victoria gate.
However the exhibition attracted people to Kew who might not have gone otherwise whilst offering Londoners and tourists a unique opportunity to see the world famous work in a world famous botanical setting. The combination is enticing.
Focus on FILM
After the trials of making a mini food movie I am hungry to know more about moving image. The experiment proved that sharing knowledge is vital- editing software is quite simple, but alike Photoshop & illustrator- there are things you need to be told about. A Tripod is useful too!
History of Film:
The Kingston museum hosts an exhibition about Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). Mugbridge invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879 which was one of the earliest movie projecters. The Zoopraxiscope works in a similar to todays Stop motion technique of film making, or even the Flick book. In that a series of still images are lined up to create the illusion of movement.
Click for the 'Walking as Art' website Fabulous!
click for wikipidia's history of Film
Film As Art
In the 1920's Artists began to experiment with the medium as an extention to their paintings.
The four short films on show at the Avant Gard exhibition at the British Library are fantastic & vivid, they are soundless so one concentrates fully on the "paintings" the use of tone is so considered & vivid, startling white against deep black. The films experiment with Slow motion, overlaying images, distortion of object &orientation . They are also documentations of the world at that time. Ballet Mechanique byLa Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphey - enquires into weight, gravity what should be is not. Entr'acte by Rene Clair remained me of Top Gear- it was about a race though the city of Paris & displayed the transport used to get around- it was a race between runners, beautiful cars, cyclists, planes boats, a man in a cart & trains. The Video Medium gave artists the opportunity to convey speed
The original Avant Gard movement was put to an end in the 1930's due to Nazi & Stalanist persecution. Film & broadcasting replaced the dominant medium for communication film became solely a means of education, indoctrination, cultural expression & communication.
Film is now used for all of these things & is once again considered as art.
The Avant Gard exhibition was mainly about the printed medium . 'In 1900b 14% of the worlds poopulation lived in Cities- they provided an escape from the illiteracy & traditional hierarchy's of the countryside, leisure, money, film, exhibition, theatre & printing Presses & publishers.' quoted from a display board at the exhibition. Visual poetry was a n idea not only of choosing the brimming words, but by writing them in expressive ways, beautiful.
must see
In the 1970's Avant Gaurd had a second wind
The Serpentine is showcasing the work of Anthony McCall.
He experiments with light & in the 1970's he created videos exploring film & the landscape, the movement of the landscape & through it with materials such as fire.
'Originally, McCall saw the work as means of deconstructing film by breaking the medium down to its basic components of time and light. Those who first saw it would certainly have placed it with the minimalist art of the period,'......
Because of the demand & popularity of his ideas McCall came back recently to experiment further
'A mesmerising 'sculpture' made of light provides one of the most sublime experiences of the year,' says Richard Dorment in the Telegraph 'Though these responses are of course still valid, nowadays it will also be experienced sensuously, as a spectacle and as an environment, much as British audiences were swept away by the glass chamber lit by fluorescent light and filled with thick clouds of steam that Anthony Gormley showed at the Hayward Gallery last summer.'
I couldn't have put it better myself, the Blind Light exhibition & McCalls light beams give an unprecedented (to my mind) sensory experience, one cannot take a picture of the experience, however one will never forget it.
A quote from sounds of London at Avant Guard exhibition:
'Never eaten a meal thats dramatic without the rest being problematic'
applies to the fantastic tantalising films:
( If you watch Tompopo- highly recommended- have some noodles in the cupboard!)
History of Film:
The Kingston museum hosts an exhibition about Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). Mugbridge invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879 which was one of the earliest movie projecters. The Zoopraxiscope works in a similar to todays Stop motion technique of film making, or even the Flick book. In that a series of still images are lined up to create the illusion of movement.
Click for the 'Walking as Art' website Fabulous!
click for wikipidia's history of Film
Film As Art
In the 1920's Artists began to experiment with the medium as an extention to their paintings.
The four short films on show at the Avant Gard exhibition at the British Library are fantastic & vivid, they are soundless so one concentrates fully on the "paintings" the use of tone is so considered & vivid, startling white against deep black. The films experiment with Slow motion, overlaying images, distortion of object &orientation . They are also documentations of the world at that time. Ballet Mechanique byLa Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphey - enquires into weight, gravity what should be is not. Entr'acte by Rene Clair remained me of Top Gear- it was about a race though the city of Paris & displayed the transport used to get around- it was a race between runners, beautiful cars, cyclists, planes boats, a man in a cart & trains. The Video Medium gave artists the opportunity to convey speed
The original Avant Gard movement was put to an end in the 1930's due to Nazi & Stalanist persecution. Film & broadcasting replaced the dominant medium for communication film became solely a means of education, indoctrination, cultural expression & communication.
Film is now used for all of these things & is once again considered as art.
The Avant Gard exhibition was mainly about the printed medium . 'In 1900b 14% of the worlds poopulation lived in Cities- they provided an escape from the illiteracy & traditional hierarchy's of the countryside, leisure, money, film, exhibition, theatre & printing Presses & publishers.' quoted from a display board at the exhibition. Visual poetry was a n idea not only of choosing the brimming words, but by writing them in expressive ways, beautiful.
must see
In the 1970's Avant Gaurd had a second windThe Serpentine is showcasing the work of Anthony McCall.
He experiments with light & in the 1970's he created videos exploring film & the landscape, the movement of the landscape & through it with materials such as fire.
'Originally, McCall saw the work as means of deconstructing film by breaking the medium down to its basic components of time and light. Those who first saw it would certainly have placed it with the minimalist art of the period,'......
Because of the demand & popularity of his ideas McCall came back recently to experiment further
'A mesmerising 'sculpture' made of light provides one of the most sublime experiences of the year,' says Richard Dorment in the Telegraph 'Though these responses are of course still valid, nowadays it will also be experienced sensuously, as a spectacle and as an environment, much as British audiences were swept away by the glass chamber lit by fluorescent light and filled with thick clouds of steam that Anthony Gormley showed at the Hayward Gallery last summer.'
I couldn't have put it better myself, the Blind Light exhibition & McCalls light beams give an unprecedented (to my mind) sensory experience, one cannot take a picture of the experience, however one will never forget it.
A quote from sounds of London at Avant Guard exhibition:
'Never eaten a meal thats dramatic without the rest being problematic'
applies to the fantastic tantalising films:
( If you watch Tompopo- highly recommended- have some noodles in the cupboard!) love food making
Words to describe the thought of food: tantalise, adore, entice, aroma, tingle, burn, full
Words to describe the thought of food: tantalise, adore, entice, aroma, tingle, burn, full 
The Crack
The Tate Modern was commissioned in 1947 as a power station to reconstruct post-war London. Labour migration increased at the same time increasing London's Multicultuality
'The history of racism, running parallel to the history of modernity & its untold dark side' .....'By digging beneath the surface, Salcedo reconnects the building to its colonial & post colonial histories, to the operations of power & the ideological creation of artificial notions of difference & otherness.'
Text from Tate Leaflet
FIT CITY Competition
The Fit City competition has offered an opportunity to celebrate healthy urban environments. My entry is based around one thing we all love....FOOD!
Many people feel organic food is too expensive but at Spitalfields market there has been community action to combat this
Click on image for clearer picture
CLICK TO SEE VIDEO
check out the activities at the summit:
http://www.3four50.com/v2/index.php?page=sydney_challenge
I didn't win but my video 'fit food' was included in a mix of lots of entrants
click to see mix of entrants video & winners ideas
Many people feel organic food is too expensive but at Spitalfields market there has been community action to combat this
Click on image for clearer picture
CLICK TO SEE VIDEO
check out the activities at the summit:
http://www.3four50.com/v2/index.php?page=sydney_challenge
I didn't win but my video 'fit food' was included in a mix of lots of entrants
click to see mix of entrants video & winners ideas
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