Wed - March 30, 2005

Photos from CoCA "Help Wanted," Belltown & Vulcan 


This entry consists mostly of photographs downtown and from the Center on Contemporary Art's current exhbition - "Help Wanted: Collaborations in Art." The show is sponsored by Born Magazine and runs through April 23. Some photographs show off the quarky personality traits of Belltown and highlight a few of the interesting elements of a part of town which is rapidly evolving. The photos were taken on a very cloudy and drizzly day - so don't expect to be blasted back from your monitor by the brilliance of the colors. Also, although I've taken the liberty to capture some of the collaborative works of art at CoCA, all the works are copyrighted by the artists/writers/producers involved and probably also by Born Magazine. Use of the photos for anything but personal or educational purposes must be cleared with the artists or Born Magazine. I've tried to capture the feel of at least one of the works. 

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Tue - March 29, 2005

Northern Exposure, New China, Entropy 


This post collects a set of disparate recent experiences and/or observations. Other than perhaps being associated with art and me, they have nothing else in common (of course, you know that isn't true, don't you?). The items include an interesting random encounter with a former television show cast member and more on the Seattle Art Museum's current exhibition of Chinese photography and video. Plus a few ramblings on other topics. 

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Tue - March 22, 2005

Photos from Pike Place, waterfront & Pioneer Square 


With the weather we've been having up 'til a few days ago, when much needed rain finally arrived, it's been a photographer's dream around here and so what I've got here are a couple dozen (actually more) photographs from Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square and along the general waterfront area. I've been so pre-occupied with some of the art projects that I must admit to thinking about very little else. This week is also a "public" gallery art walk which on Sunday had me and two friends visiting the Frye Art Museum. Tomorrow we'll hit up Seattle Art Museum and on Thursday the Center on Contemporary Art. I'm posting my comments on these art walks at the "other" blog - <http://spaces.msn.com/members/chasblog2> - which gets updated a bit more frequently owing to the fact that that I don't post photos there. 

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Sun - March 20, 2005

Unusual accident at Pioneer Square Photographs 


I was coming home from a jaunt to the Frye Art Museum (First Hill - and FREE) and whilst sitting in the back of the bus saw an unusual assortment of emergency vehicles on Yesler Way and a wreck which was so compelling I got off the bus just to stick my nose in it. I'll say upfront I'm not sure of the physics of this accident - so far, even after looking at the scene in person from three different angles and taking photos and examining the photos I still can't figure out how that much force was generated. Check the images out. This apparently occurred about 2:00 pm Sunday. I was busing by about 2:30 pm and the recovery was well underway but no where near complete. The humans involved were not around and as of 10:00 pm Sunday there's still no mention on any of the local paper/TV websites - despite a TV camera crew being planted at the Second and Yesler intersection. 

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Thu - March 17, 2005

Electroluminescent wire art 


This entry describes my efforts to blend acrylic paint, a gessoed flat-panel art board, and electroluminescent wire into a single work or art. There's a brief description of what EL technology and wire are. There are photographs of the first artwork using these techniques in a variety of environments (lit, unlit, light room, dark room). There'll be a few more of these artworks as I've got a number of ideas to pursue which will take this to the next level - interactive and "moving" (actually changing colors and brightness levels). 

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Fri - March 11, 2005

Photographs from CoCA exhibition closing ceremonies 


This entry contains a set of images taken during the closing night festivities at the "People Doing Strange Things with Electricity, II" exhibition at the Center on Contemporary Arts and sponsored by dorkbot-seattle. I didn't capture photographs of all 31 of the exhibits, rather I concentrated on the ones which used lights and tried to capture some of the essence of the exhibit through a series of photographs or through manipulating the photograph. All the art works which are shown here are copyrighted 2005 by the artist or artist collaborators. 

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Tue - March 8, 2005

The many selves of one 


In this entry I recount a recent online experience with a personality testing site. The tests are easy to take and, if done correctly, will provide a reasonable look back at the test taker. By done correctly, that means being honest and forthright. I discuss some findings I made which actually confirm earlier discoveries about myself. I'm a sucker for this type of analysis and describe how these kinds of tests have occurred periodically throughout my life and the impact they've had on me. I tell the tale of a "lab rat" in college.  

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