Urban Knitting

Wendover Air Force Base in Utah

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Everything and Nothing

Perito Moreno Glacier

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean, Installation Views, The Green Ray, 2001, color film, 16MM, silent, 2 1/2 minutes.

"In America they call it the green flash. When the sun sets, in a very clear horizon, with no land mass for many hundreds of miles, and no moisture or atmospheric pressure, you have a good chance of seeing it. The slowest ray is the blue ray, which comes across as green when the sun sets in perfect atmospheric conditions. It’s the last ray as the sun recedes with the curvature of the earth. Like a pulse on the horizon. It’s totally fractional, though it can last longer."

Lisa Oppenheim

"The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else"

What is reality ?

Link to Programme

I really enjoyed this programme, particularly the part about the Double Slit experiment, but it went over it a bit too quickly for me. It's talking about what I'm interested in right now. Basically how we create our reality simply by observing it ????

Joe Orton & Islington Library

	MAYHEM ON THE BOOKSHELVES
‘Libraries might as well not exist; they’ve got endless shelves for rubbish and hardly any space for good books.’ Orton, 1967. Orton and Halliwell first came to the public attention not as writers but through an elaborate and extended prank played out at their local library, altering book covers and adding new blurbs to dust jackets. Incensed at the poor choice of books at Essex Road, their local library, they began stealing books. These were smuggled out, dust jackets altered, new blurbs written on inside flaps and then surreptitiously returned. They had been suspected for some time and extra staff had been drafted to catch the culprits, but with no success. They were eventually caught by the careful detective work of Sydney Porrett, a senior clerk with Islington Council. A letter was sent to Halliwell asking him to remove an illegally parked car. Their typed reply matched typeface irregularities in the defaced books and the men were caught. While never openly admitting the reasons for the prank, these acts of guerrilla artwork were an early indication of Orton’s desire to shock and provoke. His targets were the genteel middle classes, authority and defenders of ‘morality’, against whom much of Orton’s later written work would rail against. Orton’s family were not told he had been arrested and found out from a story in the Daily Mirror. Titled The Gorilla in the Roses, it was illustrated with the altered Collins Guide to Roses. William Orton had stayed up to read the paper and on reading the story ran upstairs to his wife with the exclamation ‘Our John’s been nicked!’.

bumps

bubbles

Antony Gormley - Blind Light

"Death takes a Holiday"

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walking around Glasgow with a bag of balloons...

Tim Knowles

A series of drawings produced using drawing implements attached to the tips of tree branches,
the wind’s effects on the tree, recorded on paper. Like signatures each drawing reveals the
different qualities and characteristics of each tree.