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Tagged: Flying, Photography
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Tagged: Flying, Photography
To Alaska this month where certain views just look Alaskan. From fishing on the Kenai River, to coastal brown bear sightings, to glaciers and hikes, it was an all-around excellent trip. *
Tagged: Alaska, Anchorage, Nature, Photography
In 1969, artist Michael Heizer began displacing 240,000 tons of rock in a Nevada mesa. Dynamiting two facing trenches across a canyon, he cut downward into the earth, contrasting both the canyon ridge and physical art structures built upward into the sky. When he finished in 1970, he left behind negative space in the landscape and one of his first monumental earthworks: Double Negative. Nearly fifty years later I wait alone in the darkness above the mesa, listening to the wind and watching for sunrise. As dawn breaks over the desert, I hike into the North cut and toward the Virgin River below. Sometimes it’s not what you add, it’s what you strip away. “There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture.” –Michael Heizer *
Tagged: Design, Land Art, Photography, Vegas
As Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains appears in the distance, you may have to resist the urge to accelerate down Las Vegas Boulevard to reach it more quickly. The shapes and colors draw you in, and after all, it’s only scheduled to be on display until 2018. Better hurry. It’s also a great lesson in planned obsolescence. The life cycle of the piece has been considered, which seems all too rare in our trash-generating society. Go beyond concept-design-installation. It helps to think end-to-end. *
Tagged: Land Art, Photography, Planning, Timing, Vegas
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Tagged: Flying, Photography
Tagged: Michigan, Photography
“Everyone always asks me what camera I use, but greatness is about storytelling.” –Chase Jarvis *
Tagged: Photography, Quotes