September 2009
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javelin dimensions
Weight Inclusive of Cord Grip: Minimum - 800 grams (1 pound, 121/4 ounces) Overall Length: Minimum - 260 centimeters (8 feet, 63/8 inches) Maximum - 270 centimeters (8 feet, 101/4 inches) Length of Metal Head: Minimum - 25 centimeters (97/8 inches) Maximum - 33 centimeters (12 31/32 inches) Weight of Metal Head: Minimum - 80 grams (27/8 ounces) Distance From Tip of Metal Head to...
e.a. wallis budge
http://www.rostau.org.uk/aegyptian-l/faq/week108_budge.txt
the engineer also draws boundaries
the scholar draws maps
the diver-scholar … underwater maps. more currents & tides than the ocean floor?
the engineer favors the bone-dry, clean and dead…specimens, skulls, things pinned and mounted, weighed and quantified - victorian egypt. creates elaborate systems that may hang together, but might really just be based in conjecture.
the...
June 2009
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May 2009
8 posts
thx beh
it’s actually a two-faced hybrid: nymph/nympho.
fruition part 5
part of a shot list, not edited for feasibility. just what gives me the freaky tingles.
the singer playing guitar to the nymph on an unmade hotel bed with honey all over his hands. the nymph on beeswax crutches or in a beeswax cast.
the scholar (butched out woman) in a vneck sweater and the nymph (man in drag) in a big dress running hand in hand out on a country road with peaches strewn all...
fruition part 4
types of work…(none of them claim objectivity)
anxiety buffer: junctures, single events that have built self-image, seen through the lens of my head, of course.
atoll/reef: imprints of larger patterns… we can’t see the shape of what did the marking, just the marks.
hive/honeycomb: what’s above the surface, living and actively evolving, still in process
mourning ring:...
fruition part 3
props…locations…talismans
williamsburg bridge: freedom, release
holland tunnel: constraint
gowanus canal: remover of evil
the honeycomb: raw vitality, living structure that nurtures
the atoll: a once living, now dead structure that shows the imprint of what was there, but now exists in and of itself.
the farmhouse: aesthetic structure based on decay
bluebirds: curiosity
bees:...
fruition part 2
the tension is enacted by:
the scholar: structured knowledge, learning, untangling. the system builder.
the diver: exploration, immersion, experiential learning
the javelin-thrower: distiller, transformer, strength through pure emotion… cuts through coral.
the singer: lover, nurturer
the wolf: destroyer, willful strength
the host: graciousness, aesthetics/taste, sensitivity
the nymph:...
fruition part 1
we like tension. strong tension between opposing forces. interesting things seem to happen when they’re both at work at the same time… and we attempt to tune the balance.
experience vs. analysis
intentionality vs. “sponging” — wandering, watching, waiting to see what happens.
creating vs. critiquing vs. destroying
another aspect of the above, although not...
wolf masks →
April 2009
29 posts
jum nakao →
paper dresses, destroyed after showing.
fenrir
i don’t think he actually killed anyone before being bound… it was just that it was foretold that he would kill. he had potential.
another diver →
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must make bluebirds →
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sculpting with beeswax
http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=6879
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more about fenrir →
When the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound, they took a cord called Gelgja (Old Norse “fetter”[15]) hanging from Gleipnir, inserted the cord through a large stone slab called Gjöll (Old Norse “scream”[16]), and the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground. After, the gods took a great rock called Thviti (Old Norse “hitter, batterer”[17]), and thrust...
javelins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin#Norse_mythology
In Norse mythology, Odin, the chief god, carried a javelin or spear called Gungnir. It had the property of always finding its mark (“the spear never stopped in its thrust”).[10] During the final conflict of Ragnarok between the gods and giants, Odin will use Gungnir to attack the wolf Fenrir before being devoured by him.[11]
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more morebluebirds →
cameos, coral, idealized women →
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terror management theory
Terror management theory (TMT) posits that people deal with the problem of death by employing two distinct modes of defense: direct, rational, threat-focused defenses, that function to reduce the individual’s perception of his or her vulnerability to life threatening conditions, and thus push the problem of death into the vague and distant future; and symbolic, cultural defenses, that embed the...
substance
honeycombs are created to continue to nurture life… as spaces to store larvae and food
coral is actually living, but when it dies, what remains is an ongoing structure.
jet is polished decay.
honeycombs
http://www.ebeehoney.com/HoneyMade.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee#The_Comb
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cire perdue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_wax_casting
the atoll, with beeswax.
victorian jet
Jet: is a hard, coal-like variety of lignite. It’s color is velvety black or brownish black when passing into bituminous wood. It has a brilliant lustre and is resinous.This brittle material is formed when ancient waterlogged driftwood sinks to the ocean floor and becomes embedded in the mud.Through chemical action, pressure, and heat, the wood is transformed into a compact black...
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origins of coral
Having petrified Cetus, the sea monster threatening Andromeda, Perseus placed Medusa’s head on the riverbank while he washed his hands. When he recovered her head, he saw that her blood had turned the seaweed (in some variants the reeds) into red coral.
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victorian hair art →
it’s creepy.
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victorian mourning practices →
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