Results tagged “Art” from Kazza the Blank One

Cath and I were going to go see the Cartier exhibition at the National Gallery in July.  Except we left it til the last day.  Whoops.  The queue was a hundred years long and not moving, so we wandered around a bit of the Gallery, through James Turrell's Skyspace, the Fern Garden and the Sculpture Garden instead.

I really liked this picture, except for the fact that the pieces didn't actually fit!

So I never did get to see James Turrell's Retrospective at the Art Gallery (which I'm still pretty annoyed about).

But I did see his Skyspace on the weekend.  Really need a super wide-angled lens tho.  And maybe an overcast day for different lighting..

This print of an ocean sunset used to hang above the oil heater at our old house.  I spent a lot of time when I was living at home looking at it, because if I was standing at the heater in winter, I would turn around to warm my front, and spent ages looking at the detail in the painting.  The oil heater was replaced some years back by a reverse cycle air conditioner (and the first time it was run in summer it leaked all over the picture because they hadn't connected the outlet host properly - ruined it somewhat).

This print also featured in The Henderson Kids.  See if you can spot it ;)

The print ended up being taken by the removalist that moved mum into her new place.  If he hadn't, I probably would have taken it.. 

Did you know the foyer of ActewAGL has sharks circling about inside?

So this is Canberra's latest piece of public art - Keizo Ushio’s “oushi zokei, dream lens for the future”

While in Sydney I went along to Nathan Sawaya's Lego exhibition "The Art of the Brick" at the Town Hall.  It was pretty crowded with kids but was otherwise awesome, and unlike the money-hungry Warner Bros you were allowed to take photos at this exhibition.  Which made it all kinds of wonderful.

Taken in October

So Canberra has a couple of new pieces of public art. 

So other than our food shopping, didn't do much else today.

The SIL has been playing with all sorts of photographic effects for a while now.  My brother is not impressed.  I can see where my brother is coming from.  Why take a photo of something then abuse it so it doesn't really resemble what you took a picture of.  And to some extent I agree (my biggest gripes are with the photos that take the image then mirror it or flip it around.. I really don't see the point of those).  But on the other hand, if you're just having a bit of fun, and the pictures you're taking really aren't *of* anything in particular, then putting some effects on them makes them a bit more interesting.

Enjoy!