tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62127749454176473572024-03-13T11:37:50.459-07:00Science Crochet and Other Hypothesiswww.louisebird.me.ukLouise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-32700760130351372822010-07-26T01:22:00.000-07:002010-07-31T16:11:11.798-07:00Cerbyd, an In-Tents Journey (Sorry!)( I`m so sick of Chinese spam comments.)<br />Following a non equilibrium growth process, I`ve temporarily moved my blog to another site. To see it click ,<a href="http://www.culturecolony.com/blogs">Here</a>.<br /><strong>Science- Crochet may continue here, but maybe not.</strong><br />As the Portugese say,<br />` Talvez, Talvez nau. Quem sabe?` - ` Maybe , Maybe not , who knows?`Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-87114869222426675042010-07-04T03:24:00.000-07:002010-07-07T20:26:04.760-07:00Hyperspherical Hyperbolical Hype<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TDB1hltBsiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ZKPS3oAigwo/s1600/Hypersphere.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 398px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490017165681734178" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TDB1hltBsiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ZKPS3oAigwo/s400/Hypersphere.png" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Hypersphere.</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TDBrZEdUgrI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/ag01_C40KJI/s1600/4729983240_2f9c76aa9c_b.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490006024202257074" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TDBrZEdUgrI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/ag01_C40KJI/s400/4729983240_2f9c76aa9c_b.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">This photo is one of a series of romantic and beautiful studies by</span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38553224@N05/4729983240/"><span style="font-family:arial;">"Enid "</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">flickr</span>. The series carefully and intellegently investigates domestic objects, as seen through the lens of a microscope. The concept and results reminded me of bits of my own investigation (great minds think alike ...) and brought to mind the quote from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Blaise</span> Pascal, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">`Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">circumference</span> nowhere`.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">He has many recorded quotes, i particularly liked </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">`Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice, falling in love with you I had no control over.` </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Circling</span> something in black, makes an interesting visual captive cage . Somehow, the boundaries <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">don</span>`t decrease or detract from the effect of the circles contents, illustrating the Pascal quote. Although it gives limitations within the boundaries, to the immediate dimensions of the image. </span><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/4295800"><span style="font-family:arial;">More More circular work Here</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. I find circular shapes enchanting . Smooth, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">graceful</span> ,perfect, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">optimistic</span>, mysterious, silent, generous . There is a completeness and entity about the shape .</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">The simple circle is drawn in two dimensions, one of the first geometric shapes we understand as infants. Three dimensions and we have the glorious bouncing sphere. Animated and planetary. Above that in four or more dimensions the shape is called a hypersphere. As the dimensions in mathematical terms increase, my understanding decreases. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Except</span> the understanding of hyperbolic crochet that increases on a non Euclidean plane, in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">multi dimensions</span>. The two dimensional circle and three dimensional sphere operate efficiently within the boundaries of Newtonian mechanics. To investigate the realms of the sphere within the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">supergalactic</span> or subatomic, it becomes <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">necessary</span> to apply the laws of quantum, and to consider the application of further dimensions. Click the bar at the bottom to see a film.<br /></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></p><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyS11Kpo5DzGIaIMl_Y5GpSpy_GXDQAbba3TjSz4tGyFoVgACx0MMxJVSAVlhuTOtq3ZcJ25oKaGyx9Bq872g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-41301022946973472042010-06-21T07:53:00.000-07:002010-06-21T08:37:59.358-07:00... To Make Our Dreams Come True<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TB-Glc4G2RI/AAAAAAAAAfI/EX5zD1cQ85k/s1600/film_summerholiday001.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485250849125357842" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TB-Glc4G2RI/AAAAAAAAAfI/EX5zD1cQ85k/s400/film_summerholiday001.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TB99R9vXHKI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tr9kEet81RM/s1600/WARPRGB.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 118px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485240618745011362" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TB99R9vXHKI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tr9kEet81RM/s400/WARPRGB.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TB99RBJRY4I/AAAAAAAAAe4/zwtPkGdDbPI/s1600/Cerbyd_logo.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 373px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485240602479125378" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TB99RBJRY4I/AAAAAAAAAe4/zwtPkGdDbPI/s400/Cerbyd_logo.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Happy Solstice everyone. Lets have a long, hot, happy and joy filled summer, shall we?</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">The great power that opperates the balance scales has been very kind to me today. I received a phone call this morning offering me a place on a project I really wanted to be involved with.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Its called Cerbyd, which is Welsh for bus.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">The plan is this... ten artists on a bus, zig zagging around Wales . We will be stopping at a different location every day, including amoungst others, meeting steam railway enthusiasts, Appalation dancers, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">a group of George Formby enthusiasts, the National Botanical Gardens of Wales, the National Eisteddfod and , best of all ,The Institue of Physics, Wales. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Oh my word, real scientists. YYYYYIIIIIIPPPPPEEEEEEEE. Real, live, in the flesh scientists. Heheheheheheheheh!!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">The idea is to inspire new projects and possible collaborations between artists from different parts of Wales, and to introduce artists to other strange obsessive groups of people. Well, the second bit may not be high on the list, but its an interesting aspect of the project.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> I spent many years living in trucks and buses, travelling around England and Europe. Its a nice moment of `past-meeting-the-future-glitch-in-linear-time` for me.</span></div><div> </div><div>J<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbajf_rHzys"><span style="font-family:arial;">ust like Cliff Richard and Una Stubbs</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. Click here for a sing song.</span></div><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-89432548857769200932010-06-12T09:51:00.001-07:002010-06-13T01:33:52.665-07:00Seems Like a Little Bit of History Repeating...<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TBO7Z3DVoHI/AAAAAAAAAew/hsGU6poKsKo/s1600/briancox_023_21.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 321px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481931224389099634" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TBO7Z3DVoHI/AAAAAAAAAew/hsGU6poKsKo/s400/briancox_023_21.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/3312537906/"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/3312537906_d55c1bda69.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" ></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/3312537906/">John Cale4</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/birdlouise/"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">birdlouise</span></span></span></a>.</span></div><br /><p>The Queens official birthday today. Have a nice one your Maj. In her <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">honours</span> list we have two well deserved awards.</p><p>First <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Professor</span> Brian Cox- (super fox). If science is the new religion, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coxy</span></span></span> is our begotten saviour, big time. Handsome, genius and media omnipresent. He received an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">OBE</span></span></span>. He should be made king. Of the world, no, the Universe. He has done more to advance the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">public</span> education in science matters than anything else ever. He has wonderful clarity of thought and a loyalty to his craft that is admirable. And he is breath- <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">stoppingly</span></span></span> gorgeous. </p><p>Also an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">MBE</span></span></span> for the legend that is John Cale. The man behind the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c">viola drone </a>and most of the arranging on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Velvet</span> Underground`s seminal album. Sometimes referred to as the `<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Banana</span>`album. Real life living legend, experimental musician and superstar, he caused much opinion and conversation with his installation ` Dark Days`, in the Welsh <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">pavilion</span> ,at the Venice <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Biennale</span></span></span> last year. His biography `Whats Welsh for Zen?` was an astonishing read.</p><p>Music and science. One and the same thing, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">inextricably</span> linked. Scales, systems, maths and movement. The legend that was, or may have been, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">pre</span></span>-Socratic mystic and scientist, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Pythagoras,</span> had many beautiful theories about the links between what was then perceived as the Cosmos, and the mathematics that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">described</span> music and the motions of planetary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">ellipses</span>. After a vision from the God Thoth, he conceived `The Harmony of the Spheres`. </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFZuzgcIzY">Johannes <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Kepler's</span> 1619 treatise </a>, `Harmonica <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mundi</span></span> `,was inspired by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Pythagoras</span> writings, you can hear a contenporary musical interpretation , click the link. </p><p>Kepler was one of the greatest <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">mathematicians of</span> that time. He wrote `<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Eponymous</span> Laws for planetary motion `, which in turn informed (Sir) Issac Newtons laws on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">gravitational</span> force.</p><p>So, a job traditionally filled by legends , is now <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">safely</span> being filled by my favorite public science figure. (Note I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">didn't</span> use the term celebrity). Just so happens that Professor Brian Cox was also a pop star, before he became a scientist for a living. </p><p>The links between art and science.</p><p>I would love to discuss the origins of the universe with John Cale.</p>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-48340288275476444712010-06-01T10:42:00.000-07:002010-06-01T10:56:05.167-07:00Nemesis Rising<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAVHX_Q94VI/AAAAAAAAAeo/-IfdLv4HvWI/s1600/louise_bourgeois.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 310px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477862999211237714" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAVHX_Q94VI/AAAAAAAAAeo/-IfdLv4HvWI/s400/louise_bourgeois.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jun/01/art-louise-bourgeois">Louise Bourgeois died yesterday.</a> </div><div>More tears for the dead. She was 98, and died of a heart attack. Watch out angels, Nemesis is on her way. Of course I never met her, but we all new her. She was all of us. She new us.</div><div>Thank you Louise, from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU. </div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-33586420970067981112010-05-30T11:21:00.000-07:002010-05-31T07:50:42.136-07:00Basic Systemic Mathematical Prosesses<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Richard Sweeney, check his paper work.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAK1cJtMNpI/AAAAAAAAAeg/tYP4WIApS4o/s1600/richard_sweeney.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477139592082372242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAK1cJtMNpI/AAAAAAAAAeg/tYP4WIApS4o/s400/richard_sweeney.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Creating mass from a basic mathematical system</span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAKt4XTI4zI/AAAAAAAAAeY/wqas0cgCn70/s1600/Crochet.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477131280674513714" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAKt4XTI4zI/AAAAAAAAAeY/wqas0cgCn70/s400/Crochet.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Division of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Euclidean</span> plain.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAKtZEI1-NI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/cVANPYxTqW4/s1600/Say+Its+Only+a+Paper+Boat.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477130742955112658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/TAKtZEI1-NI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/cVANPYxTqW4/s400/Say+Its+Only+a+Paper+Boat.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-oltUSpt4&feature=related">Singing `Say its only a paper boat...`</a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In the inevitable Welsh rain, The Oriel <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Myrddin</span> gallery, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carmarthen</span>, in wet south west damp Wales, carried on regardless and held an outdoor beach party to celebrate the opening of the current <a href="http://www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk/">exhibition.</a></div><br /><div>Because every one loves the gallery, and it is the best place ever to work, we had fun. But, even though I appreciate the chaotic principles behind the weather, and despite the application for divine intervention , it could have not rained for just one more day.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Mary our genius education officer and most wonderful person made some origami boats . I love the mathematics behind childhood craft practices. Division and multiplication with out even considering the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Euclidean</span> plain. Paper folding , perfect division. An every day <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">occurrence</span>, performed without premeditation by people every where. Ancient spiritual art as well. I think its this kind of banal but essential ritual that keeps our thought processes as alert and any deep study. Playing is essential even for the very grown up.</div><br /><div></div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-61693040007248314022010-05-26T10:41:00.000-07:002010-05-26T11:30:01.399-07:00Druid`s Cord, Saint Asaph`s Loop<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_1eRFXei7I/AAAAAAAAAdw/VFiTH579cDo/s1600/4.Druid%60s+Cord,+Saint+Asaph%60s+Loop.+2008.jpg"></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">A measurement of spacetime<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_1eQoT_U0I/AAAAAAAAAdo/0NI_X2OKcso/s1600/Loop+after+Loop.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475636361744569154" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_1eQoT_U0I/AAAAAAAAAdo/0NI_X2OKcso/s400/Loop+after+Loop.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_1eQQiz_yI/AAAAAAAAAdg/E_1tmNyJtwY/s1600/Druid%60s+Cord+Saint+Asaphs+Loopd.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475636355364290338" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_1eQQiz_yI/AAAAAAAAAdg/E_1tmNyJtwY/s400/Druid%60s+Cord+Saint+Asaphs+Loopd.jpg" /></a><br /><br />For more `Druid`s Cord Saint <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Asaph</span>`s Loop` <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Flickr</span> pictures click. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/sets/72157607309567256/">here<br /></a><br /><div></div>For short <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">documentary</span> films about past installations click <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ted8Zu-dD8w">here<br /></a><div>or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PhynodereeFilms#p/c/9B093EB5AF23D1AA/3/HnR860YTRNM">here </a></div><div></div><div>In its fullest form,the installation is a mixed media installation with performance. </div><br /><div>I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">was</span> very pleased to be selected for the Bath Arts Fringe exhibition. It will be my first show out side of Wales. Initially, I was to have a large dark space for one of my installations that have a DVD projection. Sadly, this was not to be, and after weeks of curatorial <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">indecision</span> and suspense - through no fault of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">lovely</span> curator Fiona <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Cassidy</span>, I was allocated a space in a small room with six other artists. Hence the mightily pared down version of Druid`s Cord.</div><br /><div>It works well in its condensed form. The spiritual and physical relationship between the looped DVD , and the eleven feet of crocheted fishing line is still evident. Although it has lost the feeling of envelopement and entity. </div><br /><div>There is a moment in the DVD that I find particularly interesting. The screen is empty of the mechanical ,vertiginous image. The lens of the camera reacts with the bright sun on the very clear blue sky, and causes a lens flare that is almost off the top of the screen. That moment, to me , suggests a brief spiritual epiphany that is just within the reach of human endeavour. A tiny <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">glimpse</span> of the pure and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">ecstatic</span> nature of enlightenment.</div><div>Sometimes when I am crocheting and thinking , I experience that feeling... An excitment that cannot be explained or planned. The briefest flicker, a gargantuan vision in a tiny moment. Then it dissappears. I consider myself at these times, very blessed.</div><div>On the DVD it lasts only a moment, and then the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">repetition</span> begins to loop again.</div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-68598276579991395632010-05-24T09:55:00.000-07:002010-05-24T22:50:42.429-07:00Isotropic Lou-niverse<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_qzzU06nGI/AAAAAAAAAdY/IHC3B-Lr808/s1600/assted+001.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474885991367613538" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_qzzU06nGI/AAAAAAAAAdY/IHC3B-Lr808/s400/assted+001.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_qwQ5kEM7I/AAAAAAAAAdQ/B5SE1YD6aqQ/s1600/assted+013.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474882101398746034" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_qwQ5kEM7I/AAAAAAAAAdQ/B5SE1YD6aqQ/s400/assted+013.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_qwQVXlGDI/AAAAAAAAAdI/LoPh_JNfH_Y/s1600/assted+011.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474882091682699314" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_qwQVXlGDI/AAAAAAAAAdI/LoPh_JNfH_Y/s400/assted+011.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div>Recovering <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">slowly</span> from from my sojourn into a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">personal</span> deep, dark ,black hole, my darling friend Helen suggested a bit of occupational <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">therapy</span> to cheer me up. We spent two <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">blissful</span> days in the sunshine making felt. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">un-spun</span> wool, came from the flock of organic no kill sheep that she and her partner keep. (They <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">don't</span> kill the sheep, that is, not the sheep with murderous <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">tendencies</span>, suppressed from killing other things). </div><div>Looking most satisfied at the finished pieces, I noticed that the felt had a myriad tiny pieces of countryside shrunken into the fibres. This is unavoidable when working in a field, with a strange assortment of cobbled together <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">hippy</span> equipment. The pieces <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">couldn't</span> be seen at a distance, but were evenly spread and uniform on close inspection. I couldn`t have arranged them as delicately myself.</div><div>I looked up at the beautifully tended market garden surrounding us and it reminded me of a big <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">luscious</span> blanket of green. Smooth from a distance, but full of furrows , plants, stones and insects. All in turn made of further smaller and smaller matter.</div><div>The shape of the universe itself is homogenous like this. Referred to as the Isotropic nature of our universe. In the night sky, the stars cluster. Further out into space, the spiral arms of our galaxy have denser` foamy clusters`, and areas that appear empty. But over all, matter is evenly distributed through out the universe. Space is smooth, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">inseparable</span> concept of space time perfect. No matter where you stand, or which way you look . </div><div>I have been reading about Cosmic texture and cosmic string. The latter of these is a one dimensional topological defecr, a crack or crease, in the fabric o<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">f</span> space time . How beautiful is that ?</div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-78265667813924329412010-05-17T09:32:00.000-07:002010-05-18T02:21:56.205-07:00Home Play Cosmolology.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_FyF98fpUI/AAAAAAAAAdA/dccEtGT2E50/s1600/20100515-Handy+Finger+Gandy+Hails+a+Bus.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472280469085070658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_FyF98fpUI/AAAAAAAAAdA/dccEtGT2E50/s400/20100515-Handy+Finger+Gandy+Hails+a+Bus.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_FyFcg1Z4I/AAAAAAAAAc4/7L8W5LbPcKI/s1600/Jesus+After+The+Weekend.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472280460110686082" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S_FyFcg1Z4I/AAAAAAAAAc4/7L8W5LbPcKI/s400/Jesus+After+The+Weekend.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">`Direct your eye sight inward, and you`ll find</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">A thousand regions in your mind</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Expert in home- <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">cosmography</span>`</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Henry D. Thoreau</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">Toys are inspirational. They have provided a universal point of recognition in more that one of my projects. A toy can act on the collective <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">consciousness</span> of many people, and acts as a public common denominator. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">Even better , toys with a religious theme. Joy to find the Handy Bendy Gandhi finger puppet at the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Saatchi</span> gallery. Especially with the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">absorbent</span> `Christ in a Glass` festering in the kitchen.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">Although very amusing, these toys are indications of a strange reversal in the attitude to religious ritual. In some respects, to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">faithful</span> ,it could be <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">sacrilegious</span>, to make fun of or belittle those deities held by some in high <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">esteem</span>. Beware of judgement from on high. But beware there is another twist...</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">Those that hail science as the new religion, with the delicious proff. Brian Cox as the new science saviour, would need to examine the moral integrity behind many <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">children's</span> toys based on science research. Oh, thats different, those toys would be classed as educational.</span></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-53700436538417108362010-05-06T11:36:00.000-07:002010-05-06T11:43:06.387-07:00Only So Much Matter...<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">`Dead Dad`, Ron Mueck 1996-97</span><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S-MMdueEG0I/AAAAAAAAAcw/UiaUhnTUvl0/s1600/deaddad.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 281px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468228077387782978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S-MMdueEG0I/AAAAAAAAAcw/UiaUhnTUvl0/s400/deaddad.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Rest in Peace William Bird , Died 1st May 2010. Aged 79.</div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-22025230314770735602010-04-25T10:46:00.000-07:002010-04-25T11:43:09.972-07:00Great Hermetic Jelly Fish!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SEBIVit4I/AAAAAAAAAco/exBgwCYLecw/s1600/2281253323_c8a0bc2fb1_o.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464137402859829122" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SEBIVit4I/AAAAAAAAAco/exBgwCYLecw/s400/2281253323_c8a0bc2fb1_o.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SAwJrDkXI/AAAAAAAAAcg/IjXwc-auePY/s1600/karen_norberg_1_1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464133812625838450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SAwJrDkXI/AAAAAAAAAcg/IjXwc-auePY/s400/karen_norberg_1_1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SAvn_jvgI/AAAAAAAAAcY/wgTl4ejGUqc/s1600/Brain+in+a+Jar.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464133803585027586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SAvn_jvgI/AAAAAAAAAcY/wgTl4ejGUqc/s400/Brain+in+a+Jar.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SAvFUrAqI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/ghtemwvsJBo/s1600/Brain+Bubble.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464133794278343330" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S9SAvFUrAqI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/ghtemwvsJBo/s400/Brain+Bubble.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>The `grow your own brain` photos I have uploaded on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">flikr</span></a> reminded me of an article in the New Scientist magazine, from 2008. The amazing anatomically correct brain was crochet by Karen <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Norberg</span> in 2006. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Truly</span> a master piece and a work of genius.</div><br /><div>The picture of a jelly fish, a box jelly fish, is from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/page88/">2008</a> as well. Dozens were washed up on the beach at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Llanstefan</span> . It looked like a tragic and massive failed invasion .For jelly fish films <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PhynodereeFilms#p/u/70/fadpr-UEkWE">click</a></div>I haven`t look at them for years, they are quite sad.<br /><div>The obvious visual similarities between the jelly fish and the brain are interesting. I constantly record instances of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">repetition</span> and interconnection, which I find on a daily basis . There are infinite similarities found in the micro and macro circumstances of our universe. I am often reminded of the First line on the `Emerald Tablet` , a coded inscription that is used in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hermeticisim</span>.</div><br /><div>`<em>As above below`...</em></div><br /><div>The Universe is the same as God, God the same as man, man the same as the cell , the cell the same as the atom. </div><br /><div>I have used the quote many times before , and now I know where it originates. </div></div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-66918722955401903362010-04-18T04:13:00.000-07:002010-04-18T08:07:19.758-07:00Chaos and Cake , Theory #1. Research Beginning.<span style="font-size:85%;">Cake</span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S8rqTqU9nuI/AAAAAAAAAcI/9ou5SgHBESI/s1600/Yum.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461435121640775394" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S8rqTqU9nuI/AAAAAAAAAcI/9ou5SgHBESI/s400/Yum.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Empty</span></div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S8rqTFbpQFI/AAAAAAAAAcA/tVwQe_Qa_zs/s1600/Look+Ma+No+Contrails.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461435111736688722" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S8rqTFbpQFI/AAAAAAAAAcA/tVwQe_Qa_zs/s400/Look+Ma+No+Contrails.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Random<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S8rqS_lSwzI/AAAAAAAAAb4/v6voKJQLUiM/s1600/A+Funny+Thing+Happned+To+Me+On+The+Way+Home+Today.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 104px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461435110166545202" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S8rqS_lSwzI/AAAAAAAAAb4/v6voKJQLUiM/s400/A+Funny+Thing+Happned+To+Me+On+The+Way+Home+Today.jpg" /></a> </div><div><em>`<span style="font-family:arial;">I say unto you a man must have chaos yet within him to be able to give birth to a dancing star: I say unto you ye have chaos yet within you.</span></em></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Nietsche</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em>Chaos umpire sits,</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em>And by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">decision</span> more embroils the fray </em></span></div><div><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">By which he reigns:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">next him high arbiter</span> </em></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Chance governs all. </em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">Milton</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">Here in the UK the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Sky's</span> are swimming pool clear and cerulean blue. Empty of the invasive but incredible invention of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">airplane</span>, due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland. Inverse `Butterfly Effect` -ed into good weather! Amazing. No contrails and no new clouds, the skies are silent. (Actually, for the first time in days we have clouds today.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">No imports or exports either. Makes you think about how as a nation we cannot feed ourselves. We need the world. The British public nearly starved to death during the second world war. I like the idea of unity, positive and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">optimistic</span> .</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">On the subject of chaotic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">probability</span>, related to the weather only by locality and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">theories</span> of interconnection (but <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">that's</span> good enough), </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">I was on my way home, under those blue skies, from an afternoon shift with `Postman Pat`, at the Lyric Theatre, when I found a party.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">It was International Record Store Day, and our most exquisite <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">independent</span> local hang out was having a bit of a celebration. Fantastic, music, dancing and cake! All the best.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">I asked the fascinating search engine Wolfram/ Alpha` What is the probability of finding a party on the way home from work?` The computer said `Wolfram/Alpha <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">isn</span>`t sure how to compute an answer from your input`. Then gave me option to follow leads to probability or movies- `The way Home`. Chaos in action.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">I am still crocheting the Invisible Blanket.</span></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-58260230508730996032010-04-08T12:14:00.000-07:002010-04-18T11:33:08.959-07:00Buffalo Boys Goes Round the outside...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S74rQyVhD4I/AAAAAAAAAbw/5W6CtDwkeaw/s1600/MP_010019.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 262px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457847365809540994" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S74rQyVhD4I/AAAAAAAAAbw/5W6CtDwkeaw/s400/MP_010019.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Malcom Maclaren R.I.P or should I say` bollox, **** off mate`. </div><div></div><div>I grew up in South London. At 17 in 1977 I had just left school , and then... PUNK.</div><div>The man that invented the most influencial youth cult of all time. And some great fashion and music too.</div><div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-6290709714829469322010-04-07T14:18:00.000-07:002010-04-07T15:04:39.718-07:00Scientist and Artist and Pulsar<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Pulsar Hand Nebular</span><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7z2y2Rua3I/AAAAAAAAAbo/YwyCxfqEc_M/s1600/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo_big.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457508201889950578" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7z2y2Rua3I/AAAAAAAAAbo/YwyCxfqEc_M/s400/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo_big.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">James <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Turrell a</span>t the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I have sat in here. Wonderfull.</span></div><div></div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7z2yt_N_wI/AAAAAAAAAbg/mg9gRrDecds/s1600/James%2520Turrell%2520Deer%2520Shelter.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 252px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 342px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457508199664844546" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7z2yt_N_wI/AAAAAAAAAbg/mg9gRrDecds/s400/James%2520Turrell%2520Deer%2520Shelter.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Pulsar Diagram<br /></span><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7z2yVDMnmI/AAAAAAAAAbY/lXdNEG1acb0/s1600/pulsar.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 315px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 363px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457508192970645090" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7z2yVDMnmI/AAAAAAAAAbY/lXdNEG1acb0/s400/pulsar.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>`</strong><em>Our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier...`</em></div><div><em></em></div><div><em>`Nothing is static, nothing is final...`</em></div><div></div><div>The prize winning scientist Jocelyn Bell was a brilliant student. In 1967 she was the first ever scientist to discover the fast, regular radiation emissions from pulsating electromagnetic stars, nicknamed by a journalist as Pulsars. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Controversially,</span>her university lecturer received the Nobel prize for the discovery.</div><div>Pulsars are amazing and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">charismatic</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">bodies. V</span>ery small, planet sized and incredibly dense, </div><div>with enormous magnetic fields.</div><div>Pulsars occur one or two stages before a star could become a black hole at the end of its <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">twinkling</span> life. The pulses are caused by brief flashes of the radiation emitted from the Pulsars poles, dectected from the earth as it spins on its axis at incredible speeds.</div><div></div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Jocelyns</span> faith as a Quaker is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">insically</span> linked to her belief in the infinite nature of the universe, and her faith in the aspects of science that encourage understanding , rather that seeing it as a race for the truth`. </div><div>Another of my favorite artists is James <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Turrell</span>. He to is a practicing Quaker. Quakerism is a faith , a religion without doctrine or Dogma, that teaches truth only in terms of self realisation and understanding .</div><div>I have been lucky enough to experience James Turrells work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and at an exhibition in London. He uses light as a medium to explore spirituality and entity. His work transcends the boundaries of form. It is pure and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">magnanimous</span>. Full of the conviction of his faith.</div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-13590935502353418032010-04-04T02:49:00.000-07:002010-04-04T03:51:44.711-07:00Mass and The Pull of Anthropomorphic Gravity<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Anthony <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Gormley</span>, Critical Mass. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7hh0y-pcdI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/U-xofCtAYYI/s1600/Antony-Gormley-1-11-07.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456218508224983506" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7hh0y-pcdI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/U-xofCtAYYI/s400/Antony-Gormley-1-11-07.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Helen <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Frik</span>, Higher Up Where to.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7hhblnQElI/AAAAAAAAAbI/LtexEpo7jTM/s1600/Light+Shafrt+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456218075140461138" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7hhblnQElI/AAAAAAAAAbI/LtexEpo7jTM/s400/Light+Shafrt+2.jpg" /></a><br />Anthony <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Gormley</span>, Field for the British Isles<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7hhbcwkrhI/AAAAAAAAAbA/XaqhReAxAYM/s1600/gor_5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 271px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 325px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456218072763641362" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S7hhbcwkrhI/AAAAAAAAAbA/XaqhReAxAYM/s400/gor_5.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Helen <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Frik</span> is a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">British</span> born artist who has an installation at Chapter Arts Centre , Cardiff.<br /><div>Part of the installation - titled `Higher up, Where to`, has been made by volunteers from the public (including me). The call was for weird and wonderful toys, and that is what she got. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Absolutely</span> fabulous ,<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">wondrous</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">beautifulugly</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">loveliness</span>. </div><div>Having missed the private view, we made the journey on Saturday night.When we walked through to the last room ,there was just us and the installation- THEM. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Of course</span>, we had <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">interrupted</span> their secret <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">revelries</span>. </div><div>Using a contemporary analogy, the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">characters</span> gave off a post party `chill out` atmosphere. Collected in small relaxed and intimate (some of the extremely intimate) groups, there was in some case unbridled affection and unity. The next unchoreographed move for us humans, was to join the collective on the floor, for comment and conversation.</div><div>Whilst crawling in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">amongst</span> my new the freaky friends, Anthony <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Gormleys</span> `Field for the British Isles` came to mind. His work won the Turner prize in 1994. What an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">antitheses</span> to his internal, still and controlled display of terracotta figures. The 40,000 figures in the `Fields` were made by many, many different people , but with stringent regulations about features and form. </div><div></div><div></div><div>I felt that Helen Frinks piece failed to communicated the artists original concept. Even the `Black Guardians` situated at the foot of the `Light` had conceded and sat down. </div><div>There was no collective ominous pull towards the light. Rather a placid and accepting camp of the uniqueness found in humanity. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/">Here are pictures </a>on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">flickr</span>.</div><div>The comparisson between the two artists installations of human based form are an interesting illustration of a shift in cultural paradigm. </div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-50191086442633329672010-03-28T07:22:00.000-07:002010-03-28T07:52:13.780-07:00Equinox at the Gallery<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Saskia</span></span> and her hand made trinkets.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S69noFE7-YI/AAAAAAAAAa4/J_Yad-O4cT0/s1600/Lovely+Saskia.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453691612024273282" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S69noFE7-YI/AAAAAAAAAa4/J_Yad-O4cT0/s400/Lovely+Saskia.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Some of the staff<br /></span><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S69nnztlYHI/AAAAAAAAAaw/n0PYwf8rbyU/s1600/20100327-OM+Gang.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453691607362920562" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S69nnztlYHI/AAAAAAAAAaw/n0PYwf8rbyU/s400/20100327-OM+Gang.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">My crocheted cakes<br /></span><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S69nnfUOXVI/AAAAAAAAAao/jkuhHEtEutQ/s1600/20100327-Crochet++Cake+Display.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453691601887845714" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S69nnfUOXVI/AAAAAAAAAao/jkuhHEtEutQ/s400/20100327-Crochet++Cake+Display.jpg" /></a><br /><br />More pictures of the<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carmarthen-United-Kingdom/Oriel-Myrddin-Gallery/92260043325"> Oriel <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Myrddin</span></span> </a>Garden Party <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/">here<br /></a>I feel very fortunate to be able to work in the Oriel <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Myrddin</span></span> Gallery, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carmarthen</span></span>. Its a lovely old building that used to be an art school, we sometimes get stories of antics from the towns older residents , about things that happened when they were art school students. We are also very lucky to have a super relationship with our regulars , who turn up for openings and workshops on a regular basis. Thank you! </div><div>To celebrate the "Reap and Sew" spring exhibition, the gallery had a garden party. </div><div>It was a great <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">success</span>, with tea cakes and bunting, things for sale and things to make. It was a pleasure to go to work. </div><div> </div><div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-10554705963289175192010-03-27T02:39:00.000-07:002010-03-27T03:18:10.767-07:00Perspective Halts Infinity<span style="font-family:arial;">Deep new joy</span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S63Tyo4eKEI/AAAAAAAAAag/0zD-ajNDrFI/s1600/Glockenspiel.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453247590736734274" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S63Tyo4eKEI/AAAAAAAAAag/0zD-ajNDrFI/s400/Glockenspiel.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S63Tyff0u2I/AAAAAAAAAaY/WwY4zxnsc9Y/s1600/pereccat.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 361px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453247588217437026" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S63Tyff0u2I/AAAAAAAAAaY/WwY4zxnsc9Y/s400/pereccat.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />This is a picture of french writer and philosopher (and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">of course</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">obsesser</span>, if there is such a word),</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Geogre</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Perec</span>. I am reading with mixed emotions, `<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Species</span> of Spaces and other Pieces`. The book is full of lists , observations and comment. His style is unique, his attitude is expansive, in the most compact of instances. Most of it written with humour and delight in the every day. But as with all brilliance, there is a tinge of pathos and maudlin in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">lonely</span>, insular and obsessive. An <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">intangible</span> coldness seems to pervade his french <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">magnanimity</span>. A symptom of a tragic childhood, his writing is beautiful, but where is his joy? </span></div><div><em><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></em></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><em></em></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>`Since 1984, small planet no.2817 (1982<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">UJ</span>) has borne the name of George <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Perec</span>`.<br /></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><em></em></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><em> </div></em></span><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Above the picture of George <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Perec</span>, is my new joy. My dear friend <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bunwen</span> ( really Sarah), bought me a very early birthday present, a glockenspiel. I have wanted one for as long as I can remember.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">I am already quite adept at `<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">plink</span>- a -plonk meditative` style, which I find calming, but I`m not sure if thats a universal effect, and have got the vocal intro. to Gary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Numans</span> `Cars` off pat , even using 2 beaters. Need some sheet music now and I can begin <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">rehearsing</span>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-66869887513097853282010-03-23T11:16:00.000-07:002010-03-23T12:02:52.501-07:00Inevitable Escallating to an Unknown Point.Topological Chair<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S6kF998hYEI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/zXKtdmmlk58/s1600-h/crochet-chair-designed-by-marcel-wanders.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 325px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 293px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451895386067263554" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S6kF998hYEI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/zXKtdmmlk58/s400/crochet-chair-designed-by-marcel-wanders.jpg" /></a>Crochet Chaos<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S6kF9vaK8vI/AAAAAAAAAaI/kytICaD5OcA/s1600-h/intelligencer.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 293px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451895382165091058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S6kF9vaK8vI/AAAAAAAAAaI/kytICaD5OcA/s400/intelligencer.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Crochet <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Graffitti</span></span></div><div></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S6kFwfjqrSI/AAAAAAAAAaA/ze9nJfxMghE/s1600-h/tumblr_kriiq1TSjj1qze4euo5_500.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451895154571652386" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S6kFwfjqrSI/AAAAAAAAAaA/ze9nJfxMghE/s400/tumblr_kriiq1TSjj1qze4euo5_500.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Spring equinox brought about some sad changes in my life. I feel uninspired by them, really not very spring like at all . But the weather does not help, there you are then- as they say in Wales.</div><div></div><div>I have long <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">ogled</span> the crochet Lorenz Manifold , made by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hinke</span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Osinge</span></span>, that is well documented on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Internet</span>. </div><div>Lorenz, the mathematician that the piece is named after was the originator of Chaos Theory, and the Butterfly Effect.</div><div>Chaos theory is interesting. Nothing to do with a state of perpetual uncontrolled disorganisation. `They` have, as always, the obligatory equations to describe the instigation of ever expanding systems, (visually expressed as fractals), that describe chaotic states. But have no way of predicting <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">accurately</span> the exact outcome of the movement, how it began, or where it will end. There is no complete control or prediction of a chaotic state.</div><div>The weather was Lorenz special scientific area. He used chaos theory to describe weather systems , and applied them with some <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">success</span> to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">arcane</span> art of weather prediction. As a result we know what the weather is supposed to do. Or at least a probable outcome as a result of certain situations.</div><div>It made me think of the earth quake that <a href="http://quiltarchitect.blogspot.com/2010/01/earthquake.html">`Quilt Architect`</a> felt on the little island King Salmon. That earth quake, butterfly effect-ed off to Haiti a couple of weeks later, and showed us all just how chaotic weather systems can be. I wonder who flapped their crochet.</div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-58867833598742513712010-03-14T11:01:00.000-07:002010-03-30T14:50:22.999-07:00Salvation and Visibility<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S50l2PuW1FI/AAAAAAAAAZg/5veyp8M05K0/s1600-h/Bininmal.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448552738052297810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S50l2PuW1FI/AAAAAAAAAZg/5veyp8M05K0/s400/Bininmal.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S50l1vPKbPI/AAAAAAAAAZY/OYTHhyJoFf4/s1600-h/Caged.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448552729331526898" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S50l1vPKbPI/AAAAAAAAAZY/OYTHhyJoFf4/s400/Caged.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S50l1e4ndhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/f-Xj2cDyCoU/s1600-h/Visible+Blankets.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448552724941993490" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S50l1e4ndhI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/f-Xj2cDyCoU/s400/Visible+Blankets.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />Out and about in the West Wales countryside for a change. This time for a meeting at New Mill, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Drefelin</span>. I showed `Iota Island` at an exhibition at the mill , called <a href="http://melinglonc.blogspot.com/2009/11/melin-glonc.html">`<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rhod</span>`</a> last year. Dave Shepherd - (Image Salvage and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Reclamation</span>), was one of the other featured artists at the show. He too has revisited the mill, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">in fact</span> it seems he never left! His installation has been there ever since, moved around in various forms, a bit like a conceptual squatter. I took some time to study the re-installed piece. </div><br /><br /><div>I found the immediacy of the piece quite striking. The new proximity of the materials animated the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">individuality</span> of each `bin` and gave it all a sense of unity and purpose. The arrangement had elements of domesticity and urbanity, with a pensive, tense feeling.<br /><br />Thinking- in relation to a piece I will be showing there later this year, it seemed definate and so <em><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">visible</span>.</em> </div><div></div><div><em></em></div><div><em>Nature it seems, is the popular name</em></div><div><em>For milliards and milliards and milliards</em></div><div><em>Of particles playing their infinite game</em></div><div><em>Of billiards and billiards and billiards.</em></div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Piet</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hein</span> (1966)</div><div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-10557800335354917992010-03-11T11:44:00.001-08:002010-03-25T11:13:09.838-07:00Darker Dimensions<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5lI4pizJOI/AAAAAAAAAZI/PQ8VmS_Fz08/s1600-h/20100307-assted+001.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 389px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447465362343011554" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5lI4pizJOI/AAAAAAAAAZI/PQ8VmS_Fz08/s400/20100307-assted+001.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5lI4IDfhYI/AAAAAAAAAZA/oVKcsu0CBnw/s1600-h/me2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447465353353332098" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5lI4IDfhYI/AAAAAAAAAZA/oVKcsu0CBnw/s400/me2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://http//bird-in-the-house.blogspot.com/2010/03/milkwood-gallery.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">Here</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> is a link to` Bird In The House` blog, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">that's</span> her above, my good friend Kathryn Campbell. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">She is a special talent with a vision that magically <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">transcends</span> cultural <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">boundaries</span> , using a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">lightness</span> of touch over an uneasy darkness in spirit. Her work is loaded with symbolism referencing her own domestic past, tangled with many world religions and belief systems. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Kathryn's</span> work silently emits her own banshee howl. Its wonderful stuff of secrets and spells. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">We went to the opening of her show in a lovely retro shop come exhibition space called `<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Milkwood</span> Gallery`, in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Roath</span> area of Cardiff. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Of course</span>, I forgot my camera, so this one picture was taken on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Kath's</span> own camera. There are more pictures on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Kathryn's</span> own blog. Just follow the link above.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">While we were there , I was given the T.Rex album by one of the gallery owners. What a top generous present. Many thanks ! Marc <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bolan</span> was the singer and front man of T.Rex, he was a first pop idol love. I lived a mile down the road , in London ,from the tree where he was killed in 1977. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">I still visit the place every time I`m in London . It`s an official memorial site now, filled with tributes and fan <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">paraphernalia</span>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-58026136780295282502010-03-08T01:12:00.000-08:002010-03-09T11:22:44.288-08:00Auricula Hysteria<span style="font-family:arial;">The Old <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Auricula</span> Theatre, or what was.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TB3jJRBWI/AAAAAAAAAY4/6H6SU63NAi4/s1600-h/The+Old+Auricula+Theatre.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446191009468843362" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TB3jJRBWI/AAAAAAAAAY4/6H6SU63NAi4/s400/The+Old+Auricula+Theatre.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TBTRkyVcI/AAAAAAAAAYw/0JpYqZrr7ok/s1600-h/Mandelbulb-garden-med.jpg"></a><span style="font-size:+0;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Auricula</span> or Primula<br /></span><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TBTJSl58I/AAAAAAAAAYo/M5cNq9qEICQ/s1600-h/primula_auricula.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 210px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 210px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446190384053348290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TBTJSl58I/AAAAAAAAAYo/M5cNq9qEICQ/s400/primula_auricula.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Auricula</span> Theatre at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Calke</span> Abbey.<br /></span><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TBS2IxaSI/AAAAAAAAAYg/VxVOc-AoYcY/s1600-h/calke_abbey_large.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446190378911885602" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S5TBS2IxaSI/AAAAAAAAAYg/VxVOc-AoYcY/s400/calke_abbey_large.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Click for three dimensional Mandelbrot fractals called <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mandelbulb</span>, </span><a href="http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">here</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. (Thanks to Sam Knight for the link)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">On a research and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">reconnaissance</span> mission with Fibre Art Wales, at the National Botanical <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Gardens</span> of Wales, we were taken to the Walled Garden. There we were shown the site that once was the old <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Auricula</span> Theatre.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Apparently, in olden days when ladies of a gentler disposition were taken with a fit of the vapours or shocked by the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">appearance</span> of an untoward table leg, they were directed to sit and contemplate the rows of Primula (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Auricula</span>) flowers in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Auricula</span> Theatre to calm and steady ones nerves.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">The flowers have striking, bold and velvety colours , which appear in concentric rings around each <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">flower head</span> which is made of a multiple of blooms. They appear to me to be quite fractal in design, and perhaps en <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">masse</span> quite hypnotic . They are reported to have been of a calming nature to the ladies of those times.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">I was <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">amused</span> and inspired by the tale of flowers comforting the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">nervy</span>. It also brought to mind the whole language of flowers fashion which was extremely popular in Victorian times. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">But, even more interesting is the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Pythagorean</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">mathematical</span> healing properties of the repetition and colour in nature. </span></div></div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-58365150505893252142010-02-28T04:41:00.000-08:002010-02-28T05:26:12.908-08:00Apply The Method of the Theoretical Scientist.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4poHfnJWTI/AAAAAAAAAYY/HxCNGQKLKio/s1600-h/20100225-assted+009.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443277577584728370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4poHfnJWTI/AAAAAAAAAYY/HxCNGQKLKio/s400/20100225-assted+009.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4poG_HG3pI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/USA50JD2z-0/s1600-h/20100225-assted+004.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443277568860413586" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4poG_HG3pI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/USA50JD2z-0/s400/20100225-assted+004.jpg" /></a><br />`<em>Imagination is more important that knowledge. For knowledge is is limited to all we know now and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">understand</span>, while imagination embraces he entire world and all there ever will be to know and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">understand</span>.`</em></div><div>Albert Einstein</div><div> </div><div>Saturday was the opening of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Pembrokeshire</span> open at the Torch Theatre Milford Haven.<br />I was lucky enough to have the Iota chosen as part of the show. It took two days to install., Many millions of billions of thanks to <a href="http://www.jacobwhittaker.co.uk/">Jake ,</a> for dropping everything at a moments notice to help with installation. His calm and logical systems over rode my moments of relatively controlled hysteria and we got most of it done on the first day. See his beautiful photos and some of mine on <a href="http://http//www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">flickr</span> here <br /></a>I find peoples reactions interesting when confronted with an installation in the same <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">vicinity</span> as more traditional two and three dimensional work. Not only are they <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">mystified</span> by the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">appearance</span> of the piece, but by the science theory behind it. Dan Shaw, the <a href="http://www.torchtheatre.co.uk/">Torch Theatre </a>manager looked up and said...`it`s like being in the forest.` Fabulous. I hope there will be a review of the show on the web site soon.</div><div>Interesting to see the piece in a urban environment. The area was light and lit, with natural light wells, all of which interact with the piece. Its a bit of a shame about what the staples have done to the gallery walls, but a bit of filler will see it right after the event! Steep parabolic trajectory on that learning curve. </div><div> </div><div>HEY... the Large Hadron <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Collider</span> was switched back on early this morning. HURRAH! </div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-64184409703960343572010-02-22T10:23:00.000-08:002010-02-22T11:47:47.648-08:00Mechanistic Philosophy<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Search for the windmills in the </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Carmarthenshire quilt.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4LQXqIdSHI/AAAAAAAAAXw/RDrg4k_lneI/s1600-h/Windmills.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 110px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441140404682311794" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4LQXqIdSHI/AAAAAAAAAXw/RDrg4k_lneI/s400/Windmills.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4LPdCyBYkI/AAAAAAAAAXo/U_vryq5cRRo/s1600-h/angel4603.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441139397686813250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4LPdCyBYkI/AAAAAAAAAXo/U_vryq5cRRo/s400/angel4603.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Anthony Gormley, Angle (!) of the North.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Seized windmill with no physical power. </span><br /></div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4LM060QsII/AAAAAAAAAXY/MzULAXpDv4A/s1600-h/What+is+it+you+are+trying+to+say.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 398px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441136509330698370" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S4LM060QsII/AAAAAAAAAXY/MzULAXpDv4A/s400/What+is+it+you+are+trying+to+say.jpg" /></a> </div><div><br /><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Instant disobedience. </span></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I make the journey from Carmarthen to Cardigan most weeks and have become accustommed to the visuals. It is a vicious, undulating menace of a back road , that has claimed one car from me already, so I try and pay attention to the technical matters in hand. Recently, the forestry commission have done a bit of subtle land scapeing (NOT!) and left a view , that was hidden before. The no entry bilingual sign rattled the purile anarchist tendancies in me, and I went to investigate. I have no recollection of the view before, or when the tree harvest took place, but now it is, to quote Neil Armstrong<em>...`beautiful desolation.`</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">You can now see the towering wind turbines way across the valley. It wasn`t until I had taken the photo and arrived home I saw how small they were in the picture.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />A trick of renaissance perspective indeed. In real time they are towering and majestic, and make a most awesome whooshing. Elemental Angels on a hill top. One of the hiddeous bends on the journey, passes under the swooping shadow of an<em> `..umbrageous limb...`</em> (Guy Wetmore Carryl.) </span><span style="font-family:arial;">A symbol of passage and protection. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Ofcourse, I write this as a complete town dweller that doesn`t live near them. Others have different views. </span></div><br /><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-56644485986032806972010-02-14T09:16:00.000-08:002010-02-14T10:55:17.699-08:00Reductions in Emergence<span style="font-size:85%;">Heart in the Cosmos</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S3hDQWUKw3I/AAAAAAAAAXQ/ys-ABhzX9EA/s1600-h/valentine_antenna.jpg"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 313px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438170498197013362" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S3hDQWUKw3I/AAAAAAAAAXQ/ys-ABhzX9EA/s400/valentine_antenna.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S3hDQCzscAI/AAAAAAAAAXI/EP4jsQ1dCfY/s1600-h/20100214-assted.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438170492960534530" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S3hDQCzscAI/AAAAAAAAAXI/EP4jsQ1dCfY/s400/20100214-assted.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Heart on a sleeve</span><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S3hCccsZL5I/AAAAAAAAAXA/zGddo7CgJ4Y/s1600-h/20100214-assted+017.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 368px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438169606556037010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S3hCccsZL5I/AAAAAAAAAXA/zGddo7CgJ4Y/s400/20100214-assted+017.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:85%;">Commercial appeasement<br /></span><br /><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The starry, romantic cardiac annomily is the result of two colliding galaxies. It happens in all shapes and sizes!</div><div>Happy Valentines.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Emergence is the philosophical debate that covers the old axiom that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One interpretation of this is, that there is something else apart from the constituants of an entity. That in unity, entirety becomes a greater force than a collection. It is a popular and enduring philosophical and scientific debate. I find it fascinating and inspirational. </div><div>Humans as individuals are complicated and unique assemblages. (Stating the bleedin` obvious!)</div><div>Joined in force as a race there is something more than atoms and molecules. More than physical, more than can be explained by equation and reasoning. </div><div>Phenomenological and emergent concepts like interconnection and unity are important issues that inform my practice. The philosphical opposite is reductionism. <a href="http://royalsociety.tv/dpx_royalsociety/dpx.php?cmd=autoplay&type=solo&dpxuser=dpx_v12&pres=262">Here </a>is a link to a lecture on the Royal Society web site, that I really enjoyed.</div><div></div><div>The sympoisum on artistic collaborations I attended this week provided emergent food for thought. One lecturer suggested that the current increaseing trend for collaboration in the art world, is a form of direct response to the decrease of unity through direct political action, that requires mass physical presence. There is a vast increase in the trend for internet networking, and a massive increase in social grouping and political activism through internet sites. Previously, membership to a specific group or party required attendance and physical affilliation, sometimes even a physical image or uniform. This provided identity, support and companionship. It is interesting to watch the enthusiasm with which the public will exersize the right to vote commercially through the household media, but struggle with the politcal apathy rife in the U.K. at this time. Even groups such as the womens institue have suffered with membership numbers. As a race we need communication and contact with each other, thats not news. What is interesting is the manifestation of various substitutes, which attempt to compensate for physical alienation. </div></div></div></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212774945417647357.post-24550707893452602952010-02-07T04:21:00.000-08:002010-02-07T04:59:25.070-08:00Parahelic Car Arc<span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S2639siPsQI/AAAAAAAAAWg/-ywyGZqB5cI/s1600-h/sundog.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 220px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 257px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435484070837465346" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S2639siPsQI/AAAAAAAAAWg/-ywyGZqB5cI/s400/sundog.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">The Nuremberg happening of 1561, depicted by Hans Glaser in a woodcut from 1566.</span></div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S262O5g3cFI/AAAAAAAAAWY/V3Hfu6feLcM/s1600-h/Nuremberg_Apr_14_1561.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 340px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435482167355863122" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S262O5g3cFI/AAAAAAAAAWY/V3Hfu6feLcM/s400/Nuremberg_Apr_14_1561.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S26y9WyObJI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/1SDPmaxwnI8/s1600-h/2006-09-09-Sundog-Left.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435478567440772242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VbhLRmGStR0/S26y9WyObJI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/1SDPmaxwnI8/s400/2006-09-09-Sundog-Left.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">...and that rare phenomenon</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The iridule- when beautiful and strange,</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In a bright sky above a mountain </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">range</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;">one opal cloudlet in an oval form</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;">reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm...</span></p><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em>Vladimir Nabakov, Pale Fire.</em></span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><br /><br /><p>I did not take this photo but I wish I had. Driving back through south west Wales, a bit the worst for wear on Saturday morning, Jake pointed out something in the sky I have never seen before. A sundog. This photograph is as near to its appearance as I could find. These rare and beautiful light phenomenons are goodly and fine omens and considered very lucky. Thank you for that! </p><br /><p>The light refracted from the sun is projected in an arc onto near by low lying cirrus type clouds.I only caught a few glimpses because I was driving at the time, but this is what it looked like. The arc of a parahelion (scienctific name), always 22 degrees from the horizon can be seen all year round, but shines from a low sun.</p><p>I am inspired.</p><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify"></p></span></div></div>Louise Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01803044295458307957noreply@blogger.com1