Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Korean TV...


Korean TV - its soaps, news broadcasts, advertisements - so different, yet so the same...






Sunday, November 21, 2010

VCUQ - Opening of New Wing...

View of the ad-hoc 'logo' from the studio entrance...


Today VCUQ has the inaugural opening event for the school's new wing. The shots above and below are a few, somewhat off the cuff, photos taken from various locales up here on the top MFA floor.

In the upcoming weeks more blog entires will follow from my recent trips to Bahrain, Venice and London...


Constantin Boym, the Department head of the MFA Program, making some last minute adjustments to MFA Student Robert Canak's Anamorphic installation...

The 'stretched' anamorphic blocks that form the colored areas/ highlights of the text...

A, somewhat aligned, view of the words highlighted by the anamorphic blocks of color in the background space...

A MFA student's studio space that's gradually beginning to look a bit like a design studio space should...

Some students looking down, into the atrium, from the MFA floor...

View from the student lounge on the MFA floor...

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Small Bizarres No. 13 - Sports for Plants in Seoul, Korea...


Came across the curious scene above during a recent trip to a stadium in Seoul, Korea. Perhaps the plants were there to watch grass 'speed-grow' across/ along the running track (see image below)...