Visited Univ. of Miami’s Lowe Museum. They have a great collection of Chinese, and Precolombian art. Their collection of textiles is unmatched in S. Florida.
We knew this was on the horizon didn’t we? As much as it causes consternation it will cause even more.
New Rule on Cargo Is Shaking Art World:
“Collectors and dealers of fragile, phenomenally expensive art have never wanted for reasons to stay awake at night. A piece could plunge from a wall. Somebody could stumble into it or step on it or add a new color to it with a splash of red wine. Contemporary art, sometimes made to resemble trash, has occasionally been mistaken for it and thrown away.
But those responsible for safeguarding art will soon have a new category of anxiety, the stuff of real nightmares: the possibility that airline employees could open carefully crated works of art to search them the way checked baggage is sometimes searched now, poking around Picassos instead of sweaters and socks.
The Transportation Security Administration has mandated that beginning on Aug. 1, all items shipped as cargo on commercial passenger airplanes — estimates are that as much as 20 percent of art shipped around the world travels this way — will have to go through airline security screening.”
(Via NYT > Art & Design.)
First Photos of Snowflakes For Sale:
Image from the Guardian
“Maybe everyone is getting sick of looking at snow, but these vintage photographs of snowflakes will be gone soon so better look now… Taken by a self-educated Vermont farmer, Wilson A. Bentley at the end of the 1800’s, they are the first photos of snow ever taken.
Ten of them are up for auction but in fact the photographer was a little obsessive and took thousands (as in 5,000) of the images. And no two were ever alike. He began by trying to draw them but the snow melted before he could finish. So his parents got him a cam…”Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Future Films: Mobile Media Shorts Open Call for 01SJ 2010
http://zero1.org/01sj/mobilemediashorts
Deadline: May 15, 2010
(lower submission fee for entries received by April 3, 2010)
Date of screening: September 8-11, 2010 at SF Shorts and September 16-19, 2010 at the 01SJ Biennial
Prize: $500 cash award for top selection and a selection of shorts will be screened in the 01SJ Future Films theater
Under the theme Build Your Own World, the 3rd 01SJ Biennial will take place September 16-19, 2010 in San Jose, CA. One of the main platforms of the 01SJ Biennial is Future Films, a program dedicated to presenting a broad range of innovative work in the realm of the moving image, from short films to feature length presentations. In 2008, the program included a selection of machinima, animations, DIY Hollywood productions, micro cinema, Second Life vignettes, mash ups, and fan films from around the world.
Filmmaking is essentially world building, and mobile media constitute a new set of tools to build this world. For the 2010 01SJ Biennial we are collaborating with SF Shorts: San Francisco International Festival of Short Films to issue an open call for 5-minute shorts interpreting the theme Build Your Own World that were shot using a cell phone, flip video camcorder, or other mobile media device. You can interpret this theme literally or figuratively, seriously or humorously to envision how mobile technology can contribute to positive social change.
Selected films will be featured at both SF Shorts and the 2010 01SJ Biennial. A cash prize is available for top selection. At the 01SJ Biennial, a selection of mobile media shorts will be screened in the Empire Drive-In, the main screening venue for the 01SJ Future Films program that will be created by artists Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark out of recycled automobiles. Additional information about the 2008 Future Films program is available here.
