Hunters Hill 27/09 8:50am

SCA 25 Sept 2pm-OK, stop me someone

Friday 26th Sept, 9.30 am guess where?

PR Machina

hey kids,
I need your help to get something into the Photofile magazine here in sydders. please send me at 21stcenturyblues@gmail.com and great installation shots from ny or syd mini shows, or any deep conversational/working on art/descriptive of our proceses shots you have hanging around.
I know it's been the same with everything but I need them soon. I seem to recall meghan having some good stuff and amy?? let's get a feature going.....
jess

relayered bridge

not so sure if i like this as much as straight neg?

relayered bridge

voici le website

so we have a barebones website you can look at at
www.newyorksydney.com/test/

Please look at it - obviously some formatting thingies are screwed up.... Besides obvious problems i'd really love suggetions or ideas.... I put my own personal movies on there as filler - its not a shameless plug for my prints and movies hanging in maxmara on 68th street and madison ave - honest.

If something doesn't seem to work TELL ME! If you have a windows computers TRY IT ON THAT!

obviously the main thing missing is photos. During the meeting tonight people wanted the artwork broken down by time period 'new york', 'gap', sydney', 'gap 2', 'new york 2'... i mostly followed that but renamed things - hopefully people will have better ideas for the names than i did.


If groups could email me at least one project from each period that would be wonderful. Email me a jpeg at least 1000 pixels, height or width, and then I'll fit it properly to size. if you don't know I'm talking about just email me a jpeg and I'll figure it out.

Movies.... Are easy to put on the website, just upload them, as quicktime files, to the blog and google/blogger will compress them. Make a new post and click on the little filmstrip icon thingie above where you write stuff and go from there. I can get them off the blog and put them on our website. If you can also emaail me a copy of it that would be wonderful in case google/blogger screws it over...

cheers -mr c

Feedback for Ash

Hi Ash,

Here is some feedback for you, coming straight from the Exquisite Meeting in NYC--
First its the feedback for the horizons.
hi it's amy. liking. what about the idea of condensing it into a single horizon -force them into a single line and find the boundries between here and there, inside and outside, near and far and how all of this relates to horizons. make your own horizon from all of these fragments. jim says make it a single one inch strip that you are allowed to pull from each image to build the line. Mark says think about how horizons influence your daily life and where you find them. I think the images itself should have a dinstinctive horizon in order to work together...

Feedback for the Video:
amy again. video. do you know ana mendieta? look at her stuff for ideas of leaving a physical mark on the land. also, what about you marking the land with your feet, finding the boundry between the land and the sea, the sand and the pavement, grass and the pavement, etc. video you trying to walk the line that you're trying find.

Horizons Ash

Sun for Mr C in the Rocks with my new phone!

mea culpa's maps

Awe:
driving over the anzac bridge towards the city at night into the glittering high rises
jumping from the north heads at bondi into the huge swell of the pacific

Home:
Art Gallery of NSW

Immersion:
jumping from the north bondi heads into the huge swell of the pacific

sweating it out on the dancefloor in summer at Club 77 (William St, City)

Chinese Moon Festival in china town

Sublime:
jumping from the north heads at bondi into the huge swell of pacific ocean

sitting on the cliffs of north bondi watching the sky turn pink, purple and finally inky over the water

frustration/conflict

waiting for the bus at taylor's square that never comes

Emotion for map MEA Culpa

Awe:

The Gap

Hyde Park

The first time I saw the pool at Icebergs

Home:

Carly's House in Werrington

Immersion:

3 Eggs Cafe (Bondi)

Newtown shopping

Redfern arts festival

Sublime:

Whale watching with Simone at Manly

Frustration/Conflict:

Everyday we hung the show at SCA

sydney rocks history

hey guys,

here are some pics i've been working on, and would be loving some feed back. =)

to refresh your memory its the project i started at the end of your (NYers) trip, the photos were black and white 35mm digital and i was starting to play with how i could incorporate text onto the image (used photoshop) - to have the history of the landscape as a fusion with its architecture.

i've reshot obviously - with a hassleblad and colour film (hoorah!). what im stuck with now is how to resolve having the text with the image.

the work is about the location of the white settlers, and the history that is hidden - not in our hearts, but amongst the location there is no evidence of a time before the white settler's came.

the kind of text i was hoping to include is, 'the spot chosen for the settlement was at the head of the cove, near the run of fresh water, which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the creation, been interupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfall of its ancient inhabitants; a stillness and tranquility which from that day were to give place to the voice of labour, the confusion of camps and towns, and the busy hums of its new possessors. - David Collins, Judge Advocate of the Sirus, 26th of January 1788.'

…or smaller amounts about how defeated the settlers were by the weather and also their interaction with the aboriginals. the text would correlate with each individual image - sunburnt plants would talk about how they found it so hard to grow crops in the summer, building images would have writing about how they were surprised at how advanced the aboriginals huts were, etc. all from the book 'the first settlers' with is filled with journals of those who came over on the first fleets. 

so let me know what you think about the images themselves, and how you feel about the text - any any ideas of how to resolve the issue. at the moment im leaning more towards having the text somewhere seperate as opposed to a part of the image. a lot of the pics im reprinting so dont worry about how dark they are - particularily the bottom ones. oh, and they were too big to scan so there's 3 details and a big i took of them stuck up.

missing you all!

any help much appreciated.

xoxo

carly.

Staples (store)

Hi kids!

You may remember last week I was asking for suggestions on materials to use for lettering to incorporate into my boat and mapping work. Jess has pointed me in the direction of a store called STAPLES over there in NY, on Union Square.
She has suggested I look at pre-mdae vinyl lettering, as it takes out the hassle of cutting the letters myself.
I was wondering if any of you go to this Staples store, or go past/near it in your travels?
If you do...do you think you could possibly pop in and check out how much their biggest pre-made vinyl lettering is? Pretty please?

The word I will be displaying is 'provenance' (the beginning of ones origins). So that would make the letters I am looking for:
P = 1
R = 1
O = 1
V = 1
E = 2
N = 2
A = 1
C = 1

I realise I'll be in NY myself next Tuesday but I really need to know before I leave whether I can get the letters there or if I need to make them here then bring them over with me.

I really appreciate your help on this. And with the horizons, of course. The photos are all fantastic!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
X A

Another sun for Mr. C- 6:30pm Sat 20th Sept

Horizon for Ash

Emotional Mapping Report from Christopher

looks like the directions/emotions changed a few times so hopefully this fits into the current plan...

awe: Bondi Cliffs... Swimming in the ocean at Bondi getting beat up by the waves. I can't think of anywhere in New York - maybe occasionally at Art shows in New York (The only one that comes to mind was the Robert Wilson video installation of Snow Owls). Visiting a particular old dance-hall building, now demolished, in Times Square (NW corner 46th + B'way) always stopped me to the bone.

home [safe, secure, protected, at peace, at rest]: (Predictably) my apartment... Occasionally in NY crowds, Can't really remember feeling that way in Australia except maybe going to Carly's house.

displacement [uncomfortable, foreign, an outsider, disconnected] - I used to feel disconnected walking in Midtown but now I'm used to it.... Times Square makes me feel really disconnected... Being under-dressed to chi-chi events maybe! Walking the northern end of elizabeth street in sydney, just north of whatever street oxford turns into (liverpool street?)

immersion - NY Crowds sometimes.... Walking the length of Houston Street after going to see a movie at film forum by myself, Going to Eisenburg's Restaurant (5th Ave near 22nd, west side)...

sublime - The first time I went to the world trade center site, which was around twilight, the scale of the hole in the ground got me. But every time I've returned there I've never felt the sublime again - it seems more like a tourist attraction. The cliffs of bondi and the gap in sydney.

frustration/conflict - Trying to go places in NY when the trains/buses/cabs/crowds don't cooperate... When I lived on the upper east side going from the west side of central park to the east side, or vise-versa. And I had had to deal with the 4/5/6 train commute, which was hell during rush-hour at the 86th street station. Moving to brooklyn has taken away most of the frustration/conflict!

sun manly 5.20pm winter

emotion

emotion to map - sublime

I'm not sure what is the best way to describe this emotion but I feel that the essence of this word aptly quantifies the dualities of euphoria and terror, awe of the unknown and the simultaneous comfort of familiarity when in Sydney.

I experienced this emotion and state of being at unexpected places. When Jessie and Icarus first took me to a small river not far from airport where the chill in the air, the wet grass and the industrial buildings hugging the river reminded me of the northeast of the US but the foreign accents, the fatigue of long travel and the never before seen vegetation growing along the rivers banks assured me I was in a place entirely untrodden by myself.

I also felt this on that place.... I forget what it was called(the Gap?) but it was where the suicide walk was and Megan did her walking backwards piece there as well. The infinity of the horizon line was a vastness that I had been awed by before but the terror of the unknown that was not only distant but in my immediate presence as well excited and frightened me.

I felt it a few times, this sublimity of the landscape and myself within it. When looking at the sky far above me from the depths of the forests of the Blue Mountains, I was belittled, so aware of my scale in relation to that of the foreign world around me. Nature which I had grown up amidst yet a nature so foreign to me it was at once unreal.... here again I felt the sublime.

C