Ai Weiwei: Sunflower seeds

Sunflower seeds: Tate Modern 12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011

Is It possible? I guess anyone who thought that it is real sunflower seeds but it is not!! Each seed has been individually sculpted and handpainted porcelain seeds, which took 1,600 workers two years to create (see above I attached vidio) it means each seed seems that apparently identical, but it is unique.

He actually intended as a giant space filling half the enormous Tate modern ground floor and he hoped visitors will pick them up or touch them. Not much later the public ordered to keep out. The reaseon why it can cause dust which could be damaging. Finally the installation was roped off.

Actually I have no idea what they want to tell any meaning with it. In my view, it is just amazing work and a great effort. But he gives the symbolism of sunflower seeds and he hoped that people would consider that a street snack which kept millions alive during times of famine. And also he wanted to invite us to look more closely at the 'made in China' phenomenon.

on the other hand, I think the sunflower seeds mean that whole china community and individual society. What is the relationship between the masses and the individual? and why is it significant fact in today's society?

Rosa Barba at Tate Modern

Rosa Barba: 15 Sep, 2010 - 8 Jan, 2011 at Tate Modern

Italian artist Rosa Baba has displayed her film and sculpture in Tate Mordern gallary. Her work encompasses film, sculpture, installation and publications. A projecter was hanging loosely from the ceiling and whirring away noisily in the centre of the gallary. This exhibition use a film projects and distinctive light.

Rosa Barva: The Long Road,2010

At the centre of the gallary display a large suspeneded screen that shows the Long Road film.
The Long Road documented a race track in the California desert. There is no trees and habitation but the landscape is dominated by the racetrack, a large scale industrial mark on the landscape. The larege scale racetrack can ruin a beautifual place. As with many of her films, they address the relationship between industrial and natural environments.

Art & Dance

MOVE: choreographing you
13 Oct,2010 - 9 Jan,2011 at Hayward Gallery

This exhibition is encouraged to take part by just posing within the installations or for the more ambitious, including dancing, using hoola hoops, standing on seesaws, throwing dummies around and swings between suspeneded rings. I regretted my uncomfortable clothes and shoes. The works explore the interation between art and dance from the late 1950s to the present. There were professional dancers around me they performances anywhere.


Bruce Nauman: Green Light


Robert Morris: Bodyspacemotionthing invites to step on a large unbalanced wooden platform.


Video installation: 10,000 Waves

There are nine double-sided screens which has three elements. I was freely move around and watch it from whatever vantage points. This installation weave together stories linking China's ancient past and present. I was deluding myself that it is different stories.

First London bike hire

I saw that was nearby the Waterloo station, I surprised that because It such good sustainable idea for improving public transport system in London. When I went to field trip last year at paris, they had already been operating. Exactly same system with this. It opens on 3 December, the system has enjoyed huge success, with its bikes being used for more than 43,000 journeys. Anyone with a Visa card or Mastercard can be able to their nearest docking station and borrow a bike.




Why take the tube or bus when you can cycle?

This application follows cycle hire program, you can find rental stations nearst to you and navigate through all the available station in the city.

Focus week II: Cameras

Eadweard Muybridge - Tate Britain

The exhibition presented the full range of Muybridge's works. I remembered that his works were my inspiration of the second year's project. I took the inspiration from his works which were "Horse in Motion". Most famous for his pictures of race horses. He experimented with the possibilities of creating images of animals and humans in motion. Also there are vast panoramas of American landscapes, such as the Yosemite Valley, and his documentation of the rapidly growing west coast of America, particularly in San Francisco has been an important historic record of the times. I surprised that he was not only renowned for taking photos of the American landscape but only the motion photography.

I was looking for the landscpape digital media book. This is the first landscape architecture
book and also available as in ebook. It might get a specific techniques for creating landscpae
design digitally.

Jools Holland in Conversation with Clive Head | The National Gallery, Lo...

Clive Head: Modern Perspectives

I was thrown into confusion because the paintings were exactly look like pictures. He's paintings are about space. Along with large scale cityscapes including depictions of london landmarks Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. He uses the camera as a tool when devising his compositions so he displayed his picutres as well. A painting such as "Haymarket" presents a pan of nearly 300 degrees and encompasses views are impossibleto see from one single spot. He rejects its static single point perspective and creates an open and dynamic sense of space.

Anish Kapoor : " Turning the world upside down" in Kensington gardens

The world renowned contemporary sculptor, once again creates a sensational london exhibition this year in the open space of Kensington gardens. London based artist anish kapoor present a major exhibition of large scale outdoor sculptures.

The free exhibiton was feature a series of kapoor's most recent major works

and I didn't know that it was first time to show all together, never before shown together in london.

The sculpture was constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, these mammoth sized and curved mirrored surface was illusory distortions of their surroundings. The sculptures will be positioned to contrast and reflect their garden environment, appearing as pure reflections of everything around

them like changing seasons, colours, sky, weather, water, wildlife with it.

Focus week I: Materials

Exhibitions on at NLA

Transforming the Boroughts

This exhibition is permanent display on the NLA building centre. It shows twelve environmental sector that play a part in development and construction in London.


Major London issues

The major London issues board gives an overview of the key opportunities and other capital's core sectors, including housing, waste, public realm, transport and healthcate and so on.


The pipers Central London model (1:1500)

Focus week I: Materials

Focus week I: Materials

Focus week I: Materials

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Focus week individual digital program practice - 3D Max

One of the focus week plan is to improve my digital program skills like photoshop, CAD and 3D max.... So I have made my own study schedule during the focus week.

First step is 3D max. I have a little skill of basic so I chose the start step from mapping of object. It is really difficult to create surface of object rather then modelling.

Step 1 : Materials - Focus week I [01-07 Nov]

Step 2 : Cameras - Focus week II [29-05 Dec]

Step 3 : Lights - Focus week III [24-30 Jan/2011]

Step 4 : Auto Cad + 3d Max - Focus week IIII [28-06 Mar]

I am sure to doing the schedule step by step until final point. The steps would go forward during

the focus week.

No soul for sale : Tate modern

Princess of wales memorial fountain

Ron Arad : " Restless"

Ecobuild : 02-04 March 2010

Greenroofs

Miroslaw balka : How it is

Reflecting the natural landscape

Russian artist Francisco Infante-Arana has a love for the reflective and in working with the surrounding natural beauty to create fascinating optical illusions. The mirrors appear to be floating in mid air and breaking up the view, borrowing from the landscape to create to imagery.

 String Garens  by Fedor

This is a good invention for who lives in quiet a small flat without a garden. It might be make a beautiful addition