Australian Travel Posters
Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 06:22PM From The National Library of Australia Site comes these great old travel posters of the 30's - 50's. 
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Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 06:22PM From The National Library of Australia Site comes these great old travel posters of the 30's - 50's. 
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 11:14PM Saturday November 19 2050
Paris
Now this is truly très très très COOL. From Frenchman Gilles Tran's site www.oyonale.com
The main tool used to create the pictures throughout this site is Persistence of Vision (POV-Ray™ for short), a free 3D renderer that generates high quality computer graphics. The POV-Ray images are hand-coded in the programming language specific to it. Most objects are created through a modeling technique called Constructive Solid Geometry, that consists in combining, substracting or intersecting simple shapes like spheres, cylinders or boxes. Other objects are modelled with specific tools, and other ones are found in the Internet. As a rule, the pictures are not digitally altered after the initial rendering, though in some cases the contrast and colour saturation have been enhanced.
To use POV-Ray, you need to learn a rather simple (at first) programming language that describes all the elements that will be present in your scene : objects, textures, light sources... You can download scripts examples in the Resources page. The resulting text file, like a music score, is then executed by POV-Ray and rendered into a picture. POV-Ray is a very powerful and versatile tool, mainly aimed at amateurs, though it can also be used in professional situations, like scientific illustration or teaching. You can achieve a lot with POV-Ray. Keep in mind, however, that complex scenes and animations will require time and patience. In terms of sheer productivity, POV-Ray cannot compete with professional tools like 3D Studio Max, Lightwave, Maya or Softimage, but the "market" is different.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 11:50AM Wednesday November 16
Paris somewhere
Just found this girl on Craigslist aint she great!![]()
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blow up Metro
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Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 08:43AM
A woman approaches an artwork called 'Big Chook', made of fibreglass and high gloss epoxy marine paint, on Tamarama Beach in Sydney November 2, 2005. Australian artist Jeremy Parnell says people frying themselves on the beach for a suntan inspired his piece which joins 100 artworks contributed by international and Australian artists at the annual outdoor Sculpture by the Sea exhibition which is in its ninth year.
Friday, November 4, 2005 at 10:29PM ![]()
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click to break a heartOh God! I love this. This has legs. PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. ![]()
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click for stress relief Go to POSTSECRET and dig out those old postcards. New posts every Sunday.![]()
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click to enclose
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 09:40PM I've been distracted by the Bubble Project where a maverick Korean Art Director/Designer by the name of Ji Lee (ex Saatchi & Saatchi) bit the hand that fed him and turned on his masters by printing 15,000 Bubble Stickers and putting them on advertising billboards and posters all over New York City. Passersby filled them in and then the perpetrator/artist/crusader went back and photographed the results. His Manifesto says "Our Communal Spaces are being overrun with ads.....The Bubble Project is the counterattack...the bubbles are the ammunition...." It's akin to the B.U.G.A.U.P. Campaign that ran in Australia. (Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions) Have a look. There's some funny ones.
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Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 05:06PM 
I love this so much I wanted to keep it all to myself. I wanted to run the graphics from time to time to illustrate my stories. But that would have made me a truly selfish prick (not to mention the copyright issues). The Internet is about sharing information. Or it should be. Go to this site and have a look at this short classic cartoon and tell me that's not one of the greatest little flics you've ever seen. And the story behind it is so tragic.
"Not much is known about November Jones, the poor Hungarian surplus lard salesman who invented the "Dinky Dog" character in 1914. Up until a few months ago, the only remaining documentation of the short-lived animated character was a photostatic copy of a now missing microfiche news article.
That is until a recent discovery of 3 reels of original "Dinky Dog" cartoons found in a Philadelphia attic. Of the three reels, only the first cartoon was ever released in the US (Dinky Dog in Rolling In The Money 1919).
Deemed " ribald, inflammatory & extremely unfunny" at the time, the film was consistantly met with an uproar wherever it was shown; in some instances, the audiences stormed the projection booth to stop the film.
Destitute and broke, Jones disappeared and never made another cartoon. We have salvaged what we could of this early work, and will attempt to permanently archive the piece here."
Go here Dinky Dog at ackxhpaez.com
Sorry gang...I've been sitting on this for months. Mea culpa.
Sunday, September 11, 2005 at 09:39PM ![]()
say "cheese"(click to enlarge)Sunday September 11
Hundreds of naked bodies - all different ages and shapes, were found in the open air today. The bodies appeared to have been dumped in a shipping-container terminal near the docks and by a river next to a forest.
Contemporary American installation artist Spencer Tunick managed to get hundreds of volunteers to take their clothes off and pose en plein air for his camera.
The shoot took place in Lyon - France's second biggest city and the old capital of Roman Gaul - long renowned for its restaurants and gastronomy. Participants registered on line weeks ago and were given a location and specific instructions to follow. Parental authorization was required for those under 18 years old. Those over 80 were requested to bring their own oxygen bottles and carers (no...I made that up).
I’m all for this sort of thing. Look at the Botticelli or Rubenesque figures on some of these babes! But one thing bothers me... (and if you're under 18 you need parental authorization to read on) What if you cracked a fat on the shoot - a stiffy? I mean, is that bad form, or what? Does an assistant rush up and throw iced water over the offending member? Or do they stop the proceedings...”You there...yes you with the flagpole...either put it away or leave the set.”
The event was part of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art.
In exchange for taking part, the nudies will receive a limited edition print of the installation.
Spencer Tunick has staged 65 of these events all over the United States, Canada, Austria, Spain and Brazil. This was his first in France. I wonder if he’ll make it down under? Are you game to take part if he does?
The link for the Biennale is here – http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org/tunick/intro_eng.htm
For more installations go here - http://www.spencertunick.com
Malcolm Lambe
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click to enlarge Seems I'm off the pace. Spencer Tunick has done Downunder. Specifically Melbourne. In 2002. My brother Philip Lambe has just sent me this LINK Check it out. Sheep in a paddock or what! Sensational stuff. I love this guy. Thanks again Phil for the tip!
Spencer Tunick
November 1 2002
Spencer Tunick's Melbourne 2, shot at Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens.
SPENCER TUNICK
Where Gow Langsford, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo
When Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm, until November 13
More information 9699 1279
Spencer Tunick's images of mass nakedness reveal much more than just skin, writes Peter Hill.
Don't miss this exhibition. You may have seen images in the press of thousands of naked bodies adorning the streets, bridges and parks of Melbourne, all photographed by New York photographer Spencer Tunick. But it is not until you stand in front of them that you appreciate how big they are, how witty and how powerful. Had picture editors placed a human figure next to one of these works, readers would immediately appreciate their true scale.
So who is Spencer Tunick? According to The New Yorker magazine: "Before he became known for his elaborate and controversial photo 'happenings' staging shots of hundreds of naked people in tourist sites around the world Tunick was a photography assistant to his father, shooting banquets and other events in upstate New York. These portraits have a wonderful eye for period detail and a tongue-in-cheek humour, echoed by a bowl of equally wizened pickles on a table."
The display at Gow Langsford in Sydney is the first time these images (The Melbourne Photographs) have been shown as an exhibition anywhere in the world. A year ago 4000 people braved the "wizened pickle" stakes to pose naked in the centre of Melbourne. You can see them draped along the banks of the Yarra, or lined up along Spencer Street in what can only be described as a river of pink flesh. The occasional tattoo can be spotted some naked figures even appear frighteningly familiar while the architecture of the city and its parklands work as a dynamic framing device.
As with many artists, he started small. He began by photographing one naked individual, then moved from US state to state until he had someone, or perhaps a couple, from every state in the country. His current project nudeadrift involves photographing thousands of people at a time in Canada, Japan, Europe, Australia, South America and can you believe it Antarctica? How wizened was that one?
When I first heard of this project, I wasn't impressed. It sounded a bit like an over-obvious undergraduate art school performance that didn't even warrant a sell-by date.
When I later saw a television documentary about his work I became a little more interested, but was still not convinced. Having visited the gallery and experienced the scale of these images and their emotive impact, I must say I am impressed.
Friday, August 26, 2005 at 03:35PM
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"The Friendly Way"![]()
Go Gay...and your home will stay GAY for years to come!
Click on these thumbnails showing great Ads. from 53 years ago when life was less complicated.
They're from an October, 1954 Edition of A.M. magazine ( Australian Magazine published by Consolidated Press)
Stetson Sky Rider "You won't want to take it off"
...when you're travelling on the "pressurised propeller-turbine TAA VISCOUNT (built by Vickers - powered by Rolls-Royce)...huge oval windows...deep adjustable armchair...ash tray...toilet facilities (phew - that's a relief)."
"Fly TAA - the friendly way"