List of Monumental sculpture projects 2015

  • 1 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/02/sunday-robot-play.html
  • 2 http://shuengitswannjie.blogspot.fr/2015/02/interactive-reading-room-tea-house-2015.html
  • 3 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2014/06/neo-ming-bed-luxembourg.html
  • 4 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2013/02/yuzi-paradise-tell-moon.html
  • 5 http://swannbb.blogspot.com/2011/09/12th-changchun-international-sculpture.html
  • 6 http://www.saatchionline.com/Shuen-git

Friday 26 February 2016

#68 好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 68 : Top Ten Films 2016


#68 好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 68 : Top Ten Films 2016

This year, it seems that I will be watching a lot of films.
And I have joined a film association. 
More on that later.

The list will be re-ordered, revised through out 2016.

List :
1// "My son my son what have ye done."  2009 - Herzog . ***half
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyjSG9OSkrY

More :
http://www.easternkicks.com/features/zhang-lu-masterclass-lkff-2015
Masterclass Zhang Lu, Chinese+Korean film director.  Ethnically Korean.

Thursday 25 February 2016

miroir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCTMM1iZ5Lw

Mirror : Tarkovsky

miroir

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, (film :: 2004) 7Jan07, sg Chow

January 07, 2007 01:59 AM EST (Updated: January 08, 2007 07:12 PM EST)
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Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, (film :: 2004)
7Jan07, sg Chow 
I have never liked Jim Carrey as an actor, not so much because of his acting, but because of the roles that he played.  I appreciate his corporal expressions and the difficulties and talents that’s required to play the stand up slapstick comic roles that has always been his roles; so when Kate Winslet mentions in an Actors Studio presentation - thanks to YouTube - that Jim plays another kind of role in Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, and that it was a special film for Jim, I decided to see whats Jim like when he plays a straight character?  

Surprise, not only was Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirstin Dunst, but all the players in the movie were really good! And what a well constructed story!  From the inventive premise to the details, the actors skills, economy of expressions – and the director’s attention to consistencies in intriques when one hint has been launched it would be recalled and reinforced later in the story;  we remember oh,  yes, that happened back at the beginning, yes, that’s why… Many subtle weaving in and out of a story that play on several levels. The story was not only built on the fantasy of scientific erasure of memory, but echoed real life, don’t we all erase as we go along?  The film is poetic as it builds on the narrative and maintains a leg on a philosophical level.   

The Dunst character had playful sex with her co-worker the technician, who was in love with her and just finished having sex with her at the patient’s (Jim) home during his session of erasure in state of sleep.  Something went wrong, the doctor had to come personally in the middle of the night to straighten out the mess. The technician had to witness her two timing him! While the doc tried to make emergency fixes at the patients house, I found it odd why the technician decided to just go outside– when he sensed an intimacy developing between the doc and Dunst (he should have been jealous if he cared about Dunst, but strangely, he was shown more like, being delicate; the script was so smart here, ... it left the trace of a little tail…)

The seduction scene between Dunst and the Doc was very well scripted –while Jim was sleeping and getting his memory erased.  So natural, but suddenly we realised something : that for the Dunst character, it’s a second take, the doctor was sheepish because he knew something that Dunst didnt – we could erase the memory of a person, but our character, who we fall for remains the same. The Dunst character fell in love with the doctor because she adored intelligent people as she herself aspired to becoming intelligent.  As the wife arrived outside just in time to see them kissing framed in the window in full view from the street… the doctor tried to explain and to stop his wife from driving away, the Dunst character frantically apologised to the angry wife that… sorry…she's just a stupid girl, it's just a one time mistake.  Then the wife glared at her and said, no, I give him back  to you!!   Even as an angry wife – she had to resign to reality – Dunst couldn’t help herself…Dunst already had her memory erased but the situation was still the same. 
Revelation, even if our memory had been erased, our character remained.  Given favorable circumstances, we would still fall for the same person as our character determined our fate.   The theme of the movie thunders here and smartly straight to the heart through the side characters who were graced with critical turning point moments. 

Kirsten Dunst was very natural and lovely as a contemporary woman in love with her boss.  Her elegant slim body, not anorexic, but svelt ...  and dreamy soft expressions had been cast perfectly – we all love to have such a girl friend, pretty, kind, uncomplicated, easy going, contemporary : she liked to relax, get stoned and also aspired to be intelligent- positive light character.  The Dunst character contrasted with the Kate Winslet character; a wilder sensual, also not anorexic woman with no self censorships, maybe she doesn’t exactly “fucks her way” with everyone but she had no problem with going after what her heart told her- did what she liked and erased her memory on impulse.  Saying goodbye abruptly.  Whereas the Dunst character had her memory erased to make it easier for her to continue working within proximity of the source of her love and pain. 

The rest of the story are variations of how the two : Jim and Kate character meet again, the acceptance or non acceptance… as time, memories unfold. 
Jim Carrey played his role well, unreproachable, but there is something in his presentation that made him not quite a memorable low key nervous type – even when he stayed quiet, eyes down, arms folded inwards, his presence is loud.  Not that of a soft spoken insecure person. How could he have played this type of withdrawn introvert dramatic role?  I have no answer. 

Lets say if I had never seen any Jim Carrey movies, I wouldn’t have been wowed by his screen presence in this movie.  He’s a very good actor and very professional.  There must be a role that lets him play other roles aside from slap sticks – if he had wanted to - and at the same time deploy his range of dramatic talents. 

As for Kate Winslet, she was superbly cast, human, not made up too beautifully like a star.  A man would fall in love with her character – because she was not a feigning-to-be-weak woman, but she was really someone a little broken, someone who needed a man– more sentimental than practical needs: just opposite sex tender loving care, not super-man Man – when she’s gone overboard, depleted by her own unruly energy.  Winslet was alive and kicking, yummy in her role. 

Tuesday 23 February 2016

Master Maker 斫琴大师:Tian Shuang Kun 田双琨; 古琴名家-梅曰强

http://tianrensg.weebly.com/master-maker-26027297482151723478/master-maker-wang-zheng-ming


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1949年,16岁的田双琨从老家河北深县来到京城,在一家京胡店当学徒,学习制作京胡、二胡和三弦。公私全营以后,他成为北京民族乐器厂的技师,不仅制作胡琴类乐器,还参加了古筝、扬琴、琵琶等乐器的制作。在技术革新中,他凭借自己心灵手巧,设计制作出二十多种制作民族乐器的机器,大大提高了工作效率和标准化程度。

1958年,被厂里派到民族音乐研究所,向著名古琴家管平湖先生学习制作古琴。 管平湖先生的父亲管念慈是清宫如意馆画院院长,精于绘画且擅弹古琴。在故宫长大的管平湖从小就和古琴结下了不解之缘,并到琉璃厂的一元斋学斫古琴,一生心血倾注到了古琴事业。当年,美国旅行者号太空探测器,送入太空的唯一一首中国乐曲,就是管平湖先生弹奏的古琴名曲《流水》。

耳闻目染,田双琨对古琴的兴趣越来越浓。管平湖对他说,做张好古琴需三代人的努力:爷爷选料,儿子做琴,孙子弹琴,可见做琴之不易。为提高他对古琴的鉴赏力,管先生亲自带他去拜访古琴名家夏连居、李伯琴、程午甲。程家有一张唐琴“飞泉”,音质纯正、色泽古朴,是一张不可多见的古琴。管先生以此琴为例,向田双琨讲述唐琴的特点,以及因年代久远琴上产生的大小蛇腹、流水、冰裂等不同断纹的知识和修旧如旧的古琴修理技艺。

管平湖一生只教过田双琨一个人斫古琴。在《中华乐器大全》、《古琴荟珍》、《中国乐器博物馆》等著作中,都记载着管平湖先生与斫琴高徒田双琨对改良古琴、修复古琴、制作古琴的贡献。

田先生的寓所——“虞田琴斋”就在北京一所小巧的宅院里,这里虽是市中心,却远离闹市,隐藏在古老、寻常的胡同深处。如今已年过七旬的他基本上过着深居浅出的隐居生活,但他斫琴的大名却在琴界广为流传。“虞田琴斋”也是田先生待客、抚琴之所,虽不显奢华,却深得古人雅意。壁上除了张挂有字画,更多的是悬挂一排其亲斫的古琴,令人顿觉幽韵横生。说起古琴,老人禁不住谈兴高涨,或介绍古琴知识,或回忆琴坛掌故,或述说生平斫琴经历,眉宇间神采飞扬。

聊起古琴的制作,田先生从柜中取出他制作的一张名叫“唐雷”的琴,他说,古琴的发展变革史上,唐以前虽有古籍可考,但无足够的实物证明。唐朝则不同,现在有盛唐中、晚期制的琴传世,而那正是制琴史上的高峰作品。唐代制琴名家中以西蜀雷氏家族最为有名。所以,田先生把他的得意之作取名为“唐雷”。田先生说,古人认为,一张好琴需有九德,即:良、坚、醇、灵、、润、准、匀、。“良”是指面板质地好,宜选顺直没有疤节的杉木或陈年桐木的中段、阳面;“坚”是指琴体坚固,漆胎坚硬耐磨,年久不脱;“醇”是指琴声醇厚,苍劲有力;“灵”是指灵敏度高,力大音强,力小音弱,高音圆润,低音浑厚;“静”是指无燥音无喧闹感;“润”是指余音适度,圆润细腻,有绕梁三日之趣;“准”是指徽位准确,按音与泛音位差小,琴面上、中、下不同位置所发音量均衡;“美”是指造型美观、工艺精细、镌文高雅。具备以上条件的琴弹起来才会得心应手。“九德”对制琴者来说是应遵循的“九要”。但实际上能符合其中的七八条,已经是一把上等的好琴了。
半个世纪以来,田双琨先生已制琴无数,远销海内外,受到许多古琴家和古琴爱好者的喜爱并收藏。他说,只能说有一部分是好琴。好琴犹如亲子一般,它给自己带来不尽的欢欣与安慰。数十年间,田先生还收有二十几名徒弟。而自己四世同堂,孙子辈就有八个,却没有一人学习制琴。他说,技术未必一定要传给家人,而是要传给能胜任的人。现在他的徒弟中有不少是他引为“得意”的,其中有的已在全国高档民族乐器制作大赛中获奖,有的已获国家发明专利。

田先生的恩师管平湖先生已故去多年,“虞田琴斋”至今仍挂着一幅先师抚琴的照片。田双琨还自撰一副对联:名曲流水飞天外,琴圣平湖代代传,以表达自己对恩师的崇敬怀念之情。 





http://news.ifeng.com/a/20150929/44757428_0.shtml


河南博物院华夏古乐团古琴首席罗苏理说,古人历经几千年的总结并结合自身哲学文化,给一张好琴定下了九个条件,是所谓琴之“九德”,这种说法最早出自明代冷谦的《琴书大全·琴制》,指“奇、古、透、润、静、匀、圆、清、芳”。在外行人看来,这些描述惜字如金,只可意会不可言传,对斫琴人来说,对它们的理解也是因人而异,即使心里知道一张琴的大体形制,细节仍是要靠自己琢磨的。比如“九德”之中排在首位的“奇”,古人的解释是“轻、松、脆、滑”,听起来像极了一款巧克力的广告,具体说来,是“举之则轻,扣之则松,抚之则滑,击之则脆,但什么是松,什么是脆,并非量化的标准,全靠体悟。“任何一名斫琴人的梦想,都是有生之年能亲手打造出一张九德之琴。

more: 
http://news.longhoo.net/2013-12/12/content_11058418_2.htm

屠呦呦 Tu Youyou


Monday 22 February 2016

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 67 : Nobel Prize 2015 TU YouYou 屠呦呦

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 67 :  Nobel Prize 2015 TU YouYou 屠呦呦
Nobel Prize 2015 TU YouYou 屠呦呦
http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=2583






Thursday 18 February 2016

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 66 : Beautiful buildings :: 180-recycled-wooden-doors

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 66 : Beautiful buildings :: 180-recycled-wooden-doors

http://inhabitat.com/stunning-parisian-pavilion-is-crafted-from-180-recycled-wooden-doors/
> Recycled material to build beautiful buildings.














more DIY green houses from ordinary folks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeUh74s2m30



















A very beautiful blue window small green house with recycled windows.

"Pet" architecture:
Some of my favorite works are pet architecture.  Like my walk-in sculptures.
Pet architecture is sometimes, slightly larger than "walk-in" sculptures.
http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2014/04/pet-architecture.html

Pet architecture is a term for the buildings that have been squeezed into left over urban spaces. Curious shapes and inventive solutions for drainage, windows and air conditioning abound. Most of all, it is the extraordinary miniature size of these shacks, store rooms, sushi bars and bike shops which makes this project so fresh. Lovingly researched by a team of very young Japanese architects, each ‘pet’ includes a humorous description, full page photograph, a map and 3d sketch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULrYx8bE4BA 


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Experimental Garden Project with a mini-recycled windows green house.
http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/09/kunstkammer-53-jardin-experimental.html

Next sculptural project "pet" architecturea conceptual green house made of recycled windows - first plan in vr; with real life photos, details of plants, and a small documentary / book of the entire process.  In the end, it should be a place where people could come to visit, like a tiny exhibition area.
  
Experimental Garden :: my modest small green house, that I plan to make as a studied piece of living sculpture with vegetation infill, and sometimes other events.  Such as a tea gathering with music installation.  Tiny tiny "pet" architecture of a sort.






a small how to video;



stay tuned for the next steps.


Tuesday 16 February 2016

carbon fiber string instrument for Cambodia

https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/stringsforcambodia/

Strings for Cambodia



Man playing string instrument CambodiaMusic classroom in CambodiaMen playing string instruments CambodiaPeople playing music in Cambodia
A fund-raising campaign to support Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts’ dream to launch a National Symphony Orchestra – the first since the Khmer Rouge Genocide.
Our goal is to raise $50,000 to cover the cost of high quality, carbon-fiber classical string instruments – violins, violas and cellos – to form the core of the symphony’s string section, and to be used for teaching purposes at the university.
All carbon-fiber instruments – which will be more durable than wooden instruments in Cambodia’s hot, humid climate – will be provided by Luis & Clark, a Massachusetts company founded by cellist Luis Leguia, emeritus member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
For further information, e-mail Strings for Cambodia Project Coordinator Johannah Segarich, Professor of Music, Middlesex Community College, at segarichj@middlesex.mass.edu

Thursday 11 February 2016

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 65 : EVA London 2016

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 65 : EVA London 2016


EVA London 2016  // Tuesday 12th July - Thursday 14th July 2016

Electronic visualisation technologies in art, design, music, dance, theatre, the sciences and more ...
CENTRAL LONDON VENUE IN COVENT GARDENBCS, 1st Floor, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.

stay tuned!

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 64 : vernissage at Nogent MABA

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 64 : vernissage at Nogent MABA, 17feb2016

Lots of people came to the vernissage, and Mr. Alaux, the director is leaving for his retirement.  A new directrice will take his place starting tomorrow.  Lots of artists, acquaintances, everyone showed up.  Gossips, young people, older ones, and the story of Madeleine Smith-Champion

Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz,  http://maba.fnagp.fr/ 
First exhibition of the year:  
10 years retrospective,  http://maba.fnagp.fr/actualites/?year=2016

Studio SA*M*AEL, "Sur le motif", 2016. There were many films, projections of landscape, decorative fabric design, and light boxes.  All contemporary productions of the last 10 year.  One performance artist who read texts from rolls of cashiers-print out paper on it were printed large introspective texts.This is the production of the last 10, 20 years.  Working and reworking of concepts, ideas, mixing of decorative arts, design with film.  Mediatic.  And old oil paintings, the ones by Madeleine on her property.  Which of the practices do I prefer?  Does it matter?  These items and supports of the plastic arts are all too familiar to me.  And here we are, doing it at our leisure.  

Saturday 6 February 2016

Portraits 2016 :: service :: on going

Portraits 2016 : service :: on going 
send inquiry to: swannjie@gmail.com, subject:: portrait service 

Some selections:


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好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 67 :  Nobel Prize 2015 TU YouYou 屠呦呦
















































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pen and ink drawings from photoJan.19.2016 --->Portraits : CL LE // TI SH // SG CH // original photo of SG CH //CH...
Posted by Shuengit Chow on Wednesday, January 20, 2016