| Elusive landscape ever shifting | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:08:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | North Shore photographer David Randle is passionate about walking, swimming and photography. He's a natural winner for a photography competition based on the ancient natural heritage of Gondwanaland. DAVID Randle's photograph of Fraser Island dunes reveals a sandy landscape of craggy mountain peaks and dark valleys. Its sharp contours and striking composition won the black and white section of the 2005 ANZANG Nature and Landscape photography exhibition. ``I was hiking through the Wungul sand blow on the east coast of Fraser Island,'' Randle said. ``I saw a very unusual dune formation. The wind had formed the ripples and the dune was just moving very slowly forward. I've done lots of sand photography and I've never seen anything like it.'' The 23-year-old said he took lots of colour photographs of the formations but preferred his black and white shots.... | |
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| | | Photographer on 1-year Arctic trek | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:09:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Armed with her Nikon D-200 camera and sub-zero winter gear, Pomona College graduate Laurel McFadden, 22, embarked on an one-year journey across the Arctic to document community life. Heading for the four most northern countries in the world - Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia - the citrus farmer's daughter from Fillmore set off on her trek in July. Using photography to examine cultural diversity and social cooperation, McFadden has explored communities throughout the extreme climate of the polar region. McFadden said via e-mail last week that, "I wanted to capture images that displayed not only the technicalities of Arctic survival (what interested the scientist in me) but also the emotional impact and cultural development of Arctic living (what interested the sociologist in me) ..." In 2005, McFadden accompanied oceanographer and Pomona College professor Nina Karnovsky on a trip to the region.... | |
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| | | Landscape Laureate: Corvallis outdoorsman Marc Adamus is making an ... | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:19:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Which makes this an appropriate time to meet Marc Adamus, a 27-year-old Corvallis outdoorsman whose backpacking and camping trips result in spectacular scenes for calendars, coffee table books, magazines and wall art. Bold, dramatic landscape photographs are Adamus' stock in trade. "Patience and persistence" - not to mention an eye for shape and light and a passion for immersing himself in the landscape - are the keys to his art. "My photography comes from a life-long passion for wilderness adventure," said Adamus, who spent "over 200 days out in the field this last year." That included a 65-day photo safari in the Rocky Mountains, during which Adamus "spent just one night in a motel ... so it's definitely a labor of love." Adamus' love of the outdoors -acquired from his father, Paul, a wetlands biologist and avid birdwatcher - preceded his love of photography.... | |
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| | | Arts Calendar Dec. 24 to Dec. 31 | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:09:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | To get your event listed in the Arts Calendar, e-mail the information to features@rapidcityjournal.com or mail to: Arts Calendar, Rapid City Journal, P.O. Box 450, Rapid City, SD 57709. Include the phone number of a contact person. Submissions will not be taken over the phone. Deadline is noon Monday for publication the next Sunday.Galleries A Walk in the Woods Gallery, 506 Mount Rushmore Road, Custer Earlene "Earl" McNeil Larson, who creates paper note cards, books framed wall pieces and unique lampshades, is the featured artist this week. The gallery is open seven days a week, extended Christmas hours. Call 673-6400, or go to www.WalkWoods.com. Artforms, 360 Main St., Hill City The featured artists for December are Dianne Murray, a china painter from Hill City, and Susan Nelson of Lead, who does painting and fabric art.... | |
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| | | Great Wales monument in words and pictures | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:12:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | How many people in Wales know that one of the most important ancient monuments in northern Europe is located on their doorstep? It is not an impressive castle, abbey or building but an eighth-century earthwork called Offa's Dyke, along the Welsh-English border. On Thursday this week, Jim Saunders who was the Offa's Dyke Path Officer for over 18 years, will be launching his first book Offa's Dyke : A Journey in Words and Pictures at the Offa's Dyke Centre in Knighton, Powys. Published by Gomer Press, the book celebrates this remarkable feature on our landscape and the accompanying exhibition at the centre will give visitors a glimpse of the path from south to north in stunning photography. Acknowledged today as a National Trail and a walking route of international importance, it gives the observant walker a chance to appreciate the marvellous views and abundance of wildlife along its length.... | |
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| | | Arts Calender | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:44:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Items for the Music and Arts Calendar must be received in writing 10 days before publication. Releases must include your name and daytime telephone number. Send to Music and Arts, c/o Sunday Department, Journal Star, 1 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61643. Items also may be sent by fax to 686-3296. Theater "Morning's at Seven," presented by Heartland Theatre Company, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17-18, Community Activity Center, Lincoln and Beech streets, One Normal Plaza, Normal. Tickets: $12. Call 452-8709. "Sugar," the "Some Like It Hot" musical, 2:30 p.m. Nov. 12 and Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16-18, Community Players Theatre, 201 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington. Tickets: $15/adults, $13/students and seniors, $6/children 15 and younger. Call 663-2121. "Othello's Passion: A Kabuki Play," presented by Illinois State University School of Theatre, 2 p.m.... | |
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| | | A take on comedy is out of the routine | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:33:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | There can be few professions with a more excruciating learning curve than stand-up comedy. A good joke is a delicate creation, forged in harsh and often inhospitable conditions: not in the shelter of a studio, like a painting, but on the no man's land of a stage, though without sets, supporting players or, in most cases, even so much as a prop. If a painting fails, it stands a good chance of bluffing its way through at least the run of an exhibition. No one can really agree on what failure means in painting these days anyway. But if a joke fails — and even good jokes often do — there's no question: The repercussions through a crowd are immediate and unmistakable. "The Alchemy of Comedy ? Stupid," Edgar Arceneaux's third solo show at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, is a discerning exploration of this familiar but complicated phenomenon.... | |
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| | | December 2006/January 2007 | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:35:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | An Iraqi working as a contract photographer for the Associated Press has been heldunchargedby the U.S. military for seven months. The U.S. says Bilal Hussein has links to terrorists. The outraged AP implores the Pentagon to charge him or free him. By Charles Layton Charles Layton (charlesmary@hotmail.com) is an AJR senior writer. The United States is reported to be holding about 13,000 people in military prisons in Iraq, but only one of them is a Pulitzer Prize winner. Bilal Hussein is a 35-year-old Sunni Arab and a native of Al-Anbar Province, the largest province in Iraq and, excluding Baghdad, the most violent. On the morning of April 12, United States Marines showed up at Hussein's door in Ramadi, the provincial capital, where he worked as a contract photographer for the Associated Press.... | |
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| | | Review: Nokia N73 mobile phone | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:10:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nokia's N series of phones have usually been enormous monsters; powerful and multi-functional, but lumbering and slow. The N73, though, has a fast processor, is small enough to be manageable, much more enjoyable than its predecessors, and just as smart. The 3.2megapixel camera is safely hidden away behind a large sliding cover - although this can slide open in the pocket, draining the battery. The phone has a Carl Zeiss lens and autofocus, which go some way to making up for the lack of optical zoom. And while it has an LED flash, it takes great pictures even in low light. The large, bright, high-resolution screen displays the photos beautifully, too. The camera springs into life as you press the dedicated button, automatically re-formatting the screen to landscape so you can hold it more like a digital camera.... | |
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| | | Freeman's To Stage First Modern & Contemporary Art Auction | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:28:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | Head," an ink drawing on paper, to $18,000-25,000 for the watercolor and ink "Untitled - Head with Cross." European modern works from other consignors will include paintings by Achille Emile Othon Friesz, Edouard Leon Cortes, several works By Yves Brayer and a small crayon drawing by Amedeo Modigliani, "Young Woman in a Broad Hat," estimated at $8,000-12,000. American artists represented include Stuart Davis; Romare Bearden (seven pieces); five works by Alexander Calder (including a gouache entitled "Birds and Snake" estimated at $12,000-18,000); Jasper Johns ("Between the Clock and the Bed," color lithograph, $20,000-30,000); and several pieces by Christo, including a 1969 collage of the plans for "Ponte S. Angelo Wrapped, Project for Rome." The pencil, polyethylene, fabric, twine, charcoal, wax crayon, pastel and tracing paper piece is expected to sell for $40,000-60,000.... | |
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