Sunday, October 31, 2010

Viktor Schauberger - The movement of water

"People think I am crazy.
Maybe they are right. In this case it does not matter whether there is one more fool more or less on earth.
But if it turns out that I am right and that science is wrong, then God have mercy on mankind!"

Victor Schauberger       



The natural movement of water is the ascending spiral.
 

Vortexes in Nature

Visible Vortexes

 

Victor Schauberger was a forester in the Austrian mountains who observed and studied nature for a long time. He created the slogan ”understand and copy nature” ( he used the word biotechnology around 1920). The main part of his work was about water. The work brings us to helix of flow and energy. Helixes may be found in our DNS, in flowing rivers, in the air and in many other things of our environment. Since water is contained in nearly everything, even in a burning flame(*1), and it covers around 70% of the Earth, we will find helixes and their energy where we find water as well. This paper should open the door to that knowledge of Schauberger about water and its motion with the eyes of TRIZ (talking about water nearly means to talk about everything). Science/bionics lately found out that shark skin produces small helixes and helps to save energy. Schauberger discovered facts like those much earlier than others. He was a man of the future whose secret may only be recognized with the eyes of TRIZ. The underlined numbers you find in this paper do stand for the inventive Princilples. 

 

Thursday, October 28, 2010

islands

Australia is the largest Island in the World, with an estimated population of just over 20 million people.  Australia has 8222 Islands...

http://www.islandsofaustralia.com/

Place Capital City Number of Islands
Australian Capital Territory Canberra -
New South Wales Sydney 102
Northern Territory Darwin 887
Queensland Brisbane 1955
South Australia Adelaide 346
Tasmania Hobart 1000
Victoria Melbourne 184
Western Australia Perth 3747

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/islands/

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Northern Territory

 New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Tasmania is a large island state off the south coast of the island continent of Australia. Islands that are in the State of Tasmania are: 240 islands listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Islands_of_Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

External Territories

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon + Gainsborough's Show Box: Illusion and Special Effects in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon
 
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg painted a panorama - he called it the Eidophusikon - which he exhibited in Panton Square in London. He made it as realistic as possible by using lighting and sound effects. It was very popular. Gainsborough went to see it every evening. De Loutherburg wanted to show a free expanse of landscape and evade the constriction of the frame. Pictures have been painted on concave surfaces with the same Idea.

Walter J. Phillips watercolour artist and printmaker, writer Born on 25 October, 1884 at Barton-on-Humber, Canada. Died in Victoria, in 1963 after a lengthy illness; ashes spread in the Rocky Mountains.


The creator of the Eidophusikon was an artist and scenographer by the name of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. His radical theatre employed a unique visual technology which included controlled lighting, clockwork automata, 3-dimensional models, and an accompanying soundscape. The effect was unlike anything the audience had previously encountered, convincing to the point that during the recreation of a torrential storm wrecking a ship at sea, one of the audience, a young artist called William Pyne, feels he is actually there: he later says he had to stop himself from crying out hoarsely in terror.
http://www.edmstudio.com/eidophusikon/index.html



Gainsborough's Show Box: Illusion and Special Effects in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ann Bermingham
University of California, Santa Barbara


ABSTRACT
In the introduction to this special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly, Ann Bermingham uses Thomas Gainsborough's show box to reflect on the major themes of the issue, including imagination, the privatization of the aesthetic, the technologies of illusion, and the uncanny. The show box opens onto the realm of visual magic and imagination, and in doing so anticipates many of the popular visual spectacles that emerge at the end of the eighteenth century. The box embodies the period's fascination with art's power to realize imagination, and imagination's power to destabilize the boundaries between psychic and material realities.

http://www.edmstudio.com/promo/index.html

Thursday, October 7, 2010

deb mansfield

Mangrove Wall' Stills Gallery


  • 'Mangrove Wall' Stills Gallery (2008) - <p>Size: Approx. 3m x 2m</p><p>Type: Photographic Liquid Emulsion</p><p>Editions: Unique</p>
    'Mangrove Wall' Stills Gallery (2008)
  • 'Mangrove Wall' Stills Gallery (2008) -
    'Mangrove Wall' Stills Gallery (2008)
  • Detail of 'Mangrove Wall' Stills Gallery (2008) -

http://debmansfield.com/artwork/2008-2

Anticipating the Islands

  • Curtain Call (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm</p> <p>Type: Giclee print </p> <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Curtain Call (2005)
  • Fallen Cactus (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Fallen Cactus (2005)
  • Footstool with Native (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Footstool with Native (2005)
  • Hanging Cactus (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Hanging Cactus (2005)
  • Mother in Law tongue with Magnolia root (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Mother in Law tongue with Magnolia root (2005)
  • Palm Boat with Shells (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Palm Boat with Shells (2005)
  • Palm Wig with Fish Tank (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Palm Wig with Fish Tank (2005)
  • Palmleaf with Magnolia root (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Palmleaf with Magnolia root (2005)
  • Two Paddles and a Brush (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>
    Two Paddles and a Brush (2005)
  • Wet leaf and the Hunt (2005) - <p>Size: 75cm x 90cm<br /> </p>  <p>Type: Giclee print </p>  <p>Editions: 10 </p>

http://debmansfield.com/artwork/2005-2
accessed: 7.10.2010

links + islands

Drift consists of numerous floating islands of grass positioned in a grid formation on the surface of a pond. The influence of wind and water currents and the action of wildlife will rapidly disrupt this orderly placement and form the basis of a series of drawings that explore the interplay between order and chaos.
Drift is both playful and experimental. It mimics the conundrum of the man-made versus the natural apparent at the site of the exhibition. The ponds at Donkleywood appear to be natural but are man-made. Drift is composed of grass it looks similar to the surrounding meadows except it floats and moves.

Picture extracts of "BLUSH" (2004)
A dance on screen production by Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez Dance Company






http://minoutsambika.blogspot.com/2010/04/research-inspiration.html

http://miwa.metm.org/PET_project/ 
Picture extracts of "Dido & Aeneas" (2005)
A stage production by Sasha Waltz & Guests








Invertigo Dance Theatre and their performance "REELING" (2009)
Photos by Taso Papadakis








 
Images Available at:

http://tasopapadakis.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html
http://www.sciapode.net/index.php?/projets/-blush/
http://www.imz.at/index.php?id=289
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/923,arts,underwater-opera
(Accessed: 7.10.2010)