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    Tad Savinar’s “Hope” moved me to applause last night at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. I’ve never clapped for a piece of art hanging on a wall before. Thanks, Tad. Too small to read here maybe, but if you lean in and squint it’s worth it. (via | pdx contemporary art)

    Tad Savinar’s “Hope” moved me to applause last night at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. I’ve never clapped for a piece of art hanging on a wall before. Thanks, Tad.

    Too small to read here maybe, but if you lean in and squint it’s worth it.

    (via | pdx contemporary art)

    Posted on Saturday, January 12th 2013

    Tags acac atlanta

    Source pdxcontemporaryart.com

    Audio of Gunfire Over Atlanta on New Year’s Eve

    Last night, at 12:03am on New Year’s, I stepped outside and recorded a few seconds of audio. We live in a neighborhood where celebratory gunfire is the norm, and I wanted to see if it’d show-up in a low-res recording from my phone.

    Click the image to hear the mp3. The image is the waveform pattern from the sound of a not too far-off (semi-automatic?) weapon. You’ll hear plenty of gunfire, plus firecrackers, M80-type explosions and heck all.

    I’ve lived in cities and the country, and places in between, but I’ve never heard anything like the guns discharged in Atlanta on New Year’s Eve or July 4th. What goes up must come down, and three years ago, 4-year-old Marquel Peters was killed while sitting next to his mother in church in Atlanta by a bullet fired from an AK-47 in celebration.

    It all reminds me of this video from years back of guys in Eastern Europe celebrating with their guns and mandolins. There’s a bazooka / bouzouki joke in there somewhere.

    This year, Pastor Warnock at Ebenezer Baptist had good things to say about how NYE is “no time to grab your weapon”, and APD said anyone caught shooting their gun would be slapped with a misdemeanor and a fine. Ooooh, same thing happens if you jaywalk.

    Nothing will change unless there’s a cultural shift around guns, and it’s enlightening to know that this year’s gunfire (post-Newtown) seemed more intense than ever. Gun sales are up, ammunition sales are up, and heck, nothing says having-a-good-time with your man-friends like projecting some hot lead into the sky.

    Way to go, Atlantans! Keep it up — it’ll never come down, right?

    Posted on Tuesday, January 1st 2013

    Tags atlanta audio guns mp3

    Can’t wait for Brad Downey’s “Cloud” to fly around Atlanta on June 16th. Thank you, Flux Projects. “Portrait of My Father will feature a cloud taken from an old photograph of Downey’s father piloting an airplane. As Downey explains, “even today when I think of my father I imagine him somewhere in the clouds looking at vast landscapes imagining how slow the rest of the world is moving. For this reason I see this work as him. The portrait is not just the cloud but also the plane and the pilot.” Downey continues, “I have always found the movement of fabric or material blowing in the wind one of the most beautiful sculptural forms. Likewise, clouds are always changing and moving. Even while photographing a cloud it can disappear before your eyes. A photograph of a cloud captures a moment when that cloud has an exact shape. It is kind of like grabbing the image out of time, or arresting its motion.” Portrait of My Father will take a photographic image, further change the form of the cloud into a material that this durable, and reintroduce this cloud in a new, sculptural form back into the sky, its original context.”

    Can’t wait for Brad Downey’s “Cloud” to fly around Atlanta on June 16th. Thank you, Flux Projects.

    “Portrait of My Father will feature a cloud taken from an old photograph of Downey’s father piloting an airplane. As Downey explains, “even today when I think of my father I imagine him somewhere in the clouds looking at vast landscapes imagining how slow the rest of the world is moving. For this reason I see this work as him. The portrait is not just the cloud but also the plane and the pilot.” Downey continues, “I have always found the movement of fabric or material blowing in the wind one of the most beautiful sculptural forms. Likewise, clouds are always changing and moving. Even while photographing a cloud it can disappear before your eyes. A photograph of a cloud captures a moment when that cloud has an exact shape. It is kind of like grabbing the image out of time, or arresting its motion.” Portrait of My Father will take a photographic image, further change the form of the cloud into a material that this durable, and reintroduce this cloud in a new, sculptural form back into the sky, its original context.”

    Posted on Monday, May 7th 2012

    Tags atlanta