Christo and Jean-Claude: Wrapped Coast

Singapore 1925 – 2025 by Robert Zhao Renhui

Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher Framework Houses (1959-73)

Source: Sonnabend Gallery

Eugene Atget: photos of Paris

Here, by a remarkable regression, we have come back to the level of expression of the Egyptians
. . . Pictorial language has not yet matured because our eyes have not yet adjusted to it.
There is as yet insufficient respect for, insufficient cult of, what it expresses. - Abel
Gance

What art has been granted a dream more poetical and more real at the same time! Approached
in this fashion the film might represent an incomparable means of expression. Only the most
high-minded persons, in the most perfect and mysterious moments of their lives, should be
allowed to enter its ambience. - Severin-Mars

Sources:
Text: W. Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Images:
http://quintessentialruminations.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/atget2.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_SwKfl4Jngo/UJ6hmjV55NI/AAAAAAAACVY/_zTMbwFfOMg/s1600/eugene+atget-2.jpeg
http://www.alleyconnoisseur.com/wp-content/gallery/atget/la_cour_du_dragon_paris_vie1913.jpg

The Maze

Going through the maze in Crystal Palace park, following the rule that on every corner we should take left turn.

A study with light

Bicycle torch, mirror, A3 white paper sheet, four matchsticks, photography.

Icons from Croydon

St. Martin's School Final Show

Here's some of my makeshift photography of the show we've been to yesterday at Central St. Martin's School. At the show, there were graphic design, illustration, photography and animation works, plus some interactive stuff, as for example, a machine that reads movement of your hands to draw a mural, etc.

Of deers and men

Bushy Park was a colourful mixture of birds, deers and people with their dogs, - many freaked out because of the ice, which has probably formed during the night for the first time this Autumn. Swans had a particular trouble of getting out of the water through the ice and walking. I was sketching, Dina was taking pictures.