Filed under: Environment, life, maritime art | Tags: art, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Judith Selby Lang, Marine debris, Richard Lang
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang collect tons of plastic debris off a beach near their Norther California home and clean, categorize and store it before using it to create beautiful artwork.
Explore their website Beach Plastic
via Colossal
Filed under: maritime art | Tags: art, maritime art, National Gallery, Verbeeck
Interesting video of the restoration and reconstruction of an amazing maritime painting at the National Gallery.
Filed under: Education, FotoFriday, maritime art, photography | Tags: FotoFriday, photography, Puerto Rico, School of Visual Arts, study abroad
Alright, it’s mid February and the winter doldrums probably have you down a bit. Here’s a perfect educational boondoggle if there ever was one. The School of Visual Arts has a study aboard program which offers Action Surf Photography in Rincon Puerto Rico from March 5 – 13.
Pack your camera bag dude! Surf’s up! (Good luck getting your parents to pay for this)
Filed under: maritime, maritime art, maritime heritage, seafood, storytelling | Tags: Dock-U-Mentaries, Phillip Mello, Working Waterfront Festival
New Bedford’s Working Waterfront Festival recently announced an interesting new program: Dock-U-Mentaries, a monthly film series presented in conjunction with New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. (download PDF flyer)
Films will be presented free of charge at 7pm on the third Friday of each month at the Corson Maritime Learning Center (33 William Street) in downtown New Bedford.
The first program takes place on Friday, January 21st featuring:
- Pearl of the Atlantic a 1960s era film produced by the New Bedford Seafood Council to promote scallops AND
- A narrated slide show of the contemporary Port of New Bedford and its workers, presented by photographer Phil Mello.
Working Waterfront Festival and National Park team up for Dock-U-Mentaries – New Bedford Standard Times – Jan. 10, 2011
I love art, especially public art in places that surprise you. I also love art that’s influenced by the sea. This covers it.
This work is by Sam Moyer and is part of an exhibition organized by the Public Art Fund in NYC and titled Total Recall From the website:
Covering more than 50 tree trunks in the middle of MetroTech Center Commons, Sam Moyer’s work creates the illusion of a forest of birch trees with their easily recognizable silvery bark. Upon closer inspection, this bark reveals itself to be an image of the North Sea transposed on aluminum planks. Thus, she transplants nature from sea to land, layering species over species and allowing numerous realities to co-exist harmoniously. A multi-layered viewing experience, from some perspectives the work is revealed while from others it disappears completely.
Moyer was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1983. She received her BFA from Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington D.C., in 2005 and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven, in 2007. She was most recently included in the exhibition Greater New York at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2010). Recent exhibitions include the solo presentation of work entitledShape Shifters, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2010) and group shows at Max Hans Daniel, Berlin, Germany; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; and the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri.
Moyer lives and works in Brooklyn.
Photo credit: Public Art Fund on Flickr.com
Filed under: maritime, maritime art | Tags: Conan O'Brien, Twitter, Yiying Lu
Remember Jonah and the Whale? The web 2.0 version is Conan and the Fail Whale.
Conan’s new show launches tonight and Twitter Fail Whale artist Yiying Lu created this graphic to celebrate it.
More about this on Mashable and Conan’s website (http://www.teamcoco.com/)
You can follow Conan on Twitter: http://twitter.com/conanobrien He’s funny.
Filed under: Environment, maritime art | Tags: Coalition for the Restoration of Coastal Louisiana
I love this poster and the story behind it. (see video below)
Buy the poster and support the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.
Flag dip to Brainpicker on Twitter
Filed under: maritime art, maritime heritage, Moby-Monday | Tags: Contemporary art, Erik Durant, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Moby-Monday, New Bedford Whaling Museum, sculpture
Last month I took the kids to New Bedford Open Studios and one of the highlights was meeting sculptor Erik Durant and seeing his giant squid which was under construction for the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s outdoor sculpture show which opened last week. Durant’s studio is always a real hit with the kids if for no other reason than his giant ear sculpture with companion Q-tip; Joy especially loves it.
The sculpture show is titled “”In the Unequal Cross-Lights” — Contemporary Sculptors Respond to the Whaling Museum Collections” and the title is derived from Moby-Dick. From David Boyce’s article in the New Bedford Standard Times:
The project’s title is taken from “Moby-Dick,” referring to Ishmael’s visit to the Spouter-Inn, where in the “unequal cross-lights” he sees a painting on the wall that confounds him. Melville writes that this artwork requires “careful inquiry,” “earnest contemplation,” and “repeated ponderings.” In other words, much like looking at some contemporary art work, one must allow it time to divulge its intentions, its message, its meaning, or merely its composition.
Photo from ErikDurant.com
Filed under: maritime art, maritime heritage, Moby-Monday | Tags: Jeremy Wood, maritime art, Moby-Monday, PowerMobyDick.com
Jeremy Wood is a multidiscipline artist and map maker whose diverse work offers people and places a playground of space and time. In October 2000 he began to explore GPS satellite technology as a tool for digital mark making on water, over land, and in the air. He makes drawings and maps of his movements by recording all his daily journeys with GPS to create a personal cartography. (from the artist’s website)
One of Wood’s projects included a walk though London along the quote: “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
Also from the artist’s website.
The text was written over a period of three months from January 2005. The length of the line recorded on foot for the drawing was 44.2 miles, and the total distance traveled to make the drawing was 458.6 miles. I had two bicycle punctures with reinforced puncture resistant tires, the first of which happened 20 miles into a journey looking for locations that ended in having to push the bike home for 9 miles. After closing the body of the last letter, I headed as far north as the land allowed to a small pier on which the Greenwich Meridian is marked, and finished the drawing by circling around on the footpath at the edge of the River Thames for a full stop.
Via PowerMobyDick where you can find lots of other interesting Moby-Dick digital ephemera.
