tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28802512323517384642024-03-18T00:24:15.078-07:00The Mobile FactoryHanging Mobiles and Stables - original designs created and inspired by the American artist Alexander Calderunigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-91931135749446517802014-09-17T03:45:00.000-07:002014-09-17T03:45:20.693-07:00Customer photos are always appreciated!A customer of mine in the Netherlands recently sent a picture of the <a href="http://www.the-mobile-factory.com/apogee.html" target="_blank">Apogee</a> mobile that I made for him. I think it looks great!<br />
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Hanging mobiles are difficult to photograph and a lot of the photos on my website <a href="http://the-mobile-factory.com/">the-mobile-factory.com</a> were taken many years ago in poorly illuminated rooms with a digital camera that is woefully inferior by today's standards - even for the cheapest cellphone. It's always nice when a customer sends me a picture - especially a beautiful one like this.unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-11776748737551123832014-02-28T09:44:00.000-08:002014-02-28T10:05:51.401-08:00They're blowing up a Calder in Fort Worth!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For 30 years "The Eagle", a 39 ft. tall sculpture by Alexander Calder, was arguably Fort Worth's most iconic piece of art - commissioned in 1972 to stand guard in front of the new Fort Worth National Bank. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the Eagle was not "public art"...it was owned by the bank, which was later purchased by Bank One, who then later sold the building and sculpture to a real estate investment company named Loutex, which in turn sold the sculpture to another mysterious group of investors who "tried" to find a buyer who would keep it in Fort Worth but failed, and the result (although the details are unclear) was that the Eagle was snatched from its perch and moved to Philadelphia where it sat at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a time...hoping to find a new home in the Calder Museum (which was never built), and then ultimately sold to the city of Seattle where it finally came to rest as a prominent feature of the city's new Olympic Sculpture Garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To this day the residents of Fort Worth are hurt and dismayed by the loss of their beloved Calder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But a group of art lovers and artists have decided to take action. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A collective known as <a href="http://homecomingcommittee.com/about/" target="_blank">"Homecoming!"</a> has created a blow-up version of the Calder Eagle and for one week it has been appearing in random locations through-out the city - to the delight of its citizens who are dutifully posting images of the floppy red inflatable to their Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feeds. The event is called <a href="http://vimeo.com/65429798" target="_blank">"The Eagle Has Landed"</a>and began on February 23rd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's a bittersweet reminder of the sculpture that the city lost - a controversy which resulted in the establishment of the city's current-day public art program which, ironically, played a major role in bringing this project to fruition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think this is such a brilliant idea, a perfect blend of art, fun, satire and policatial commentary all wrapped up in a perfect inflatable package. I wonder how Alexander Calder would have felt about it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope that someday the city of Fort Worth finds a suitable replacment for their Eagle - they sure deserve it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span> unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-56737381394438765852013-10-18T04:15:00.003-07:002013-10-18T05:27:23.703-07:00The Exorcist<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We attended a special screening of "The Exorcist" a few nights ago at the Cedar-Lee Theater (Cleveland, Ohio). It was being shown as part of a group of classic films from the seventies. It's been at least 20 or 30 years since my wife and I have seen it, and my daughter Bridget had <i>never</i> seen it, so we were really excited to have the opportunity to watch this great classic movie on the big screen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and here's a wonderful photo that my wife found of Linda Blair and the director William Friedkin preparing for the scene...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is artist and screen printer David Dodde's submission to </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ArtPrize</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - an important and popular art competition held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His idea was to transform the city's most iconic sculpture, Alexander Calder's "La Grande Vitesse", into something new by applying various flower shapes that had been cut out of a non-permanent magnetic material</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll come right out and admit that I <u>love it</u>. I think it's creative, whimsical, and beautiful. Just like Calder's work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But apparently someone complained about it, as someone always does in matters like this, and the city decided to remove the flowers after receiving a harsh letter from The Calder Foundation (headed by Sandy Rower, Calder's grandson) declaring that it was an "abomination" and added nothing to the dialogue of the sculpture. Pretty harsh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note - this isn't the first time that La Grande Vitesse has been decorated as part of various events or fundraisers - city manager Greg Sundstrom estimates that it has been done "over 100 times over the last 45 years", but you can bet this will be the last.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I give credit to the city for allowing the flowers to remain on the Calder long enough for them to be seen by the artist's son (who has Down Syndrome) as part of a class trip that had been planned. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also give credit to the officials at ArtPrize for allowing Dodde's submission to remain in the competition, even after the flowers were removed. Out of 1,524 entries it was voted into the top 100 in the first round of voting</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but did not make the final top 10. A winner will be announced tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I understand that the Calder Foundation's mission is to protect and promote the work of Alexander Calder and I would imagine that in decisions like this, Mr. Rower would try to carry out policy in accordance with what he believes his grandfather would decide if he were still alive. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you think that Alexander Calder would have been upset by this piece? I don't, but perhaps I'm wrong. I suppose if anyone should know it would be Mr. Rower. Perhaps the Foundation was fed up with 45 years worth of "abuse" to the sculpture and grew tired of pink breast cancer awareness ribbons, knitted webs (a submission to last year's ArtPrize), images of the sculpture on city street signs, letterheads, and garbage trucks...perhaps <u>flowers</u> were just the final straw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally. I am not surprised by any of this and I think that the decision was a mistake and bad PR for the Foundation especially if comments like this one, which I found <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-artprize-calder-foundation-20131001,0,4945980.story" target="_blank">here</a> and have copied below, are any indication of popular opinion:</span><br />
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Was it really necessary to send such a rude letter to ArtPrize? Was it really necessary to hurt the feelings of Mr. Dodde, who did nothing but put removable flowers on Mr. Calder's sculpture? And to cave in to the snobbish complaints of the few, while the many quite liked the happy, silly, harmless flowers? I simply do not understand. And this:<br />
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Now you have garnered unpleasant notice from the press and the public. Is that really a goal of your foundation? As we all move forward in time the sculptures and mobiles begin to look a bit dated. Does Mr. Rower not have sufficient work to occupy his time? He seems to have ample opportunity to write nasty letters to well-meaning folk; perhaps he can cast about for a way to fill his days other than riding on grandfather's coat-tails. I can only wonder at the judgment and bad manners of Mr. Rower. There is the true "abomination."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes. Take a look at this article recently published in the Lansing State Journal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr is considering whether the multibillion-dollar collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts should be considered city assets that potentially could be sold to cover about $15 billion in debt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a very sad state of affairs indeed when a city begins to consider selling its artwork to pay for its debt. I truly hope that Detroit can avoid this catastrophe. Get out there and buy some American-made cars!</span><br />
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<br />unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-15206494362329581272013-05-27T06:28:00.000-07:002013-05-27T06:29:17.054-07:00The Ultimate Mobile?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to Bruce for sending me a link to this wonderful performance by Miyoko Shida!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-power-of-concentration-miyoko-shida.htm#.UYyX4ZVvDwx" target="_blank">http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-power-of-concentration-miyoko-shida.htm#.UYyX4ZVvDwx</a></span>unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-53322986122043982372013-05-03T06:03:00.000-07:002013-05-03T06:03:24.772-07:00Some interesting sketches and correspondence from Alexander Calder<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received an interesting email the other day, from a woman who had acquired some Alexander Calder ephemera. She was wondering if I could tell her how much it was worth and how she should go about selling it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote back and suggested that she either get in touch with the Calder Foundation or a reputable art appraiser in her area. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm certainly no expert on the value of Calder's work - although I know that his art is highly collected and consistently fetches the highest bids at auctions. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've done pretty well selling my own art but selling a Calder is a completely different ballgame!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course my curiosity was piqued, and I asked if she could describe what the items were and how they came into her possession. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what she sent back. (note: there was a lot of yellow color-cast to the photos which I've tried to remove a bit in Photoshop)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not a handwriting expert either, but I have no doubt that these are authentic! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very exciting stuff here, not only because they are from Calder, but as a mobile artist myself I find it interesting to see that Calder corresponded with his clients much as I do - with sketches and notes and hints on installation. It's amazing to see that he has no problem with the client bending wires and and adjusting hanging lengths as necessary to make it fit within their space!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm really grateful to have been able to see these wonderful items, and to be allowed to share them with you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, by the way, you won't believe how she acquired them....they were found in the TRASH!</span></div>
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I received an interesting comment from the folks over at the <a href="http://mindmarrow.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mindmarrow</a> blog regarding Alexander Calder's Roxbury home. <br />
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According to <a href="http://mindmarrow.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/repository-62-domestic-interventions-art-artists-occupy-homes/" target="_blank">this post</a>, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is planning an exhibit next year in the Roxbury house. This is exciting news for Calder fans, as this will be the first time that the home has been open to the public. <br />
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I'm really looking forward to following the news on this project and hopefully this will be the beginning of more events in Roxbury!unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-43868975836877225632012-10-29T05:21:00.004-07:002012-10-29T05:21:39.597-07:00360 view of Calder's "Five Blossoms"<object align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="405" id="christies_video_player_swf" width="720"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="movie" value="http://c205892.r92.cf1.rackcdn.com/cmm.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="flashvars" value="id=2720&autoplay=0"/><embed src="http://c205892.r92.cf1.rackcdn.com/cmm.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="720" height="405" name="christies_video_player_swf" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="id=2720&autoplay=0" /></object>unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-56497510818226015472012-10-29T05:15:00.000-07:002012-10-29T05:39:19.249-07:00SketchUp<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish, somehow, I could stretch out my days like an accordion and create more time for all of the interests that I have...sculpture, origami, unicycling, juggling, classical guitar, zen, and reading - to name just a few...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my interests is digital art and 3D modeling. I've wanted to learn how to do this for many years and awhile ago I discovered a great program called "SketchUp" that is easy to learn, powerful, and best of all: FREE. I also discovered another great (free) program called Kerkythea that imports SketchUp models and allows you to create photo-realistic renders of them. I thought I would share some of the images that I've made using these programs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had a lot of fun making these and I hope you enjoy them! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judging from some pictures taken by Lee Bey, the restoration has made a noticeable improvement to the appearance of this sculpture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see more photos and read Mr. Bey's commentary <a href="http://www.wbez.org/blogs/lee-bey/2012-10/flamingo-unchained-restoration-makes-famed-modernist-sculpture-shine-again" target="_blank">here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I discovered an interesting bit of trivia as I was exploring the comments Mr. Bey's article. Back in 1974, Calder was having great success in Chicago - he had been commissioned to create two sculptures, one for the lobby of the Sears Tower and another for Federal Plaza (the Flamingo) and on October 25th, a major exhibit of his works was opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art. To celebrate the occasion, Mayor Richard J. Daley declared the day as "Alexander Calder Day" and held a parade with circus wagons, clowns, unicyclists, and several marching bands. Alexander Calder himself was in the parade, introduced as "Alexander the Great" and rode on top of a Schlitz beer wagon pulled by 40 horses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now <i>that</i> would have been something to see! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Filmed by Herbert Matter and rarely seen since its debut in 1951, this interesting - and I might go so far as to say <b><i>bizarre</i></b> - film features a soundtrack by John Cage and narration by Burgess Meredith of all people! You might remember him as Rocky's trainer, Mickey Goldmill, in the first three films.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to my friend Jeff for sending me a link to this great piece of history!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently spent a few days in downtown Chicago and, as always, whenever I visit the Windy City, I try to drop by and say hello to a few "friends" such as the "Picasso" in Daley Plaza, Chagall's "Four Seasons" on Dearborn St, "Cloud Gate" in Millenium Park, and of course my favorite - the "Flamingo" by Alexander Calder in Federal Plaza.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This visit, however, would be a little different than previous ones. I had read that the Flamingo was undergoing a major 1/4-million-dollar renovation and I was really excited to see what it would look like while "under wraps".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first impression took me by surprise. It looked like the Flamingo had been carefully boxed up and left at the curb to await the arrival of a huge FedEx truck for pickup and delivery. I half-expected to find a shipping label and a "FRAGILE" sticker slapped on the side somewhere. I suppose it's understandable that I would feel this way since I've packed up hundreds of mobiles and stabiles and have spent countless hours figuring out ways to deal with the enclosure of unusual and fragile shapes for safe shipping. I felt like I could relate (in a small way) to the efforts the restoration crew must have taken to enlcose the Flamingo like this. My understanding is that this was not done to protect the sculpture during restoration, but rather to prevent the byproducts of the restoration process such as dust, paint, and debris from getting distributed in the air all around the plaza.</span><br />
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My second impression was the same one that I always have every time I visit this sculpture...an amazement of how <b><span style="font-size: large;">BIG</span></b> it is. Looking at it this way, enclosed within a geometric shape, I realized that my house could easily fit inside a container this huge.<br />
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As I walked around looking at the "Shrouded Flamingo" from different angles, my third impression was how interesting and beautiful the scaffolding and plastic sheets looked in the early morning light. It was impossible to not make a conparison to a Christo installation. I've never seen one in person, but having seen this, I think I've probably come away with a close approximation. It is quite interesting to view a large iconic object completely obscured and gift-wwrapped in the middle of a city plaza.<br />
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As far as I know, this is the first major renovation to the Flamingo since its installation more than 38 years ago. The restoration includes a top coat of an extra durable primer followed by a full repainting in the trademark Calder Red that can be found on so many of his stabiles. I'm sure that it will be magnificant to see when the restoration is complete but I'm really happy that I was able to see it like this...it was probably a once in a lifetime opportunity.<br />
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It's Alexander Calder's 114th birthday! I was hoping for a reappearance of the wonderful Google doodle that we saw last year, but I don't see it.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a link to it in case you missed it last year. It's a great representation of a Calder mobile and you can even make it move around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilco is also known (at least by me) for having some of the <u>best</u> concert posters - very original and creative stuff. I've thought about collecting them. Here are a few of my favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's one that just appeared recently. I <i>really</i> love this one...a Wilco <b>mobile</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd like to think that maybe I had something to do with that particular idea....</span></div>
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If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Prentice, I encourage you to check ou<span style="background-color: white;">t his website and to consider purchasing his book. His work is sometimes described as a mixture of Calder and George Rickey. I actually like his work better than Rickey...he has a way of creating sublimely minimalistic mobiles that are comprised of complex structural elements that in themselves are a thing of beauty in their repetition, design, and function. I just love studying the way that he builds these beautiful objects and I'm always thrilled with I spot one in my travels.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.timprentice.com/" target="_blank">http://www.timprentice.com/</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://amzn.com/193521294X" target="_blank">Purchase at Amazon</a>unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-43176629444547114072012-07-06T04:54:00.000-07:002012-07-06T05:09:35.195-07:00Alexander Calder Flamingo "Travel Edition"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a very clever idea by designer Victor Fong - a travelling edition of Calder's monumental sculpture "Flamingo" Be sure to check out his website for more images.</span><br />
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<br />unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-7361804526259685712012-07-05T04:27:00.004-07:002012-07-05T04:27:55.078-07:00A New Calder GalleryA new Calder gallery has opened at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland. The gallery will feature a series of Calder exhibitions being planned, the first being a tribute to Mary Calder Rower, Calder's daughter, who passed away last year and bequeathed her 1,000+ piece collection of Calder works to the Calder Foundation.<br />
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This video features an interview with Theodora Vischer. the curator of the first exhibition, and Sandy Rower, grandson of Alexander Calder and founder/president of the Calder Foundation.<br />
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<br />unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-70206419326436758372012-06-02T02:54:00.001-07:002012-06-02T03:19:47.596-07:00I'll Plant My Own Tree<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CldO35qARF0?fs=1" width="480"></iframe><br />
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My wife was watching "Valley of the Dolls" <i>(1967)</i> last night on Netflix streaming and started yelling "LOOK! A MOBILE!!!!".<br />
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This is probably the best scene in the entire movie - watching Susan Hayward standing in the middle of a huge rotating plexiglass hanging mobile singing "I'll Plant My Own Tree" strangely captivated me like a car spinning out of control for two and a half minutes. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn43W40q330" target="_blank">YouTube: How to Bleach a T-shirt</a></span><br />
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<br />unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-71232042283861644602012-05-13T05:18:00.001-07:002012-05-13T05:22:10.375-07:00Jennifer Steinkamp<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WQHwTAgeUj4?fs=1" width="480"></iframe><br />
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This is an excerpt of a talk given by Jennifer Steinkamp at Otis College. I became aware of Jennifer's work after seeing the beautiful tree projection that she did for the Cleveland Clinic.unigamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998358357964163208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880251232351738464.post-4764596273229302832012-05-10T04:54:00.002-07:002012-05-10T04:57:54.769-07:00A new world record for Alexander Calder<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bidding reached record levels last Tuesday (May 9th, 2012) on several Alexander Calder pieces auctioned at Christie's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Snow Flurry"</i>, selling at $ 10.4 million dollars set a new record for an auction price on a Calder mobile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And an 8 ft tall stabile, <i>"Lily of Force" </i>(great name!), estimated to sell around $12 million <i>at most</i>, took in a record <b>$18.6 million dollars</b> - the highest sale ever recorded in an auction for a Calder work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a video showing "Lilly of Force" in all of its beauty:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">And here's a video showing "Snow Flurry" and another mobile that was auctioned in action: </span><a href="http://youtu.be/T140Ilh2QqE" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/T140Ilh2QqE</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I searched for a sign giving the artist's name but couldn't find it, but fellow mobile maker Julie Frith thinks it is by <a href="http://www.sapergalleries.com/Bauman." target="_blank">Arthur Bauman</a> and I agree...thanks Julie!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I really like the colors on this one and it fits nicely in this stairwell, but I wish the Clinic had contracted ME to do this mobile and not Mr. Bauman! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Clinic is an amazing place - wonderful people work there and the halls are filled with great art work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Picture is from my cell phone - sorry about the quality.</span><br />
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