The NEST.

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The NEST.
If there is only one thing you go and see at Vivid, this should be it.
Its a really great presentation of art such that it can be appreciated from just about any angle, position or distance… this is often not the case with many Vivid installations where the art is often best viewed from one or maybe two positions to get an optimal view.
The installation is basically a partial cylinder using ‘ghost mesh’ which has the art projected onto it. If you are inside it, it looks amazing, if your outside, it looks amazing 🙂
The choice of video subject is pretty amazing too, the birds look amazing, especially the Brolgas when they fill up the mesh screens.
I have assembled a series of timelapse from a variety of angles which hopefully can give an appreciation of the artwork and the variety of angles it can be viewed from.
I don’t normally get excited by Vivid installations to be honest, but this one was a refreshing change where it all came together, location, artwork, presentation and importantly viewer usability..
Go on, check it out, money back guaranteed you will like it..
(its free 🙂 )
Usual Vivid blurb below.
“The dance of the Brolgas surrounds us, as their graceful movement plays out like the unfurling of a ribbon.
An expansive circular structure welcomes you to bear witness to the ritualistic mating dance of the Brolga, one of only two species of crane native to Australia.
Projected onto a transparent surface, the huge bird apparitions appear to float in the air and are visible from both out and inside the Nest.”
 

Stills. NEST.

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A few favourite stills from the Nest

The dance of the Brolgas surrounds us, as their graceful movement plays out like the unfurling of a ribbon. An expansive circular structure welcomes you to bear witness to the ritualistic mating dance of the Brolga, one of only two species of crane native to Australia. Projected onto a transparent surface, the huge bird apparitions appear to float in the air and are visible from both out and inside the Nest. Lose yourself in the movement of these hypnotic, larger-than-life cranes, as you reflect on our deep connection to nature and the creatures within it. Let your imagination take flight, with your feet firmly planted to the ground.

AI.

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AI.
Created by Vandal.
“We are standing at a literal, and figurative, crossroads. Looming in front of us is the ASN Clocktower, with its three facades illuminated. Humanity is represented and juxtaposed against technology, AI interpreting and amalgamating the two. Not only visually spectacular, Synthetic Hum(AI)nity is incredibly prescient. Exploring our rapidly evolving relationship to Artificial Intelligence and the unstoppable march of technological innovation, it will leave you awe-struck, amused and with a new appreciation of the power of this new form of artificial humanity.”

MCA.

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MCA.
Guan Wei MCA Projections.
“Breathe-taking. Whimsical. Profound. Plunge into Guan Wei’s visionary world at the MCA, as his signature iconography illuminates the night. This is the first time the globally celebrated Chinese Australian artist’s work has been transformed into a light projection, and the results are spectacular. Journey from deep space, the depths of the ocean to a busy day-in-the-life of Bondi Beach, as this stunning light projection illustrates the seamless connection between the macro and the micro, the mystical and the everyday.
Witness as stars fall, oceans ripple, and fantastical creatures soar across the MCA’s façade. Sea, Sand and Stars blends the everyday with the extraordinary in a unique exploration of what it means to be human”

 

Echo.

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Echo.
Sydney Opera House wrapped Julia Gutman’s textural animation work “Lighting of the Sails: Echo”
“My first ever animation, Echo is a digital translation of patchworks I’ve made to date alongside a suite of imagery created specifically from the work, all of which have been composed from worn clothing, sheets and blankets donated by my community. The lines between self and other blur. The work is about the paradox of self-consciousness, the limitations of our own capacity to truly see ourselves, and the way our own unconscious wounds spill out into our perceptions of one another. It’s a story about confronting your shadow.”

 

 

The Faces of Change.

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The Faces of Change.
Vivid 2024, here is one of the projections onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylons, if you want to keep away from the chaos that is Circular Quay, Kirribilli presents a very nice place to view it all 🙂 Keep an eye out for a puddle of water to get some reflections 😉 “This group of climate change warriors from the Torres Strait Islands face the imminent threat of becoming some of the world’s first climate refugees due to rising sea levels. Each member of the TS8 is represented in Tori-Jay’s surreal hand alongside their totem — Great Blue Heron, Dugong, Sea Birds, and Crocodile — as the sea starts to rise and swallow them.”
#vivid2024 #vividsydney

Light of our life.

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Light of our life.
Well there has certainly been some epic Aurora Australis images over the weekend, i’m only mildly jealous 😉 (slight understatement) however it was also Mothers day and we had our very own special light in our life that we had to celebrate 😉
A short Autumn bushwalk in the rain with child units 🙂 Found a nice tree with some cool autumn colours which looked nice. With Sarah Joy

It’s alittle bit wet out there.

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It’s alittle bit wet out there.
yeah yeah, she’ll be right, that 100mm they are forecasting wont come thru until mid morning.. nup, it rained pretty much the whole morning and not that little sprinkling style either. Like the rain that flows down into your boots and fills them up… I may need to revise the wet weather clothing, waterproof boots are great except when they fill up from the ankle 😉
Nonetheless, walking thru a flooded coast track in the royal national park was still fun and got to see first hand where all that water goes, in this case/spot it makes these cool waterfalls as it flows off the rock shelf.
It was time to go home after this one, when you have to wring out your microfibre cloth before trying to dry your lens is a good sign its probably too wet 🙂
4 shot panorama.

Royal National Park – Curra Brook and Curracurrong Creek

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Royal National Park – Curra Brook and Curracurrong Creek
The first set of waterfalls on the right are the exit of Curracurrong Creek, the one in the distance is Curra Brook
Taken from Eagle (aka turtle) rock. I had the whole place to my self, no fair weather selfie takers this day 🙂 Big swell too, could feel those wave pounding the cliff.

How do you fix a broken geologist? With some rock-solid advice.

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How do you fix a broken geologist? With some rock-solid advice.
So many gold rock puns, so little time.
Burramoko Ridge aka Hanging Rock, this place is pretty cool, like a lot of walks in the mountains its a walk thru shrub which ends up opening into an amazing vista upon a rather large cliff. The precarious-ness of the spot is not really apparent (or appreciated) in the dark or until you actually see the spot you are standing on from a lower down or valley side perspective. Whilst it was certainly a fizzer of a sunrise, the enjoyment of the ride out there and just being in a place as special as this was worth that…an epic sunrise woulda been nice tho.
This shot (stitched pano) is well… More