In The Dark I Can’t Safely Say (A What My Life Has Meant Remix)
A path with unspoken words and transcending moments…
The path in life
i often wonder if i am misunderstood - by me in my every waking moment ...
I want to thank Bangkokbobby for this wonderful review of Na Yeon Choi’s victory at the 2012 US Women’s Open Championship. What an astounding win for the 24-year old Korean.
After Na Yeon Choi blitzed the field with a course record 7-under 65 in the 3rd round of the 2012 US Women’s Open, 12 shots better than the average round that day and building a 6 shot lead, it looked like the final round might turn out to be more of a coronation than competition. But this is sports and strange things can happen en route to championships, particularly when a golfer is seeking their first Major. With Amy Yang refusing to roll over and give up, NYC found her fortitude tested after a triple bogey on the 10th hole put the tournament in doubt. As she walked away from the par 5 10th with a snowman (8), Na Yeon Choi had the opportunity to show what she was made of. Would she shrink from the pressure or emerge a champion? We found out the soft-spoken Choi has fire inside…
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Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art Meets 2012 US Women’s Open Champion – Na Yeon Choi
Na Yeon Choi
What a fantastic victory for the 24 year old South Korean, Na Yeon Choi. Poise, skill and some rather good luck led her to her first US Major Championship. It was a difficult course depleting most of the opposition. She and fellow Korean, Amy Yang were the only two competitors to finish under-par. Yes without a doubt Na Yeon Choi is my favorite female athlete. You go Girl!
Images For HD Video: Sometimes In The Waking The Reality Is More Pressing Than The Dream
There are times when I have a visual dream. In the waking. A collage of kinetic images. And as painful as it may sometimes be, I can but only love … living my art; finding fuel for it in the most unlikely places …
a new day …
This piece is an exploration of the moment when waking from a dream. The dream persists, but so does the realities of life: Our personal journey. As they intrude. Crash. Collide. And take us for a ride along the highway of uncertainty. I think it is here, in this moment, that we can rise from our slumber with our greatest fear or with our greatest hope. As we face the day, with our portfolio of experiences, memories, and designs, we can, with internal intent and wisdom, begin our search for a better tomorrow.
http://youtu.be/58Nwb7HmbLQ – Sometimes In the Waking the Reality Is More Pressing Than the Dream 3:10; music by Nine Inch Nails
Images For HD Video: The Night Outside Your Dream (A Blue Moment Remix)
Second in the series of “chance” recordings …
http://youtu.be/Wdrl6O_H1uE – Copyright 2012 Walter W Smith
…
the night
- blue
with restless dreams
– isolated
in scattered refuge
in sudden refrain
– through the darkest storm
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – Calvin & Hobbs
Images For HD Video: An Unfolding Night Next To You (A Scattered Storm Remix)
The night holds many mysteries when time stands still….
she remains transfixed trapped in summer's night contemplating the approaching storm
Searching for chance in the process of creating art.
Within the context of my digital and video work, the objective is to find visual ambient experiences. The process at times, is a stationary camera. Post-production: Unedited film, or with very minimal post editing and digital effects. With this piece, I altered the color tonality. The difficulty in the piece was balancing the black sky, now slightly colorized, while maintaining a brightness/contrast without compromising the visibility of the lightning strikes.
Art can be discovered by random chance.
An Unfolding Night Next To You is the first in a series of new HD experimental video work-in-progress. Some years ago, my first exploration of the still camera and chance recording was an hour-long piece entitled Oceans of Art. This 2012 video was filmed during a late night drive on HWY 221 in South Carolina through a scattered rain storm. Darkness, lightning strikes, pressing rain, and the headlights of passing cars all merge with the music of sound design artist, and master of glitch Alva Noto, creating an eerie journey into meditative abstraction. Rain drops falling on the window shield create a mosaic of pixel forms. These forms are constantly moving and manipulating the video. While sporadic lightning strikes fill the night sky. Patience is in order to gather the full ambient feeling of the piece. Things are there.
Recommended viewing: In a very dark room by single candle light.
http://youtu.be/-KKafg4qoaQ – Copyright 2012 – Walter Smith
Images For Android Phones: Pop Art – The 2012 Tour de France
The Tour de France is underway. It will cover over 2000 miles in 3 weeks. This shot was taken during stage 2 in Belguim. The images of bicycling has always been a hallmark of Pop-Art.
Images For Android Phones: A River Runs Through It
Red. The color of those who lost their lives during the American Revolution. This is a photograph of the Enoree River In the back country of South Carolina. During a recent hike, I visited the Musgrove Historic State Park. A signifcant battleground between the British, American Loyalists, and the American Patroits. Intense and bloody battles insued. A divided country. Friend vs friend. Brother vs brother.
red…
a transfusion of color
in blood and tears
– of lost
and gain
but not without
the soul in pain
– the spirit transformed
and the cries of freedom
in red flow
down by the river
brave men fought for independence
– for some
Images For Android Phones: Pop Art – Track and Field
The Olympic trials are in full swing. Competition. Endurance. Will. Beauty. Art and sports a Pop Art tradition. London 2012.
Images For HD Video: Water For Meditation (Sunrise Remix) and On Water
Exploring nature through video …
I enjoy working with video. It has always been a true love of mine. It is however, a very challenging medium. It takes time to learn new programs and to obtain the right equipment. And it is expensive. Exhibiting video art in a gallery usually requires a grant. And grants are difficult to come by these days. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, I was awarded a couple of grants for a video installation and a multimedia collaboration. All in all, through recent years, and mostly because of the expense, I’ve shifted from video art to digital imaging. 2-dimensional work. Photography, prints, and digital art.
However, I do want to invest more time in video making. At the heart of this endeavor is having the right mindset for video. Filming. Set design. Editing. Video making is much different from taking photographs. I must remind myself not to think in terms of large production. But rather find inspiration and subject matter in the in-between spaces. Mood. Ambient nature. Form. Simplicity. Lo-tech – high-tech.
The pieces “Water for Meditation” and “On Water” are two perfect examples of ambient nature. They are not very complicated to film and produce, yet fulfill, in this instance, my desire to create an ambient environment for meditation. Transporting the viewer to a moment of relaxation. “On Water” is micro short (26 seconds) in length, while “Water for Meditation” is nearly six minutes long. I prefer long meditative pieces, however I realize that it takes a considerable amount of investment on part of the viewer to “sit” through the minimal motion of a piece of great length. All in all I hope to produce in the future some rather experimental pieces. Incorporating original imagery and music created by me. Work that at this time is a mystery to me.
Below are 2 links to my YouTube channel and the video pieces; “Water For Meditation” (Sunrise Remix) and “On Water”.
Please enjoy. Any feedback is well appreciated. In the future, I hope to post videos more regularly.
Namaste
http://youtu.be/pyYahhz2svM – Water For Mediation (Sunrise Remix)
http://youtu.be/wGXnumdn_Ys – On Water
Images For HD Video: A Day At The Beach (A Tybee Island Remix)
A Tybee Beach remix…
Tybee Island is a small public beach located on the Atlantic Ocean near the Georgia/South Carolina border. It is just a few minutes away from historic Savannah GA.
A day on the beach, with sand and surf in hand.
Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors
a morning trek
so patiently caressed
on winding paths
while colors reach out
with subtle invitation
through angled trees
and grass so lean
the intrepid eye
never at rest
seeking things anew
with every test of step
except for here
under the gazebo
with summer’s warm
– embrace
as i wait for you
– knowingly
feeling at peace
feeling transcendent
Images For Android Phones: The Girl In The Summer Blue Dress
The ocean flows in many ways, not unlike the wind swept beach and the girl with the summer blue dress. As the sun fades, and ends the day. She casts her weary dreams out to sea.
Images For Android Phones: Standing With The Fading Sun
A photograph is never the end of a moment in time.
Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)
sitting on the beach
with the cooling sand
caressing my sandaled feet
mind and body
feeling bonded
with this very moment
the last moment
– here
with the setting sun
and you
while my joy
– and clouds
join in blended
transformation
leaving the waves
a fluid surrender
to a day ending
“Make Me a Doorway” Jesse Russell Brooks
I found this video to be very interesting and well done. The poetry has a lovely, mesmerizing, flow to it and a haunting sense of self awareness. And all the while questioning … who we are … how do we fit in the world … how am I perceived. Alexzenia Davis I feel is an artist worth getting to know.
Posted by Diva Muanza
Interview with Los Angeles based director Jesse Russell Brooks.
photo credit : Josh Bovill
What is the meaning behind your film “Make me a Doorway” ?
“Make Me A Doorway” is a compilation of three poems: “Make Me”, “My Silhouette” and “A Lady’s Psyche” written by Alexzenia Davis. She wrote the piece based off a series of in depth conversations that we had regarding personality and identity. How we may construct or naturally define our identity through an intimate relationship and how that effects our perspective of others. The piece focuses on Memory, Language and Relationships.
Poet Alexzenia Davis explores perspective and intimacy during a rush of mixed media footage that visualizes the characteristics of time. The short film titled is an experimental collaboration with filmmaker Jesse Russell Brooks that investigating the memories of past relationships, what photography makes of love lost and how these reflections…
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Images For Android Phones: Flow Goes The Night (A Being There Remix)
A late night drive. Alone. Afraid. One last stop. The next to last exit. The very next turn. Into the dark of yesterday. Leaving the light of knowing behind. Only to find the last stop had no answers to sell.
Images For Android Phones: Monday Afternoon
There is a classic ambient piece by Brian Eno entitled Thursday Afternoon. An one hour shimmering landscape in the style of Music For Airports. This piece Monday Afternoon was created on Tuesday night while listening to Pandora Radio on my Droid phone. Slowly revisiting the drive into Savannah, GA. And the crossing of this remarkable bridge. Beautiful Sunshine. Warm atmosphere. Cool wind. Simmering heat.
Images For Android Phones: Tybee Island 6.19.12
early morning
a slightly deserted
– beach
the sun has risen
ever so brightly
casting shadows
under umbrellas
Images For Android Phones: Tybee Beach 6.19.12
the sun floats
while the waves
– reflect
summer’s warmth
and beauty
caressing the day
– the sun floats
the waves flow
a sparkly trance
with wind and water
Images For Android Phones: Every Pop-Art Moment Needs A Self Portrait
It’s so sixties hitting the beach. Sunrise, ocean, girls and guys. Bright colors, water ice and boardwalks. Bikinis. Everything’s pop. Everything’s art. On the pier, it’s Andy Warhol. With the Beach Boys surfing, and free love everywhere. And you know … it’s soon to be groovy. With guest appearances by Frankie Avalon, The Beatles, my favorite cousin, Godzilla and Twiggy. And now … It feels like yesterday as I move into Warrior pose and Sun Salutation. Power to the people.
Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art In Motion
Revisiting the past and spinning brakes. A life without a caution. Pop goes the art. Over the cliff. Off the road. And Crash. Red meets blue and yellow finds green. Andy Warhol’s last thoughts. Wheels turning effortlessly as the years mount up. There’s a story here … And a Pontiac Bonnerville circa 1967.
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