variations | you can’t hide your dreams in familiar places
when a dream becomes
a familiar place
we find solace in its awakening
variations | if only you could remember the stars at night
you held my hand
as the stars fell
and our hearts collided
Na Yeon Choi, Brittany Lang, Suzann Pettersen, Jiyai Shin, Karrie Webb and Shanshan Feng 2013 Wegmans LPGA Championship Pre-Tourney Interviews
I am looking forward to seeing my favorite female athlete, World # 3 Na Yeon Choi (NYC) do her thing at this week’s Major, the 2013 Wegmans LPGA Championship. Here is an interview with her and other stars of the LPGA.
There’s been a lot of talk about how Stacy Lewis has played well for a regular LPGA tour member, but not up to her lofty former #1, currently #2, standards. That’s rightfully so. Stacy deserves the attention. She’s earned it. However, I’d like to look 1 spot down the Rolex Rankings to #3 and ask if this will be the tournament Na Yeon Choi, the reigning US Women’s Open champion, breaks out of her run decent, but not spectacular finishes. The 7-time LPGA winner was a runner up earlier this year at the HSBC Women’s Champions and she has 4 top 10s so far, but she’s capable of much more…certainly capable of putting a second Major championship trophy on her mantle. One thing is for sure, she won’t get DQ’ed again this year! Here’s an interview with her, along with Brittany Lang, Suzann Pettersen, Jiyai Shin, Karrie Webb and defending…
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experiment: data complex 3 | nostalgia | video art
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The day on the beach brought back memories of beautiful times gone by: She the choreographer and dancer, and he the artist and filmmaker. Together they drifted back to the beginning of their artistic dreams. Fused with the technology of the post-modern world and the collective mindset of a creative construct, they forged ahead into the unknown: History has a way of repeating itself. What is old is new. The same as it ever was. Forever and a day.
New Sounds at the Electro-Music Festival in Asheville
Dosia Mckay is a fantastic composer and performer. She writes beautiful music for ensemble and chamber. And as seen here, she explores the latest musical technology. Recently she attended the Electro Music festival in Asheville, NC where she sampled synths both old (modular) and new (the Haken Continum). Oh yes, she is an excellent painter as well. Stop by her blog for a wonderful feast of imagery and sound.
I spent two days at the Asheville Electro-Music Festival (http://emavl.com/), soaking up many wonderful sounds I am not accustomed to and getting a fill of good drum grooves. I saw new musical instruments, such as Eigenharp and Haken Continuum. I even got a one-on-one demonstration of modular synthesis. I also listened to several very interesting bands/performers with mesmerizing video projections. I feel inspired for weeks to come.
The photo features the Haken Continuum, a MIDI controller and an instrument in its own right with a very powerful internal synthesizer. Watch what it can do here:
Photo courtesy of http://experimentalsynth.com/
experiment: data complex 2 | shipwrecked | video art
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Drifting on the endless sea, a Titanic moment: Crushed against the data of memories, hopes and dreams. Cold and icy. Feeling a part of something, in the place of everything, on the edge of nothingness. Falling from the sky with no structure to evolve into. Living in a deep, dark, place masquerading as a beautiful heaven; a post modern world, an urban complexity. Data Complex – Shipwrecked.
variations | don’t say the things that hurt
If only now you could remember, as I fell further away. Please, don’t say … the things that hurt.
variations | don’t say you know
i thought
for a moment
if it could be
then you paused
don’t say you know
is all i remember …
a rewind | sunrise and chakra flowers for meditation
“Sometimes our thoughts and feelings take us places we can no longer go … However, in the waking sunrise of a new day, we can, in our meditation, understand our thoughts anew and find places full of insight, rejuvenation, and tranquility”. ~ Walter Smith
In keeping with the pursuit of tranquility and the essence of Zen that I focused on in my recent video entitled “Experiment: Zen Meditation | Landscapes for Well Being”, here is a rewind of a collage with the same theme from 2009. My next post: “variations | sunrise and chakra flowers for meditation”. As in all my pieces in the variation series, I am using this image as a starting point to reach a new compositional insight.
experiment: zen nature | landscapes for well being | video art
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My “Experiment” series continues with “Zen Nature | Landscapes for Well Being”, a celebration of the beauty of nature and Earth Day. A colorful collage of earth and space; bringing together the compassion of love, life, culture, and soulful melodies for meditation.
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world”. ~ John Muir
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”. ~ Native American Proverb
25 second preview – experiment: zen nature | landscapes for well being
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In celebration of Earth Day 2013, here is a preview of my upcoming video from my “Experiment” series entitled: “Zen Nature | Landscapes for Well Being”. It explores the beauty of our earth as well as some of its inhabitants. I have been working on it for the pass week, and will be completing it sometime next week or by the weekend (so keep an eye out for it). It is meditation on Nature; a calming sense of place, discovery and purpose … to love ourselves and our planet.
experiment: data complex | video art
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“Experiment: Data Complex” the latest video in my “Experiment” series examines our relationships with science, math, society, art and music within the constructs of a Futuristic theme. How do they manifest in our daily lives and what is the critique of their influence? Again for me, it is an exploration of various elements i.e. abstract art, technology and sound. The visual and audio elements of Data Complex are purposely composed in short intervals of sampled imagery and sound; building upon itself as the video progresses. Similar to the process of my digital art compositions, I like to use elements (bits and pieces, 0’s and 1’s) that I previously created to establish a continuous rhythm of structure. Hence the density of sound and the layering of imagery throughout the piece. And as I have stated before, the audio composition and editing is strongly influenced by music styles such as IDM, Ambient, Trance, Neo-Classical, and Glitch. Everything is always in an experimental and exploratory mode. Hope you enjoy the video. Let me know what you think.
45 second video preview | data complex
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I am presently working on my latest “experiment” video entitled “data complex”. It explores the fusion of data complexities in our society i.e. media, technology, art etc. The structure of the video is based on short video data clips, and sampled audio soundscapes. The audio composition and editing is strongly influenced by music styles such as IDM, Neo-Classical, and Glitch and from such artists as Alva Noto, Steinbruchel, Ryoji Ikeda, and featured in this clip, German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel and his Canon in D Major.
variations | in solitary dreams
With every desire renewed, there is a solitary dream that finds us …
variations | in close abstraction 03
Lost in the place we have found, with nothing ever collected in one moment …
obstructed by the moments along the path
there was something …
not far away
not far
– from
the place i’ve come …
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 