Go Get Kinetic!

The Tenth Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race:
takes place TOMORROW, May 3, 2008 at the Inner Harbor
Kinetic Sculptures are amphibious, human powered works of art custom built for the race. Each May, the American Visionary Art Museum hosts the East Coast Kinetic Sculpture Race Championship on the shore of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in central Maryland. The eight-hour race covers 15 miles—mostly on pavement, but also including a trip into the Chesapeake Bay and through mud and sand. Kinetic Sculpture Racing traces its roots to Ferndale, California in 1969 when artist Hobart Brown upgraded his son’s tricycle into a 5-wheeled pentacycle that was part of a race down Main Street. Over the decades since, the California race evolved into a 3-day all-terrain event including treacherous sand dunes, water crossings, and elaborate artwork.

There is a lot to do tomorrow, don't wear yourselves out.

Brightest Young Things Tomorrow Night

Website relaunch party, featuring music, dancing, and LIVE ART by:

Kelly Towles
along with American University MFA art stars:
Josh Baptista
Brad Chriss
Cory Oberndorfer
Amy Misurelli Sorensen

Artists will each paint 20x8' wall pieces, as I understand it, and do so during all the music and madness. If you don't know any of them or their work, you don't read this blog enough! Go support your friends, peers, young artists and GET WILD.

cinematic culture vulture

Blast from the immediate past, current fave film of '92: BARAKA

This one:


Not this one:


Shot in 152 locations in 42 different countries, "Baraka" attempts to search for a universal cultural perspective on spirituality, war, industry and community. This experimental film contains no dialogue, leaving it up to the instrumental soundtrack (provided by Andean drummers and ambient musicians "Dead can Dance), time lapse photography and long winded yet stunning landscape shots to evoke emotion and cite parallels between cultures. Ron Fricke, the director and cinematographer of "Baraka", is also linked to Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, a set of films described as "visual tone poems" featuring a minimalist score by Philip Glass (of course).


"Balinese Monkey Chant"



Continue to "Part 6 of 10" if you'd like to see the meet-your-meat conclusion but go ahead and rent the film in order to finish it. "Baraka" was shot in Todd-AO format which is a ludicrously high-format, widescreen film that basically makes everything look like super-saturated iMAX hard candy.

Minstallation!

OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 3, 4:00 - 6:00 PM.
CREATIVE ALLIANCE AT THE PATTERSON
3134 EASTERN AVENUE, BALTIMORE

The Minstallation Gallery at the Creative Alliance is pleased to present View from a Vista-Dome: Dazzle Cities, a new miniature installation by New York artist James Reeder.

NYC's James Reeder is known for his small, atmospheric photographs of delicately constructed model environments. Though related in concept to photographers like Thomas Demand, whose images of constructed spaces are mistaken for the real thing, Reeder's images are distorted and the models clearly handmade. Depicting blurry cityscapes or the aftermath of epic natural events, they feel simultaneously archaic and timeless, reducing colossal and long-enduring structures to fragile and transitory symbols of utopia.

Presented by artist/impresario R.L. Tillman, the newest addition to Baltimore's cultural landscape has already staked its position as the region's most vibrant miniature installation space. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to spread their wings in this intimate yet ambitious gallery, with 225 square inches of floor space and generous 14 inch ceilings.

For more information about this show, visit bmoreart and the minstallation blog.

Playthings

PLAYTHINGS, a group show featuring work involving/inspired by/intended
for the act of play will be opening at the Metro Gallery next
Thursday, May 8th. The opening will be fun, this is a personal
promise. Please come. It is from 7 to 11pm, and the gallery is located
at 1700 N Charles Street. AND don't quote me on this, but I heard
there might be free booze. I will get back to you on this.

PLAYTHINGS features work by (in no particular order): Ben Fino-Radin,
Milana Braslavsky, Dina Kelberman, Alex Worthington, Ryan Cecil Smith,
Natalie Jenison, Noel Friebert, Nik Pence, Meghan Clay, Michael
Gerkovich, Giuliana Pinto, and Stefani Levin.