the inspiration of night

The Art of Alex Chinneck

Uniting the disciplines of art, architecture, theatre and engineering, the work of British sculptor Alex Chinneck is monumental in ambition and impact, producing contextually responsive interventions that animate the place in which they stand.

Identified from the top:

Open to the Public

From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes

A pound of Flesh for 50p

Take my Lightning but Don’t Steal my Thunder

JUNGLE

Gifastic Episode 7

Collaboration by animation students from different schools

Matthieu Fouquet @matthieu-fouquet (EMCA) Arthur Blavier @thevipersnake (ATI) Lauren Adassovsky @lauren-adassovsky (CalArts) Neil Ingle @000000-art (Animation Workshop) Marie de Durat @billandashley (Méliès) Mathias Demongeot @alpaganimateur (Méliès) Myrtille Pautet @myrtille-pautet (ISG) Roxane Loisy @roxaneloisy (ISG) Laurine Kotte @kolauri (EMCA)

Theme : Jungle Colors : blue #00cacc, yellow #ffff9b, liht green #92ab4f, dark green #10593c

Titles: Matthieu Fouquet @matthieu-fouquet TOP: Left: Lauren Adassovsky @lauren-adassovsky Right: Laurine Kotte @kolauri SECOND LINE: Left: Mathias Demongeot @alpaganimateur Right: Myrtille Pautet @myrtille-pautet THIRD LINE: Left: Neil Ingle @000000-art Right: Marie de Durat @billandashley BOTTOM: Left: Roxane Loisy @roxaneloisy Right: Arthur Blavier @thevipersnake

Fruit as Characters 

You can follow his artworks on Twitter @hamacream where he always posts/tweet his arts.

Here are some samples of his artwork:

Ranjit Bhatnagar is collaborating one-on-one with lots of different artists this month for a project he calls Collab Feb. I’m one of them. Last week, he and I made this harp/activity table.

If the video above isn’t working (Tumblr and Flickr don’t play well together), you can see it here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ranjit/25283597537/in/album-72157692917040575/

I first met Ranjit eleven(?) years ago via the thing-a-day project. I was making a drawing everyday for a month; he was building a new musical instrument every day. I burned out pretty quickly, but he kept going, making hundreds of instruments for every February day, year after year. Occasionally I helped out, including performing on his instruments as part of the Glass Bees in 2009 and 2010.

Both of us have some experience hacking on stringed instruments, but safe to say we still found new things to try while inventing this harp. We very much made it up as we went along, starting with whatever we brought in our knapsacks and whatever we scavenged from NY Resistor’s scrap piles. Every time I wanted to run out to the hardware store to get the “right” part, Ranjit steered us towards repurposing something we already had. Everything kept changing as we went, as it should be with improvisatory collaboration. The finished instrument turned out to be remarkably viable.

My favorite new discovery was learning you can make a drum head by blasting tyvek with a heat gun. My least favorite new discovery was learning you can put a hole in tyvek by blasting it with a heat gun. Oopsie.

The video up top shows us both playing the finished harp. There’s another video at the bottom of me playing the halfway finished instrument. (If it’s not working, try this link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ranjit/28347821129/in/album-72157692917040575/)

I’m very glad Ranjit invited me to participate in this! I’m enjoying following his other collaborations and look forward to our next project together.