New Mexico Spaceport Construction
One of a series of aerial photographs I made of the construction at the Spaceport America site in late October last. The pilot flew brilliantly and enabled me to get a set of perfect elevations of this 10,000 foot, 200 wide monster runway. This is the site where Virgin Galactic plan to launch their tourist flights, possibly in 2011.
Space Lands at Three White Walls, Birmingham
Its not often that an art exhibition gets two private views… however because of the poor weather on the 7th of January, my gallery, Three White Walls has graciously offered to host it again, hopefully more people will be able to come this time.
To celebrate this event and reward those who come, I will be providing a space themed cocktail. Now lets just cross our fingers that the Siberian Weather doesn’t return in the first week of February!
To attend please RSVP to 3whitewalls@btconnect.com
Some of the people who attended my private view last night were from Birmingham Photospace who are campaigning for a permanent world class venue for photography in Birmingham. Needless to say, I’m right behind them in this. Birmingham is a huge conurbation and whether or not one agrees with the spirit of the ‘Britain’s second city’ epithet as well as its form, it seems hard to deny that there is a big enough potential audience for a venue of that sort.
Thanks to all those who came, and for those who have an interest in photography and live anywhere close to Birmingham, make sure that you follow their blog or twitter feed.s
Front room, left wall
Front room, right wall
Jo, Sylvia and Naomi
Some photos from yesterday after finishing the hanging. I wasn’t sure about using the hook and line hanging system that the gallery had, but it was really fast compared to nails, rulers and all that paraphenalia. Three White Walls, and the Artlounge (who look after 3ww) provided four people who did most of the work hanging. I was very happy with the end result. The private view was quiet, but there were enough people to make the gallery feel inhabited. Considering the sub zero weather it was a pretty good turnout. Its posssible that there may be a second private view a couple of weeks from now so that people can get to it, though I have a suspicion this weather could last for weeks and not just a few days.
Millenium Images is an stock agency specialising in art photography. I’ve been a contributor there since 2004. Their blog features Space Lands in the news section today.
Forgot to blog this a week or two back, but its still there though no longer linked from the home page, so I am blogging it for the record and to keep this little link alive.
http://www.wired.co.uk/photos/wired-places/2009-12/21/space-lands.aspx
Exhibition Loaded
Van and the rescue car
Saab 2 also marooned
A sorry sight
My thinking that I was going to drive to Birmingham this morning and hang my exhibition now looks horrifically optimistic. Having loaded everything into the van, started it up and left the engine running to get everything nicely warm I popped indoors to get the latest state of play on the motorways (moving slowly but moving). Going outside ready to forge into the wild snowing reaches of oxfordshire I could hear that the engine had stopped dead… and it would not start. Other car to the rescue. Managed to get it to the spot where the jump starting could take place and then got it stuck as well. Bonanza. So now I’m waiting for my brilliant engineer from next door to come over and find out if the van battery needs replacing. In the process I taked to half a dozen countrymen who drive vans on a daily professional basis and they all advised me not to take the van out today. Apparently, if you get it stuck, theres no way to get a van moving again. Mother nature has a way of sticking an oar in, so my desert pictures, shot in 100 degree sun are today frozen in to our chilly chilternian snowscape.
This week feels a bit of a phoney week because so many people are off work, hence I was surprised when DHL turned up at my door bearing the catalogs I produced for my exhibition opening next week. Printing is great and I’ve put a section showing all the images that will be on display at the back.
If hospital radio conjures up an image of Alan Partridge soundalikes playing their hitlist from the early 1980’s, then think again. This hospital radio station was designed by Studio 4 architecture and exudes coolness, perched on the edge of a vast atrium within Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
I’m a rank novice when it comes to 3d modelling, but I played around with Google Sketchup a few months ago and worked my way through a few chapters of ‘Google Sketchup for Dummies’ which is an excellent book. I’m having an exhibition in January in Birmingham and this is my first attempt at modelling the layout. Initially I started with a series of rectangles on the walls, but really, wouldn’t it be nicer to have some white space as well? With six weeks till Christmas I guess I can’t hang about, I need to get prints and framing organised reasonably quickly as there is bound to be a Christmas rush.
