disinterested.

coheed & cambria in auckland. pretty good eh. but i just stood still on the same spot for the whole concert. if i had listened to their music in my teens i would have had loved them. now it's just pretty cool. but i didn't like powerstation, not a good place for "concerts", etc. having it in a bar is so degrading.

and yo, where's the passion, where's the rage?
it's in me, okay!! it's in me!!

art photography in Germany today
26/3/2008 st paul st 15h

Barbara Honrath talked about German contemporary photography after 1945 in Museum collections in numerous cities spread out in Germany. Also put photography into traditional painting genres into "portraits", "landscape", "architecture", "interior", and "still life", and showed works by Thomas Struth, Jitka Hanzlová, Simone Nieweg, Beate Gütschow, Thomas Florschuetz, Heidi Specker, Candida Höfer, Beatrice Minda, Christopher Muller, Stephaine Senge, Frank Breuer, Wolfram Hahn, Joachim Brohm, Peter Piller, and Jörg Sasse. I personally found the photos of Peter Piller most interesting, especially "More Beautiful from Above (2004)". The housing says a lot about a culture and the mass influence, etc. blah. yea. good talk, good introduction. a bit tiring though.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/sg/pro/artphoto/index.htm

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古人智力游戏代表作——七巧板

远古新石器时代，河姆渡文化遗址出土的榫和卯。

清代童叶庚对古代七巧板和蝶几图进行研究后，产生"环规为圆，合矩成方，千变万化，十色五光"的方案，制成十五巧板，取名益智图。此名源起《足开发心思》之意。

武氏祠汉代墓室画像，其中女娲手执的就是矩。中国1813年出版的《七巧图合壁》一书中称，七巧源于勾股法，而勾股法的基础是"矩"，这是最早将七巧玩具与数学相联系的记载。

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Fwd: 'THE GRAVY' LAUNCH EXHIBITION

'The Gravy' is back on TVNZ Showcase for another series exploring Aotearoa's creative culture so please join us to celebrate with an exhibition of work featuring:

PETER MADDEN, SAM RULZ, HAYLEY KING, LIYEN CHONG, DOMINIC HOEY, NADINE SMITH, JARED DAVIDSON, DEREK SONIC THUNDERS, JOHNNY McCORMACK, SILENCE

When: Wednesday 26th March 5.30 - 7.30pm
Where: Gallery 3, St Paul St Gallery, 39 Symonds St, Auckland Central

it's got nothing to do with me, so foking leave it.

Maria Callas

A Documentary about Maria Callas
directed by Tony Palmer

yea, i think she's cool.
Part 01 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=mjAyPfK5NJY
Part 02 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=MLy08l6e2Wk
Part 03 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=nIEI7xTpFOo
Part 04 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=9RAKgZGD9BI
Part 05 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=OyelEm6m2kY
Part 06 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=VZr6TLwihDs
Part 07 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=IT5sNScsJAo
Part 08 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NOY_WuFVw
Part 09 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMYiRiHCIY
Part 10 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=CRPXxxbdf1Q

9h30 vendredi le 14 mars 2008 || rm103 Boris Dornbusch and Daniel Webby || I always say the contrary to what you say I always say the same as you


Collaboration
Starting point - Casten Holler video of twins saying "I always say the contrary to what you say" or "I always say the same as you" to each other.|| the visual starting point: the basketball court at the back of the mt st studio (Boris) || National sport of Croatia, and the loop/basketball has the same colours as the Croatian national colour. (interesting additional information) --> does it change the way we view/experience this work?

what's the relationship between Boris' and Daniel's work:
does it matter which is whose? || inside/outside || viewing out/ breaking in || the basketball as the detergent (??) || picture/painting: can be viewed as still image(s) and may have more room for narratives to come in || failure || what's the dialogue? || difference between artist-run spaces and dealer galleries? what's the subject? || medium of video? time, expression of time? || artists - critics - collectors, etc. || experience v.s. documentation

Do I understand any of the written text? How do the experiences differ between the 2 (or 1?) work? || the failed [dead] suicide bomber basketball in the end room looks as if was set up to tell a sad story, does the message on the phone says "mission accomplished" or "that's it, nothing more".. is the phone necessary if it was only tied to the ball for the recoding purpose? I don't think the phone took part in the process - the phone was not attached when the ball broke in the window; i even suspect if it was the very ball that did the breaking.. not convinced but a good story told. yea? like my first reaction to the collision of the twin towers: nah, it can't be true. pop a song in your head n have it repeat a 1000 times, you'd gradually grow to like it. tell the same story 100 times, no matter how unbelievable it is, people accept it being 'true'.. and vise-versa. || how we generate/pass on information in relation to the critical mass is h*ll-yeah a mass. || The video work gives a quite romantic feel, a lot softer than the real objects and it seems more open-ended.. i personally enjoy the repetitive action of shooting the ball into the loop, and since we don't see the people doing it, the basketball stand becomes a symbolised object.. like a goal... or... don't know, somehow your attention is fixed in the double frames against the grey background. camera angle looking down but projection level forced [me] looking up... seems educative. therefore we had a 2-hour session on it but nah, i said nothing.

Two technologies have transformed the way humans communicate.
One is the toilet, which whisks excrement away from the body of its maker before it can be transformed into a sign; the second is movable type, which reifies the disconnect between body and sign.

- Sharpe, Matthew. "Paul Chan's Alternumerics" Art on Paper Jul/Aug 2007: 28

Just something I read today, thought it was kinda interesting. I love my dog.

Chinese Traditional Style Dress, etc.

The patter of ancient dress were classified into two groups:
"Coat-and-skirt" worn mainly by women;
"One-piece" by men.

Stringent rules are made for the colour of ancient dress and adornment:
Yellow is the most valuable colour as a symbol of centre;
Green, red, white and black symbolise the East, the South, the West and the North respectively.
They are the pure colours applied by the emperors and officials. The common people could only apply the secondary colours.

Patterns:
The geometrical patterns, pictures of animals and plants were widely adopted on ancient dress and adornments. Before Shag (商) and Zhou (周), patterns were primitive, succinct and abstract.
After Zhou (周), compositions of the patterns became more balanced and symmetric. The attention to composition carried on through Tang (唐) and Song (宋).
From Ming (明) and Qing (清), most patterns became more realistic. The depictions of flowers, animals and mountains-and-waters were true to life.

Variety and consistency in clothing were roughtly established by the era of the Yellow Emperor (黃帝) and the Emperors Yao and Shun (堯舜) (about 4500 years ago); sophistication and refinement of clothing in the Shang (商) Dynasty (16th - 11th century B.C.) were demonstrated in remains of woven silk and hemp articles..

Darker colours were favoured over lighter ones in traditional Chinese clothing, so the main colour of ceremonial clothing tended to be dark while bright, elaborate tapestry designs accented. Lighter coloured clothing was worn more frequently by the common people for everyday and around the house use.

The Chinese associate certain colours with specific seasons:
Green represents spring;
red symbolises summer;
white represents autumn;
and black symbolises winter.

External - elegance
Internal - symbolism

Kelly, Ellsworth. Line Form Color. Harvard university Art Museums, 1999.

I propose to create a book which will be an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements, aiming to establish a new scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, providing a way for painting to accompany modern architecture.
There has been a growing awareness among young painters, that painting return to the wall as in the days before the Renaissance. The scale of the painting and its placement will become a direct, spontaneous, visual experience. It will speak to people anonymously as did the art of Egypt, the art of the great periods of China and India, of Byzantium, and of Europe during the Middle Ages (the glass and sculpture of Chartres).
In America there is no painting to accompany contemporary architecture. Recently at New York City's Museum of Modern Art there was a "Symposium: Art with Architect re," headed by Philip Johnson. They were unable to solve their dilemma: "what kin of art should be used with the new United Nations building?" It was stated that American artists lacked the scale for working with modern architecture.
Creative painting today means easel painting, "the original oil painting," sold through galleries to private collectors, and to museums, to be hung on walls. This painting has no relation to the architectural wall; it is an expression of the artist's separate personality. I believe that artist should work directly with the architect, building as the architect builds.
Today, instead of the stained-glass of Chartres, Romanesque frescoes, Byzantine mosaics, Chinese calligraphy, Egyptian reliefs and sculpture, we have the cinema, the best-seller magazines and books, the radio and television, produced to "please," and for financial profit, not to teach, or to state an absolute truth.
Spirituality, the representation of nature, and the personality of the creator have been present, in varying degrees, in all the art that man has made. With the birth of easel painting, in the Renaissance, spirituality began to give way to the artist's personality.
Spiritual art in the past has had an immense scale, covering entire walls of buildings. Much of the art that has survived from the ancient civilisations has been monumental, and compared with the art of today, appears anonymous, while the art of the twentieth century is personal on a very much smaller scale.
The book I plan will be an alphabet of lines, forms, values and colours, having no written word. Linoleum cuts will be made from approximately fifty drawings. The plate size will be approximately 8" x 10".

Project for a Book: Line, Form and Colour
Ellsworth Kelly
November 1951

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Ellsworth Kelly first conceived Line Form Color in 1951 as a series of studies, both drawings and collages. Later that year he applied to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a grant to produce a book, "an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements," but the application was not successful. With this volume, Kelly has brought Line Form Color to completion. Its forty plates correspond to the original collages. This slipcased edition also includes an essay by Harry Cooper, curator of modern art at the Harvard University Art Museums.

English; Paperback; 108 Pages
ISBN-10: 1891771051; ISBN-13: 9781891771057
Publisher: Harvard university Art Museums; Pub date: May 01, 1999
Dimensions: 20 cm x 20 cm x 2 cm

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Don't read. Get paper, rods, blocks.
Set them out, paint them, build.
El Lissitzky, Of Two Squares, 1920

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colours & their meanings

The Meaning of Colours
Many reactions to colour are instinctual, universal and cross cultural boundaries.
"Colors also convey messages that go beyond ethnic, racial, or gender boundaries. According to a 1997 survey by Cooper Marketing Group, Oak Park, IL,
power is represented by the color scarlet red for 25% of respondents, black for 17% and bright violet blue for 13%. More than 55% of those surveyed
chose one of these three colors out of 100 colors. Fragility was most represented by pale pink (27%), white (9%), and pale lavender (9%)."

Other associations with colours are specific to a culture or regions. Mixing appropriate amounts of different colours however can neutralise inherent negative cultural connotations.

Web design which achieves successful marketing results is sensitive to the cultural, instinctual and iconic meanings of colour in relation to the product being promoted and considers the cultural backgrounds and gender of the targeted clientele. Avoiding the extremes of sheer garishness and boredom, effective design displays symphonic colour arrangements of shades, tints, tones and complementarities to tantalise and maintain interest. Adding textures too can alter colours - a roughly textured surface makes a colour seem darker, while a smooth surface lightens the same colour.

Colour trends may defy instinctual, cultural and iconic constraints - for example, the recent craze for vivid lime green. As Jill Morton says: "Psychologically, the 'anti-aesthetic' colors may well capture more attention than those on the aesthetically-correct list. History clearly demonstrates that this has been a prevalent trend in art since the turn of the 20th century, when Dada's urinals and snow shovels put an end to the era of Matisse and French Impressionism.

Red
European : Danger (stop signs), love (hearts), excitement (for sale signs)
China : Traditional bridal colour, good luck, celebration, happiness, joy, vitality, long life, summoning, the direction South. Chinese saying goes "when something is so red, it is purple" - red purple brings luck and fame.
Japan : life
India : Purity
Eastern : Joy (with white)
Hebrew : sacrifice, sin
Christian : sacrifice, passion, love
USA : Christmas (with green), Valentine's day (with white)
South Africa : Mourning
Australian aboriginals : the land, earth, ceremonial ochre
Cherokees : success
Hopi : the direction South
Romans : Red flag signified the onset of battle
Celtic : Death, afterlife
Feng Shui : Yang, Fire, good luck, money, respect, recognition, protection, vitality

Red : Energy, strength, passion, eroticism, cheerfulness, courage, element of fire, career goals, fast action, lust, desire, blood, vibrancy, driving forces, risk, fame, love, survival, war, revolution, danger, aggression, strength, power, determination, emotional intensity, sex, provoking, dynamic, stimulating, courage, bravery, good-tasting, force, leadership, drama, excitement, speed, heat, warmth, violence, attention, generosity, romance
Red stimulates metabolism, increases respiration rate, perspiration, appetite and raises blood pressure. Red is a strong masculine colour.
Red tends to promote images and text, making objects appear larger and closer, though less than yellow coloured objects. Bright red can be annoying if used over large areas and is useful as a iconic colour to encourage people to act quickly eg. on buy or click here buttons. An apetite stimulant, red is useful for promoting products associated with energy ... drinks, cars, sports and games.


Care is need using red in proximity with green ... as the old adage goes: 'Red and green should not be seen without something in between'.
Mixing bright blue and bright red is also not recommended ... the combination is very tiring on the eye.

Light red : joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, love, indecision
Dark red : willpower, rage, wrath, tenseness, vigour, anger, leadership, courage, yearning, malice, wrath
Maroon : Yang, indecisiveness


Pink
European : Feminine colour, baby girls
East India : Feminine colour
Japan : Popular with both sexes
Korea : trust
Feng Shui : Yin, love

Pink : Romance, love, friendship, femininity, truth, passivity, good will, emotional healing, peace, calming, affection, emotional maturity, caring, nurturing, sweet tasting, sweet smelling, ethereal, delicacy.
Pale pink : sweetness of youth, fragility
Vibrant pinks : high spirits, energy, youth


Orange
European : Autumn, creativity, harvest
Netherlands : Favourite colour (House of Orange)
Ireland : Protestants
USA : Halloween, cheap goods
Hinduism : Saffron (peachy orange) is a sacred color
Feng Shui : Yang, Earth, strengthens concentration, purpose, organization

Orange : warmth, energy, balance, enthusiasm, vibrancy, vitality, expansiveness, flamboyance, excitement, business goals, property deals, ambition, career, goals, general success, justice, legal matters, selling, action, attention-grabbing, the sun, friendly, inviting, intense, joy, strength, endurance, steadfastness, tropics, quick movement, wealth of the mind and knowledge, charity, growing things, fascination, friendliness, happiness, beginnings, heat, creativity, autumn, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, courage, earth, mental and appetite stimulatant, emotional lift, assurance, social force, health, warmth, attractiveness, cheerfulness, mood-lightening, uninhibited, independence, amiability, constructiveness, self-assuredness, cheap, low-budget, fun kids colour, youth
In restaurants, as orange is an appetite stimulant, orange decor encourages sales. Less passionate than red, orange still increases oxygen supply to the brain, stimulating mental activity. Popular amongst youth.
Orange backgrounds help images seem closer and larger, but avoid over-use. Useful for highlighting important elements, promoting food products and toys.
"As we turned our sights to orange, substantial research (including the data gathered at The Global Color Survey at www.colormatters.com and the Pantone Consumer Color Preference Study; dated June 1996) documented that orange is one of Americans' least favorite colors. ... In 1991, Forbes called attention to orange's mundane associations in its December 23 article, 'Does orange mean cheap?' Yes, it does."
Dark orange : autumn, deceit, distrust
Red orange : desire, sexuality, pleasure, domination, aggression, thirst for action
Bright orange : tangy citrus, health
Pale orange : apricot, coral, peach and melon are sophisticated


Brown
Colombia : discourages sales
Australian Aboriginals : colour of the land, ceremonial ochre
Feng Shui : Yang, Earth, industry, grounded

Brown : friendships, special events, earth, materialistic thoughts, hearth, home, outdoors, inexpensive, reliability, credibility, comfort, endurance, stability, simplicity, comfort, longevity, intimacy, tranquility, masculine, nurturing, contentment, strength, sensuality, productivity, passivity, fertility, generosity, dirt, substance, practicality, hard work
Brown is too low key if used broadly without texture or another color to enhance it. Useful for promoting food and outdoor products for work and play.
Reddish-brown : harvest, autumn
Beiges and tans : Yang, sophistication, neatness, conceals emotion
Copper : passion, money goals, professional growth, business productivity, career moves
Coffee browns : sophistication, richness, robustness, panache


Gold
World-wide : Success, high quality, money
Feng Shui : Yang, Metal, God consciousness

Gold : wealth, god, winning, safety, masculine power, happiness, playful humour, prestige, wisdom, love of spirit, meaning, purpose, awe, spiritual love,
quests of the heart, desire for power, mystic powers, higher mathematics, sciences, attainment, concentration.
Gold and navy (credibility) are the best combination for selling to men and the second best for selling to women.


Yellow
European : Hope, joy, happiness, hazards, cowardice, weakness, taxis
Asia : sacred, imperial
China : Nourishing, royalty
Egypt : Mourning
Japan : Courage
India : Merchants
Buddhism : wisdom
Feng Shui : Yang, Earth, auspicious, sunbeams, warmth, motion

Yellow : sun, intelligence, light, accelerated learning, memory, logical imagination, social energy, cooperation, organisation, breaking mental blocks, sunshine, joy, happiness, intellect, energy, cheerfulness, optimism, purity, enthusiasm, warmth, honour, loyalty, mental force, clarity, perception, understanding, wisdom, dishonesty, betrayal, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, disease, weakness, caution, cowardice, follower, curiosity, mellowness, confidence, humour, dreams, creativity, desire to improve, action, idealism, optimism, imagination, hope, summer, philosophy, uncertainty, restlessness, glory, enlightenment
Yellow stimulates mental activity, generates muscle energy and attracts attention - it is the colour most visible to the human eye. Thus yellow objects move to the forefront. Students who study in yellow rooms do better in exams. Cheerful yellow can be used to promote food especially in combination with other fruit and vegetable tones, children's and leisure products and is best used as a highlight. With overuse, yellow can be disturbing and promote anxiety. Babies cry more in yellow rooms. Yellow against black denotes a warning ... the sting of the bee.
Yellow is not a practical colour to use when selling expensive items to men ... they perceive it as an untrustworthy and childish ... and avoid yellow if you
wish to evoke safety and stability. Care is needed with shades of yellow as they can lose their warmth and appear dirty.
Dull yellow : caution, decay, sickness, jealousym aging
Light yellow : intellect, freshness, and joy
Ivory/cream : quiet, pleasantness, calm, understated elegance, purity, softness, more rich and warm than white


Green
China : Exorcism, green hats indicate a man's wife is cheating on him.
Japan : Life.
Islam : Hope - the cloak of the prophet was thought to be green, virtue - only those of perfect faith can wear green.
Ireland : Symbol of the entire country, Catholics
European/USA : Spring, new birth, go, safe, environmental awareness, Saint Patrick's Day, Christmas (with red)
USA : Money
Feng Shui : Yin, Wood, growing energy, refreshing, nurturing, balancing, harmony normalising, healing, health, peaceful, calming

Green : earth mother, physical healing, monetary success, abundance, fertility, tree & plant magic, growth, food, hope, personal goals, resurrection, renewal, youth, stability, endurance, freshness, nature, environment, tranquil, refreshing, quiet, hope, immortality, health, healing, good luck, renewal, youth, jealousy, inexperience, trees, grass, vigour, growth, harmony, responsiveness, generosity, safety, envy, misfortune, quietude, compassion, renewal, moderation, nurturing, diplomacy, calm, contemplation, joy, love, abundance, balance, self-control, inexperience, hope, good omens, soothing, sharing, dependability, friendliness
Green lowers blood pressure, relaxes the nervous system, calms and soothes the mind, stimulates creativity, and is an appetite suppressant. Green is easy on the eye and can improve vision. Images set in green backgrounds seem farther away. Green is popular in most cultures.
Useful as a marketing colour for organic, healthy and natural 'green' products.
Dark green : money, ambition, greed, jealousy, heaviness, prestige, promotes concentration
Yellow-green/lime green : sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy, nausea - don't use this colour for promoting food products as it's an appetite depressant.
Olive green : peace
Avocado : 60s and 70s refridgerators
Blue greens : most accepted colour group across gender lines


Turquoise
Ancient Persians : warding off evil eye
Turquoise : calming, emotional healing, protection, refreshing, sophisticated
Turquoise is equally popular with men and women. Mixes well with pale pinks and lavenders for a feminine look. Create a retro scenario
with turquoise and pink or art deco by combining it with white and black. Combined with grey, silver, terra cotta and tans, it produces a
southwestern USA look. With orange or yellow, it creates an innovative, fresh image suitable for sports-oriented sites.
Light Turquoise : feminine
Teal : sophisticated


Blue
European : soothing, "something blue" bridal tradition
Cherokees : defeat, trouble
Iran : mourning
China : immortality
Colombia : soap
Hinduism : the colour of Krishna
Judaism : holiness
Christianity : Christ's colour
Catholicism : colour of Mary's robe
Middle East : protection
Worldwide : 'safe' colour
Feng Shui : Yin, Water, calm, love, healing, relaxation, peace, trust, adventure, exploration

Blue : good fortune, communication, wisdom, protection, spiritual inspiration, calmness, reassurance, gentleness, fluidity, water, sea, creativity, peace,
calming, higher thoughts, mystery, sky, formality, travel, devotion, progress, quiet wisdom, freedom. betterment of humanity, love, trust, loyalty, intelligence, reassurance, artistry, compassion, inner strength, devotion, depression, sadness, tranquility, stability, unity, truth, understanding, confidence, acceptance, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, comfort, cold, technology, devotion, harmony, depth, faith, heaven, piety, sincerity, precision, intellect, sadness, consciousness, speech, messages, ideas, sharing, cooperation, idealism, sincerity, empathy, relaxation, affection, inspiration, friendship, patience, contemplation, infinity, harmony, non-threatening, dependability
Some believe blue slows the metabolism and suppresses the appetite. As it does not require the eye to focus, images and objects recede in blue backgrounds.
With overuse, can create feelings of cold. Although also popular with women, blue is the predominant favourite colour of males and is suited to web sites involving and promoting technology, medical products, cleanliness, air, sky, water, sea and automotives. Blue is the favourite colour of more than half of the world's people - it is the colour least disliked by most cultures.
High impact designs can be created with combinations of blue, red and yellow. Combinations of light and dark blues can create feelings of trust.
Pale Blue : ethereal, delicate, calming, health, healing, tranquility, understanding, softness
In combination with pinks and pale yellows, creates the image of spring.
Aqua : freshness, pristine, vigour, movement, dramatic, confidence, strength, individualism, eccentricity, humour, fearlessness, festivity
Royal Blue : richness, superiority, cold
Dark blue : depth, expertise, stability, credibility (especially with gold), intellect, wisdom, corporate colour, warmth, knowledge, power, integrity, seriousness, knowledge, health, decisiveness, law, order, logic, dependability, serenity
Combining dark and lighter shades of blue creates a conservative and sophisticated look.


Purple
Thailand : Mourning
European : Royalty
Catholicism : Mourning, death, crucifixion
Feng Shui : Yin, spiritual awareness, physical and mental healing

Purple : influence, third eye, psychic ability, spiritual power, self assurance, hidden knowledge, dignity, high aspirations, royalty, spirituality, nobility, ceremony, mystery, transformation, wisdom, enlightenment, sophistication, cruelty, arrogance, intuition, dreams, unconscious, invisible, telepathy, empathy, imagination, deja vu, universal spirit, spiritual connection, deeper truth, nobility, wealth, extravagance, dignity, independence, magic, creativity, energy, self-confidence, ego, ambition, fame, luxury, big profits, richness, sensuality, elegance, contemplation, meditation, majesty, lesbianism, Wicca, New Age spirituality, paganism, conceit, arrogance, nausea
Almost 75 percent of pre-adolescent children prefer purple to all other colors, making bright purple effective for promotion of children's products. Light purple is useful for feminine designs. Excessive exposure to purple may cause people to become sullen, withdrawn and ill-at-ease with their surroundings. Purple is a polarising colour - people either love it or hate it.
Lavender : Yang, sexual indecision, malleability, romance, nostalgia, feminity
Dark purple : gloom, sadness, frustration, royalty, richness
Mauve : Yang, world consciousness
Violet : Meditation, creativity, concentration, quietness, creative force, beauty, inspiration, artistry, music, chivalrous love, excellence, ethereal, sensuality,
responsibility, sacrifice
Blue purple : mystical
Red purple : sensual, quirky


White
European : Marriage, angels, hospitals, doctors, peace, milk
Japan : Mourning, white carnation means death
China : Death, mourning
India : Unhappiness
Eastern : Funerals
Feng Shui : Yang, Metal, death, mourning, ancestal spirits, ghosts, poise, confidence

White : spirituality, goddess, peace, higher self, purity, virginity, reverence, simplicity, cleanliness, humility, precision, innocence, youth, birth, winter,
snow, good, sterility, cold, clinical, sterility, clarity, perfection, innocence, virginity, goodness, light, fairness, safety, positivity, faith, coolness, charity, successful innovations, union, self-sacrifice, holiness, feminine divinity, pristine, chastity, positivity
All white rooms can be uncomfortable with a stark atmosphere. White is useful for a background or accent colour as it highlights other colours. White is perceived by the eye as a brilliant colour.
White can indicate simplicity with high-tech products and safety and cleanliness with medical products.


Silver
Feng Shui : Yin, Metal, trustworthiness, romance.
Silver : glamous, distinguishment, high tech, industrial, graceful aging, telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry, intuition, dreams,
astral energies, female power, communication, goddess, ornate riches, sleekness, modernity
To create a high-tech look, use silver with other colours. Silver works well combined with gold and white to promote a feeling of control and power.
Silver and other reflectors are strong eye attractors and are associated with life-giving water.


Grey
Feng Shui : Yin, Metal, dead, dull, indefinite

Grey : security, reliability, intelligence, staid, modesty, dignity, maturity, solid, conservative, practical, old age, sadness, boring, practicality,
professional, sophisticated, durability, quality, quiet, conservativeness, gloominess, sadness


Black
European : Funerals, death, mourning, rebellion, cool, restfulness
China : Colour for young boys
Thailand : Bad luck, unhappiness, evil
Judaism : Unhappiness, bad luck, evil
Australian Aboriginals : colour of the people, ceremonial ochre
Feng Shui : Yin, Water, money, income, career success, emotional protection, power, stability, bruises, evil

Black : protection, repelling negativity, binding, shapeshifting, power, sexuality, sophistication, formality, elegance, classy, wealth, power, mystery, fear, evil, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, remorse, anger, underground, modern music, space, high quality, bad luck, formality, reservedness, dignity, elegance, secretiveness, fear of the unknown, night, emptiness, dirtiness, sophistication, strength of character, dramatic, authority, prestige, grief, anger, reliability, strong, classic, strength, anti-establishment, modernism, serious
Black is an excellent technical colour and it assist targetting a sophisticated high-end market or a youth market to add mystery.
Over a large area, black can be depressing. Though black backgrounds can enhance perspective and depth, they diminish readibility of text. Useful for web sites for art and photography to help other colours to vibrate

this life

on a parti dix ans de merde
sans pouvoir border la terre
au bout de la onzième année
on a monqué de provisions

buried in your lies i see through your smiles and swear that i will never never waste another drop of tear for someone so disrespectful to what i had given and shared all is fair in love and war all is fair when i agree to play thus all is fair when i say you fucking disgrace only by making a fool of myself i redeem my consciousness and i burst

holy crap i knew it was you!!

Think Colour

Think Colour: Art is Never Just Black & White. Porirua City, New Zealand: Pataka Porirus museum of arts & culture, 2001.

In Maori cosmology, life evolves from absolute darkness, the intense night, the deep night, the dark night. From the wind, and the rain, and the intense energy, come the first signs of light -- the rising sun. From the rising sun, the wind, the rain, and the energy, comes the personification of the dawn maiden -- bursting into light, into colour, to embrace her mother, the planet earth. From the world of light -- come al living things. Colour, like music, transcends all cultures and barriers. It is a universal form of communication, and like its primeval parent the sun, it warms the heart and soul. Darcy Nicholas

Exhibition catelogue for "Think Colour" group exhibition in the Pataka Museum of arts & Culture, 28 October 2000 - 18 February 2001. This publication brings together New Zealand painting colourists and investigates these questions:

- What lies behind New Zealand's passion for black?
- Why do artists eschew strong and vibrant colour in favour of a restrained palette
- Why has black become such a significant colour in New Zealand painting?
- Can it be that our passion for black, which is so intimately associated with our national identity, is reflective of a lingering puritanism, an emotional reticence in our national psyche?

1704: Opticks.

Sir Isaac Newton observed that light passed through a prism refracts into a scale of colours.
Scientist Thomas Young discovered that primary colours [red, yellow, blue] could be used to create all the colours in the solar spectrum [the colours of the rainbow].
Eugène-Michel Chevreul established as scientific 'laws' that (a) 'contiguous colours influence and modify each other'; and (b) each primary colour is intensified optically by its complemetary. The principles of harmony and contrast of colours: and their applications to the arts.

1865 Eugène Delacroix, colour theory
1905 Monet's palette: white, cadmium yellow, vermillion and deep madder, cobalt blue and emerald greed.

'Liberation of colour' - colour as an element independent of subject in its own right.
Art et Critique, 1890. Maurice Denis: '... a picture, before being a horse, a nude or some kind of anecdote' as 'essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.'

See NZ Artists:

• Gretchen Albrecht (b.1943 Auckland)
• Philippa Blair (b.1945 Auckland)
• Jeff Brown (b. 1964 Nelson)
• Matthew Browne (b.1959 London)
• Philip Clairmont (1949 - 1984)
• Max Gimblett (b. 1935 Auckland)
• Rudolph Gopas (1913 - 1983)
• Jeffrey Harris (b. 1949 Akaroa)
• Emily Karaka (b.1952 Auckland)
• Len Lye (1901 - 1980)
• Rob McLeod (b. 1948 Glasgow)
• Milan Mrkusich (b. 1952 Dargaville)
• John Reynolds (b. 1956 Auckland)
• Philip Trusttum (b. 1946 Raetihi)

Martha Rosler

About Martha Rosler (born July 29, 1943)
http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/about/index.html
"Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and
writes criticism. She has lectured extensively nationally and
internationally. Her work in the public sphere ranges from everyday
life — often with an eye to women's experience — and the media to
architecture and the built environment."

Documents of Dissent - Martha Rosler
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_3_89/ai_71558212
"Political art, we are often told, comes in two modes. One is the
universal cry against injustice which resonates across time and
geographic borders, transcending the often forgotten circumstances
that inspired its creation. In this category lie the dark nightmares
of Goya's Los Caprichos and the shriek Of rage which Picasso's
Guernica lifts up against the atrocities inflicted on the innocent
victims of war."

Project: Unsettling the Fragments (Erschütterung der Fragmente)
http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/skulptur-projekte/kuenstler/rosler/index_html#projekt
Martha Rosler asks why history must be portrayed as seamless, for is
it not the contradictions that ensure that an urban community remains
vital?"

Film & Videos by
http://ubuweb.com/film/rosler.html
Semotics of the Kitchen (1975)
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977)
A Simple Case for Torture (1983)

Exhibiting "Martha Rosler": A feminist response to Martha Rosler,
Positions in the Life World.
http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/A-Feminist-Response-To-Martha-Rosler.html
"Martha Rosler's practice has played a crucial part in breaking the
modernist myth that art was a domain apart from society and immune to
politics and power. She has always made work for circulation in
galleries and museums and recently confirmed that she "has no
intention of giving up on the museum and gallery audience."(5) At the
same time, though, a commitment to reaching a wider public beyond the
museum and gallery-going audience is fundamental to her practice."