"All kinds of impressive" – about sums up this very cool creation

Two robots, two big screens, and a whole lot of projection mapping.

Friend Ed Brown described this: "Whoa. That's all kinds of impressive."

I have to agree.



The producers of this work describe it thus:

My photos of all the Enlighten projections for the National Art Gallery, Canberra

Over several hours on Sunday night, I photographed all of the wonderful projections on the landmark buildings in Canberra's parliamentary triangle. There are too many for a single blog post, so I'm splitting them up by building.



This set is displayed on the National Art Gallery, and obviously draws heavily on the current major display...

My photos of all the Enlighten projections for the National Library, Canberra

Over several hours on Sunday night, I photographed all of the wonderful projections on the landmark buildings in Canberra's parliamentary triangle. There are too many for a single blog post, so I'm splitting them up by building.



This one is titled The Federation Game:

My photos of all the Enlighten projections for Questacon, Canberra

Over several hours on Sunday night, I photographed all of the wonderful projections on the landmark buildings in Canberra's parliamentary triangle. There are too many for a single blog post, so I'm splitting them up by building.



These photos are from Questacon, also known as the National Science Centre. There are quite a few in this set, all with gorgeous science themes.

My photos of all the Enlighten projections for Old Parliament House, Canberra

Artist: Martin Ollman

Over several hours on Sunday night, I photographed all of the wonderful projections on the landmark buildings in Canberra's parliamentary triangle. There are too many for a single blog post, so I'm splitting them up by building.



These photos are of the Old Parliament House, now also known as the Museum of Australian Democracy.



As a very long façade, it must have been a massive undertaking to light up this building, so there aren't many individual changes. It does look lovely with the reflections across the pond.

The Beach House - readings and writings for the week 10-16 July

Here's the Paper.Li e-mag of my readings and writings for the week.

Gail Mabo discusses her art - and the meaning of reconciliation

Gail Mabo - the photo does not do justice
to the beautiful vibrant colours in the artwork

This National Reconciliation Week, my dayjob workplace (the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations) held a panel discussion featuring people from the department's executive, Reconciliation Australia and Gail Mabo.

Gail is the daughter of Eddie Koiki Mabo and Boneta Mabo - her father being the person with his name forever bound to Native Title rights thanks to his tenacious activism and Australia's High Court.

Gail is an accomplished painter, and three of her pieces were on display at the event. She talked with me afterwards about the stories behind them. And I learnt a few things along the way:

Live @ BAC - free waterfront concert this Friday evening

This looks like an interesting free music event for those in North Canberra.

At the Belconnen Arts Centre, on the lakeside, Emu Bank, 5.30 to 7.00pm Friday 4 May.

It's hard to beat the beautiful BAC lakeside backdrop!

Oh - and while you are there, you'll be able to check out the latest art on exhibit in the galleries.

Disclosure: I'm on the BAC Board (but have stood down during my ACT election campaign).

Whoa! Frozen jellyfish lamps?

Well here's a turn-up for a business idea...

Take a jellyfish. A real jellyfish, which has 'died of natural causes' and been harvested by these lamp makers.

Freeze it in liquid nitrogen and encase it in crystalline epoxy.

They glow in the dark, due to the jellyfishes’ natural bioluminescence.

They aren't ridiculously expensive, and there are paperweight and even small pendant versions...

It's a hopeless old-world website, and there is really no information about the claims about the harvesting, so approach with some environmental diligence.

Belconnen's giant owl is gone!

http://instagr.am/p/JowvRRE0YD/

The giant owl sculpture in Belconnen that has been the source of so much debate is gone. Just the concrete base remains…

Here’s how the mystery unfolded on Twitter on Friday night, to a deal of amusement, courtesy of Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope’s feed (I tidied up RTs and rearranged to make sense to non-tweeps), and with an interesting reveal at the end:

@cutflat: Alright, who stole the owl sculpture from Belconnen!?

@davpope: IS THIS TRUE, BELCONNEN? 

@davpope: PLEASE BE GONE

@cutflat: If not stolen, at least missing or moved. Didn't get a good look because I was driving past.

@davpope: STILL WAITING, BELCONNEN 

@ludicrause: @davpope earthquake!

@davpope: ALRIGHT, WHO SAID THAT? WAS THAT YOU SCULLIN? SIT UP STRAIGHT WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU

Soundwaves brought to life - simply mesmerising. Reminds me of my physics classes...

This is a gorgeous representation of how sounds waves oscillate. The video clip is about seven minutes and here's betting you watch it right through. It's that sort of video.

The setup has a thin cord between two spinning discs. As people move close to the wave, it changes form with the air disturbance - just like with sound waves.

Seeing the real Van Gogh - a revelation...

This is an intriguing blog post about colour vision deficiency. Kazunori Asada writes about how he experienced a gallery of art works painted to represent how thing look to a person with colour vision deficiency. He then explains how how developed software to replicate this effect. He looked at various Van Gogh works and what he saw was a revelation.

This is Starry Nights as I see it. Vivid to be sure, but a bit as if someone has overcranked the gamma. Some of the colours are interesting but let's be frank - a bit weird.

Enlightening our national landmarks - beautiful work

Questacon

No doubt it's been a hit this year the way the Enlighten Festival has been lighting up our national landmark buildings in Canberra.

These great photos were taken by Simon Williams (@SimonRV7, Google+), used with permission.

National Gallery of Australia

Clever timelapse video of changing graffiti art in Canberra

Most legal wall murals are painted once, and with luck remain undamaged for years.

But with this work in the City Walk of Canberra's CBD, the artists kept changing the work, and created a fantastic timelapse of the resulting animations.

Enjoy!




via @AmandaBresnan1

"The Scream" animated - to Pink Floyd! Brilliant.

The pieces fit beautifully here. Pink Floyd's iconic music and Edvard Munch's world-renowned 1893 painting "The Scream" brought to life. Enjoy!


The Scream from Sebastian Cosor on Vimeo.

Via Kuriositas

I don't know art, but... I love these works

British sculptor Antony Gormley reconstructing the human form...

What to do with old encyclopaedias? This!

It seems criminal to toss those huge old books out. But they are so out of date. The world moves on - at an amazing pace.

Well what an awesome use for them this is. Landscapes carved from books, by Guy Laramee.

Taking it another step, you could actually carve a piece that relates to the particular book.

Some brilliant and witty street art

You have to love some of these pieces.

Beautiful paintings - kind of steam punk meets sci fi

Twitter kicked up this art - by Russian artist Alex Andreyev.

Some of the works are a bit haunting, others could happily grace the covers of science fantasy novels.

Amazing walking 'roller coaster'

This is an awesome little project - art you can interact with. It's in Germany. And from the looks of the queues, a lot of other people think its pretty cool too.

Pity there isn't a twist in that loop so you could walk all the way around that bit too...

There are 16 pictures on the website - worth checking out.