The subway has always been an endless animation, with hands of various sizes coming and going, getting strung firmly for a bit and then letting go. Also the great stories of the subway, sometimes you hear a life’s story by the time you get off. Often strange and sometimes with villains in various disguises. . .
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More MESSAGES WRITTEN DURING TODAY LONDON – THE FLIP SIDE PERFORMANCE ON LEICESTER SQUARE IN LONDON /
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on another note - Lisbon smelled so good this one morning.. i don't think i have ever been in a place so fragrant with sea smell... that early and that airporty.. 7 am\
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Messages written during Today London - The Flip Side Performance on Leicester Square in London /
Happy Bright Friday - have your Memory Replaced with cats. /
Have your Memory Replaced with cats. This pic was indeed taken on Union Square so these aren't ordinary cats - they are freedom loving, new yorker, union square cats. Will explain the leashes later.
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Pics from my Memory Replacement performance.
it doesn't take too long before people grab the paints and the brushes. It is a beautiful thing to paint. And what brings people together is doing an entirely odd thing for an entirely odd reason.
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Today London - The Flip Side ! It was a blast.. also thanks to London Police and the two nice cops in a cruiser on The Mall - Thank you ! /
Ingredients of a Subway Car, pen and ink drawings installation, dimensions variable, 2016 /
Ingredients of a Subway Car, pen and ink drawings installation, dimensions variable, 2016
Ingredients of a subway car at Hudson Yards. I love this station and it is a nice home for animated hands and other objects and villains. .. I like setting up my installation in a porous and transient spaces.. with the station attendants pushing trash cans around it. Too bad my plans for Kings Cross in London din't materialize because I came down with the most unpleasant cold.. and wet. ..
New York things /
by robotorigami - via reddit
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMHIMssBYpo/
aka subwaycreatures
I love the subway.. people pay to go to the theater.. i go to the subway.
i have photographed many train stations and realized that i simply love inhabiting transient spaces,.. feel at home and make myself comfortable at bus stations, terminals and various corridors.. even parking lots, especially was fond of Tokyo & Kyoto stations.
more underground photographs:
http://dimmerlight.com/portfolio/some-kind-of-train-or-underground/
DIY Memory Replacement - Election Day /
Become Your Dream /
Never stop dreaming, New York /
Humpty-Dumpty, interactive simulation of pen and ink drawings /
Please, play in HD. Dip pen and ink drawings assisted by gravity. Created, animated and simulated with Maya and Unity. Soundscape with Garage Band - prerecorded the collision sounds and the soundscape is thus entirely simulated in real-time in Unity.
Humpty-Dumpty is an interactive simulation about a drawing of the same name: http://goo.gl/iEY06h Also starring New York Red: http://goo.gl/PYd2MN
Windows app ( opens dropbox ): https://www.dropbox.com/s/uk52tnixzt7jybm/humpty-dumpty-windows-app.zip?dl=0
OSX app ( opens dropbox ): https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1w7zkr26inst4t/humpty-dumpty-osx-app.app.zip?dl=0
Humpty-Dumpty is a landscape of the mind, it is about the battles of good and evil, the small ones in our minds.
Humpty-Dumpty - interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings /
I have everything /
This is a combination of two posts I wrote a year ago and decided to revisit as part of putting together the "I have everything project". In addition to an essay, the project also includes installations, collages, digitally manipulated photographs, photographs of various objects and a sound recording.
"I have everything" project started with ( even before ) moving from the Marina in San Francisco to a small room with a red chair in Harlem. The title I got from a message I scribbled over a Nordstrom catalog. It is so brash, of course no one ever has everything and it is factually incorrect. Because you ever only need one thing - the ability to think independently.
For centuries people found comfort and security in being told what to think. Peoples have been thinking the thoughts of kings and queens, the thoughts of their masters, the town elders , the pharaohs, the priests ( don't get me wrong I am religious but I argue and think about my religion and don't you ever take that from me). For if there's a great gift that the French gave to the world it is the opinion of the common man.
Now as part of this project, being a common man myself and also confronting the Occupy movement in New York, I made several sound recordings where I reflected on the question of what is it to have. Occupy had stratified people into the 99 and 1 percent, where there were some that had more than the others. I made a thought experiment of trying to determine what is it to have.
What is it to have? To hold? How is it that we are having it when we are not holding it? How do we have the things that we supposedly have like our limbs. We posses temporary control over a collection of molecules that responds to electrical stimuli? Is that the having? But we do own supposedly things that we neither hold nor electrically stimulate. How are we sure. It is a fascinating subject.
When I open a newspaper it is as if we never went through the Enlightenment. It is full of guided content and regurgitated narratives of sex, guns, and money. Have you ever wondered how many girlfriends Kant had, or Plato? Did you ever wonder how much money Van Gogh had? None.
No one ever tells you that the most important thing that you own, apart from your good health and the proper function of all your organs, is your ability to think independently. And the second thing is your ability to express and argue your opinion in public. These were the two Dreams of the Enlightenment.
In his Essay What Is Enlightenment? Kant defines Enlightenment as "man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance." For his second dream he says "the public use of one's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment to mankind."
Once you have traded your goods and services, obtained lodging and food, secured your home, sturdied your frame and medicated your body, feel free to use the greatest gift you may ever have, free thought.
I have everything, 19 x 11 inches, sharpies on the back of a Nordstrom catalog, 2011 - Mirena Rhee
I have everything II, 23.1 x 15.3 inches, digital collage, 2011 - Mirena Rhee
The paper dress I am wearing is a 30 x 40 inches mixed media collage over a c-print of my Lucasfilm W2:
I have everything paper dress, 30 x 40 inches, collage over c-print, 2011 - Mirena Rhee