Sculpture by the Sea

Alright, I'll give her one more day......and if I don't see something new posted, I'm taking her off my favourites.

Well you people, I've finished my exams, and if that bitch goes well, then I'll get my diploma next semester. It was a pretty bad exam, with the answers to be typed. TYPED I tell ye. So if you don't know your shit, well you might as well print a blank page with your name on it and hand that right in. Thank god I had decent typing skills, but what about those poor suckers out there who are getting by with only 2 fingers? Doesn't seem fair does it? Oh well, that's what happens.

But what the hell was I doing BEFORE then, in the months gone by since October 27? Well, there's this little something I like to call stressing. Work was giving me the shits, and as the exam date loomed closer, I should have been freaking out even more, but instead, I was channelling all my frustrations into going out and having a good time. As you do.

The first port of call was this little beachside scenario called "Sculpture by the Sea". Some of you may have heard of that before... it's practically famous. It's how art should be, you know what I mean? Out there in the open, pieces of it just littering the beach and coastline. That's what we need, tasteful art in tasteful surroundings. Would you look at that? They could put anything out there on those rocks and call it art.

And for your viewing pleasure, I've uploaded a few pics of my own, taken with my very own camera that I ripped off of work. Ah, the irony.

Left: That's noice. Unusual. Different. In fact, it's one of my favourites from the whole collection. Should have seen the thing in action, swaying around like that, on a couple of invisible axes. The thing even won an award. Pretty mesmerizing. Sorry, you just had to be there. Hmm, I really should find out what it was called. Got the souvenir book around here somewhere...

Update 26 April 2008: The artist is Kaoru Matsumoto of Japan, and the artwork is called cycle-90 (degree), a premonition of wind. It's made of stainless steel and aluminium bearings. It's worth AUD$38,000.



Right: This one here was done by a Japanese artist, and how much would you pay for it?
AUD$85,000, in unmarked, non consecutive bills. Cause it's made of one piece of black granite that's been carved out to perfection, that's what. Look at the workmanship in that thing. Alright, I really have to find that booklet. But just look at that. Smooth as a baby's bum on the surface, and made to look like it's been twisted like a pretzel. You just wanna eat it. Or, maybe not. Mmm, pretzel.

Update: 26 April 08: The piece called oushi - zokei 2007, by the artist Keizo Ushio, who "hopes that a lot of children will touch the sculpture because he's looking forward to what they feel." Awww.




Left: It's a little bottle car. It was half filled with water at the time, and I can just imagine sea creatures renting it out for day trips on the sea bed. This thing runs on H2O, and I love how it just looks like it just got washed up from someone's carhole under the sea.

Alright alright, I'll find the name of it.

Update 26 April 2008: This "pot wagon" was made by Yoshio Nitta of Japan, from copper, resin with fibreglass and stainless steel. The artist's statement is: "I would like to carry the beautiful sky to your mind". It's priced at $AUD35,000. If only it could run like a real car. I'm surprised that I've chosen all these works by Japanese artists.

I've been up to a few other things too, but that's just one of the many adventures of Linhy. Just when you were about to delete me off your favourites. Tsk, tsk, for shame.