Clowed types

These are the cloud types, there prity interesting. Alto and stratuse clouds are good they mean high pressure and god wether. Cumulus clouds are a shin of pressure dropping and bad wether on the way and nimbostratus means low pressure and rain!

Moveable feasts

This book isnt as good as the one below as it takes a little more skill involdved, like building a fire and stuff, but it gives really good, simple, student freindly recipies.
I'd highly recomend this book for fellow campers or true picknicker's. Its got meany resipies that can be made from useing your camping stove. I think its awsome as it give's you ideas healthy food to eat and give's insperation fort houghs camping trip that super noodles really dont hit the spot.

The resipie for flap jacks are really good. My favrot is adding banana and rasins humm......

Brockenspectre

A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, or even from an aeroplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region. It can be seen in any mountain region, such as the Haleakalā National Park on the island of Maui, Hawaii, or the Cairngorms, Scotland.

The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The light projects the climber's shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points at all by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.

The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory, rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets. The effect is caused by the diffraction of visible light.

Mark Twight is an alpine climbing ledgend, he's writen this book about his carazy alpine climbing ethics, were less is more, where taking the bare minimum to survive is the norm for him. For example having an energy gel very 30 minutes and drinking 4 leters of water an hour to climb some crazy loss hard climbs in the alps.

Makes me feel like a bit of a wimp.

A rout that took me and my freind 2 hole days to do he could do it in 4 hours!

BBC's

Event: BMC British Bouldering Championships

Britain's premier bouldering competition will take place over the weekend of 26-27 June. This year the British Bouldering Championships will be held the weekend before the Cliffhanger outdoor festival in Sheffield, to make way for the IFSC Bouldering World Cup the following weekend!

After entering the British Uin's compition in March and winning! I thought that just maybe I might be good enough to enter the BBC's this summer! I will be competing with Britens best boulders. Better get cracking with the training!

Outdoor Mountain Quillifications

Hopefully by the end of the summer I will have my: SPA and Summer ML assessed and possibaly MIA.

Wish me luck!

OUTDOOR FABRICS AND STUFF

PENNINE OUTDOOR - Sells outdoor fabrics

FABRICS - N - STUFF

RIPSTOP NYLON: 1.1oz ripstop nylon fabric: Ripstop fabric, sometimes called a sports fabric, is a woven, lightweight, nylon-threaded material that resists tearing and ripping.Ripstop fabric can be water resistant and is commonly used for camping equipment such as tents and the outer shells of sleeping bags. It is also used to make hang glider and parasail wings, parachutes, hot air balloons, sails, kites, flags, banners and sports clothes. The tough beating ripstop fabric can take makes it ideal for any application that requires material that won't fail under stress.

PERTEX- High performance nylon microfibre.

Condensation free. Quick drying. Wind, down and fibre proof. Very high abrasion resistance. Uses: Inner tents, sleeping bags, wind and showerproof clothing. Ideal for making "Slide Sheets" for moving patients. This fabric should be washed at a maximum of 40 degrees.

MAKE YOUR OWN SLEEPING BAG

This is Rob Marco vershion of a home made sleeping bag, 1999

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

rp_marco@yahoo.com

On his website he's made every thing form sleeping bags, hammocks, stoves, rucksacks and more!

again they all look very profeshonal.

SLEEPING BAG

This is the desing that I'm going to base it on: From Roger's website.

It will be a mummy shape, made from microlight pertex fabric and will be filled with goose and down fethers. Hopefully all in all it should way MAX 1000 grams

DIY MY DESINGS- SLEEPING BAG

This summer I was going to fork out a small fortune on a light weight down sleeping bag, however when trolling through the enter-net I have found a man that makes his own.

designer Roger Caffin

r.caffin@tpg.com.au

http://www.bushwalking.org.au/FAQ/DIY_RNCDesigns.htm

On his website he has also designed his own tents, rucksacks, pillows and sleeping bags!

They all look really perfeshonal. This has inspired me to make my own.

Photography tricks

I like the texture of the one: think it capurts the emotion of the charater

A long shutter speed

would be cool if my weather box could do this with people walking past it. Hummm..... that would be cool

Stevie Hurrell

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7598766885311070574

This is a video of Stevie talking about his work- Beneath and Beyond which was held at the Tramway. Where he got live data of vibrations/ earth tremmers that were hapeeaning live. He had to speed up as the frequncys of the tremmers as they were very low, just so we could hear them. He had many spekers around the room so that the sound would travel around it. On the video it made it look pritty eary as it was dark with these booming/cracalking noises coming form around the room

He's also got a cool website:

http://www.hurrelvisualarts.com/docs/

Surface pressure charts

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html

Weather Webcams

City of Nome, Alaska - http://www.guilliam.com/alaska.htm

New Zeland, Auckland beach/harbor - http://www.tourism.net.nz/listings/nztg/visitor-information/106480?from=http://www.tourism.net.nz/region/auckland/visitor-information/web-cams/

Canada, Vancover North-East- http://www.vancouver.com/webcam-display/36_vancouvercom-north-east/

North West Scotland - http://www.mwis.org.uk/webcams.php?cam=3

Brazil, Porto De Galinhas - http://otenpc2.dyndns.org:8082/

Weather stations and Ballon's

Susumu Shingu

Saturday, June 17, 2000 Sculptures that capture the mysterious rhythms of nature By JENNIFER PURVIS The press release for the sculptor Susumu Shingu's "Wind Caravan" project opens charmingly with a quote from Christina Rossetti: "Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is blowing by." Rossetti is not alone in noting what may be the obvious to other more prosaic souls: The wind blows, things move. Japanese sculptor Susumu Shingu, 62, who initially trained as a painter in Italy in the early 1960s, became fascinated with the movement of wind and water after hanging a painting on a tree to photograph. At first irritated by the wind blowing the picture this way and that, he soon found himself so mesmerized by the spinning that it became his life's work to invent mechanisms with which to capture the action of air and water. "For more than 30 years," Shingu says, "I have been making sculptures which move by the natural energies of wind and water -- the most characteristic phenomena of our planet. My sculptures are made with the most advanced skills of technology and include delicately balanced parts and precise rotation systems with bearings. "Yet once they receive the energy of wind and water, they move elegantly and dynamically as if they were alive. The movements are various and never the same. They are devices to translate the invisible movements of wind and the concealed power of water into visible motion, and antennae to capture the mysterious rhythms of nature." Shingu's work is known worldwide, with over 200 wind and water sculptures made for public buildings and spaces, and he has often collaborated with the great Italian architect Renzo Piano. Shingu's kites float high above travelers in the vast ceiling of the Kansai International Airport, designed by Piano; "Dialogue with Clouds" is five 10-meter-high sculptures that sit atop Piano's Centro Meridiana apartment complex in Lecco, Italy. A more recent work is a water sculpture based on the traditional bamboo pipes used by Japanese farmers for irrigation, in Piano's shrine to Padro Pio, the Italian monk who was beautified by the pope last year. Shingu also recently collaborated with Issey Miyake for the Paris Spring/Summer 1999 Collection, creating a stage set of many small kinetic metal sculptures, so sensitive to air flow that as the models filed past them they would echo their movement. "The Wind Caravan -- Observation of Our Planet" is an ephemeral project to find out how to live in harmony with nature and find "true happiness through artistic activities and cultural exchange with local peoples." In collaborating with Professor Izumi Ushiyama, scientist and researcher of wind and solar energy, Shingu hopes that this project will also help promote the use of wind as an energy source. Shingu's 21 lightweight metal sculptures will travel to six remote places over the globe, beginning in the rice paddies of Japan in June, then to a small island off Auckland, New Zealand in November; over to an ice field in Finland in February 2001, then on to a village in Morocco in April; to the steppes of Mongolia in July; and finally to the sand dunes of Brazil in November, packed in a specially designed container that will also act as a windmill, using the energy from the wind to light the sculptures at night. The sculptures will be displayed at each site for two to three weeks. "My intention is to visit six of the most characteristic natural environments on our planet, install the sculptures temporarily, and stay there awhile and observe nature at each site by way of the sculptures," Shingu says. "I also intend to exchange ideas with the local people, especially children . . . initiating discussions, lectures and workshops. Study and research will be done on both the nature of the site and the culture which has developed there, and many of my creative friends have agreed to participate in 'Wind Caravan' as lecturers -- including Renzo Piano, Pierre Restany, Jiri Kylian, Frans Krajcberg, Issey Miyake and Tadao Ando, among others." Shingu has an inspired belief in the ability of art to have real impact on the psychic being of our world, and consequently an impact on our physical environment. He especially wishes to impart this knowledge to children, who will be the focus of all workshop activities in each place. The opening ceremony for this project's first exhibition was held in the rice paddies outside Shingu's studio in Hyogo Prefecture. It began with a traditional rice planting ceremony by the local children, many of whom had never planted rice before. The 21 wind sculptures appeared to stride down the paddy fields among the planters and guests, languidly spinning in the sluggish breeze. They were lit up at night with power generated from the windmill generator, which gave them an eerie and majestic presence, compounded by the absolute silence in the movement of the white cloth-covered metal sails. The symposium was also held outside, on "What Can We Do for the Earth Now," with guest speakers Frans Krajcberg, an artist from Brazil and a rain-forest activist; Pierre Restany, an art critic from France and founder of New Realism; the leading Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and Shingu himself, with art critic Yusuke Nakahara acting as moderator. Much lively debate was heard, with Restany as the optimist for the future, Krajcberg seriously worried about the state of art and the environment and all agreeing on the importance of art as a force for change. A performance of Okura-style kyogen by Senzaburo Shigeyama, Genjiro Okura and others later in the afternoon was truly magnificent in this setting. As night fell, the festivities concluded with a performance by two traditional musicians floating on a raft on the lake near Shingu's water sculptures. Both musicians and the slowly bending sculptures were all reflected in the still water, surrounded by steep tree-covered hills, an experience of peace beyond words. "Wind Caravan" kinetic sculptures, at Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture, until June 25. For more information call Wind Caravan Executive Committee (03) 5394-5083, fax (03) 5394-5070 or see the Web site at www.wind-caravan.org

Wind Farms

Cloud Ballon

Clouds

I found these images when I typed in 'cloud sculptures' in to google. Theve given me the idea of making a gallery pice.

What I imagen it would look like would the walls of the gallery being wight, and there bing these cloude shaped ballons on the floor. There would be many of them which would make the veiwer have to walk through them cassing them to beging to flot and move constantly. There would also be some kind of smock machine, that would make the room more misty as well as a blower which would also keep the moveing around the room.

Anish Kapoor

http://www.anishkapoor.com/

I love his work. I like how the sulptors thats he makes are uselly of softer, corvashos shapes . Almost feminin. He has also used mirioed surfaces in a cupple of peices of his work. I like this as it inisholy grabs the attention of the viewer. As well as that i think it also makes it look bigger than it all ready is, however it sort of blends into its sorundings as it reflects its soundings, which I can amagin would only compalment them as it gives the veiwer a differnt veiw on its srowndings.

From the Garden:

Kapoor stands alone in the British art world: he is a touch younger than the so-called New British Sculptors such as Richard Deacon and Richard Wentworth, though he has often been spoken of in the same breath since he is represented by the Lisson, the gallery indelibly associated with that group of artists. And, when he won the Turner prize in 1991, aged 37, he was the senior artist on the shortlist, a decade or so older than the other contenders, who included Rachel Whiteread - this was a new generation of Young British Artists snapping at his heels. But he also stands apart because his work is entirely sui generis: strongly voiced, unmistakably his.

Kapoor is very interested in negative space, in spaces filled with a nothingness that is, paradoxically, deeply present. He recalls: "I made a work at Documenta [the five-yearly sculpture exhibition at Kassel, Germany] many years ago. You walked inside a building like a bunker, and inside there was a hole in the ground. It was completely dark - so dark that the hole resembled a carpet on the ground. One person was let in at a time. And there was a man who waited for 45 minutes, and when he went in he was absolutely furious. 'I've done many things in the cause of contemporary art,' he said, 'but I have never stood in line for all that time to look at a piece of carpet.' And he took his glasses off and flung them on to the carpet - and, of course, they disappeared down the hole. And then he was truly terrified. That's what I am interested in: the void, the moment when it isn't a hole, it is a space full of what isn't there."

Figures such as Damien Hirst represent one branch of post-Duchampian art; Kapoor, however, takes on that history in a rather different way. "If Duchamp declared that all the objects in the world are art," he says, "then I am interested in the next stage of that argument, which may have been prompted by Beuys in some way - that all the objects in the world are symbolic. Now Duchamp, to be fair, was very careful about what was the found object; the found object was always deeply symbolic. So the arguments in fact come together and they don't get confused by the idea that you can put anything in a glass case and it's art. It isn't. It is the artist's duty to find poetic meaning in things." More baldly, he declares of the Hirsts on sale recently at Sotheby's: "It's just stuff , you know. It's not an artistic challenge. it's just stuff ... It's completely irrelevant." Later he adds: "It's almost not art. I'm going to go as far as to say it's not art."

Mariel Neudecker

Rabecca Horn

http://www.rebecca-horn.de/pages/biography.html

Made in 1994 the Turtle Singing Tree emits a piercing scream, and one has only to stand near any of the funnels to hear a barely audible voice detailing the miseries of contemporary life. At regular intervals, these monologues are abruptly interrupted by a resounding crash, as the turtle-shaped platform shifts its weight and the tree tilts precariously to one side.

copper, steel, motors, wire, audio, 14x27x31 feet

I like this as it relates to my pice of wanting to make a sculpture that makes a noise or has an effect by the wind.

Looking at hur work also gave me the idea of using wind-up clock mecanisans to make more dielict suctpturs or even wind-up cars to make an interactive pice where if it were to be in a park that it would allow the public to interact with it.

Caspar David Friedrichs

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement.^[2] He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's work characteristically sets the human element in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension.

Friedrich was born in the Swedish Pomeranian town of Greifswald, where he began his studies in art as a youth. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798, before settling inDresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality. This shift in ideals was often expressed through a reevaluation of the natural world, as artists such as Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837) sought to depict nature as a "divine creation, to be set against the artifice of human civilization".^[4]

Friedrich’s work brought him renown early in his career, and contemporaries such as the French sculptor David d'Angers (1788–1856) spoke of him as a man who had discovered "the tragedy of landscape".^[5] Nevertheless, his work fell from favour during his later years, and he died in obscurity, and in the words of the art historian Philip Miller, "half mad".^[6] As Germany moved towards modernisation in the late 19th century, a new sense of urgency characterised its art, and Friedrich’s contemplative depictions of stillness came to be seen as the products of a bygone age. The early 20th century brought a renewed appreciation of his work, beginning in 1906 with an exhibition of thirty-two of his paintings and sculptures in Berlin. By the 1920s his paintings had been discovered by the Expressionists, and in the 1930s and early 1940s Surrealists andExistentialists frequently drew ideas from his work. The rise of Nazism in the early 1930s again saw a resurgence in Friedrich's popularity, but this was followed by a sharp decline as his paintings were, by association with the Nazi movement, misinterpreted as having a nationalistic aspect.^[7] It was not until the late 1970s that Friedrich regained his reputation as an icon of the German Romantic movement and a painter of international importance.

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He links back to my last project, of the body as a sight of cultural represintaion. As my finished pice was of a person standing srouwnded by clowed.

David Smith

Image bellow, Cubie



Found this sculptor when looking on google, don't know much about him.

Some information from Wikipedia - Cubi XXVIII, executed in 1965, is the name of the last of the Cubi series of large metal sculptures created Smith. Formerly housed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on November 9, 2005, the sculpture became the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction, selling for $23.8 million at Sotheby's Manhattan auction house to art dealer Larry Gagosian who was acting on behalf of billionaire art collector Eli Broad. "This exceedingly rare work was the pinnacle of a four-decade career," said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art and the auctioneer for the evening. It was the last significant work that Smith produced before he unexpectedly died in a car crash.

Pillar of Sundays, produced in August 1945, was inspired by Smith's memories of events, rituals, foods, and sounds associated with the Sundays of his teen years. His mother, Golda, was active in the Methodist Episcopal church two doors away from his home in small-town Paulding, Ohio. Some of the images, attached like leaves on a tree, are obvious, such as birds and an inscribed heart, but on the whole, the sculpture is ambiguous, suggestive, and intriguing. In a 1959 speech

at Ohio University, Smith state

"When I lived and studied in Ohio, I had a very vague sense of what art was. Everyone I knew who used the reverent word was almost as unsure and insecure. Mostly art was reproductions, from far away, from an age past and from some golden shore, certainly from no place like the mud banks of the Auglaze or the Maumee, and there didn’t seem much chance that it could come from Paulding County."

Susumu Shingu

Is a sculptor who works with water, wind. He was at the Friday event last term, where he showed some of his work where he made these abstract kenetic wind sculptures in vibrent coulirs and plasesed them in the 12 diffrent landscapes around the world changing the coulair of the canvise in each contry. During this he invited the local childern to take part some of them were, horse/raindeer rides in a cold country (think it was Alaska), A dance in a desert and kite making.

Jennifer Hall

Instrument for Mediated Terrain

Interactive SculptureSITE: Thorne-Sagendorph Art GalleryKeene State College, April, 2001

"We are interested in complex relational cycles of growth and death where human-made technology meets nature. Here, the garden is a meditation on the relationship of the viewer to the artwork and the temporal state of all forms of life. As we engage the slow process of mechanical impact to the growth within the garden, we may ask ourselves, Are we participating in a slow erosion or the reshaping of natures’ forms?"

This peice is a mose garden, with little arms that rack at the mose making it net and tidy. However when somebody gets close to it the little rakes go mentan and start to distruct the little gardens. Thats awsome...

http://www.dowhile.org/physical/projects/instrument/

She's also got cool stuff on hur websight.

http://www.jennifer-hall.com/prints.html

Christine Borland

Mariele Neudecker

I Like thise pice blow as it shows the sunlight coming in through what blooks like a chuch window. the light coming from the window is made up of thousands of strands of fish lines!

Mariele Neudecker was at a Friday Event last term or the term before. Where she showed some of hur work. Some of the pices that really stood out to me was this one above. Hear she made a landscape with in a large tank, made up of salt water, firberglass and functions to acted as a window into a miniture landscape. Over time within the tank it becomes cloudy as if a thick blancket of fog has decened out of nowhere. I really like this as it makes the landscape look masteriose and envites you in closer to have a better look at whats inside. It also reminds me of gohst flims where the fog plase a part to the mood of the story line. She did a serrios of these landscaps: Mountain ranges, woodland, underwater cliffes and seabeads.

She has done many solo exhabitions. One that I rember hur showing in the friday event was where she took a casting of part of a Yorkshier wook and took it to Japan. Everything from leaves to the soil on the ground. She recorded the reactions as they enter the room from behind a curtain, the majority of them were shocked. One lady skreamed! gess it must have been quite a saprize haveing part of Yorkshier in a garally.