Saturday, 4 February 2012

PRESENTATION: ONE

B&B


add text order of images

Monday, 30 January 2012

bird seeded world

Found this in park whilst exploring, ball like shape reminiscent of egg, created small scenario in my mind

 bird seed egg act as symbol of rebirth, like pheonix rising from its former state into new one, flourishing?


 Bird egg made from bird seed, other birds would flock to these forms gathering around there ( scale?) larger counter part



 By using egg shape they might actually move the egg, I could use ball shape and have them
play a game of bird football, littering trail of cracked seeds in there wake.


Above illustrates bird i have created prior to casting. more to come.

Saturday, 28 January 2012

supersitions attached to birds

when trouble is about to visit you a bird will come sighing or tweelding about you so as to give you warning....when a man is in trouble a bird always haunts him. He will see that bird wherever he goes.

large black or white almost always assosciated with bad omen.

birds pecking at window announce a death, more particular fear towards robins pecking at a window.

If a bird flies into your house a death will follow three days after, though this is primarily attached to wild birds some persons refuse to have birds represented on cards and such

1870s bird droppings considered a bad omen.

some would even refuse bird eggs inhouse, idea that young boys and men would venture out and attempt a nest cull of local eggs, this was common fear in england between 1830s-1950s.



specific birds and superstitions attached to them


Albatross

extremely unluck to kill one, reasoning poem -the rime of ancient mariner, 1797

idea of albatorss suggested by william wordsworth  who took idea from

cpt george shelvockes 'a voyage round the world by war of the great south sea  1726.

no inclination to existance of this fear prior poems publication.



Cockerels

messengers when the crow

the cock crows once for a wedding, twice for a birth, three times for sorrow , four times for mirth - 1895

crowing at door house meant a visitor would arrive,

belief arise in Scotland in early 1820s  cock crowing at wrong place or time would suggest bad news, predicting illness or death earliest forms of this belief date back to sixteenth century.



Crows,rooks

in general crows have strong connotations to various negative omens and superstitions but on rare occasions are considered lucky.

particualarly feared if they seemingly placed attention on singular person or location.

Thought if even seen flying over a house that meant the master would die.



Cuckoos,house martins, swallows,

featured in many folklore of vast array of locations within britian and europe as a whole, personification of spring , numerous role predicting weather  synoymous with aprials fool.

and no take this advise from me
let money in your pocket be
when first you do the cuckoo hear
if you'd have money all the year. 1763

less direct symbolism is direction you hear the cockoo effects your luck. not yet traced back earlier than 1760s simplier old lore stats that the number of notes you hear predict how long you will live for. 14th century.




Magpies

rather mixed messages some lore would consider them harbingers of death while others declare them as neutral forces denoucing visitors



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Sunday, 22 January 2012

SCIence Fiact. future is our past

The Clachan, in the foreground, and Tait's Tower at Glasgow's Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, 1938


 "
Looking like a cross between a bizarre Brigadoon and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Glasgow’s Empire Exhibition glows in the dark of Bellahouston Park.
The Clachan in the foreground, a recreation of a typical Highland village, stands in stark contrast to the sky high modernist lines of Tait’s Tower.
The year-long exhibition was like nothing the city had seen before and tens of thousands or Glaswegians bought season tickets so they could return again and again."

Mr. big bad wolf.
















Fleury-Francois Richard
Little Red Riding Hood



Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings. The story was first published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697.



<b>Little Red Riding Hoodb>, also known as <b>Little Red Capb>, is a French <a title="Fairy tale" href="/wiki/Fairy_tale">fairy talea> about a young girl and a <a title="Big Bad Wolf" href="/wiki/Big_Bad_Wolf">Big Bad Wolfa>. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings. The story was first published by <a title="Charles Perrault" href="/wiki/Charles_Perrault">Charles Perraulta> in <i><a title="Histoires ou contes du temps passé" href="/wiki/Histoires_ou_contes_du_temps_pass%C3%A9">Histoires ou contes du temps passéa>i> in 1697.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="#cite_note-0"><span>[span>1<span>]span>




http://kris-reisz.livejournal.com/102393.html



B&B

 Collection of drawings, playing with birds and very bottom mr.Wolf returns.






















How to display if images as above are exhibited.
on sktech book, using film from or actual branch and light source/projector onto each page. flickering waving movement of branches create backing for bird images.

Saturday, 21 January 2012

bb

national bird  feed the birds day, off time frame, perhaps create an off shoot programme, attaching its self to it use the bird balsa wood and bird seed birds as objects for this?


bird orchestra ( used), not original shame.


I am going to hate myself for this but the twitcher ( movement) linked to own nice simple world play
suggests  I might have to try it myself.

TWITCHING GUIDE
http://www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch/learn/topbirds.aspx


 http://www.rspb.org.uk/groups/glasgow/news/288875/  25feb,

connect
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/302329-scottish-schoolchildren-take-part-in-worlds-biggest-wildlife-survey

Link to schools?#local. nods seems acceptable time frame check.


introduction of wild life to children, show our interaction.

play with an adult obsession, fullfill the desire for the public in long term while in short term it does this without the natural element.

control of own sense of


http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/getinvolved/learning/b/learning-blog/archive/2012/01/13/rspb-kelvingrove-glasgow-s-schoolchildren-get-creative.aspx