Saturday, Jan. 27, 2008

After a night of rain, boy did that sound nice, it dawned cloudy and cool. (66 degrees) So cool that I actually had to put on jeans for the first time since I got there. I'm not complaining, it was just a surprise.


I had plans to meet some photographers at a place called the Contemporary Museum near Waikiki. There is a display of work by Richard Misrach. Never heard of him, but apparantly someone has. His prints were huge. The brochure gives the dimensions of one as 49" x 111". The pieces on display were of beaches and ocean water and some people. He didn't include any horizon lines in this body of work. And the curator said he took them all from his hotel balconies, and I think I read/heard that he uses an 8x10 camera.

The brochure also states: "Depicting people as small, often isolated figures in an immense scene, the photograhs remind us of the fragility and relative unimportance of humanity in the face of seemingly infinite nature.(italics mine) O kay... Guess it's clear that this guy has no Supreme Being in his life.

Go ahead a google him if you'd like a taste of what the art community considers photographic art. All I can say is, go figure!!! (remember that only the sand and ocean images were on display)

So after we listened to this lecture, the bunch of us went outside and walked around the absolutely beautiful museum grounds. It was stunning. Not too many flowers, but the landscaping....wow.
I didn't include any color images of the grounds, just some close-ups. The infrared images will give you an idea, though, of what it was like.

The image below is a portion of a tree trunk, not the root area, but the actual trunk. It looked like this practically all the way up.

This sculpture below was on the grounds near the outdoor cafe.

Below is a beautiful mural with a funky sculpture in front of it.

The following four images are infrared, which in my mind are spectacular--not the images, but the look. It makes anything green look white like snow, it darkens a blue sky and makes any clouds pop. I've only had success with it on very, very sunny days with mostly blue sky. I tried it once on a cloudy day and everything looked like gray soup.

These scenes actually look better in IR than they would in color because there is soooo much green, it just kind of mushes together.

The image below was taken from the museum grounds

overlooking Waikiki.

After we wandered around the grounds, we went to the cafe for lunch and got the chance to talk with each other and get to know each other a little better, which is always fun.

Today's word:

Presbyterian=Pelekepulikano

So divided into syllables it would be

pele kepuli kano