Suspended Net Installations

In the late 1990s artist Janet Echelman traveled to India as a Fulbright Scholar with the intention of giving painting exhibitions around the country. She shipped her painting supplies ahead of time and landed in the fishing village of Mahabalipuram to begin her exhibitions with one major hitch: the painting supplies never arrived. While walking through the village Echelman was struck by the quality and variety of nets used by the local fisherman and questioned what it might look like if such nets were hung and illuminated in the air.

It became be a new approach to sculpture. A new chapter in her artist career was born, and the artist has since dedicated her time and energy to creating these massive net sculptures in locations around the world.

 

Echelman is currently embarking on her largest piece ever, a 700-foot-long sculpture that will be suspended over.

NOTTINGHAM NIGHT LIGHT (PART 3)

Setting up a trial and connecting and activating all led strips final product 

and programming it on to a software to work an generate patterns accordingly.

Led strips set up with different programming and patterns on advino software.

NOTTINGHAM NIGHT LIGHT (PART 2)

The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire,particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfillment within the confining strictures of English social life.

The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a farm/ labouring dynasty who live in the East Midlands of England near Nottingham. The book spans a period of roughly 65 years from the 1840s to 1905, and shows how the love relationships of the Brangwens change against the backdrop of the increasing industrialization of Britain. The first central character, Tom Brangwen, is a laborer whose experience of the world does not stretch beyond Nottinghamshire; while the last, Ursula, his granddaughter, studies at University and becomes a teacher in the progressively urbanized, capitalist and industrial world that would become our modern experience.

The book starts with a description of the Brangwen dynasty, and then deals with how Tom Brangwen, one of several brothers, fell in love with a Polish refugee, Lydia. The next part of the book deals with Lydia's daughter by her first husband, Anna, and her destructive, battle-riven relationship with her husband, Will, the son of one of Tom's brothers. The last and most extended part of the book, and also probably the most famous, then deals with Will and Anna's daughter, Ursula, and her struggle to find fulfilment for her passionate, spiritual and sensual nature against the confines of the increasingly materialist and conformist society around her. She experiences a lesbian relationship with a teacher and a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Anton Skrebensky, a British soldier of Polish ancestry. At the end of the book, having failed to find her fulfilment in Skrebensky, she has a vision of a rainbow towering over the Earth, promising a new dawn for humanity:

"She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven."

it was to be of relevance to this novel THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence.

Due to some safety measures and cost concern the proposal of lighting shifted from arch on to the steps.

And whereby we started thinking about alternative options to be created on to the steps. With ma students for interactive design course also were part of this event, so with light we also had an idea to combine some playing features like changing of light patterns by walking or by sound.

Artistically putting light in place

Created by mixed media artist Anila Quayyum Agha, this elaborately carved cube with an embedded light source projects a dazzling pattern of shadows onto the surrounding gallery walls. Titled Intersections, the installation is made from large panels of laser-cut wood meant to emulate the geometrical patters found in Islamic sacred spaces.

The Intersections project takes the seminal experience of exclusion as a woman from a space of community and creativity such as a Mosque and translates the complex expressions of both wonder and exclusion that have been my experience. The wooden frieze emulates a pattern from the Alhambra, which was poised at the intersection of history, culture and art and was a place where Islamic and Western discourses, met and co-existed in harmony and served as a testament to the symbiosis of difference. Have given substance to this mutualism with the installation project exploring the binaries of public and private, light and shadow, and static and dynamic. This installation project relies on the purity and inner symmetry of geometric design, the interpretation of the cast shadows and the viewer’s presence within a public space.

Light Festival in Belgium

The eye-catching structure was a standout in the town and is the work of Luminarie De Cagna, an Italian family business. During local festive occasions, the company would light up buildings with oil and carbide lamps, but most likely due to the high fire risk, this was soon switched to electric lights.

Today, only LEDs are used for set pieces and they are joined together to make massive curtains of light that can be draped over buildings. This allows whole sections of the town to be lit up. 

The Luminarie De Cagna is an imposing cathedral-like structure that was recently on display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium. The festival was host to almost 30 exhibitions including plenty of 3D projection mapping, fields of luminous flowers, and a glowing phone booth aquarium.

The LED Cathedral was designed with Romanesque and Renaissance architecture in mind and at its zenith, it stands an impressive 28m high. Unsurprisingly, the cathedral has already been drawing large crowds to Belfortstraat like moths to a flame. You also need not worry about the amount of energy being used, as despite being made from 55,000 LEDs, it only consumes 20Kwh of electricity.

NOTTINGHAM NIGHT LIGHT (PART 1)

Led strip which is been regimented is 5 meters long and to be pasted around the arch of building.

So each arch will have three 5 meter strips. This would be light in diffrent pattern.

First option was to light all 3 strips in an arch of different colour each.

Second option was to create rainbow pattern for arch

Third option was to light each every individual led’s in strip of different colours.

After all the led lights fade steadily, up lighters at the centre 2 pliers will light up and create a spectacular effect.

VISIT TO CADBURY WORLD

It’s easy to imagine that if the ancient Israelites had been familiar with the cocoa bean, God might have promised them a land flowing with milk and chocolate. He didn't, but such a land does exist.  Cadbury—the company that popularized modern British milk chocolate—welcomes half a million visitors a year who come to pay homage to Cadbury World.

A visit to Cadbury World  take up to three hours, but it is so well choreographed that time flies by. It isn't an “exhibition” in the conventional sense, but rather a mixture of displays, acted sketches, 3D multimedia presentations, demonstrations of the production process, and of course, tastings.

Yet you do learn a lot—in fact, Cadbury

World was one of the first institutions in the 

UK to be awarded the Learning outside the 

Classroom Quality Badge, recognizing it as a

 provider of quality, safely managed 

 educational experiences for young people.

 Exhibition begins with a series of 3D stages

where miniature figures give you short 

snippets of the history of chocolate. You 

find out about “chocolate houses” where 

grown men (women and children were

barred) used to gather to drink hot chocolate

and gamble, and you meet an actress who

recreates the atmosphere of these dens of sugary indulgence. 

 Then an actor introduces the

members of the Cadbury family 

who established the company 

and made it great. They tell 

their story of how their 

chocolate is made through a 

series of presentations, one of

them featuring seats that move 

as the cocoa breaks are shaken. 

You find out how specific 

Cadbury lines are made, and you

make your way through a 

packaging plant to an area

where you can watch the production of one of the company’s premium handmade products.

A PRE WEDDING PHOTO SHOOT

The concept behind this shoot is a rather curious narrative about setting oneself free by cutting the ties that are holding you down in life holding, the focal point being Nikesh and Lalita, a fairytale-esque couple trying to escape those ties together.

Quarrie continues to break the mould of standard commercial wedding photography by combining more editorial and conceptual approaches to his work, really setting himself apart. The above video is a rather lengthy watch, but it goes to show just how much work was put into this single shoot.

Below is the last of the photographs in the series, as well as a lighting setup from Quarrie, for the strobists out there who would like to try and recreate it themselves.

three lighting set up for portraits shot

Why Three Lights?

Three lights is the standard middle ground for studio photography. It's generally considered the most basic "full" setup to properly light a subject (key, fill, rim/hair), but it can be overkill, or it can be not enough, depending on your target look and subject.

The three-light setup is very versatile and can be adapted to just about any environment or shooting style.

Portrait One

For this shot, use a 5' octa as a background, as its size makes it convenient. Use 2' soft boxes as white backdrops before, but it's difficult keeping people within the sides. The octa allows for some flexibility of subject movement. The internal baffle spreads the light across the surface effectively, and the power level is around a stop or two under the key light.For the clamshell lights, use two 1x4 strip boxes for a full wrap. This gives a more even, flatter light than soft boxes or a beauty dish. Use the top light as the key, setting the power a stop higher than the bottom one, which improves modelling and shading for a beauty-type shot, where you want even lighting but don't want you’re subject to look flat.

The Shot

The shot is a fairly straightforward headshot, clean, no makeup.

Portrait Two

Since it would be very difficult to do this shot on white without five lights, do it on a black background. The two strip lights are my rim lights, illuminating the edges and sides of the subject, and key is a gridded beauty dish boomed up about eight feet, more or less directly in front of the subject, pointing slightly below the face. Use the directionality of this to illuminate the subject in a tightly controlled area, without worrying about spill onto the background.

Set the edge lights about 1.5 stops higher than key; add half a stop to the Einstein to make up for the grid eating light. Go two stops under on the key, which simulates the behavior of a sensor when exposing for a sky backlighting the subject, while still retaining detail. The beauty dish provides a semi-hard light source with a nice constrained feathering from the grid, so it's gritty and directional, but not unattractively harsh.

The Shot

The post work is reasonably heavy, but quite clean. It's mainly dodging and burning and curves, working with the lighting and adding drama. 

Portrait Three

This is fairly similar to the last one, but  going to rotate the two strip lights 90 degrees to light up the background evenly. First  set both strobes to full power and dial in aperture until the seamless is just clipping, the blinkies on the LCD fairly well defined. Then  set  key to an appropriate power based on that.

The Einstein has a 5' octa on it, boomed to about 3 feet off the ground, for broad, beautiful, soft lighting that still has a dimensionality and directionality to it. A 3' octa would start introducing too much shadow around the edges of the subject, needing a rearrangement and an added fill light, where a 7' one would be too flat and start losing the "presence" of the subject.

The Shot

This is a sort of catalogue fashion look, perhaps even magazine for certain segments. It's clean, but vibrant; flat, but dimensional.