Thursday, December 29, 2022

Good Space Videos

Some videos from the Goodspace Festival, the dancxefloor on the first event as well as a few songs from the 28 December


 
 
Dancefloor on the first night
(16122022)
 

More from the same night
 
 
 
Last night. - 28 December
 
While the audio is good the video here isn't. I didn't notice on the little screen but all 3 videos are hopelessly out of focus despite the AF interface acting like it had a handle on stuff.
 
It's a shame because the  light show(*) by Yao was awesome -  as well as the 2 singers I was able to stay for. I'll get their names from my book later and most like cut the songs into clips and put them here

*One of the first shows I ever prepared for was to use a colour, oil and water to create an overhead projector light to project over a dance performance at my school. I didn't do it as my grandfather Poppa (Norman Sheather) died and I went off to his funeral and missed the show



 



 

 

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Goodspace getting started

I've been getting started on cataloguing the work on level 3 and my stuff on level 2, and taking photos of the space as I go. Here are a heap of pictures that I'll get onto captioning soon once that is done.










 
 
Andy Biggs in front of the wall of fluoro



 
first night at Goodspace - the chook is excited, and so are we!
 
Movies to come as well as soon as I get around to compressing them a bit


















 

Friday, December 16, 2022

Frames

 

Theseare a few frames I made recently from some salvaged timber we have in our yard - and preserving the store of carbon it embodies
 
 
 
 
Fire on the South Coast
 
This is one of the Climate Change UV paintings to show at the Goodspace festival that is about to launch(cast and crew party is this saturday 17 december)
 
 
The back of the same frame with the shellac and brush for application

 
Frame for Fire during Flood before varnishing

 
A painting by Grace Woods to exhibit at Goodspace

 

Lights for Goodspace

 
I'm making some UV lamps from 3W 390nm LEDs along with some bits of wood, metal scraps and cut off champagne, vodka and other bottles silvered as reflectors, lithium batteries and components like switches and tiny usb charging/decharging circuit boards

 
A baby Ewok?
 
The LEDs are identical to those at the top except that they soldered onto these little plates - with the others I glue them onto copper nails to dissipate heat a bit

 
A half-assembled lamp showing the switch mounted on a bit of aluminium along with a battery holder, and a breakout board to control the battery. (the actual lamp part is out of frame on the end of the fat dowel - or will be)

 
Another lamp base a bit earlier in the process, ready to fit a switch

 
lamps.
 
Waiting for glue to dry...

 
More lamps

 

Thursday, December 8, 2022

The city of Dr Caligari



 
 

Elizabeth St from Hyde Park

The corner of Market St Painted by the entrance of St James station


 
There's starting to be a good amount of leaves on the fig tree, but too evenly distributed(and not the right colour)

 
 



 

There are earlier versions of this painting here

 

Warabrook Trees

 
A view from my mothers backyard I've used in paintings before

 

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Energy fire


High Voltage transmission towers illuminated by flames from a Russian attack on the Ukrainian energy system. They (with their OPEC+ buddies and aligned financial interests) attempt to force fossil fuels down our throats forever.

I'll be exhibiting this with some other fluoro paintings of climate change disaters like Australia's fires and floods since 2019