The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

Jeremy Fish painting a mural at Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco. Music by EL-P. March 2009.

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I working in 2 shifts to get all the paintings for the exhibition done. I am very excited but very tired as well ^_^… Here are some images of work I have done so far!

Ouch! Long time no posts… BUT there is a very good reason I joined three other Wellington artists for a group exhibition at Thistle Hall Gallery, Upper Cuba, 17 – 22 November 2009!

I am absolutely excited and busy getting my new illustrations on wooden boards!

You are warmly invited to attend the opening on Tuesday 17th November 5:30 pm. Drinks and nibbles provided.

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday
10.00 am – 7:00 pm

“Come,
Venture into a tale of fantasy;
Where mysteries unfold,
Illusions take hold,
Explore hidden meanings, trapped beauty,
In the depths of Escape…”

Otherworldly illustration, illusionary photography, fairytale fashion and whimsical jewellery meet in a dynamic exhibition. Escapism, fantasy and an inclination towards teleportation coexist in Woven tales of Ink, Silver and Silk – an exciting
showcase of new work by four Wellington-based artists: Minu, Mairi, Sarah Dalley, Sophie Lewis-Smith.

This Mural is by Perth street artist and illustrator Creepy

You have to look at his work for the So Many Broken Umbrellas at Gorker Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Love it! Love it, Love it!

On my second day in Melbourne I decide to just stroll around rather than having a plan :-)… funnily enough this way I stumbled upon the well known Blender Gallery and Studios who organise street art tours guided by artists. For now I am content strolling to the city on my own, but if you do not have much time this might be a very good idea. They seem to be really nice www.melbournestreettours.com.

I would guess that these are all Miso’s (miso + ghostpatrol ABC documentary) work.

More in the Melbourne Streetart Flickr Set…

Background

WordPress – as most other “Blog” applications – handles media (images and video) content as “Attachments”. You write a Post and you attach an image using ‘Add Media’. The system does all the magic, scales the image in 3 sizes, allows multiple images per post. You even can add those multiple images as a gallery to a post…

Criticism

The approach in its current form is not working for me as Writer, Blogger, Publisher. Images are Posts not Attachments. I want to post an Image, not a Post. An Image is as differnet to a Post as a Page is to a Post (‘WordPress universe’ wording). Images have specific particular features, in both back (administration) and front-end (themes) aspects. The ‘advanced’ user needs more control in templates and template tags.

I am an Information Architect not a coder (developer), but this is how I see it: In a OOP metaphor an Image is a Post with specific ‘extensions’. If I would define a Post as a Class, an Image would be a Post Sub-Class. It would inherit all template tags while adding a few pieces of magic.

The Image ‘content type’

This is what I imagine would be possible without reinventing the (WordPress-) wheel…

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The Union Lane Project is part of Melbourne’s Laneway Commissions project. Beginning in 2002, the Laneway Commissions temporarily transform Melbourne’s lanes into public art galleries.
My images are taken today almost 2 years after the event. The project is (partly) documented under http://beyondthecctv.blogspot.com/.

Many more inspirations from my first walk through Melbourne are in my Melbourne Flickr Set. Enjoy ^_^…