images from me to you

Shot from the window of my public art piece thanks to the Indianapolis Arts Council.

Music: Indiana by Naiko (found on archive.org in open source audio)

Replace most of the ads you see online with art. I have no issue with unobtrusive ones, but most of them are big and flashy and pop up.

Via Bad at Sports

I subscribe to a LOT of blogs. I am wayyy behind on reading them but I did recently find two that I thought I'd share.

First off is onthecusp.org. It is a local Indianapolis blog about art. Good way to keep up with the local scene.

The second is Modern Art Notes by Tyler Green. I had the pleasure of seeing his lecture last night at the Central library. (I also met him and the writers of onthecusp last night also {well I'd already met one of the writers of onthecusp but I saw him and met the 2nd writer}).

I think I should be asleep not watching Survivorman....

I've been putting off shooting this because I never knew how long it would take, no estimate at all. So I finally get around to shooting it today and get 70 frames into a 380 frame shoot and my battery dies, since I have to move the setup to change the battery I give up and decide to shoot again once I get an ac adapter. I try and take the camera off the boom stand and it is stuck, it seems the tripod mount came loose inside the camera so it just spins around the bolt. Now I have a camera on a 10 foot pole....doh!



Yellow=American Indians; Blue=United States; Red=disputed or treaties made with different tribes at different times.

Microsoft labs has this cool new program that takes photos from many angles and puts them together. I don't know what the long term appeal of this is, but it probably has some. Anyway here are three of mine. The first two are at the site where my work is in an exhibtion in Germany, the third is in Frankfurt. ps they seem to take a while to load. I hope you don't need any software to load them...

I have been having a good trip so far. Some decent art in Glasgow. Shot a few maps. Hiked a bit. I've walked a million miles so far. I've met a ton of people including Italians, Irish, Germans, South Africans, Australians and of course loads of Brits. It is a lot more tiring walking these borders than driving them like I do in the US (I know thank you Captain Obvious.) but I've had to cut down the number of spots and the number of borders as my legs just can't take it. Tonight I'm in Bath. Tomorrow I map at Glastonbury (probably), then head to London in two days.

Now I must sleep.

I've been lucky enough to have posts about my work on two of my favorite mapping blogs (or blogs in general for that matter):

Cartophilia -- Flounder Lee

The Map Room -- Flounder Lee

It's been forever since I blogged. Not sure why but I needed a break from looking at them and posting them too. But I'll post a few today and maybe a few over the next few weeks.

Firstly, I am leaving in less than a week for my first European trip. I received a New Frontiers Exploration Fellowship made possible by the Lilly Foundation. My plan is 2 nights each in Glasgow, Manchester, Bath, London and Brussels; 3 nights in Amsterdam; 5 nights in Lichtenfels-Sachsenberg Germany and 1 night in Frankfurt. I will be mapping former colonies onto European soil and symbolically reclaiming the land for my native ancestors. As much as possible I will be going to the places that my ancestors are from and also mapping colonies onto their colonizers.

For my time in Germany I will be making work in the park system there. This culminates as I have work in a group outdoor show in the parks. I might give a lecture there before I leave also.



Moved Wind--Hesse, Germany, August 17th to 31st, 2008

Changing the setup from 1783 to 1850. The blues and greens are all the Indians, the yellow ones are the cowboys (United States).

We took the first picture at Honey Creek State Park, Oklahoma. We projected it across the river onto the cliff at Great Salt Plains State Park, Oklahoma. You can see our shadows in the projection.