A Certain Artblog

IMPORTANT QUESTION: I need to pick one of these for a project in my photo class - which one do you like best?

I am waffling between the whimsical indoor/set ones and the outdoor natural light. Please help?

(Sully, hope you don’t mind being on the Internets!)

Um, also I’m not sure if the reply-thing works…I hope it does?

01/30/12

djgagnon:

#lighthouse #ocean
Constructional Details of Three Types of Lighthouse
Cross-sections through a caisson lighthouse, a rock lighthouse and a screw-pile light. These drawings show the structure of the house, position of the lanterns and dimensions in relation to the surrounding water. Note the solid proportions of the masonry. The base of the rock light structure is dovetailed into the live rock and the structure grows above it. The screw light, as the name indicates, is literally screwed into sand or coral. The caisson light’s base is sunk and fitted with concrete.
from: The Wonderful Story of the Sea; AC Hardy; c1950; Odhams Press, London.

#lighthouse #ocean

Constructional Details of Three Types of Lighthouse

Cross-sections through a caisson lighthouse, a rock lighthouse and a screw-pile light. These drawings show the structure of the house, position of the lanterns and dimensions in relation to the surrounding water. Note the solid proportions of the masonry. The base of the rock light structure is dovetailed into the live rock and the structure grows above it. The screw light, as the name indicates, is literally screwed into sand or coral. The caisson light’s base is sunk and fitted with concrete.

from: The Wonderful Story of the Sea; AC Hardy; c1950; Odhams Press, London.

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01/29/12

At the studio today: antler-pigeon, antler-pheasant & tiny unicorn-horned whale all get fancy new homes!

In other words, IT’S DIORAMA-BUILDING TIME, BITCHES!

01/26/12

dvdp:

Astronomical is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres. By Mishka Henner

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01/25/12

{And now, the back of the invite, plus some added explanation pulled from my chatty email to the mailing list. No, I am not capable of keeping things short. Also, sorry for the spacing - Tumblr won’t let me make it pretty, dangit.}

You are invited to an exhibition of new work by Jessica Bromley Bartram!

This collection of watercolours and paper sculptures brings to light the fascinating discoveries of R.W. Brackley, Victorian adventurer extraordinaire, and a book containing the exciting story of her life and explorations will be available to further elucidate her scientific findings.

The opening takes place at Freedom Clothing Collective (939 Bloor Street West, just west of Ossington Station) on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 starting at 8:00 p.m.

Work will be up at FCC until March 26th, and you can visit from Monday to Sunday 12-7:30 p.m.

Since R.W. Brackley discovered an impressive number of new species, there will be a second venue for further specimens and illustrations - to see more of Brackley’s weird creatures, visitGraven Feather (906 Queen St. West) for A Collected Collection, Pt. 2 from February 1st - March 3rd. Graven Feather is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12 - 7 p.m.

This will be my last exhibition for a few years, as I will now be focusing on completing a degree in graphic design at OCAD!

Hope to see you there!

01/20/12

thedailywhat:

For Science of the Day: A rare Scaptia (Plinthina) horse fly, which has gone unnamed since being discovered in 1981, shall henceforth be known as Scaptia (Plinthina) beyoncae in honor of world-renowned recording artist Beyoncé.

Why? Researcher Bryan Lessard of CSIRO’s Australian National Insect Collection says he felt the fly’s gold-colored abdomen made it “the all time diva of flies.”

“It was the unique dense golden hairs on the fly’s abdomen that led me to name this fly in honour of the performer Beyoncé,” Lessard said, “as well as giving me the chance to demonstrate the fun side of taxonomy - the naming of species.”

[nzherald / ninemsn.]

01/12/12

Have worked on book (the one that’s accompanying the show) all damn day. It is now 2:30am and I finally feel like the thing’s coming together into what might soon be an actual tome.

This is a sample spread - typesetting is still in progress and this is one of the simpler layouts, but damn. It feels good to get something exported and looking like it might look in real life. Click to see it bigger and read the mysterious text fragment!

01/12/12

Behold: the proof for my show-invite (well, the front of it, at least. Back shall be posted once all the info is confirmed with my gallery)!

It’ll be opening on February 3rd at 8pm at Freedom Clothing Collective (939 Bloor St W, Toronto) and running all the way to March 26th.

There will also be work from the project up at Graven Feather (the studio/gallery of which I’m a part - 906 Queen St W) for the month of February, in case you’d like to see even more illustrations from the accompanying book (more on that soon!).

Phew. Somehow my projects just keep getting bigger.

01/11/12

Things I have been rushing to finish lately - paper-feather avian creatures! The antler-pigeon is life-size, the Temminick’s Tragopan, less so.

In related news, my brain is full of hot-glue fumes and I think I killed something in my hand from cutting out all those damn feathers.

01/2/12

Closeup of a whale from one of my newest pieces - click through to see more show-progress and stuff on my proper (sorry, Tumblr, I think you’re cool too, don’t worry) Art-blog! Or just click here to wander over that way.

11/28/11