Projection art, film, poetry and more at the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show - By N.L. Belardes
“Your TV sculpture is falling…”
“I know. It’s an organic piece.”
“It’s going to fall.”
“I know. Cool, huh? Let it crash. I’m not worried. Kerngamers.com offered me five bucks for the whole mess.”
I arrive downstairs just in time to see the red-and-orange lights inside shimmer as the sculpture wobbles, snaps from the ceiling and smashes on the ground. Or should I say, plop on the ground. The sculpture is really light and airy.
Besides the art piece is more of a joke and was really meant to see if I could make a sculpture out of nothing. And to test lights. I wanted something I could do to test independent LED lights and lithium batteries for some other upcoming projects. They seem to work as soon I break into my own fallen “Drama TV” sculpture and take lights out. I put those lights on broken robot’s “pigmy beer tap” toxic drum sculpture. Why not others be organic?
Yeah, the lights work although most people who walk by my sculptures just sort of keep walking. They didn’t even really look. I don’t mind and giggle. I think many miss the hidden glowing joke and hide their own thoughts, like, “What the hell was this guy on when he was making this strange glowing beast thing?” Or something of that sort.
If any other artist would have created such a weird piece of art for the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show there probably would have been hell to pay by the curator and Art Czar, A.S. Ashley. Nah. A.S. is a sculpture whore. If he saw a tumbleweed shaped like Mother Teresa, I have no doubt in my mind he would pluck it from the ground, put some random name on it and sell it as “Mother Nature Teresa Thorn”, and sell it for 500 clams.
Here’s my photo essay of the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show by Bakersfield Art Rave. Round two will be next Saturday, 5pm-Midnight. There will be no round three. Show up and buy some art.
Picture of my fallen glowing art: "Drama TV" and "Geezbot".
Landen Belardes in background edited the Noveltown projection art entry
Noveltown projected poetry...
...and art in an industrial-themed collage
Watching projected poetry to industrial sounds
Broken Robot's hanging industrial art
"Geezbot" later got more organic as Hectic films and Kerngamers.com
ripped the babybot from its loins
It's maddening and intricate...
Ceramic fairytales
How to date men... find a big knife... and...
Sculpture abounds
Bug art of the creepy beautiful kind
Hectic Films mingles with the crowd as they plan a Zowietown film shoot
Hectic Films short killer flick, "Skip" made stomachs churn
Jason Sanders of Hectic Films captures a creep moment of
guests watching their film
“I know. It’s an organic piece.”
“It’s going to fall.”
“I know. Cool, huh? Let it crash. I’m not worried. Kerngamers.com offered me five bucks for the whole mess.”
I arrive downstairs just in time to see the red-and-orange lights inside shimmer as the sculpture wobbles, snaps from the ceiling and smashes on the ground. Or should I say, plop on the ground. The sculpture is really light and airy.
Besides the art piece is more of a joke and was really meant to see if I could make a sculpture out of nothing. And to test lights. I wanted something I could do to test independent LED lights and lithium batteries for some other upcoming projects. They seem to work as soon I break into my own fallen “Drama TV” sculpture and take lights out. I put those lights on broken robot’s “pigmy beer tap” toxic drum sculpture. Why not others be organic?
Yeah, the lights work although most people who walk by my sculptures just sort of keep walking. They didn’t even really look. I don’t mind and giggle. I think many miss the hidden glowing joke and hide their own thoughts, like, “What the hell was this guy on when he was making this strange glowing beast thing?” Or something of that sort.
If any other artist would have created such a weird piece of art for the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show there probably would have been hell to pay by the curator and Art Czar, A.S. Ashley. Nah. A.S. is a sculpture whore. If he saw a tumbleweed shaped like Mother Teresa, I have no doubt in my mind he would pluck it from the ground, put some random name on it and sell it as “Mother Nature Teresa Thorn”, and sell it for 500 clams.
Here’s my photo essay of the Downtown Sculpture and Assemblage Show by Bakersfield Art Rave. Round two will be next Saturday, 5pm-Midnight. There will be no round three. Show up and buy some art.
Picture of my fallen glowing art: "Drama TV" and "Geezbot".
Landen Belardes in background edited the Noveltown projection art entry
Noveltown projected poetry...
...and art in an industrial-themed collage
Watching projected poetry to industrial sounds
Broken Robot's hanging industrial art
"Geezbot" later got more organic as Hectic films and Kerngamers.com
ripped the babybot from its loins
It's maddening and intricate...
Ceramic fairytales
How to date men... find a big knife... and...
Sculpture abounds
Bug art of the creepy beautiful kind
Hectic Films mingles with the crowd as they plan a Zowietown film shoot
Hectic Films short killer flick, "Skip" made stomachs churn
Jason Sanders of Hectic Films captures a creep moment of
guests watching their film
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Monday, August 21, 2006.
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Great photos! That was such a great night of art, conversations, and poetry and film!
I really loved this event!
WHAT wooooooooooot!!!!! ART DOWNTOWN!?!?!?! You CANT be SERIOUS!!!!
Well its about fringin' time! :D
Look for me and all my art peeps there NEXT SATURDAY to do it all again!
i had fun for the time i was there. all great work... and 'Skip' gave me butterflies everytime it came on.... thanks!
It was great to meet some new cool people and enjoy some astounding art. Big thanks to all who put this on!
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