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Pic of the week

Here is my pic of the week.  This image is a photograph of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts located in Kansas City.

Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin was born April 1, 1933, Died November 29, 1996. He studied for the priesthood at the Immaculate Conception Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn. 1952 left to join his fraternal twin brother in the Air Force. During military service in 1954–55, Flavin was trained as a air weather meteorological technician. Upon his return to New York in 1956, Flavin briefly attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts and studied art under Albert Urban. He later studied art history for a short time at the New School for Social Research, then moved on to Columbia University, where he studied painting and drawing.

 Flavin's works is with fluorescent light as a medium. He main focus is the light play on the walls and objects around the light. He embrace the fluorescent fixture as an aesthetic object. This forward thing placed him at the forefront of a generation of artists whose use of industrial materials. 

 greens crossing greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green), 1966. © 2012 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: David Heald © SRGF

What he was able to create space out of nothing using different florescent colors in dark rooms to give a new quality of art. This engages the view to respond to the patterns of light that is created by the fluorescent lights.

Dan Flavin was an American Minimalist who focus was on sculptural objects and creating a repetition in his installation. This gives the view a sense of wonder and ideas of how he can create artworks out of light. 

 Dan Flavin, untitled 1973

 The fluorescent light wash over the walls creating color. These colors mix, so the white walls seem to be painted. They bathe the area and any visitor with a warm and completely artificial glow. This artificial glow creates to piece and brings the view in closer to the artwork.  

 Dan Flavin was a very unique artist who could influence a room with his dancing light. Bring life to a room as it inhabits the space around it. Often  Dan Flavin evoke a cheerful response from visitors, he does have darker pieces. One piece called Monument 4 maned for those who have been killed in an ambush. Was created in response to the Vietnam War, is made from blood-colored tubes that jut off the wall aggressively. This piece invades the viewer's space.

 monument 4 for those who have been killed in ambush (to P.K. who reminded me about death), 1966

Flavin was one of he most influence artist in the last 30 years. 

Pic of the week

landscape 1

This image was taken of I-70 in Kansas. I started a small project were I was stopping every 20 miles between Hays, Kansas and Kansas City.

Here is a new coffee pic taken with 120 film

Dec 7 1941

Today 60 years ago Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Six aircraft carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku) launch its their launch aircraft to attack Pearl Harbor. Today we honor those gave their lives on both sides.


Admiral Yamamoto opposed war against the United States, Because of the studies at Harvard University (1919-1921). He say that Japan couldn't win an all out war with the US. But He believed that if Japan could destroy the US Naval Fleet in one shot. Then the US would sue for peace. As peace talks broke down Admiral Yamamoto prepared his attacked. He originally stipulated that attack on Pearl Harbor should not commence until thirty mins after Japan had informed the United States Government. But the attack took place after the notice could be delivered. It was after the attack Admiral Yamamoto know that Japan had " Waken a Sleeping Giant".


This image is a pic of the USS. California on the day attack. The California took two torpedoes and two bombs killing 100 men. Three days of flooding the California settled into the mud with only its superstructure remain above the surface. On 25 march 1942 the California was refloated and repaired. On 17 September she sailed to Philippines to help out in the Invasion.


The image below is a shot of the USS West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship. This image is the rare photographs that was taken during the war and in color. In this shot we can see sailors trying to up out the flames of the West Virginia. The black smoke rapping around them making it hard to fire the fires. As tragic as Pearl Harbor is this shot has to be one of the more powerful and beautiful shot I have seen. The Superstructures stand out the black smoke as to say " I am still here, you can do what you want but I still stand"


On board Arizona, the ship's air raid alarm went off about 07:55. Shortly after 08:00, the ship was attacked by 10 Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers. The bombers scored four hits and three near misses on and around Arizona. The last bomb hit at 08:06 in the vicinity of Turret II, likely penetrating the armored deck near the ammunition magazines located in the forward section of the ship. About seven seconds after the hit, the forward magazines detonated in a cataclysmic explosion

The image below is the USS Arizona taken at the time of the magazines explode. This caused the forward turrets and conning tower to collapse downward some 25–30 feet (7.6–9.1 m) and the foremast and funnel to collapse forward. The explosion killed 1,177 of the 1,400 crewmen on board at the time, almost half of the lives lost during the attack. This image is one of the most powerful images of the war. It is a point of time where the world stops and reflex on the souls that where lost daring the war.

Pic of the week

"Beacon 4x5"

This image was created last year using a 4x5 camera. What I love about this image is way the light creates its own texture on the negative. A texture that focuses the eye on the light and the colors in the trees.