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Images of Sydney Vivid Light Festival & Fire Water 2010
Sydney, my hometown, really knows how to put on a good show. The New Year’s Eve fireworks celebrations are known worldwide. Starting in 2009, the City of Sydney decided to have an artistic light installation in the winter month of June. It’s called Vivid Light and it illuminates some of the city’s finest architectural structures … Continue reading
Images of Gardens of the J. Paul Getty Center & Museum, Los Angeles
Following on from a recent post: Buildings as Art: The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles California, I promised this post on the gardens of the J. Paul Getty Center. The gardens add so much visual splendor to the Getty Center. It blends with the artwork inside the buildings as well as the artistic architecture of … Continue reading
Buildings as Art: The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles California
The J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles without doubt blurs the lines of art and architecture. In a city oft referred to for its lack of culture, the Getty is home to one of the world’s greatest free collections of art. The Getty Center is the vision of oil millionaire Jean Paul Getty. It … Continue reading
Architect Perspective: Frank Gehry genius of the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Frank Gehry is one of my favourite architects. His most iconic works are the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggeinheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. What this man was able to vision with titanium and stainless steel is other worldy. He epitomises the ideology of the deconstructivism style of architecture. Continue reading
Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Art Series – Arghhhhhhh
Pirates are awesomeness. End of debate. Back in 2005 at the height of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, I created a series of acrylic on canvas paintings from movie stills of the first film, Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl. Also included is a paper model of a Disney’s Pirate ship the … Continue reading