This week:

Aside from working on the video, I put together the parabolic speaker. After going to 3 different stores I finally found all the parts I would need.

If anyone needs any storage contains (cheap and flimsy) let me know. They're in great shape. I use the largest one for the parabolic part of the speaker.

I tested it and it does work. I'm not sure how well it will work in the Gordon Gallery. Next: getting the projector ready. I still have some testing to do with it.

I found a couple of interesting artist to blog about this week too. First, Thomas Struth. Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his family portraits and 1970's large format black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York. He is also know for photographing jungle and rain forests throughout the world. Struth presented the series of pictures in which he again penetrates key places of human imagination in order to scrutinize the landscape of enterprise, invention and digital engineering. He does this to raise awareness of these disappearing landscapes and people in them.

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sugimoto produced black and white images of dioramas. He considered them capturing a moment in time of fleeting events. The dioramas are located at the American Natural History Museum in New York. The striking images, comprised predominantly of plant and animal life, capture what the artist imagines the earth will look like after humankind and animal life has disappeared. The work raises issues of memory, time, and their preservation.