There's a collaborative arts project going on at the moment, which has its starting point on Sherkin Island. Basically, lots of pinhole cameras are heading out from West Cork to pastures new, so that they can take solargraph images of skies and landscapes around the world.
Hosting the project involves taping a pinhole camera (which is a canister with photographic film inside, all provided) up somewhere and leaving it alone for a few months. The results - of a skyline over several months - are evocative:
Now, they don't need any more Baltimore hosts, so my contribution is to drink as much coffee as possible and free up those camera canisters. They're especially interested in getting pictures of urban skyscapes, so all City Folk most welcome! Details of the work so far are over here. If you're interested in being a Camera Taper, either let me know (I have five to find homes for) or contact Sheelagh (sheelaghnagig@gmail.com)and she'll send you out a camera.
In other news, months ago a friend told me about this Martha Stewart recipe for ham, baked on freshly-cut grass. That's right, grass. I wavered between thinking it was a delightful satire and thinking she's just loopy enough for it to be true. Finally checked on it this morning: "Locate an area in advance with tender, young, organically grown grass that has not yet been cut... It is best to cut it very early in the morning while the dew is still evident."
Surely this is symptomatic of an underlying psychological condition; something serious, like Craziness.
And finally, the prize for the weekend's best post goes to my sister, who sent this little darling arrangement:
Tum de tum, life feels so purdy :-)
2 comments:
Count this urbanite in...Is it self explanitory?
Is grass green or gone to pot??!!!
Cool! It is well-explained; promise.
Now you get me thinking about drug trafficking disguised as obsessive home-making...intriguing :-)
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