Today was the day of incredible and surprising events. After job I did small shopping in a store nearby the place where I work. I bought a red pepper. I paid a lot as for sigle red pepper and I was surprised with it. When I came back home I cut the pepper. It turned out there was a smaller pepper growing inside of the big one. It was shocking, but fascinating. Actually there were 2 peppers inside of one. Amazing. Somehow it reminded be of a photo of an octopus which I downloaded today at work from internet. The inside pepper looked a bit like octupus without legs.
I'm being now fascinated with octopus and octopus-related pieces of artwork.
I'm being now fascinated with octopus and octopus-related pieces of artwork.
At work we have some problems with the online gift-store application we bought. The whole idea is that you can upload photographs from your computer to the store and order prints, mugs, T-shirts and other things with your photo. Unfortunately there is some problem and you can't really upload some of your photographs to the program, we don't know why. I wanted to upload the photos of octopuses to the program, but they didn't appear it the system. My boss had a long conversation with the programists who sold us the application telling them how much unhappy he is because of the program's feliure. The guys got very worried and asked me to send them the photos which I couldn't upload. So I had to send them the photos of the octopuses. They must have been surprised. Earlier I wanted to upload pictures from Avatar, as I have a crush on Samuel Worthington and it didn't work, either. It seems to me that the program has a problem uploading photos earlier downloaded from internet, I wonder why.
Comming back to the subject of octopuses - the whole fascination came to me because I am now working on my new project which I would like to submit to a contemporary art festival in a city Kuopio in Finland. They want artists to sumbit pieces of art which will be connected with the space of their town and also somehow text. I was never to Filnand, but I looked at the photos of the city online. And I thought of a huge leg of a monster sticking out from some big doorway and lying in the middle of the main shopping street in Kuopio. It wouldn't be connected with text and they might not necessairly like that, but it would be cool. But actually there have been similar projects in the world, so, you know, I am very sad, but I won't copy them.
But fortunately I figured out something different, but also cool and somehow related to the above fascinating projects. And it's even connected with text, so it matched the regulations of the festival and the call for submissions.
You may submitt your projects to the festival untill tomorrow (OMG! I thought it was till the end of February!!!!!!). So hopefully octopuses and other fascinating animals will appear in the streets of the city Kuopio one day in October, as this is when the festival is actually held.
http://antifestival.com/anti-2010/call-for-proposals-2010/
I heard that Kuopio is very colourful and beautiful. I'd love to go there one day. I found a nice photo collection from the place on Flickr by Eleezebb.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleezebb/sets/72157622119127809/
I like the way the photos look like in a form of miniatures in a general preview. I don't know the photographer, to be honest, but she seems to be a very nice girl and a sensitive artist. Some of her photos are shadow self-portraits. Actually on Flickr there is a world photo pool of shadow self-portraits made by different people in different countries. Well, I think it's really, really cool.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/shadowontheground/pool/
Photographing your own shadow is very funny, it's like photographing the evidence of your own presence. There is an artist who collects there photos and asks people to send them to him. Here is a link to his nice and clean website and project:
http://www.selfshadows.com/ing.html
I also bought 3 energy drinks and I got one liter of energy in a bottle for free in a promotion. Now I have almost 2 liters of pure energy in my home. Fortunately it's closed in the bottles or my home would be big, pure, sparkling and glowing energetic ball.
You may submitt your projects to the festival untill tomorrow (OMG! I thought it was till the end of February!!!!!!). So hopefully octopuses and other fascinating animals will appear in the streets of the city Kuopio one day in October, as this is when the festival is actually held.
http://antifestival.com/anti-2010/call-for-proposals-2010/
I heard that Kuopio is very colourful and beautiful. I'd love to go there one day. I found a nice photo collection from the place on Flickr by Eleezebb.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleezebb/sets/72157622119127809/
I like the way the photos look like in a form of miniatures in a general preview. I don't know the photographer, to be honest, but she seems to be a very nice girl and a sensitive artist. Some of her photos are shadow self-portraits. Actually on Flickr there is a world photo pool of shadow self-portraits made by different people in different countries. Well, I think it's really, really cool.
Photographing your own shadow is very funny, it's like photographing the evidence of your own presence. There is an artist who collects there photos and asks people to send them to him. Here is a link to his nice and clean website and project:
http://www.selfshadows.com/ing.html
I also bought 3 energy drinks and I got one liter of energy in a bottle for free in a promotion. Now I have almost 2 liters of pure energy in my home. Fortunately it's closed in the bottles or my home would be big, pure, sparkling and glowing energetic ball.