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Archimedean Promenade

Administrator — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:38:10 +0000

This little guy turned out cuter than I had imagined, or intended. But that’s good. Not everything has to be tragic. He’s about 25cm (10 inches tall), and about 30cm (a foot) or so long. It looks like he is going places. I keep thinking of The Luggage in Terry Pratchet’s The Color of Magic, [...]

The Sir Neville Principle

Administrator — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:08:20 +0000

I was reading Brian Greene’s Fabric of the Cosmos, which was quite interesting, being about space and time (now known conveniently as spacetime!). Science is always looking for miracle particles and rays and beams and the like, which isn’t bad, necessarily, except everything turns into a super-weapon somehow. I digress. When I was in Berlin, I had [...]

Thought is more complicated than I thought

Administrator — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:28:28 +0000

[You may discern that I start out on this post with vim-and-vigor, and get bogged-down with the weight of things that are so profound, trying to sort them out. Let's just say that this is an homage some of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. No wonder they wrote long books, trying to unwind [...]

Not Dead

Administrator — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:37:51 +0000

I do have a cold, though, and I feel sorry for myself when I’m sick. . .I haven’t been into ceramics studio for a couple of days, but I’m looking forward to seeing my glaze tests! When I left on Friday afternoon, the kiln was still at 270 degrees Celsius, which is too hot to [...]

Ambulatory Ceramics

Administrator — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:05:29 +0000

Well, well, well. Long time, no see! I’ll keep this message brief, and let the pictures do the talking (and walking). There is something compelling about zoomorphic forms. Weird and cute at the same time. An underlying theme, and one that I’ve explored for several months now, is that of ambulation. To experience a sculpture, for [...]

The Un-untouchables

Administrator — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:42:16 +0000

The following is a proposal I wrote for an artist’s residency in the Midwest (USA). It had to be under 1000 characters, hence the brevity. I was also trying to write a kind of introduction, since there was no other written material except for the résumé/CV. I’ve been thinking about how my work in the [...]

Tune Ship and Trees

Administrator — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:42:08 +0000

Here’s another segment from my video projection for “Skibladnir” at the Viking Ship Museum. This segment is made of two moving images, one of the Tune Ship at the Viking Ship Museum, and one of walking through the forest south of Oslo. I suppose this is a not-so-subtle way of making a connection between ships and [...]

Harald Gråfell Skiing

Administrator — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:26:20 +0000

I decided I can file this on under “outdoor adventures,” too, since I recorded some of the video on skis during the winter of 2011 (February 9, 2011 according to the file information) at Pebble Creek. This is a layered video (having multiple superimpositions of images) that I included, albeit briefly, in the video projected [...]

Harald Gråfell

Administrator — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:52:48 +0000

Here’s a two-minute-or-so segment from the video I am projecting in my sculptural installation at the Viking Ship Museum. The total length of the video loop (which I burn to a DVD) is about 28 minutes now. I really like this little segment. There is no sound at the museum, but here you can hear [...]

Epic Video, or Because I Could

Administrator — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:25:46 +0000

Well, YouTube allows long video uploads, so I thought, “Why not?” Here is the video that I am currently projecting in Skibladnir. I change the video loop almost daily, making slight variations, as I tweak it to make sure that it’s bright enough, and that it “looks right.” This is the variation for today. So, [...]