Bunce of Camerons

Beneath the Surface: Forum on Beauty

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:35:00 +0000

This weekend at our studio we are hosting a conference that we hope is stirring up some thought on the nature of beauty in art. Many before us, including C. S. Lewis and Thomas Aquinas, have described Truth Goodness and Beauty to be transcendentally interwoven. Something about what these teachers have to tell us is mysteriously sensible, though it often evades description. We wanted to create an environment to work through this mystery to inspire deeper aesthetic considerations in our lives. This is part of what that looked like.

all the lights and sounds

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:11:00 +0000

A tiny little glimpse of a thing I'm working on for this coming weekend. This weekend it won't live in a window, but perhaps it will live in a stage arrangement.

Meet Elonzo

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:18:00 +0000

A little bit ago I got to see Elonzo play at the Evening Muse in Charlotte. This family affair is easily my favorite local band. I am _so_ glad (yea, there was just no other way to convey how glad I am) that I went to see them. They've been working with their newer songs for a while since I saw them last and I really like where they've been going. Soon they'll head back to the studio for some more recording, but before they do that, they're going to be playing a show in Rock Hill as part of the kickoff for a weekend that we are calling Beneath the Surface: Forum on Beauty.
Get excited

I woke up singing it

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:52:00 +0000

I was looking through my journal from this year and came across this from May. Transcribed with one note:

I dreamt that Mr. Fuller had rounded up the old band to play a concert or something and we sucked. apparently we hadn't practiced and the point of it seemed to be a performance piece for him. We were on the audience side with something happening on the stage with people up there. Mr. Fuller was talking them through that we were doing and we were fumbling badly. I took my first valve out [of my trumpet] and tried to get it back in while we were supposed to be playing. Mr Fuller led the trumpet section by playing with us, but I couldn't see his fingers to match him so I played a lot of bad notes. I fiddled with my slides and dropped them. The girls in the trombone section talked through the quiet part when Mr. Fuller was talking and I got mad at them. They were sassy and complaining.

He had told other people what to do it seemed or at lease prepped a few people and we started gathering at the edge of the stage while he climbed up on it. Some trombonist knew a melody or interlude to play and Mr. Fuller grabbed a trombone to lead that section. One of them had dropped a nut of some kind from fiddling with it as I had been. He didn't want to play without it. I found it and he began to fall in. After the trombones had their part Mr. Fuller began explaining to us and to the crowd on stage as he taught us the song:

"This song was lifeless until the author died"

we began to hum Amazing Grace

I woke up singing it

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:32:00 +0000

I've been digging through a number of super-geeky sites recently as research for some ideas I have for new work. Some of the things I've come across are really inspiring. I want to share a few of them with you.

One really nice work that I just found is at the National Gallery of Art. Multiverse by Leo Villareal uses a really well-developed pattern system to create moving light-painting sculptures. The videos available on itunes are really nice - search for the title of the work.

The Villareal piece reminds me of a piece in Detroit (which is hard to find solid documentation for, however youtube can offer a better sense of the experience. I think I prefer the clean execution of the Villareal work, but the complexity of each has a particular draw.

My biggest gripe is that these are both very interesting displays. Several comments on the videos also note that the Detroit piece does not interact at all with the changes in the environment. It is, in essence, playing a strange music video with a limited playlist. Villareal talks of his work as sculpture, which is fitting. I think another way of seeing it could be time-based painting. What it is not is responsive. It doesn't read it's environment, or participate in an exchange.

The systems are not designed for this, so in part, my gripe is that the car doesn't fly. More closely it could be that the fully-articulated GI-Joe figures are clumsy when you make them shake hands. They do so much already and they have so much capability that it would almost seem to solve the problem of finite material. Leo Villareal says that it is unlikely that a viewer would experience the same sequence in a visit. Unlikely, but the guy sweeping the floor is probably sick of "that sequence that does the... " or could list a few things that it "does." It has a limited vocabulary.

This is an interesting find.
So is this.
oh oh
hmm

What I'd like to see is a simple inclusion of awareness. I still think that a major gift of Art is that it tells. I think that the artist should instruct her works to be instructive, and generous, and full of things to say. Only, let them not be jabbering. If we are already doing so much thought of numbers and light, why not include a touch of wisdom? Let us be discerning and not throw our pearls before moving sidewalks.

Look At The Colors!

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:19:00 +0000

This post comes with a picture of a sweet bike.
The bike is a pacifier for those who just want to see pictures here.
The real cool thing is a tiny piece of code: here
If you have an Arduino, and a sweet piece of LED goodness, like that available here, you may have some fun with this. I promise it isn't fancy. I kinda want someone to show me up with something really cool for this. But until then here is a cool thing.
Have a great weekend.

a few things

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:42:00 +0000

one night, our friends came over for coffee and drinks
one night...
coffee and eating books and instagramming

Quality of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:41:00 +0000

A gem arrived in mail. I was honored to be able to get mine direct from across the pond, now you'll have to track them down. I promise it's worth it though. You can start here. Brian, welcome back to the states. Thanks for being a huge encouragement to photographers everywhere. -cb

hold out hope

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:40:00 +0000

Lift up your head and let me see your eyes

Backstory here

The coming

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:07:00 +0000

clockwise from computer ("of note filter"):
new mug, trying it out with some tea
solder
old workhorse computer, being used to light up LEDs
light-box for testing LEDs
stick-and-tissue P51 Mustang, in almost-all-sticks stage
soldering iron
old photograph of me found in darkroom things
2 7-segment-with-dot LED modules soldered onto a chunk of board
lamp for my 35mm frame cutter that I want to put a switch in
power supply for my arduino(!)
my arduino(!)
the box of all the crap to play with my arduino
sander case
film processing envelopes
light meter case
electronic / JOBO parts case
4x5 case
bin of crap from darkroom that has been slowly migrating to the garbage can
etc.

There has been so much going on that I really crave the time to sit in my chair and dive really deep into things I love. The more time I spend on the road, the more I want to be still. What's nice though, is that there is finally momentum in my stillness - good momentum. Sometimes I feel a bit like an egg, wobbling from being spun and stopped. Nights feel like summer vacations spent in the surf, with the persistent rolling feeling lingering through rest.
The last few days have been more like getting the truck up to speed and letting it roll. DirectionFull

I much prefer this.

figgin

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:07:00 +0000

This summer we really learned how to make the most of some things.
It turns our that plenty of people grow great fruit around here with no time to harvest or do anything about all of it.

There is sweet time to be had in reclaiming good things together.

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:57:00 +0000

Cure

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:56:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:50:00 +0000

New Orleans was a wonderful place

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:19:00 +0000

Ceiling, reading room, Staple Goods, NOLA

take a break

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:51:00 +0000

summer still is
go out and make it

cousins

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:49:00 +0000

sunsets

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:43:00 +0000

I cannot wait to see these really printed.
the colors and textures drive me crazy in scans like this,
but see how promising it is?

I love it when summers can be filled with time like this
Lake time
Water time
Time to sit sometime
Leave your phone at home

pizza

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:11:00 +0000

We have been enjoying the work of our hands
I am constantly blown away by how we are able
to have food from the earth in such
quality and supply

put beets on your pizza

roundroundround

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:09:00 +0000

Tea and Books

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:00:00 +0000

something that i'm s'posed to be

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:23:00 +0000

listen

that was one of my favorite parts of the 2010 IAM Encounter

Even though I wasn't familiar with the Muppets from my childhood in the same way, or perhaps because I wasn't really familiar with the original, hearing the Cooper Union auditorium fill with the voices recreating that sound

that memory

that shared history

that drove home Jefferey Overstreet's point about making true, personal, big, daring, specific stories

was better than any movie could be.

Pancakes

noreply@blogger.com (Cameron Bunce) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:55:00 +0000