Postcard from Playa Ostional
We just missed the turtles nesting on this black sand beach, but an afternoon tropical torrential downpour. It seems like the region is having so much more rain this year than last in late July. No complaints, of course.
Wassaic Arts Festival, August 2-4
For a good many of us just itching to get out of the city on a hot weekend, once July 4th has passed we feel ready to get excited about the Wassaic Arts Festival. Each year the a nearby field. The Festival is accessible by taking the Metro North to Wassaic and walking to the […]
Architect for Birds
Nice story in the NYT today about an artist who describes himself as an “architect for the contemporary bird”. XAM is the name he uses to preserve his anonymity (he agreed to be interviewed only on the condition that we use it, too). He has been hanging street art for three years now in the […]
Poor Air Quality on Northeast Coast
According to Boston’s Business Journal, The EPA has predicted unhealthy air quality for many coastal beaches in the Northeast region this weekend. Children and adults with respiratory conditions are especially advised to avoid strenuous activities as elevated ozone levels can lead to breathing problems. Though it’s going to be this year’s first hot weekend since […]
Urban Air
Los Angeles artist Stephen Glassman has plans for the steel frames that hoist billboards above his concrete city. He wants to transform them into suspended bamboo gardens, transforming the scenery of thousands of commuters every day. His project, that we can often lose sight of. To create the garden billboards, Glassman and his crew alter […]
The Relocation of Newtok Residents
Yesterday the Guardian published its first installment of a report on Newtok, Alaska, where an entire village is in the long process of relocating as their home becomes uninhabitable due to the affects of climate change. A report by the US Army Corps of Engineers predicted the highest point in the village will be underwater by 2017. […]
Unlocking Malibu’s Beaches
Malibu hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in this country, and apparently many of the residents in the area have been putting up fake signs for years, discouraging the public from accessing them. USA Today reports that despite recent legislation put into action to protect the rights of the public to use the beaches, […]
Sebasti?o Salgado’s “Genesis”
This past Sunday, The New York Times’ Sunday Review section featured a portfolio of images from photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who has long documented human suffering and its causes around the world. But for his latest project, he has turned his lens on Earth itself, in order to document the beauty it retains despite its own destruction […]
National Geographic Found
To celebrate their 125 years of existence, National Geographic have launched an official Tumblr dedicated exclusively to showing off a wide array of photographs from their historic archives, many of which have until now been unpublished. The result is equal parts journey back in time and inspiration for preserving and cultivating our cultures and environments. […]
Fracking and Earthquakes
Though the links between earthquakes and human activity have long been discussed, evidence is gathering that strongly correlates the use of fracking to obtain fuels from the earth to these natural disasters. Mother Jones recently published Michael Behar’s account of an unlikely 5.7 quake in Oklahoma in 2011, and the manmade circumstances that appear to […]
Pierre Carreau: Waves and Beaches
While spending time at Clic Gallery over the weekend I came across the incredible prints of French photographer Pierre Carreau. By taking hundreds upon hundreds of shots, Carreau has honed his craft to create isolated portraits of waves in which the light and nuances of each curve make them appear more like glass than water. Born near Paris […]
Expo 1: New York, Rockaway Call for Ideas
Via MoMA PS1: In an effort to foster the creative debate on urban recovery after Hurricane Sandy, MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design are calling out for ideas to create a sustainable waterfront. Artists, architects, designers, and others are welcome to present ideas for alternative housing models, creation of social spaces, urban […]
Michael Gaillard (Harmony Artist-In-Residence)
Glimpses of Costa Rica, as seen through the lens of my 8×10 camera (please click on a thumbnail to load the slideshow)…
Berenice Abbott’s Wave Patterns
From Photograph magazine: To explain wave phenomenon, Abbott adapted photogram techniques she had learned as Man Ray’s assistant in the 1920s. Combining a glass-bottomed ripple tank with an overhead flash, she projected shadows of oscillating waves onto unexposed photographic paper. The strong graphic black-and-white lines in Wave Pattern with Glass Plate lucidly reveal how energy pulses through water.
Common Ground for our Common Atmosphere
So often in the debate on climate change and global warming, the focus leans so heavily on the debate aspect, the issue itself takes a back seat. No matter the degree to which one believes in the human impact on the environment, we should be able to find some common ground in the idea that […]
Gary Beydler, 20 Minutes in April
As a device, the mirror beckons a panoply of critical formulations. A mirror can be seen as the symbol of vanity (the Narcissus myth), the site of the ego’s formation (Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage), or the mind of the perfect man (Chuang Tzu), to name just a few famous metaphors. But none of these feels […]
BlueSphere
Bluesphere, “a unique photographic bookâ??a collection of wave forms and ocean moments that beautifully illustrate the essence of the sea”â??by Gold Coast-based photographer Shelli Bankier, is out today. Just in time for the holidays. Beautiful images of surfing and the ocean. More here.
Climate Change & Sandy
The latest natural disaster presents an opportunity to better understand climate change. The Huffington Post ran an interesting piece about the relationship between natural disasters and climate change. Has anyone seen other good articles on the topic?
Rockaway After Sandy
While we at the Harmony Blog lost only our server for a few days (because of power outages), other areas of New York were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Our friends at WAX magazine went out immediately and wrote the following about one of the hardest hit areas: Thirty-six hours after Superstorm Sandy hit, we went […]
Robert Adams, On Any Given Day in Spring (I)
Don’t miss this show at Matthew Marks Gallery, which is on view until November 3. Adams’s traveling retrospective is also currently at the Yale University Art Gallery, until October 28. From a recent interview: I’ve been asked why I didn’t keep making pictures in the suburbs. I think the answer is that, at some level, I hoped early […]
Koji Enokura, Symptom-Sea-Body (P.W.-No. 40)
A favorite work from “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” The exhibition, which began at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles and traveled to Gladstone Gallery in New York, examined the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon Mono-ha (School of Things). According to a press release “Requiem for the Sun” refers to “the attitude of aesthetic […]
Hans Haacke, Wide White Flow
… make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is non-stable… … make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely… … make something which cannot ‘perform’ without the assistance of its environment… … make something which reacts to light and temperature changes, is subject to air currents […]
Study Suggests Leatherback Turtle Decline
From Yale Environment 360: A warming climate could exacerbate threats facing leatherback turtle populations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, creating conditions that could trigger a 75 percent reduction in turtle numbers by the end of the century, a new study says. Even under existing conditions, turtle births ebb and flow each year, researchers say, with eggs and hatchlings […]
