Fish on Ice
January 25, 2010 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
I would never get the idea to freeze fish just for the fun of it, but somebody already did: The Ice Aquarium in Kesennuma, Japan is part of the local fish market and some of the freshly fished fish (try to say this fast!) ends up in this aquarium stored at -20 degrees Celsius. Brrr.
The science of flight
January 24, 2010 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
Evidence A:
Evidence A
Evidence B:
Evidence B
Jeanne-Claude is gone
November 21, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 7 Comments
With deep sadness I heard that Jeanne-Claude, the wife and collaborator of the artist Christo, has died at 74.
Ingo Braun, Jeanne-Claude and Christo in Berlin, 1995
I was lucky to have met and worked with her and her husband on the “Wrapped Reichstag” Project in Berlin in 1995 and I liked her frank and realistic style. She once said:
Artists don’t retire. They die. That’s all. When they stop being able to create art, they die.
You will be missed, Jeanne-Claude!
The “Picken”
November 5, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 1 Comment
A cross between a Pig and a Chicken is called a Picken.
The Picken
The biggest camera I was ever in
September 16, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
This, which looks like an innocent old Isuzu bus…
… is actually a huge camera.
The “Sightseeing Bus Camera Project” initiated by Tokihiro Sato in 2004 was a huge, driving camera obscura.
I was able to catch a ride for about 10km from an art exhibition back to the next train station and now I know how a roll of film feels…very nauseated! At first it was just pitch dark inside, but after a short while I could see very clearly the surrounding projected to the inside of the bus, but since the projection was upside down and moved in the reverse direction of the bus driving, it was a rather strange experience.
It was really too dark to get a good photo of it, but I tried …
… and tried again.
Very cool, but the other passengers and myself were happy as it was over and we didn’t needed any sickness bags.
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