Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime
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Jos,
Nice take David, great vid Nora!
we have a new sculpture along the river, a kiwi boy, he has a tuatara on his shoulder
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
like the tones of colour
Very nice, and I like the grain. Another set of steps to sea?
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ChrisW, in reply to
Microcosmos
Wow! I've nothing so impressive, but this morning between the art installations on my doorstep I photographed this miniature art installation made by ants, on the doorstep of their home being newly re-excavated for the season through the boulderfield/concrete. They’ve assembled the pieces from a great distance in ant-metres. This as left overnight, all quiet in the ant world early on a cool morning.
If there is reluctance to accept this ant-work as an art-work, perhaps it might be agreed at least it is artish, or could the appropriate adjective be artic? That's it – an Ant-artic installation on their doorstep and mine.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Ant-artic installation
busy critters, and with an eye for colour too it seems..... tones nicely (and all Autumnal) with Jos's Tuatara above......
I'm going Macro-cosmos now.... blinking windows.....
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Jos,
Bleeding eyes
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Middle of the day and it's all go in the ant world, the ant-artic work is dishevelled. But the pattern of ant movements is er-ratic, doesn't seem a happy cooperative venture, are those two different species?
In fact looks like a serious scrap - is there an accommodation shortage and competition for the choice high-density housing?
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Bleeding eyes
Or tinsel inside the windows!
is there an accommodation shortage and competition for the choice high-density housing?
Or just a difference of opinion on the aesthetics ant-work installation...
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ChrisW, in reply to
Bleeding eyes
Or tinsel inside the windows!Always knew you were birdshit artists :-)
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Always knew you were birdshit artists :-)
which brings us back to the Dung Beetle segment in Microcosmos!
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Sorry, should have posted this for the Dung Beetle segment
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Islander, in reply to
If there is reluctance to accept this ant-work as an art-work, perhaps it might be agreed at least it is artish, or could the appropriate adjective be artic? That’s it – an Ant-artic installation on their doorstep and mine
Insects create art?
Insects have created art since they began ( and arachnids!)
And we have learned from them - and birds-
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
the AntyChristo...
it’s all go in the ant world
Art? Who knew that ants surfed?
;- )
glazed expression...blinking windows…..
the panes reign on this plane
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
the panes reign on this plane
speaking of planes....
don't know where this one thought it was going on Sunday, straight up, out of sight, heading out and attempting to join the triangle.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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ChrisW, in reply to
Insects create art?
No argument from me on this one, Islander :-) .
Here's a simple artless documentary photo of the wider context in support of the art-work case.It contains cultural references –
Assuredly those are not the long boards of ageing ant surfers, but the fallen leaves of the nearby Metasequoia glyptostroboides = dawn redwood tree – technically they are leaflets rather than leaves, so also the conveyers of messages, information, polemics …
And this remarkable tree species is from central China (where it is critically endangered in the wild, and first recognised as a ‘new’ species as late as in 1941. This specimen is of the oldest cohort in NZ, grown from seed distributed in 1948, planted on what is now the edge of my place in 1949.)And on second studied look at the art-work, there seems a certain Chinese style to it, perhaps in something like Chinese character(s) shall we say literally? Chris W in Beijing – is this too fanciful?
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JacksonP, in reply to
speaking of planes....
Snap.
Chicken wire sky.
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ChrisW, in reply to
And thanks Ian for the AntyChristo reference and link, thence Over The River and more resonances with my riverside doorstep including something of the (yet to be realised) silvery wrinkled fabric panels. Doorstep here this morning before the early sun patches filtered through the trees, the ant-work just past the mid-point of the centreline.
And rather than AntyChristo, perhaps an ant-scale MonteChristo on the basis that the ants have made their art installation on the flanks of a low-angle volcano of their own construction, as possibly to be seen in photo-reply to Islander.
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Try not to take a fence.
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ChrisW, in reply to
the Dung Beetle segment
That dung beetle goes well beyond the Sisyphean - clearly a super-human.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
but that's agate...
nice banding...Try not to take a fence
I shan't be venturing beyond the pale....
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Try not to take a fence.
Just build a bridge and getoverit ;)
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
there seems a certain Chinese style to it, perhaps in something like Chinese character(s) shall we say literally? Chris W in Beijing – is this too fanciful?
It's a little bit of a stretch, but that pile of leaflets in the middle does seem to fit into the box that characters are drawn within, and I can see possibly a couple of radicals in there, like the two dots to the left, same as the two dots on the left of 冰, and in the body of the character there'd seem to be a 世. Can't see a character in my dictionary combining those two, but that's not to say one doesn't exist, nor does it mean it couldn't be invented. And those leaflets do have something of the shape of brush-drawn characters.
Not surprised your tree is endangered in central China. Deforestation has been a major problem around these parts for thousands of years, and poplars are all the rage amongst those officials in charge of planning roads and communities and planting things.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Thanks Chris, I won't be seeking a literal message in the leaflets!
Update on the competitive scrap - the lighter-coloured ants have fully taken over - no sign of the dark shiny ones. The colony is active and well-organised in the warmth of the day, two trails of workers heading out empty and bringing back food, another set bringing out sand a grain at a time and adding it to the surrounding pile before rushing back for another.
The artwork is trashed, most of the pieces far scattered, hauled beyond the sand zone and dumped. Philistines! Was it ever thus?
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Rosemary and bee time.
Thrush?
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ChrisW, in reply to
Thrush?
Starling.
Often it's hard to see the tui for the trees.
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