Dan Flavin

I can't help but want to do what he has done but with a twist.

His work is so simple but amazing. The colours are so vivid and inviting.

 I would love to re-create this just so I could experience the walk within this space.
It looks like it should be a hallway connecting rooms on a space station.

Bending light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZuM7E_jWYE

Very interesting video..
I have become very interested in the art work of Dan Flavin, his work is kept a lot more basic than this.
Flavin's work is very simple. He uses the hardware as it is to create the art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRxim7WZw_Q&feature=related

Anish Kapoor's Leviathan, Grand Palais Paris

Brain

My senses and everyones senses are all controlled by our brains.
Our brain is never trapped from thought or imagination, yet sometimes we can feel trapped.
The emotions we feel the things we see, hear, touch, say, are all controlled and processed by our brain.

Fitting In

The world may seem small today but if you get thrown into a new environment, a new SPACE where you feel uncomfortable the smallest area of the planet can seem huge. If your uncomfortable you begin to shrink if you let yourself. But could it just be like a jigsaw, can there be an easy way to "fit in". Of course, everyone fits. But you don't need to try.

A story I once her a priest talk about: 

On the first day of term, a university professor stood in front of his philosophy class with an empty jar.

Without saying a word to his students, he removed the lid of the jar and filled it with golf balls. When no more golf balls fit he closed the jar with its lid. He then asked his class, “Would you say that the jar is now full?” His students observed the jar and concluded that the jar was indeed full.

The professor then proceeded to open the jar up and started inserting marbles into the jar. The marbles started to fill the gaps between the golf balls. After sealing the jar, he asked his class once again if they thought the jar was now full. The class concluded that the jar was indeed now full.

The professor opened the jar a third time and started pouring in sand. Obviously, the sand started filling the gaps between the golf balls and the marbles. He then sealed the jar and asked his class a third time if the jar was full. His class chuckled and replied in unison, “Yes, it is now full!”

The professor opened the jar and emptied two small cups of coffee in the jar. The liquid had completely filled the gap between the golf balls, the marbles, and the grains of sand. He then began his lecture.

“I hope you realise that life is very much like this jar. The golf balls represent the important things in life, like God, family, loved ones, health, things that you care intimately about. If we lost everything else in life, our lives would still be ‘full’. The marbles are the other things in our lives that are important, but our happiness shouldn’t depend on them. Things like our work, our house, our car, etc. Finally, the sand represents everything else; the small stuff.

“If we were to have filled our jar up with sand first, there we wouldn’t have had enough room for the marbles or the golf balls. If we use all our life and energy on the small stuff, we won’t have any room for the important things.”

After a brief moment of silence one of the students asked, “Professor, what does the coffee represent?”

“Ah, I’m glad you asked,” replied the professor. “It means that no matter how full your life is, there is always room for a cup of coffee with a friend.”

Pretty sweet... sony concept