2 Comments August 31st, 2009 by IanMatteson
Art has rapidly changed over the last few years and went from hand crafted art to all digital to machined pieces. Ambiguous has brought a new idea with a traveling art show where everyone is limited to the same amount of space and size but you have to choose your medium to create and express your art. The Ping Pong show had no real rules or guidelines other than you get a ping pong paddle and do your thing. This show has traveled all through the US from Brooklyn, NY to Denver, CO and now to Salt Lake City, UT.
The show was at the newest shop in SLC, Fresh! There were many paddles that came and more locals added to move on to the next Ping Pong Show.
As a photographer a wooden surface isn’t something you would think to be a very artistic medium in photography but with a little old school processing knowledge it was very exciting. My chosen process was Cyanotypes with a deep blue color to bring the series together the images fall from forgotten rolls of film that deserve more appreciation.
My roommate Brett Allen, was also included in the show, he was in charge of building and painting the ping pong table for the tournament. The winner of the tournament received a free Ambiguous kit. In addition to the table he had just enough time to create one paddle.
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3 Comments July 5th, 2009 by IanMatteson
The Fourth of July, the one time of year when everyone pulls out the RV and heads for the hills and we did the same minus the RV part. We obviously knew we had to through a bash, so we kindly left Salt Lake valley and traveled north! We found our way to Mike’s house watched fireworks, had a little bit to much fun, woke up and went to the lake / reservoir. With everything green in the desert and hotter than ever we started to swim around and jump off some cliffs. Afterwards we had to test out the new and improved rope swing followed by a BBQ back in Salt Lake. And all of this added up to make the best 4th of July weekend I have ever had! Here is some evidence.
2 Comments June 12th, 2009 by IanMatteson
Salt Lake City has been a very rainy place lately which is very abnormal since this is the desert. With rainfall happening at least 1 - 2 times a day with low temperatures the hills have changed from brown to a deep luscious green. Today after the rain let up I went to the west hoping to catch some sunset rays and some green mountains that shadow our lives. When I got there I found that the farther west you go the more it looks like Montana from rolling fields to roads with few cars on it and mountains that are rolling with green grass and vegetation. Here is a look at how the west part of the valley views Salt Lake City.
Add a comment June 1st, 2009 by IanMatteson
Summer is always a good time to go on an adventure with your friends and find places or explore places you have never been. From just a park down the street that you have never wandered through to taking a trip to on of the earths greatest monuments. This time we all decided to go out to Spiral Jetty, a Robert Smithson art installation piece located on the northern part of the Great Salt Lake. After learning about it for the last few years in Art History and having it in our backyard of Utah made this even more satisfying to see in real life.
” Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) is located on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Using black basalt rocks and earth from the site, the artist created a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide that stretches out counter-clockwise into the translucent red water.Spiral Jetty was acquired by Dia Art Foundation as a gift from the Estate of the artist in 1999 ” (http://www.spiraljetty.org/).
It was a long haul to get there as well as one treacherous road, regardless it was an amazing day to be out on the waterfront hanging out with your best friends. My take on this art piece after seeing it is that the earth work that he did makes a point to have art in anything even if its just the land we walk on but this place was truly unbelievable. The location is a place no one would ever travel to unless it had a reason to be a destination, the Salt Lake no longer seems a lake it’s an ocean with massive mountains erupting out of water. The water and mountains go for miles until the only thing you can see is the curve of the earth, this is why I think Robert Smithson chose this location and the amazing design of the Spiral Jetty.
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