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Description of Pictures: WASHINGTON, DC INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL
Curated and produced by Apartment Zero co-owner Douglas Burton
THU FEB 21 - SUN MAY 19
What makes an object useful, engaging and beautiful? What is it about a distinct design that conveys calm, wonder and excitement in the user and helps us recall a moment in time? Artisphere and Apartment Zero present the Washington, DC International Design Festival from Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, May 19, 2013. The cornerstone of this free three-month long multidisciplinary celebration of design is The Next Wave: Industrial Design Innovation in the 21st Century, a 4,000 square foot exhibition exploring innovation in product design from the last 13 years. Featuring one-offs, prototypes and pieces in production, The Next Wave focuses on innovation from Spain, Italy, Belgium, the U.K., Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the United States among others. On view will be over 100 objects covering the areas of lighting, tabletop, furniture, textile, product, electronics, housewares, tools and interactive design. The exhibition will be complemented by a series of free public programs, including lectures, film, video and photo competition as well as a small retail shop.
VOLTRON’S CORPSE
Live re-assembly of canvas segments by curators on Thursdays 5-6pm
WED MAR 27 – SAT MAY 4
Curated by Jared Davis and Andrew Wodzianski
Fifteen artists commemorate the anniversary of the first human spaceflight (known as Yuri’s Night), while addressing space exploration's transition from a mission of man, to a mission of robots. Fusing the early 20th century parlor game "Exquisite Corpse" with the pop culture sensibilities of the late 20th century most notable the 1985 anime series Voltron Force, these artists have accumulated a factory floor of interchangeable robotic segments. Segments on canvas will be assembled and reassembled throughout Artisphere’s Works in Progress Gallery in regular intervals, creating an astronomical amount of robot conf ...More...
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ARTIS_130412_001.JPG: Voltron's Corpse
ARTIS_130412_110.JPG: DC International Design Festival
ARTIS_130926_002.JPG: Eric Gordon at work
ARTIS_130926_067.JPG: Comics Making Studio
with members of the DC Conspiracy
Members of the DC Conspiracy, a comics-creating collaborative, will be working on page submissions for the Spring 2014 edition of Magic Bullet, a free, semi-annual comics newspaper distributed throughout the greater Washington, DC area. Sit in the lounge, read and purchase books made by the artists and have the opportunity to buy original artwork. Watch the artists draw on site and see the magic unfold. Take a "blank" comic pages and try your own hand at making a comic. Leave your comic behind and we'll upload it to our Facebook page and display it in the WIP Gallery.
ARTIS_130926_113.JPG: Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds
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Wikipedia Description: Artisphere
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Artisphere is a cultural center located in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia.
The Cultural Affairs Division of Arlington County, Virginia organized the new institution, which opened in October 2010. Artisphere occupies the space that previously housed the Newseum until its relocation to Washington, DC on March 3, 2002, as well as a nearby theatre which was orginially build to show motion pictures.
Facilities:
The 62,000 sq ft (5,800 m2) facility was converted at a cost of $6.7 million. The specific facilities include:
* 220-seat Dome Theatre, for concerts and films
* 4,000 sq ft (370 m2) Terrace Gallery, for art exhibits
* WiFi Town Square, with a two-story high video wall
* 3,000 sq ft (280 m2) Ballroom
* 125-seat black box theatre
* 387-seat Spectrum Theatre
* retail space for selling crafts
Operation:
Artisphere will have an annual operating budget of $3.1 million, of which $300,000 will be funded by the Rosslyn Business Improvement District. Programming will include serving as the home of the Washington Shakespeare Company, the Bowen McCauley Dance Company and the National Chamber Ensemble. The Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse and the Alexandria Symphony have also pledged to produce events there, and the ballroom is expected to be used for salsa, swing and social dancing.
The center's name was selected from among those proposed by a opinion poll of Arlington residents. The name is inspired by the geodesic dome that houses one of the theaters.
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2013 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and
my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California).
Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.