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Laguna Beach California on a sunny Saturday afternoon. |
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Smith Rock during sunset from the south western portion of the park between the bivouac and day use parking lots. |
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Greer Lankton's It's all about ME, Not You was first shown in 1996. Unfortunately, Greer passed away after the exhibit opening and when the show closed, we put the piece in storage. Now, thanks to the generosity of the Lankton family, it has been donated to the Mattress Factory for permanent display. Open a tall door and pass through a narrow alley beside a "white trash" house. It is clad in white siding with old windows and an astroturf patio littered with fall leaves. Inside, Greer Lankton recreated the Chicago apartment where she lived and worked. The walls are painted in deep colors. Stars cover the ceiling. The room is inhabited by the dolls and figures Lankton made during the course of her life – Raggedy Anns, one of whom is anorexic, a morphine addict on a cot surrounded by pill bottles. Throughout the room are very personal shrines Lankton has created, to Patti Smith, Candy Darling, to Jesus, and many others to the artist herself. Several of Lankton's figures were included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and the 1995 Venice Biennale, but she never before had the opportunity to create a large-scale installation. Much of her work is clearly autobiographical, revealing her obsession with her own body. Born male, she became female at the age of 21. Her work has been described by critic Holland Cotter as "art of superbly disciplined and unusually distressing beauty." Lankton wanted to recreate her apartment in an ideal form, designing an environment of "artificial nature/total indulgence," filled with "dolls engrossed in glamour and self-abuse." Like the artist herself, Lankton's dolls and environments possess a disarming mix of innocence and decadence, hope and pathos. She said her work was "all about me," reflecting her life as an artist, a transsexual and a drug addict. But beyond this, from her position as an outsider, Lankton eloquently explored and questioned accepted norms of gender and sexuality, as well as the powerful imagery of popular culture and consumerism. It is tempting to think that Lankton knew her installation at the Mattress Factory was her last, filling the space with a retrospective selection of her beloved dolls and everything that was most meaningful to her. |
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Smitch Rock State Park ( center portion of rock mass )
Smith Rock Oregon State Park Web site http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_51.php Smith Rock Oregon State Park MAP http://www.oregonstateparks.org/images/pdf/smith_map.pdf Google Maps with Terrain map overlay of Smith Rock Oregon State Park http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=smith+rock+state+park,+oregon&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.177128,69.257812&ie=UTF8&ll=44.365373,-121.138687&spn=0.021998,0.050168&t=p&z=15 |
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Smith Rock State Park, Oregon ( south western portion of rock mass )
This panorama of the south western portion of the Smith Rock mass is centered on the Horse ford with Asterisk Pass to the right hand side of the panorama. You can see a rock climber which is top roped with a belayer and another climber free climbing without any gear to place temporary anchors which is not recommended. Smith Rock Oregon State Park Web site http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_51.php Smith Rock Oregon State Park MAP http://www.oregonstateparks.org/images/pdf/smith_map.pdf Google Maps with Terrain map overlay of Smith Rock Oregon State Park http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=smith+rock+state+park,+oregon&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.177128,69.257812&ie=UTF8&ll=44.365373,-121.138687&spn=0.021998,0.050168&t=p&z=15 |
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I have been here before and have taken a number of GigaPan panoramas:
the series on the Japanese Garden: http://tinyurl.com/Houston-JapaneseGarden, Luck in Hermann Park panorama, http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/25558/ and the Celebration of Love panorama, http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/29445/ This hand-held, 360-degree panorama was taken with a Leica D-Lux 3 camera and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run. Note: This glorius panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer). |
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Central Oregon's rock climbing Mecca - Smith Rock - Smith Rock State park near Redmond, Oregon is widely considered a rock climbing Mecca, hosting over 500,000 visitors annually. In response to the popularity of Smith Rock, SmithRock.com was formed to create an online rock climbing and outdoor recreation resource dedicated to the informational needs of the park's users. Visit: http://www.smithrock.com/ for more information --- This photograph brought to you by : http://www.Qubits.com a Bend Original Construction Toy |
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near Redmond, OREGON.
Looking west |
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with Terrebonne, OR in the foreground
Looking east |
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Looking north |