I have wanted to tackle a 365 Project (366 in this case as it's a leap year) since my days at Ontario College of Art in the early 90's. But I knew myself well, and was certain it would end up incomplete like so many other projects in the past. I'm one of those people who always has more than a few projects on the go, and find myself jumping around between them like a madman afflicted with ADD. When I heard a small group of geocaching friends were going to attempt their own 365 Project, I decided that I would join in the fun, and that it might provide me the extra incentive to complete it. And besides, it will make an awesome photo album to look back on a single year in my life, day-by-day. And since painting has for my entire life, been my main focus creatively, the fact that this will be my first real photographic project with any sort of focus, is exciting, and should be a great learning experience.

16th April 2012

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Day 107: I headed back to the Distillery District tonight, motivated by three new Munzees located there, two which highlighted a couple of Michael Chiristian sculptures. As much as I like those two pieces, the subject of today’s shot presents a much more interesting option for a photo. The sculpture “Still Dancing”, by Dennis Oppenheim, incorporates lights that move & change color, so the final shot, especially at longer exposures differs each time. A too long exposure and the floods inside the right side will show up as white. Fortunately the full cycle is more than the 30 second exposure I used. The light moving along the spiral is now one long neon spiral. Here’s a link to a study for the sculpture. “Still Dancing” is a combination of sculpture, architecture and theater. By combining these art forms into one work, which derives content from an association with early distillery images and their alchemical apparatus, one encompasses a work which incorporates the extraordinary transformative drama inherent in the distillery process.  - Dennis Oppenheim

Day 107: I headed back to the Distillery District tonight, motivated by three new Munzees located there, two which highlighted a couple of Michael Chiristian sculptures. As much as I like those two pieces, the subject of today’s shot presents a much more interesting option for a photo. The sculpture “Still Dancing”, by Dennis Oppenheim, incorporates lights that move & change color, so the final shot, especially at longer exposures differs each time. A too long exposure and the floods inside the right side will show up as white. Fortunately the full cycle is more than the 30 second exposure I used. The light moving along the spiral is now one long neon spiral.

Here’s a link to a study for the sculpture.

“Still Dancing” is a combination of sculpture, architecture and theater. By combining these art forms into one work, which derives content from an association with early distillery images and their alchemical apparatus, one encompasses a work which incorporates the extraordinary transformative drama inherent in the distillery process.  - Dennis Oppenheim

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