8/7/2006: 50,000 balls in Aussie artwork

Undertoad · 08-07-2006, 12:31 PM

Put this in the "interesting art" category, and here's another thread title that sounds dirty but isn't. Here we have a work titled "Atomix -- Full of Love, Full of Wonder". Artist Nike Savvas (shown in the picture making final adjustments) is Australian, the installation is at the New South Wales Art Gallery.

It represents the "shimmering outback" -- the colors come from the colors of the outback, and the balls are blown with fans so that they move a little bit in the wind. Nice work! I would like to see it in person.

via MSNBC Week in Pics.

Pie · 08-07-2006, 12:33 PM

"Now they know how many balls it takes to fill the Albert Hall..."

lumberjim · 08-07-2006, 12:34 PM

you can see that she looooooooves the balls

Flint · 08-07-2006, 12:35 PM

Try to walk through there without getting tea-bagged!

post option #2:
"some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but when they're held for pleasure they're the balls that I like best"

Ibby · 08-07-2006, 12:49 PM

I think Flint wins with AC/DC.

"ball-sucker! ball-sucker! ball-sucker! ball-sucker!"

Flint · 08-07-2006, 12:53 PM

When a cutle little art-chick touches 50,000 balls, everybody wins!

Emrikol · 08-07-2006, 01:14 PM

Cool!

Flint · 08-07-2006, 01:17 PM

Oh, wow...spatially-oriented pixels! That is frickin' brilliant.

MsSparkie · 08-07-2006, 01:27 PM

Not being a baseball fan, it would have been even better if it was all pucks!

footfootfoot · 08-07-2006, 05:00 PM

Puckin' brilliant then.

footfootfoot · 08-07-2006, 05:01 PM

That is exactly what it looks like when you chow ten grams of shrooms.

That is awesome.

I'm there.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-07-2006, 05:28 PM

Where are the pigeons when you need 'em?

capnhowdy · 08-07-2006, 05:45 PM

Great work! I don't think it would be near as interesting without the mirrors. Imagine it with black background, flourescent balls and black light. Now that would be 'shroomy.

Wombat · 08-07-2006, 07:17 PM

I really like it.

I don't say that often about art.

Hagar · 08-09-2006, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wombat

I really like it.

I don't say that often about art.

ditto - now I think I should go and get myself checked out.

That's a really good installation.

08-07-2006, 12:31 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	8/7/2006: 50,000 balls in Aussie artwork Put this in the "interesting art" category, and here's another thread title that sounds dirty but isn't. Here we have a work titled "Atomix -- Full of Love, Full of Wonder". Artist Nike Savvas (shown in the picture making final adjustments) is Australian, the installation is at the New South Wales Art Gallery. It represents the "shimmering outback" -- the colors come from the colors of the outback, and the balls are blown with fans so that they move a little bit in the wind. Nice work! I would like to see it in person. via MSNBC Week in Pics.

08-07-2006, 12:34 PM	#3
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	you can see that she looooooooves the balls __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

08-07-2006, 12:35 PM	#4
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Try to walk through there without getting tea-bagged! post option #2: "some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but when they're held for pleasure they're the balls that I like best" __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio** Last edited by Flint; 08-07-2006 at 12:42 PM.

08-07-2006, 12:49 PM	#5
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	I think Flint wins with AC/DC. "ball-sucker! ball-sucker! ball-sucker! ball-sucker!" __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

08-07-2006, 12:53 PM	#6
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	When a cutle little art-chick touches 50,000 balls, everybody wins! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-07-2006, 12:33 PM	#2
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	"Now they know how many balls it takes to fill the Albert Hall..." __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

08-07-2006, 01:14 PM	#7
Emrikol Compatriot-at-Arms Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 107	Cool!

08-07-2006, 01:17 PM	#8
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Oh, wow...spatially-oriented pixels! That is frickin' brilliant. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-07-2006, 01:27 PM	#9
MsSparkie Curious Sagittarius Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 302	Not being a baseball fan, it would have been even better if it was all pucks! __________________ ~There is a forest in an acorn......

08-07-2006, 05:00 PM	#10
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Puckin' brilliant then. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

08-07-2006, 05:01 PM	#11
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	That is exactly what it looks like when you chow ten grams of shrooms. That is awesome. I'm there. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

08-07-2006, 05:28 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Where are the pigeons when you need 'em? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-07-2006, 05:45 PM	#13
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Great work! I don't think it would be near as interesting without the mirrors. Imagine it with black background, flourescent balls and black light. Now that would be 'shroomy. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

08-07-2006, 07:17 PM	#14
Wombat (marsupial with backward-facing pouch) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canberra Posts: 251	I really like it. I don't say that often about art. __________________ If you don't do it properly, you'll get to the pub sooner.

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