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Didn't know whether to include this in mixed media as the support is records but the medium is acrylics. I decided on the more traditional lean. Yep my final piece for this class earned me a 'distinction', of which I earned every letter. The top nine records rotate manually. In keeping with the theme of music, Annie Lennox is the subject, for you too young to know, she was the lead singer for the Eurythmics. The whole thing measures approx 2m x 1.5m. The records are nailed and some glued to a pine frame work that took as long to construct as it took to paint Annie. I was just relieved that she came together and the morphing works as cleanly as I'd hoped. All in all I'm pretty pleased with the outcome and will be developing the idea in future kenetic works.Related content
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Did you think about incorporating the Eurythmics' music as an additional part of the interactive mixed-media aspect of this piece? (ie. as basic as playing the Eurythmics music in the background, or enabling [through tech enhancements] the viewer to have some Eurythmics songs to be played while viewing this portrait.) I mean, I can almost hear some of Annie's music playing in my head as I view this work, and this is just while viewing your photograph.
Beautiful work, Reyne. I just want to go and touch/play with it myself. 
Oh, and by the way, I would catagorize this as a mixed-media installation (portrait.) :: yes, you have used acrylics, but the fact that you have created a piece that allows for viewer manipulation (ie the top nine records rotate manually) allows for sculptural classification.
What more can I say? tres fantastique! 
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Merci beaucoup. I hadn't thought about incorporating music with it, but that would be really cool.....*humming....'sweet dreams are made of this'.....* Looks like I'm heading toward a lot of technical work in the future. I'd like to do more music artists on moving vinyl.......Nick Cave would be good next. Want to develop it with automated movement and now sound.
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I have had thoughts of creating true "mixed media" with the incorporation of sound and/or film projection with some of my pieces. Or backlit presentations (especially while I was creating my hand-made paper Sacrd Rune series.)
Budgetary concerns has been a main criteria for the delay RE: bringing some of these ideas together, for me. So I applaud your vive for doing this! c'est fantastique!
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Merci beaucoup. It sounds like we have similar visions. Wouldn't it be cool to do a collaboration? I love installation work and will be concentrating on the area in future works. I need to learn so much as, ultimately, I'd like to engineer my own sound and film images.
Budget is always a concern. Bunnings (a large hardware chain) is one of my favourite places to shop, not only for cheap mis-tint acrylic paint (about $2 a litre) but also wood cut-offs and joining ideas. I also visit garage sales (yard sales?), the dump (garbage tip?) and street council collections (people put uwanted stuff out on the sidewalk for council collection) where you can pick up amazing stuff for nothing. Basically I'm a scavenger. At least it keeps some costs down.
Sometimes you just gotta do it. (Scavenge and create your vision!)
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Scavenging is fun -- but then I have all of this stuff.
How can we live without stuff? lol 
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I have so much Stuff, actually at the next 'council collection' I'll be getting rid of most of my Stuff so I can start again collecting different Stuff. It's all under my house. I think I'll collect Zen stuff just for the irony.
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Zen stuff! Now where and when and how do I get my hands on that? lol
ps
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"like sand in an hourglass. . . all we are is dust in the wind"
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I love mixed metaphors, ya nut. lol xx di
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My pleasure, Huntress Diane.
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lol....don't know how right you are.
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"The Roman Diana apparently dates at least to the 6th century BC, starting Her career even centuries before that as the animistic Diana Nemorensis, or Diana of the Woods. Her early origins present her as more of a wood nymph than a goddess, and a particularly brutal one who demanded human sacrifices from those who would traverse Her territory. This might be the orgins of the more violent nature that Artemis took on after She was absorbed by the Roman culture.
"The story of Diana Nemorensis also might explain why, although the family tree of Artemis is well-documented (father Zeus, mother Leto, brother Apollo), the origins of Diana are lost in the mists of time.
"When Artemis showed up a few centuries later, with her bow and her deer and her attendant nymphs and wearing the moon for a tiara, the trollish Diana had to adapt and take on a much larger role as goddess of the moon and the hunt. That may have been the origin of the morass of misguided myths surrounding the namesake of the Artemis Project, and explain how the stories of the noble, empathetic goddess of the moon took on the crude characteristics of Roman culture."
from Artemis Project [link]
xx dee
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Cool. Thank you for that, I shall delve further (ty for the link). Interesting how my name has always felt right to me. Not that I have the myths stunning characteristics, they just reflect my interests. Thank you my friend.xx
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You are quite welcome, Diane
Myths fascinate me . . . and when we can connect some of these old stories with our own personal history, then the fabric of the story heightens . . . Isn't that great?
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It's exciting and inspiring. What a world.
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i feel so primitive with my canvas now! what a neat idea. if you mounted the piece on a hollow box frame i'm sure you could fit in some small electric motors or servos. that would be awesome and "reletively" inexpencive. lol. do you like working with electrical stuff? it's been a long time for me but i used to love it.
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I don't mind working out the mechanics I just don't like doing the construction so much, time and precision. The piece does have a soft pine box framework. Took me forever making the template and constructing it. It is so worth it in the end though. To be able to have it moving, different pices at differing times would be so rewarding.
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heck yeah it would be! 
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Exactly, and it's not pretty. Well, not that I do 'pretty', it just doesn't motivate me as much.....just a means to an end.
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That's such a cool piece. oO I would love to see this in person and watch it move. This is a very unique and well painted piece.
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Thanks dude. It didn't come together until the morning of my assessment, so I didn't know whether it would work until then. Scary stuff. It's not automated, the viewer has to move it, but further down the line I hope to start doing automated pieces that change of their own volition. It's a nice feeling finishing up my coarse with a piece that I'm happy with and has development potential. I might e-mail some recording companies and see if they'd like to purchase it for their foyer? See if it's marketable.
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Totally, I would think making it automated would be pretty tight. I could so see that in some rock stars house, the automated version especially. It's a great concept.
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Thanks so much. It's pretty rewarding to attempt something I wasn't going to (I thought it'd be too hard) and pull it off. I'd be even more blessed if I could actually make it pay for itself.
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