senseofplace LAB - laurie halsey brown

Headlands Center for the Arts – Marin, CA

senseofplaceLAB — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:28:08 +0000

PHOTOGRAPH and HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
freak flags are flying. / a project comes full circle. / we represent us.

Le Quattro Volte, 2010

senseofplaceLAB — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:23:57 +0000

The circle of life, embedded within one town.

This visual poem brings to life Pythagoras’s theory that the soul moves from human to animal to vegetable to mineral in its evolutionary journey. Wordlessly, the film follows an elderly Italian goat herder as he makes the remarkable transition. Director Michelangelo Frammartino captures the essence of everyday life in the Italian countryside as the man transforms into a baby goat, a giant tree and a lump of coal.

Presidio Residencies, Baker Beach – SF, CA

senseofplaceLAB — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:47:09 +0000

PHOTOGRAPH and HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
the air sweeps outside, / we put mouth to the window, / breathing soft inwards.

Capturing the Essence of a Particular Location

senseofplaceLAB — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:41:03 +0000

A Salon as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival:

A Sense of Place
Monday, April 30
6:00–7:15 pm
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street (near Fillmore)
$11 members, $13 general

This Salon will explore the challenges filmmakers encounter as outsiders trying to capture the essence of a particular location or environment. Festival films to be discussed include Tokyo Waka, Meanwhile in Mamelodi and It’s the Earth Not the Moon. Salon host Kristine Samuelson teaches in the MFA Documentary Film and Video Program at Stanford University and is codirector of Tokyo Waka.

Kyoto Kimono Uzen – Yokohama, Japan

senseofplaceLAB — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:38:45 +0000

PHOTOGRAPH and HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
folded space, hanging / color and repetition, / silk drifts in the air.

Listening to your city

senseofplaceLAB — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:15:26 +0000

Eric Eberhardt’s project You Are Listening To connects SoundCloud with scanner audio from RadioReference.com to create soundtracks for cities.

Kyoto Dhamma Bhanu – Kyoto, Japan

senseofplaceLAB — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:14:32 +0000

PHOTOGRAPH and HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
silently aligned, / tools for continued path. / mindfully waiting.

kickstarter project about Japan.

senseofplaceLAB — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:23:05 +0000

PROJECT FUNDED! Many thanks to all that supported it. Kind Regards, L

KICKSTARTER PROJECT PAGE: http://kck.st/oNQOcH

I’ve always had a strong affinity for Japan, and will be experiencing it for the first time this Fall. I plan to travel all over the country by train for five weeks: from Tokyo to Sapporo, to Kyoto, then Nagasaki and then back to Tokyo. Come with me! through your suggestions on what is Japan’s ‘sense of place’.

PUBLIC INTERACTIVE PROJECT
This project is an interactive public project; I will be using the platform of Kickstarter to create art based on public interaction. This project will document my experience of Japan for the first time via your suggestions of ‘sense of place’ moments. Every Kickstarter supporter contributes to the planning of my five week itinerary in Japan: places to go, food to eat, people to meet, art and architecture to see etc. Please contribute something specific that you feel resonates as ‘Japan’ that I can experience and document when I’m there. The photographs, collages and other works produced from this project will become a publication on return to the U.S.

My project is titled “Honoring Japan’s ‘sense of place’”, and it focuses on artistic research into Japan’s ‘sense of place’, as well as an investigation into how the ‘sense of place’ of Japan has changed due the Tsunami: what is lost and what remains.

REWARDS
Rewards include the book, the postcards series, prints, collages, handmade postcards and found objects from Japan, as well as acknowledgement in all materials about the project.

Thank you for your financial support and creative involvement. I look forward to creating this project with you.

The Haight. San Francisco

senseofplaceLAB — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:42:29 +0000

PHOTOGRAPH and HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
years float away / with many seeds planted. / everywhere.

Is fashion specific to ‘place’?

senseofplaceLAB — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:41:16 +0000

A question inspired by a discussion in the NY Times. [ Link to NY Times article]
As we scan the photos in fashion magazines and click on to blogs that chronicle the latest trends, we can’t help but wonder: How has globalization affected street style? Essays by: Will Welch, senior editor, GQ; Kim Hastreiter, PAPER Magazine; Valerie Steele, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology; Tommy Ton, photographer; Adriano Sack, publisher, I Like My Style Quarterly