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Day 6 - Bottle
Day 6 - Bottle
jonfrommk


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Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: MIMA, Middlesbrough
Date: Jul 6, 2007
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Abstract, Traditional Art
Date Uploaded: Jul 6, 2007

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 OK gang after yesterday's lamentable effort (thank you for being gentle with me) I was determined to do better today.

Today I had some meetings in the Noth East of England (a round trip of just under 500 miles). The area has suffered from severe deprivation in the past but thanks to the efforts of organisations like Tees Valley Regeneration and Middlebrough Council (both of whom I was fortunate enough today) things are really beginning to turn round. This giant bottle is a piece of public art that can be found outside the new Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Regeneration is about so many things, employment, housing, health, community safety, education etc etc, but culture and the public realm plays a vital role in delivering sustainable communities.

Change can be good and should be embraced openly

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 07/18/2007 05:25:51 PM
That is some seriusly cool art work and the sky just adds to the whole atmospher.
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 07/15/2007 11:50:15 PM
Very awesome! I love the border. I'm also very happy there are people in the picture. What a great find. Thanks for the info. krafty.
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 07/07/2007 03:36:23 PM
Found this for all who were interested......hope you don't mind Jon.

The sculpture is called Bottle of Notes

What is Bottle of Notes?
Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen 1993

â€Â¢ The Bottle of Notes is a sculpture made for mima Centre Square by Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen. It was completed in 1993.

â€Â¢ The Bottle of Notes is 30 x 16 x 10 ft (9.1 x 4.9 x 3.1 m),
roughly the same height as 28 lemonade bottles stacked top to bottom.

â€Â¢ The Bottle of Notes took 5 years to build and was based on drawings and a smaller sculpture that Claes Oldenburg produced using a plastic bottle and paper.

â€Â¢ Bottle of Notes is made of two steel bottle shapes made up of words. The words were created using giant stencils, enlarged from Claes Oldenberg’s original design. The Bottle of Notes was created by steel works in Teesside.

â€Â¢ The inner bottle is painted blue and includes a line from Coosje van Bruggen's poems based on a childhood impression of Dutch landscape: ‘I like to remember seagulls in full flight gliding over a ring of canals’.

â€Â¢ The outer bottle is painted white and includes a line from Captain Cook’s journals. (Captain Cook is an explorer who travelled the South Pacific Sea in the 1700s. Captain Cook was born in Marton, near to Middlesbrough in 1728). ‘we had every advantage we could desire in observing the whole of the passage of the Planet Venus over the Sun’s disc’.

edited excerpt from //www.visitmima.com/images/pdf/WhatIsMima.pdf

Message edited by author 2007-07-07 17:55:17.
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 07/07/2007 03:23:49 PM
Very cool subject. At first glance it looks like the people in front of it were posing on purpose; even though they're doing two very different things, their body shapes seem to match.

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 07/07/2007 10:26:23 AM
The bottle is very interesting. It looks like there is something written on it. Across the state line, in Missouri, they have these horrifyingly ugly rusting "things" they call art. It looks like something from a junk yard. So this is very pretty, and a bit thought provoking. What a fun find on your long trip.
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 07/07/2007 01:42:34 AM
Nice capture Jon. You seem to be surrounded by unique and interesting things. (Note to self: Visit the UK)

Nice colors and interesting border. A definite thumbs up on this one mate.
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 07/07/2007 01:28:04 AM
Great shot Jon. That is a really cool bottle. When I saw it in icon size I thought it was cow bottle. What does it say?

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 07/06/2007 11:18:19 PM
Wow, that was a real surprise to see!

I went to University in Middlesbrough, (so named because the spelt Middlesborough wrong on the original charter of the town) and always used to love this. 'boro is a really depressed place, a bit like Milton Keynes on a bad day, and this bottle really is a little shot of humour in an otherwise dreary town.

Thanks for making me smile
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 07/06/2007 10:18:28 PM
how fun! i like the way they are walking there, so used to the giant art bottle that it doesn't seem surprising or unusual at all, just part of life!
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 07/06/2007 08:33:42 PM
Excellent, and the people in the front give it a good perspective.
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 07/06/2007 08:16:34 PM
What an interesting piece of work. It looks like it's made of words...do you know what the bottle says?
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 07/06/2007 07:51:51 PM
That is dedication - to get a photo in after a long day like that! Sounds like you had a positive work day tho :)

What is written on the bottle? You should put that in your description since I am probably not the only one wondering.
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 07/06/2007 07:12:55 PM
I think having the people in the foreground helps to establish the size of the 'bottle'
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 07/06/2007 06:27:56 PM
Well that's definitely a funky piece of art that catches your attention! Neat capture, does the bottle have writing that creates the bottle itself? I like that you got the people in it too so you have an idea of how big it really is.
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 07/06/2007 06:25:08 PM
Nice photo, Jon - goes well with those famous cows, too! You know - odd landmarks...

Thanks for the story - very interesting. Wish our local governments were more invested in the welfare of communities.

You're going to have to tell us what you do - with the lamp and the driving and the no time... sounds like you're very sought after! They better not find out that you will not stick your hand in The Mouth of The Beast. I'm sure you would lose whatever position you have... (just in case you were planning on sending any more of those scorpions)muahahaha!
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 07/06/2007 06:16:07 PM
Thanks for sharing your commuting story, it is so interesting to hear about what other people's days are like, all so diverse yet similiar. This is an awesome shot, what a cool piece of art! You captured it well.
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 07/06/2007 05:37:13 PM
That is a cool sculpture!! I would love to get inside and take a photo looking out :) hehe

You did an excellent job with the shot, I just wish those people weren't there... have they no respect for a person taking a flippin photograph?? ;) I am just joking, of course, they actually give a better scale of how large that bottle actually is and I am glad they are there... otherwise, we would just think it was a sly camera trick ;)
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