Survival Research Laboratories

SRL was created in the year 1978 by Mark Pauline.SRL ws the founder of industrial performing arts. The SRL headquarters are located in Petaluma Ca. SRL makes shows about what the world would look like if it were devistated by robots and machines. About 1 to 2 robots are created per year. Because of cost they are hard to get completed. They are made by scientists who make industrial machines only they are programed to do something different. They are made to fight and hit eachother by remote control. No one buys these machines so they are stored and worked on in his spare time when he is'nt busy working and paying the mortgage. Stu Walker is a 6 legged robot that is controlled by a guinea pig. Currently the spine robot is in the making. The flame whistle boeing is a jet engine combined with a flame throwing whistle. It sounds like a picolo pete to the audience. Humans do not act in these shows and the purpose is to demonstrate tools and techniques. They are theatrical and act out military and science technology. I saw a giant chicken robot in a fight video with a punching robot. The shows are dangerous and contain alot of special effects. I tried to find out ticket information but was'nt able to find anything out. The last show was staged in October 2010 at the Sonora County Museum from 3pm-5pm and was free to the public. The show featured two new robots. Spine and a Baseball Bat machine. People who create the machines say this is all about doing what needs to be done and not about being childish. Some people see these creations as toys but they are'nt because they weigh tons and cost 60k and up.    

London punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne is a British fashion designer born in 1941. Her styles are punk and new wave fashion and very high priced. People were tired of the hippie, torn look and needed a new trend. When she was a young school girl her family did'nt give her much spending money so instead of clothes she would buy a yard of fabric and a pair of shoes. She made all her school clothes. There was'nt anything that she could'nt make herself. She used razor blades, safety pins, spikes, and chains along with outrageous hair and makeup to make her fashion statement. She was'nt really interested in designing until she met Malcom Mclarn of the Sex Pistols. She helped him design his clothes and when they decided to marry she made the wedding dress she wore. Together they made a name "Red Label" and began opening boutiques. Vivienne has flaming red long hair and when asked to appear in the movie "Sex in the City" she said no but gave Carrie Bradshaw a wedding gown to marry Big in. Vivienne is interested in bigger roles in television. She is currently struggling to start her own show called "Get a Life". She loves frilly dresses but says that those are only for girls with curls. She says that plain clothing will not make you more stunning but more of a clone and why would you want to be that. Her clothes are for people who want to be freakishly beautiful goddess's. She is currently doing everything she can to find out how to save the enviorment. People are only a generation away from being endangered species. She said to stop buying clothes because this is enviormentally harmful and thinks that the art and cinema of now are boring, not real, and lying. She says that we need to be more real and aware.  

Kelly Osborne wearing Vivienne Westwood

My Earth Art Project

The upside-down tree
According to African legend, the Baobab wanted to become the most beautiful tree of all. When it realized that this was not possible, it put its head into the ground, so only the roots pointed heavenward. Another legend holds that when the Baobab was planted by God, it kept walking, so God pulled it up and replanted it upside down to stop it moving.

Goldworthy is a land artist

In July of 1956 Goldworthy was born in Scotland. He is a sculpter, photographer, and land artist. When he was 13 he began laboring on a farm. As he worked he saw art everywhere around him and got ideas. This is a photograph of a tree with a spiral of ice going around the trunk. To do this he actually took segments of ice and put them together. Just water and ice, no glue. All the natural materials he used include leaves, ice, rocks, flowers, and mud. He sometimes uses pins to put leaves together to make the snake that was swimming down the river and pinned twigs together to form an unusual spider web. He compared his work to picking potatos becuase the labor of his work is repetitive. You can learn about him in the documentary "Rivers and Tides" 2001 by Thomas Riedilsheimer. When looking at his portfolio I looked at alot of arches he made. Arches are used throughout early history because of there great strength and beauty. Many were constructed without cement because the stones lock them self in place. He is a very talented rock balancer. He made large pinecones out of stacks of sheet rock. His work has gone all the way out to the North Pole. There he made more of those arches and rings from blocks of ice. He made a giant's head in a garden out of mud and plants. He chooses very vibrant autumn color leaves to arrange in circles and displays feathers in a very elegant designs. When he puts several of those arches close together they remind me of the slinky toy. He was definity an outdoors man who really appreciated the beauty of nature. And most of his materials did'nt cost anything.  

Two great dresses by the designers of Alexander Mcqueen worn by Kate

James Turrell

James Turrell is an earth/land artist born in 1943 in Pasadena California. At the age of 16 he became a pilot licensed and flew supplies to miners.He has also built small planes. He has taken many photographs from the air of the Arizona desert. He is a perceptual phycologist who studies different dimensions. He has spent the last 30 years of his life building an observatory. The observatory is inside of Roden Crater. It is located in the Arizona desert in Flagstaff where many other unactive volcanos reside. He had to live in a house near the crater for two years. It is very desolate and the roads are dirt. He has spent millions of dollars to shape the crater. There are tunnels entering the base of the crater that are layed out like finely tuned optical instruments. At the end of the tunnel is a key hole of light and then the sky leading to the inside of the crater. The construction crew has shaped the bowl of the crater perfectly smooth and round. He is creating a temple of light. His light installations are in Germany and Sweden. The material he works with is the light. He has an incredible skill of capturing the light and confusing the eye so that one does'nt know if he is in the light or outside of the light. The light creates a misty feel and plays on the surfaces. He can make something flat into something 3-D with the light. In 2003 Henry Art Gallery installed a permanent Sky Space installation by Turrell. Over 50 homes have these sky spaces for meditatian. The rooms are closed with a hole in the cieling to see the heavens. The light changes color inside these domes and fools the eye. Turrell says that he feeds on the light because it is vital to our bodies to produce vitamin D.