In progress, everything is ALWAYS in progress.
FOXRIVER will be back in full swing this Feb.
Coming Soon! (Jamie Chan is up first)
News
on hiatus
FOXRIVER is currently on Hiatus Status. Will be back in the running July 2011. Any Question regarding future plan please email us at fox.river.space@gmail.com
Have a good winter, everyone!
Into Eternity
See the interview with director Michael Madsen about his new documentary Into Eternity, which is about the world’s first permanent nuclear waste repository, Onkalo. Check out the beautiful trailer here.
The article is via Friend of Pleistocene, “a research and communication design organization. We are dedicated to exploring the conjuncture between landscape and contemporary human activity at sites shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene”
Nuclear waste, human presence, geological excavation, time, machines…what more can you ask for?
Mike Mignola!
There is a nice article about Mike Mignola and his works, which includes Hellboy, B.P.R.D., and Abe Sapien. From Bldgblog:
The buildings, terrains, and spaces Mignola’s plots take place within are equally extraordinary: there are remote, factory-like castles north of the Arctic Circle, wired floor-to-ceiling with arcane laboratory equipment; maritime plagues and New England shipwrecks; intelligent geological formations in space, larger than planets, signaling down to Army radar stations at the end of World War II; abandoned mines and ruined churches; Mayan fragments mounted on the luxurious, candlelit walls of Alpine mansions; Nazi conspiracies and fallen astronauts; derelict Victorian houses wrapped in fog on the coastal moor.
In the interview Mignola talks about Goth architecture, ruins, and the process of drawing. via bldgblog
Do you know about the famous Beale ciphers? Me neither. But apparently it is pretty famous is the code-treasure-hunting-mystery circle. According to wikipedia, the three ciphertexts originates from an 1885 pamphlet detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas Jefferson Beale in a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1820. Beale intrusted the ciphers to an inn keeper in the near by town, then never seen again.
The short film by Andrew Allen showcase a beautiful way of animation as well as secret hidden message for the viewers. From the official website:
Using pioneering animation techniques to create a look never seen on film before, this 10-minute award-winning film tells the true legend of history’s most challenging cipher. Professor White, cryptographer extraordinaire, is on the trail of the notoriously uncrackable Thomas Beale cipher—a century-old riddle hiding the location of a fortune in gold that has tormented its pursuers since inception. But White is not alone—shadowy forces are tight on his tail.
The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters’ secrets. Eight are fairly easy and require only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult and will require a genius mind to decrypt.
Check out the short film and see if you could find clues needed to solve the riddle. Who knows, you might just find the 65 million dollar treasure.
FOXRIVER is proud to present The Oriental Tendency to High Literary Color and Ornament, a new exhibit by Joshua Miller from San Diego, USA. Please come by to see his brilliant “sculptural paintings”. He is showing large sculptures in San Diego later in Feb. More on that later.
the opening reception is at 1 30pm on Wednesday Jan 26, 2011.
This is going to be the last show for FOXRIVER for a while. There is a long hiatus. More update on that later.
Go see Gallery for documentation of Group Painting Show that took place in FOXRIVER last october. Goodtimes.
