dolphinLIQUIDHIGHLIGHTSREEL, Tabletop, High Speed Liquids, Beer, Juice, People, Vodka, Fire, Ben Dolphin Table Top Director

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A Highlight Reel of JUST Liquids. An industry recognized Master of Phantom Camera and High Speed Image acquisition, this reel contains both digital and film high speed images. I designed most of the High Speed Product and Liquid Rigs and implemented them with my Special EFX Team of Master Riggers. There isn't any Liquid I haven't shot....from Oil to Mercury!

FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / Dumbo Art Festival 2009 / SML

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This installation by Ellen Driscoll is so gigantic that I thought that only a video fly-through can really help experience the piece. www.smackmellon.org Two Solo Exhibitions Exhibition dates: September 26 - November 8, 2009 Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto’s photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work. Ellen Driscoll FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 “This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold. The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.” Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design. Smack Mellon 92 Plymouth Street @ Washington Brooklyn, NY 11201 Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.

dolphinLIQUIDHIGHLIGHTSREEL, Tabletop, High Speed Liquids, Beer, Juice, People, Vodka, Fire, Ben Dolphin Table Top Director

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A Highlight Reel of JUST Liquids. An industry recognized Master of Phantom Camera and High Speed Image acquisition, this reel contains both digital and film high speed images. I designed most of the High Speed Product and Liquid Rigs and implemented them with my Special EFX Team of Master Riggers. There isn't any Liquid I haven't shot....from Oil to Mercury!