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Carina's Blog

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I had the opportunity to show Avril_106 at the OSA during Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau, September 20, 2014. At the end of the night, it was both interesting and fun to see different viewers' reactions to both the dating journal PDF and video installation. 

More information on Avril_106 can be viewed here. Video installation can be viewed in motion here.

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On the Farm, Under the Microscope

Microscopic images can tell us a lot about organisms too small to observe with the naked eye, but studying these organisms does not give us a true image of their form, as lenses and lighting can distort certain elements. Artist Carina Profir focuses on this alteration of specimen by emulating the mechanisms and process of the microscopy in her series On the Farm (2013).

The artist tackles the issue of altered image by photographing livestock, mimicking the microscopic ‘point-of-view’, and stitching together photographs to create an organic flow of multiple specimens. Livestock are very important to studies in microbiology. Most notably, in 1937, veterinarian Max Sterne created a vaccine for live spore anthrax among livestock, which greatly lowered the risk of humans inhaling the bacteria. The photo compositions of Profir are themselves a direct references to slides taken of the Bacillus anthracis microbe.

By seeing the cows and sheep in a new perspective, it alters our perception of depth and size. The artist herself states, that the work provides a “glimpse into scientific imaging and the expansive duality of scientific truth and fiction”. One can begin to wonder how true microscopic organisms might actually look, without the distortions provided by microscopes. 

-Anna Paluch

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Snapped from Porter Magazine's Fall 2014 

My birthday (Aug. 3) buddy, Martha Stewart, as a young model + a cow 

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My 25th birthday is coming to a close but the celebrations are just beginning...

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The official poster of the 2015 Women’s World Cup is beautiful

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Franck Bohbot - Chinatown (2014)

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Night Burgers

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Pablo Picasso, blue period works (1901-1904)

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Évolution inversée

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he looked old for 14

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” ― Pablo Picasso

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ive been buying old magazines for collages and i found this

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In other news, I got my hair cut 

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A very timely outfit-of-the-day 

The World Cup is over and done with. Time to move on with our lives. 

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"Petrochemical America" by Richard Misrach, which inspired True Detective. x

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Kacper Kowalski - Harsh Winter

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From 29 Satellie Photos That Will Change Your Perspective On Planet Earth

1. 53.0066°N 7.1920°E. Bourtange is a village with a population of 430 in the municipality of Vlagtwedde in the Netherlands. The star fort was built in 1593 during the Eighty Years’ War when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen. Bourtange was restored to its mid-18th-century state in 1960 and is currently used as an open-air museum.

2. 40°46’56”N; 73°57’55”W. Central Park in New York City spans 843 acres. That’s 6% of the island of Manhattan.

3. 41°23′27″N 2°09′47″E. Barcelona, Spain.

4. 5°26′15″N 12°20′9″E. Venice, Italy

5. 31.079844, -97.80145. In 2013, there were 923,400 home construction projects in the United States. Killeen, Texas.

6. 36.211001, -115.266914. The Desert Shores Community in Las Vegas, Nevada contains 3,351 units and four man-made lakes. Las Vegas, Nevada

7. 25°50′17″N 50°36′18″E. Durrat Al Bahrain will consist of 15 connected, artificial islands (including six atolls, five fish-shaped, and two crescent-shaped). Construction costs are estimated at $6 billion and the project is slated for completion in mid-2015. Bahrain.

8. 5°40′S 52°44′W. Clearcutting operations in the Amazon Rainforest of Para, Brazil branch out from one of the state’s central roads. Pará, Brazil.

9. 32.170890°N 110.855184°W. Tucson, Arizona.

10. 36.78234°N 2.74315°W. Plasticulture refers to the practice of using plastic materials in agricultural applications. This is visible in the plains and valleys of Almeria, Spain where nearly 20,000 hectares are covered by these greenhouse structures. Almeria, Spain

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A visit to Bank St’s Camera Trading Co, selling used camera treasures since 1981

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Currently reading: Cannery Row, John Steinbeck