#superordinary

[085c3n3]

Really stoked to have one of my first hand cut 085c3n3 skull stencils featured in the @toolsofthetrade_official exhibition at this years @bsafest #Repost @bsafest ・・・ #BSAF2022 Highlight - 'Tools of the Trade' straight from Hong Kong 🛠️ An intimate insight into the historically hidden world of graffiti and street art, ‘Tools of the Trade’ documents the tools, traditions, and techniques that have facilitated the works of street artists over the last seventy years 💎 From early stencils and spray cans to the introduction and integration of complex and modern technology such as graffiti drones, this exhibition offers up a rare and incredibly diverse glimpse into the practical demands of street art 🔥 With input from street art legends - Cornbread, King of Kowloon, @085c3n3 and @marthacoopergram – soak up these hidden treasures at the #Superordinary Northshore art precinct ⚡ 📍 Superordinary Northshore, 175 MacArthur Avenue⁠ 🗓 Saturday 7 May - 22 May ⏰ Monday - Friday | 4 pm - 8pm ⏰ Saturday - Sunday | 1 pm - 8pm #BSAF #BrisbaneStreet #Superordinary #ToTT #HKwalls #ToolsoftheTradeBNE @Toolsofthetrade_official @hkwalls (at Northshore Hamilton) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIg4ATvxvd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[firstyearmeisel]

The Super-Ordinary

My Definition: Taking something ordinary, from our everyday life, and extending it to a point when it's bizarre, ridiculous, or over-whelming.

Extraordinary because that's almost the opposite of ordinary, as it's special. I don't think the super-ordinary is something special, it's just bizarre because it's everywhere, all around us, and all the time, which is not extraordinary.

Think about the most boring thing EVER

Chair

Maths

Tree

Paperwork/Bureaucracy

Blank wall

Potatoes

Fly (insect)

Examples of super-ordinary things that popped into my head first:

Fears

Noise - street noise? nature?

Human action/reaction - emotional or just physical.

Furniture that is boring

Public spaces - they are ordinary because they aren't personal / not about the individual but about the public.

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"Earth Sounds" - when all the ordinary sound goes together, it's overwhelming due to volume. Background noise.

Apparently this is not the real audio, because there's no sound in space, but thankfully I didn't have to make hours of research as an explanation appeared in the comments: "This audio is primarily synthesizer music, perhaps with a little plasma wave data mixed in, but not enough to be recognizable. I suspect that the source of this is one of the "Brain / Mind Research" recordings, some of which did blend in highly-edited plasma wave data which we made freely available on the internet even before the web era. This is not a NASA recording and not the natural 'space audio' of the Earth"

Although space is basically a vacuum, this does not mean there is no sound. The specifically designed instruments on board the various space probes used plasma wave antenna to record the vibrations, converted to sound waves.

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[firstyearmeisel]

The Transition Between Drawing the London Skyline Through Sound to Animated Social Network Posts

My initial project was the London Skyline, which suddenly changed to a completely irrelevant project that consisted of animating Facebook posts.

The reason for the change of course was that I found the London Skyline to be a tangent of the Super Ordinary, and was no longer very relatable to my definition - Taking something ordinary, from our every-day life, and extending it to a point when it's bizarre, ridiculous, or over-whelming.

I decided to change my project and focus on things we unnoticeably do everyday - such as checking our emails, making calls, texting, chatting. We do these things all the time but don't notice them because they are so effortless and are minimal in movement and speed. This is the key to social media and why it seems to be so invisible and natural to us. I tried to recreate and exaggerate the emotions we experience everyday due to social networking through animaiton.

I later realized that the two projects do link: it is all about how we experience, perceive, and most importantly interpret data. The sonic London skyline is drawn out due to the way we perceive it in our heads. The emotions caused by Facebook are only because of how we perceive it in our heads. It is all about what we make of the digital information and how it effects us that makes an experience bizarre but ordinary.