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Artist Lena Gieseke has created a haunting, meditative 3D exploration of Guernica - Pablo Picasso’s monumental 1937 painting in response to the Nazi bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. Using Maya, Shake and Photoshop, Gieseke separated the individual elements of the mural, and then moved her 3D camera through the resulting tableau. The idea of using spatial immersion as a means to prompt deep contemplation of a painting was inspired by jigsaw puzzles:

The idea of creating a 3D version of an influential artwork came out of doing jigsaw puzzles of famous paintings. When you assemble a jigsaw, you study a painting in great detail and you become aware of the very lines, shapes and colors that the painting is composed of and how these elements merge to create a unified expression. Through the puzzle, you explore the artwork, examining details your eye might not have caught otherwise. Your experience of the painting is intense, aroused by the action of puzzling, but expanded and strengthened by your own fantasy.

image by Lena Gieseke

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A 3D Exploration of Picasso’s Guernica by Lena Gieseke

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guest post by Aaron Muszalski

A budding New Orleans tradition, the second annual San Fermin in Nueva Orleans (SFNO) took place last Saturday. Inspired by the famous running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, the Big Easy version takes place in the streets of the French Quarter, and replaces the bulls with a potentially even more dangerous threat: the thirty-odd members of the Big Easy Roller Girls, NOLA’s local all-female roller derby team.

Runners dress themselves in the same white clothing and red sashes traditionally worn by the San Fermín corredors. After a prayer to Saint Fermín for protection, the runners are then chased en masse down Bourbon Street by the wiffle-bat wielding, bull-horned Roller Girls. It is a timeless test of bravery and stupidity, and just like San Fermín, few runners escape uninjured. Or at least unwiffled.

Ibeatya Bull nailed many people with [her] “Be Afraid” bat that should have been named “Be Petrified.” CHEAP Bull lost a horn goring a runner. Luvinblood Bull [lived] up to her name as she took a nasty fall, but also [lived] up to the derby philosophy and kept on skating. SmasHer Bull went samurai with two bats for more collateral damage. “This year was my first bullrun and it was awesome!” AnnihilAsian stated. “My Sponge-Bob wiffle ball bat may not have seemed intimidating to some of the runners, but after a few good whacks, Sponge-Bob proved them wrong!” The rollerbulls were followed by the less menacing but equally entertaining Rolling Elvi. [From the Big Easy Rollergirls blog]

This year’s run even featured a “toro mecánico” (a converted grocery cart) and an appearance by the Rolling Elvi, a troupe of scooter-riding Elvis impersonators.

See Previously:

- Urban Iditarod 2006
- Carts of Brooklyn Racing Association

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photo by George “Loki” Williams, HumidCity.com and Karley D. Frankic

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San Fermín in Nueva Orleans, The Running of the Roller Girls

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