Fourth Circle

It's Alive!

My book arrived today after a long wait. Looking at the shipment tracking it went through; Seattle, California, Alaska, Singapore and eastern Australia before arriving here today. Which was a bit unfortunate because I thought it would get printed in Sydney so it would get here faster. But, it's here now and I'm really satisfied with it. Blurb.com did an awesome job printing the book for me. These are just some of the photos from the book which is as I wrote before, 100 pages long.

But my sight is better than this

One of our assignments in my Painting class is to paint over an old painting that we have found/bought to make it into something new. Here's the first layer of my add-on (The gray parts) on this painting by NE Johnstons painting called Haast Past Road. Which I might ruin or make into something new, Sorry Johnston :p And yes I am a Sci-Fi geek.

Below it is a drawing I'm currently working on.
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Yo Kanye! I'm really happy for you! I'm gonna let you finish, but you and Spike Jonze made the best video of the year!

Check out this music video/Short made by Spike Jonze with Kanye West. It's truly something different! Watch till the end. Brad Pitt/Tyler Durden at 04.49? Even though Kanye is a bit weird these days, he makes some awesome music! Just listen to the 808's and Heartbreakers album! Yikes! It's good!

When We Were a Fairytale from Melody Robinson on Vimeo.

Pollenchock & Stjärnfall

The top painting appropriately called Death is now finished. Started the other one last week and has done two layers on that one. Tried something different this time and did a layer of red and green (which I later put a beige layer on) as the bottom layer and added "grisailles" on top of that as the bottom layers for the figures and little objects in the picture.

Sorry for the lousy quality of the photos, my phonecamera isn't all that unfortunately.

Presque vu

There have been almost only updates about my porfolio or artwork lately. So I'm gonna write something different. Something about myself maybe? Well I'm 25 years old and.. :p..

nah something else! I love to read a lot. With this new invention called "the internetz" it's so easy to find odd and interesting stuff to read about. There's so much stuff out there that is just waiting to be found and read. So much stuff you wouldn't have any clue about if you weren't a millionare and could travel to every bit of space on our small planet called Urrfh. I can spend hours of finding these unusual articles and Wikipedia entries. So recently I've been reading through this entire list of people gone missing since the year 1021. It¨s really interesting and a bit sad but the interesting stuff takes over the sad part. Don't know why but I'm fascinated with people who've disappeared mysteriously. Some highlights:

1587

• The Roanoke Colonists, comprising 117 men, women, and children, were recruited by Walter Raleigh to establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. Soon after arriving at Roanoke Island on 22 July 1587 they petitioned their governor, John White, to return to England for supplies. White left on 28 August of that same year, expecting to be gone for less than three months, but was unable to return to the Roanoke Colony (later also known as The Lost Colony) until 18 August 1590, when he found the settlement abandoned.^[7] The fate of the colonists (including White's granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas) has never been determined; the Lost Colony DNA Project and others continue to investigate "...the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of America" to this day.^[8]

1900

• Three lighthouse keepers working on the Flannan Isles (off the northwestern coast of Scotland) disappeared in a mystery commemorated in the ballad Flannan Isle.

1925

• Percy Fawcett (58), British archaeologist and explorer, together with his eldest son Jack and friend Raleigh Rimmell, were last seen travelling into the jungle of Mato Grosso in Brazil to search for a hidden "city of gold". Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed, but despite the loss of over 100 lives in more than a dozen follow-up expeditions, and the recovery of some of Fawcett's belongings, their fate remains a mystery.^[18]

And so it continues! It's fascinating, inspiring and a good timewaster, I might aswell learn something while I'm cruising the webs.

I'm thinking about starting a new blog called ** *** ** *** ******. To gather stuff like that and cool tech news, inspiring places around the world, space stuff, nerdy news and plain inspiring pics, news and texts. I really want to show people how cool the world actually is. But the thing that's holding me back is time. Maybe it could be a good summer break project?

What else, oh yeah, I've also made a picture archive with old sci-fi/movie character pictures :D. Why you might ask yourself? Why NOT? It's funny :) And yes I do plan to put then to good use (in the new blog actually).

That's how I roll! See you on the interwebs people!

Portfolio book

Through a glas...

By Martin Rinman

Book Preview

My portfolio book is now finished! You can take a look at a preview of it in the link above. The actual book is 100 pages long and features my latest photography and art works with some awesome inspiring texts.

Unfortunately the preview only shows the first fifteen pages or something. But I will probably upload some more pages from it here on the blog instead.
And YES! You can buy it from there, now, at this very moment ;)

Konstpaus

The A4 exhibition at Spectrum Project Space earlier this week went pretty good. A lot of cool art, a lot of people and good food and awesome wine. I also sold three artworks which was a nice and it went to the fundraiser for the third year students graduation show (for me?). As it was an exhibition they asked us not to spend any money on the artwork more then we already had so we didnt have to invest in frames or anything. After that me, Joshua, and Gordon went to the jazz club which is almost next door to Spectrum Project Space to show Joshua hiw way around the club because he is gonna start to work there. While the dudes went around the place, I celebrated with a drink; Jazz jepul. Tasty!



The top picture is my progress off my latest painting. Not finished yet but on the way :).

Spectrum Project Space Exhibition

Five of my artworks and photographs will be included in this years A4 exhibition at Spectrum Project Space in Northbridge, Perth. Be theeeere or be a flight engineer, elsewhere or everywhere, here and there in this difficult financial year!

Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix

Last Tuesday I went to this late open house drawing class that my teacher arranged. They had a model there and a projector that projected weird images on her back. I was a bit late but ended up with this very hurried sketch.

I've done a 180 and totally changed my mind about the Swedish artist Lars Winnerbäck! He's awesome and got some awesome lyrics. I think it's because I'm in Australia and it's something with listening to Swedish music abroad, it's just awesome, more awesome then usual and yes I'm a bit patriotic :D

Fanboy

Just gonna make a small update! Last weekend me and Joshua went to this nerd convention called Go3. It pretty much suched except for my highlight which was that an actor (Connor Trenneer) from Star Trek Enterprise was gonna come there with another actor from one of the Star Gate series. They both came there and held an Q&A for about an hour which I of course recorded on my audio recorder :D But I also got an awesome fanboy-esque photo of him signed :D He played my favourite character on that show, well, except T'Pol but hehe. Too bad the show got cancelled after 4 seasons :(.


Iron Man was also there, but not the real one, an Australien one...

Reincarnation

Some early edits from Mondays shoot at the Natural History Museum in Guilford. Nicky and Belinda did a great job modelling and Joshua assisted with the lighting. Blogspot is really ruining the quality of the photos so sorry for that. Will update my homepage later on with the entire series from that night and better quality.

EDIT: Updated with finished pics.

Process recess

Started on a new painting this week and now we have moved on to our own projects where we can do anything we want to. So I'm doing a painting of a drawing I finished a few weeks ago.

Have started by sketching out the lines and details and then applying a Grisaille made from blue and brown on primed plywood (think the measurements are 70x100cm). I'm also in the process of doing a digital colourised version of this one. It's quiet fun working on the same picture on two totally different mediums (oil paint and digital colours) because they will probably end up looking completely different.