Rock balancing youtube vids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0gWD89nzQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpDN0coscA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84g4J1rxkQc&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWqyuRhOLKM&feature=related

Slacklining Weekend Thoughts...

Last night i was at the pub with freiends ... i was thinking about doing a seri9es of photographs of balanced objects within different situations ... eg at the pub/restaraunt balancing pint glasses, beer mats, and knifes and forks. Then in the park make a sculputre from balancing the natural things there (there are also semi permenant (in the summer) slack liners which would be interesting to observe. I had a go on one yesterday and it is soooo much more hard to do than people make it out to be, as soon as my foot was on the line my tense muscles made the whole line shake. It was interesting to see that you have to be relaxed to do it not tense or it wouldnt work.... and keep focused on one point infront of you not at your feet. Below a picture of what it was like but not us as my phone wont transfer the photos.)

 Today

Just onto google serch .... this made me think of how birds can defy gravity ... (balance depends on gravity) ....

second thoughts ... i have to stick to one thing ... follow it through to see its outcome.

  Follow up on slacklining

People have always take things to the extreame, this confidence is a mind set that is almost a performance art.... hey i could spend my project just slacklining for a week ... if i recorded it ... mostly all ... then i could putt together a short film ... or even get a slackline set up in the studio and perform it some how. How fast can i learn it ? Where could i take it within a week ... my freiend has a line .. i could bborrow it im sure then go to interesting places (not like therse guys but with the same mind set.... i could see how fast the human body/brain, as a medium, can pick something up and store it. all to do with human balance.

But then i am coming away from the balancing of  objects ...

OR i could see how many positions/tricks i can do in a week standing up, sitting down, walking, walking backwards, a jump, holding one foot ... experementing with how many things i could hold while on there ....using other people(to hold or balance)?
OR/AND experementing with the slackness of the line as it is a main factor.

Typed in balancing Circus to google:

Taking the acts of people balancing and putting it into a physical sculpture

http://130.94.161.3/artbyclay/kinetic.htm

the conculusion t the bird defying gravety i

I really like the simplisity of this wire sculpture above as it takes the basic forms of people in a balaning position and simplifies the material to be sculpturaly balancing which in a way is more impreessive as the non living wire cannot alter its muscles to change form to keep better balance.

The above 3 also interest me as they all have counter balances which is a prime way of balancing.

My conclusion/end thought (before tutorial) is that i would love to do the slackline project thought but it may be too ambitious.... however it would deffinetly focus me for a week as i would know exactly what i was doing .... and would be a really interesting project... in some ways it woulod take me out of my comfort zone by pushing me to learn a new skill, but, in other ways it wouldnt as i would know exactly what i was doing and therefore it may look like i am being boring...not quite the word... or maybe i am mistaking this indescribale negative feeling for the simple act of planning ahead.

The conclusion to the birds on google defying gravity was just a passing thought....

Conclusion for possible materials mentioned ... wire ... is a possibility... film is a possible and so is a live poerformance act (ooo this may also be interesting live as it would be interesting to see if it was more easy or harder underpressure..... it may also turn into an interective performance where other people from the viewers are aloud to try to do it ... all would be filmed and presented...

Balancing Spoons

A simple repeating object that is balanced in an intriguing way.

Alexander Calder

The camera accompanies Goldsworthy on daily excursions in Dumfriesshire and throughout a week's residence in Newfoundland, noting his unusual working habits: he arrives on site with no preconceived ideas, makes ephemeral works with the material at hand, photographing both successes and failures on a daily basis. Surprisingly, the failures render his body of work all the more exquisite. "I often see my work looking stronger with each piece that is added," says Goldsworthy, "but also know that each addition takes it closer to the edge of collapse. So many of my sculptures are within a hair's breadth of failure. Beauty does not avoid difficulty but hovers dangerously above it -- like walking on thin ice."

Frank and Jamie
<3 the playfulness

http://www.postmedia.net/cattelan/cattelan0.htm

Reciprical Frames - the friction/weight of the pole before binds the roof to make a free standing frame.

Much like reciprical frames Andy Goldsworthy has made a vertical stick sculpture, balancing sticks and using their tension to support eachother.

 http://www.elledecor.com/home-remodeling/articles/gravity_defying_homes
The expression "living on the edge" is about to take on a whole new meaning. Homes dangling from trees, balancing on sticks, hanging upside down, rotating around a spit, are just some of the residential wonders in our roundup.

Fischli and Weiss

Playful as they are everyday objects but sculpturaly brilliant as they are so well made and put together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_n2kfqNmpY&feature=relmfu

David Smith

Balance between people in a group

Balance between two people

Balance within one body

 David Ascalon

 David Smith

 Dont know

 Jerzy Kediora

 Mark Di Suvero

 HEY! wait a minuite i could do balancing on a big scale ....

 Mitoraj

 Daniel Firman