another day, another unfairly good omens coded song.
today's is Another Place by Bastille
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Vaunier - Another Place
This is probably my favorite piece from all my Dragon Seer artworks. I always have to find a crackship to obsess over, and they're such a perfect match... Vaun and Anier are from @skaylanphear's novel "Deathborne", the first book from the Dragon Seer series.
You can find it here:
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Bit late but… happy 4 anniversary to the “Another Place” music video!! 🎉🥳
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You’ve got to see what art does as a first-hand experience with people that haven’t paid for a ticket, or don’t feel that they are the cultural elite. That’s been really important to me - put the work in the street, on the mountain, on the beach, and see what happens.
- Antony Gormley
‘Another Place’ is an art installation on the coast by British artist Antony Gormley. One hundred life size cast-iron statues - each weighing 650 kilos - modelled on Gormley’s own body were installed in 2005 at Crosby beach, spread across 3km of the foreshore and stretching almost 1km out to sea. All of these statues were looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation.
Gormley is also the artist of the famous ‘Angel of the North’ sculpture in Gateshead. According to Antony Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature. He explained: The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth's substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.”
Having previously been seen in Cuxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway, and De Panne in Belgium, 'Another Place' became a permanent feature in the UK, at Crosby Beach. The installation was only supposed to last 16 months in Crosby, and the men were almost sent packing early amid safety complaints including cases of the coastguard being called out to “rescue” them. Eighteen years on, the artwork has become a tourist attraction for the Sefton borough of Merseyside and a beloved local institution.
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If you've not watched "Streets of Fire", I highly suggest you do so. Walter Hill made some belters, and the cinematography of Andrew Laszlo in that film is just incredible, and (to use an overdone word) iconic. Seriously, you'll see everything from "Robocop" and "Streets of Rage" to basically every 80s throwback in the cinematography.
It's a very stripped down movie, but an odd duck too: it's both a throwback and a post modern weird take. Hill has claimed every movie he made was a Western, and this wears that on its sleeve.
Oh, and it has my favourite title card/opening crawl in any film. Just simply:
"Another Time. Another Place."
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No 6. Another Place, Crosby Beach, Merseyside, England.
Visited: Yes.
Antony Gormley’s 100 life sized cast iron statues looking out to sea. You need to stand next to them to fully appreciate them.
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