http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-fr...-1225843295189
The movie by conceptual artist Jonathon Keats consists of idyllic Italian skies recorded over a two-month period and condensed into a six-minute dawn-to-dawn span.
Keats - who previously used footage of bees pollinating flowers to make pornography for plants - says an aspiring film maker can't compete with the likes of Avatar director James Cameron.
"But then I realised there's a much larger audience - there are many more plants than people - that were not being serviced," he said. "I wanted basically to provide plants with what companies such as Disney or MGM provide humans."
Another visitor, photographer Abbas Ebrahimi, also expressed admiration for the green audience. "Plants are better than us. We die and go, while in spring they come back each time."
But after contemplating the installation for a few minutes, he declared: "It doesn't mean anything to me at all. It's just trees and light."
"For some people it might mean something. Maybe if they smoke grass," he allowed.
Keats, currently doing a residency at upstate New York's Yaddo artist colony, is intent on furthering his exploration of plant sensibilities. He plans a "restaurant for plants" at a California museum.
Before that he's turning to another overlooked population - bacteria.
He hopes to create educational textbooks teaching general relativity and quantum mechanics to the micro organisms in "easy-to-digest doses of amino acid and glucose."
"I figure these books should be beneficial to both microbes and humans: by providing bacteria with a good education, we'll be able to improve their quality of life, and to discourage them from becoming pathogens."
/ Obligatory tree porn below
/Finds every film hysterically funny
The movie by conceptual artist Jonathon Keats consists of idyllic Italian skies recorded over a two-month period and condensed into a six-minute dawn-to-dawn span.
Keats - who previously used footage of bees pollinating flowers to make pornography for plants - says an aspiring film maker can't compete with the likes of Avatar director James Cameron.
"But then I realised there's a much larger audience - there are many more plants than people - that were not being serviced," he said. "I wanted basically to provide plants with what companies such as Disney or MGM provide humans."
Another visitor, photographer Abbas Ebrahimi, also expressed admiration for the green audience. "Plants are better than us. We die and go, while in spring they come back each time."
But after contemplating the installation for a few minutes, he declared: "It doesn't mean anything to me at all. It's just trees and light."
"For some people it might mean something. Maybe if they smoke grass," he allowed.
Keats, currently doing a residency at upstate New York's Yaddo artist colony, is intent on furthering his exploration of plant sensibilities. He plans a "restaurant for plants" at a California museum.
Before that he's turning to another overlooked population - bacteria.
He hopes to create educational textbooks teaching general relativity and quantum mechanics to the micro organisms in "easy-to-digest doses of amino acid and glucose."
"I figure these books should be beneficial to both microbes and humans: by providing bacteria with a good education, we'll be able to improve their quality of life, and to discourage them from becoming pathogens."
/ Obligatory tree porn below
/Finds every film hysterically funny
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Oh and the toenais clippings don't want to be seperated from my beard in the jar next to em. sorry bud.
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