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Making Neon and Light Art in West Auckland New Zealand - WWW.NEONCAFE.CO.NZNeon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.comBlogger694125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-81652150598681006332015-10-04T15:53:00.002+13:002015-10-04T15:53:19.421+13:00The light that will never go out: God’s Own Junkyard comes to Soho<img alt="God's Own Junkyard" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-178216" src="http://media.timeout.com/blogimages/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/GOJ-disco-balls-528x792.jpg" /><br />
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-82065117837537135692015-10-04T15:52:00.001+13:002015-10-04T15:52:06.534+13:00Lights of Soho: Brewer Street is now the global home of creative neon art<a href="https://igcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e15/11137848_813425408747114_1133214409_n.jpg"><img alt="https://igcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e15/11137848_813425408747114_1133214409_n.jpg" src="https://igcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e15/11137848_813425408747114_1133214409_n.jpg" /> </a><br />
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-50074608735905297582015-10-04T15:44:00.000+13:002015-10-04T15:44:04.261+13:00Two legends who designed Las Vegas’s iconic neon landscape died on the same day<div class="annotatable">
April 19 was a dim day in Las Vegas, Nevada, as
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-22115048957366753062015-10-04T15:40:00.001+13:002015-10-04T15:45:34.166+13:00Joseph Kosuth At Sprüth Magers London - Illumination Without Brilliance<div class="view-page-image">
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-72637497252965057322015-10-04T15:39:00.000+13:002015-10-04T15:46:13.461+13:00It’s a gas: Making light work of art Read more: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/yorkshire-living/arts/art/it-s-a-gas-making-light-work-of-art-1-7086570#ixzz3nYzvbCRE<div class="image image--responsive lead-image__image">
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-7040149995941450132015-10-01T14:29:00.001+13:002015-10-01T14:29:09.339+13:00New York's disappearing neon signs: the city flips the switch on its colorful history <img alt="The Airline Diner, in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens" class="maxed responsive-img" height="384" itemprop="contentUrl" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/7/2/1435864896334/f30cf58e-0619-4cd1-bf2f-9f64faddc3a3-2060x1236.jpeg?w=300&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=b1d87ae0395207801eab44c593b54a12" width="640" /><br />
The art deco sign stood watch for nearly 80 years over the bar two
stories above the subway on the corner of 60th and Lexington. Then in an
instant last fall, it was gone.“In the past few years, we have been able to save three significant
signs, and we saved them because all the businesses that had these signs
also owned their buildings,” said Jeff Friedman, a craftsman with Let
There Be Neon, the go-to rescuer and creator of custom neon in <a class=" u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</a>. “The care and interest of these signs is never there when the new owners take over the buildings.<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/06/new-york-city-neon-signs-nathans-russ-and-daughters">Read More</a>Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-81915281449710979552015-10-01T14:25:00.003+13:002015-10-01T14:25:55.908+13:00Watch This Neon Sign Master Make His Glowing Art<img alt="" class="swap-image embedded-image--image zoomable lazy-loaded" data-cut="768" data-img320-h="270" data-img320-w="480" data-img320="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/480x270/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" data-img480-h="360" data-img480-w="640" data-img480="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/640x360/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" data-img640-h="432" data-img640-w="768" data-img640="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/768x432/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" data-img768-h="551" data-img768-w="980" data-img768="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/980x551/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" data-img980-h="720" data-img980-w="1280" data-img980="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/1280x720/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" data-src="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/980x551/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" data-zoom="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/1600x900/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" src="http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/980x551/gallery-1434565221-neon.jpg" style="display: block;" /><br />
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Twin Cities Public Television's "<a href="http://www.mnoriginal.org/category/shows/">MN Originals</a>," which "celebrates Minnesota's creative community," just aired an <a href="http://www.mnoriginal.org/episode/614-2/">episode</a> featuring an excellent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTIEcBFhRo">segment</a> (see below) on Matt Thompson, a glassblower who has been making neon signs for 30 years.<br />
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segment shows Thompson explaining his apprenticeship learning the art
of glassblowing and neon signage, which, it turns out, is a surprisingly
old-fashioned art. The video also includes lots of footage of Thompson
carefully heating, bending, and blowing phosphor-coated glass tubes,
which (be honest!) is what you're here for. The brilliant colors come
from a combination of the phosphorescent coating of the glass and the
introduction of neon (or neon mixed with argon and a drop of mercury)
into the bent tubes.<a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a16070/neon-sign-glass-master-video/">Read More</a><br />
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-18883647812704999592015-10-01T14:22:00.002+13:002015-10-01T14:22:27.166+13:00<img class="fl-left" src="http://media-cdn.timesfreepress.com/img/photos/2015/07/17/1437168943_070015e00-Neon8530_t1070_hb35f4aac17c194f07e14a249ac8dcb38e76139ef.jpg" style="display: block;" /><br />
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Making neon signs is a dangerous art. Glass tubes heated to 1,400
degrees can shatter, sending razor-sharp shards into the hands of an
artist whose concentration has flickered momentarily. Neon artists
gamble on skill, eye, focus and a deft touch every time they make a
beautiful sign for a restaurant, bar, car wash or other business that
craves this form of eye candy.<br />
Ortwein Signs has taken that gamble several times a week for more
than 90 years. Founded in 1923 by a German immigrant to Chattanooga
named Ortwein, it now has locations in Knoxville and Nashville.<br />
Neon signs are making a comeback in the area thanks to hipsters, he
says, those urban millennials who love neon for the artisan talent,
old-school handcrafting and unearthly glow, like starlight captured in a
bottle.<br />
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for a client, a shop in Seattle. She wasn’t happy with the images she
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knew one of them wasn’t mine.”<a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2015/08/20/artists-claim-dundas-west-restaurant-copied-their-art.html"> Read More</a></div>
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A new light-based artwork has been installed on the exterior of the Ronwood Ave car park in Manukau.<a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/71036659/public-neon-artwork-brightens-night">Read More</a><br />
Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-71951354366759927132015-10-01T14:06:00.004+13:002015-10-01T14:06:44.728+13:00Photos: The dying art of the neon sign<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NS_09-The-Making-of-neon-1024x768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The process of neon glass bending is featured in “The Making of Neon Signs,” a specially-commissioned video produced for “Mobile M+: NEONSIGNS.HK." Photo and caption courtesy of M+ Museum" border="0" class="size-large wp-image-153675" height="300" src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NS_09-The-Making-of-neon-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /></a><img alt="The neon signs of the Tsui Wah restaurants are all seemingly identical, but each differs slightly from the others. The sign on the Parkes Street location incorporates a neon cup of milk tea. Photo and caption courtesy of M+ Museum" class="size-full wp-image-153672" height="265" src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NS_05-Tsui-Wah-Restaurant.jpg" width="400" /><img alt="Photo courtesy of M+ Museum " class="size-full wp-image-153680" height="298" src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ns_victory-mahjong.png" width="400" /><br />
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We’ve seen them glowing on New York City theater billboards, Las
Vegas casinos and Hong Kong high-rises. They cast unbidden light and
shadow into restaurants and homes and are a part of the daily scenery
for millions. But neon signs, once a vital part of a city’s culture and
barometer for its economic climate, are fading out of sight as the
once-popular technology disappears from the streets.<br />
An online exhibition <a href="http://www.neonsigns.hk/?lang=en" target="_blank">tells the story of neon’s history</a>, which began purely by accident.<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/photos-dying-art-neon-hong-kong/">Read More</a><br />
Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-12565538547047676522015-10-01T14:03:00.002+13:002015-10-01T14:03:37.205+13:00An Ode to the Disappearing Neon Signs That Light Up the Streets of San Francisco <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/23/randall_ann_homan_and_al_barna_photograph_san_francisco_s_neon_signs_in.html"><img alt="stfrancis" src="http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/behold/2015/08/Neon/stfrancis.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg" title="stfrancis" /></a>Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-28981139975856614402015-10-01T14:02:00.001+13:002015-10-01T14:02:12.874+13:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-22968223368013780142015-10-01T13:59:00.001+13:002015-10-01T13:59:18.070+13:00<img alt="Endeavour Neon" class="wp-image-426543" height="650" src="http://www.vancitybuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_9427.jpeg" width="650" /><br />
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Neon signs are a dying art, but one man is keeping the Vancouver night bright.<br />
In <em>Bending Light</em>, Vancouver-based filmmaker Stray Matter takes a look at the work of Andrew Hibbs. Hibbs is the owner and operator of <a href="https://instagram.com/endeavourneon/?hl=en" target="_blank">Endeavour Neon</a>, one of the handful of companies in Vancouver still making neon signs. <a href="http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/08/bending-light-vancouver-neon-bender-andrew-hibbs/">Read More</a><br />
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“The Perfect Day” is a site-specific installation that is made up of
three works that represent the three stages of Aslan's creative process.<a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/arts-culture_pi-artworks-invites-art-lovers-to-a-perfect-day-with-volkan-aslan_397908.html">Read More</a></div>
Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-33353437089117473982015-10-01T13:50:00.001+13:002015-10-01T13:50:11.822+13:00<a class="mainPhotoLink" data-size="2000x1500" href="http://www.observer-reporter.com/storyimage/OR/20150912/NEWS01/150919756/AR/0/AR-150919756.jpg&MaxW=2000&MaxH=1500&q=70" itemprop="contentUrl">
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An alphabet soup of letters on a wire pallet on the back of a truck
await installation recently on the neon sign outside the Observer
Publishing Co. building on South Main Street in Washington. The glass
tubing of the “R” and “S” in the word “Observer” later cracked.
“Technical difficulties,” said sign technician Anthony Sibert, left.
“Once it's installed, it's solid” and impervious to weather, said Brian
Price, right. Sibert said the old glass tubing removed from the 1940s
sign was so thick that he “could throw it across the street and it
wouldn't break.” <a href="http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20150912/NEWS01/150919756">read more</a>Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-16391127750980365182015-10-01T13:47:00.002+13:002015-10-01T13:48:49.239+13:00Chris Fraser's 2015 sculpture "Mobile<div class="hst-resgallery-wedge">
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The patterns created by the layered chain-link overpasses became so
compelling they could have been hazardous to the artist’s health. “I
started to notice it everywhere, and I started to think how utterly
dangerous it is to have people attuned to it while driving,” says
Fraser, 37. “It’s a barrier that doesn’t announce itself, but when you
put two sets of like patterns next to each other, they start to have
this conversation with you, about how fast you’re moving.”<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Artist-Chris-Fraser-inspired-by-chain-link-fences-6508850.php">read more</a></div>
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British artist Martin Creed has used the same phrase in a number of neon artworks in cities like New York, Rome and Detroit.<br />
n "ironic" and defiant message of hope is gleaming across central Christchurch in blazing neon letters more than a metre tall.<br />
The city's latest public artwork delivers its multi-coloured message in block capitals: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT.<br />
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permanent 46-metre long pronouncement, created for the city by
prestigious British artist Martin Creed, was installed on the Worcester
Boulevard facade of the Christchurch Art Gallery last week and was
officially lit up on Saturday evening. <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/art-and-stage/visual-art/72427405/British-artist-Martin-Creed-brings-neon-message-of-hope-to-central-Christchurch">read more</a><br />
Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-73827345556928053722014-08-28T17:45:00.000+12:002014-08-28T17:45:28.921+12:00Tracey Emin Neons Light Up MOCA Miami for Art Basel<div class="img-canvas" style="height: 679px; opacity: 1; visibility: visible; width: 1216px;">
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Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-7393492048134924582014-08-28T17:42:00.001+12:002014-08-28T17:46:55.196+12:00See GQ's festive window in Scott's, designed by Chris BraceyThere is art that perplexes the mind - such as the neon
illuminations of <a href="http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-09/20/gods-own-junkyard-closure-chris-bracey-interview" target="_blank">Chris Bracey</a> - and craft that stirs the soul -
such as the monkfish osso buco at Scott's in Mayfair. Perhaps
unsurprisingly when you combine the two, the results can be
spectacular. Following an invitation from the Caprice restaurant
and Birley groups, <i>GQ</i> has entered into a competition where
luxury magazines - including <i>LOVE</i>, <i>Tatler</i> and
<i>Sunday Times Style</i> - design bespoke winter displays to
raise money for charity.<br />
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there's no sign of dull toxic haze in this neon display by artist Lu
Xinjian. "City Light" is a glowing part of <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.artlaborgallery.com/pages/artists/gourp_i%20love%20shanghai.html" target="_blank"><i>I Love Shanghai</i></a>, an exhibition at the local <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.artlaborgallery.com/" target="_blank">Art Labor</a>
gallery; here, pop stylings and primary colors actually show the
real-life urban grid—with a Google Earth by way of Keith Haring vibe. <br />
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Xinjian
has been giving the world's most recognizable metropolises a somewhat
playful geometric angle for years now, reducing these hubs to abstract
shapes and brightening them up enough to make them all but
unrecognizable. Could you make out <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.xinjianlu.com/New_York_No.1.html" target="_blank">New York</a>, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.xinjianlu.com/Zurich.html" target="_blank">Zurich</a>, or <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.xinjianlu.com/Madrid.html" target="_blank">Madrid</a> from above? [<a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.designboom.com/art/city-light-shanghai-times-square-12-26-2013/" target="_blank">designboom</a>]<br />
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<br />Neon Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996166839787548490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993480.post-71983585940158849642014-08-28T17:33:00.001+12:002014-08-28T17:33:23.759+12:00Chryssa, Artist Who Saw Neon’s Potential as a Medium, Dies at 79<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/chryssa-artist-who-saw-neons-potential-as-a-medium-dies-at-79.html?_r=0"><img alt="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/chryssa-artist-who-saw-neons-potential-as-a-medium-dies-at-79.html?_r=0" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-caption="“Large Bird Shape”" data-mediaviewer-credit="Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Gift of Frank L. Gentile, 1982." data-mediaviewer-src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/01/19/arts/dog-chryssa-obit-1/dog-chryssa-obit-1-superJumbo.jpg" src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/01/19/arts/dog-chryssa-obit-1/dog-chryssa-obit-1-articleLarge.jpg" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/01/19/arts/dog-chryssa-obit-1/dog-chryssa-obit-1-articleLarge.jpg" itemprop="url" /> </a><br />
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a Greek-born American sculptor who in the 1960s was one of the first
people to transform neon lighting from an advertising vehicle into a
fine art medium, died on Dec. 23. She was 79.</div>
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death, which was reported in the Greek press, was not widely publicized
outside the country. Perhaps fittingly for an artist whose work
centered on enigma, the place of her death could not be confirmed; the
Greek news media reported that she was buried in Athens.</div>
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Chryssa, who used only her first name professionally, had lived variously in New York and Athens over the years.</div>
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A
builder of large-scale assemblages in a wide range of materials —
bronze, aluminum, plaster, wood, canvas, paint, found objects and, in
the case of neon, light itself — Chryssa, whose work prefigured
Minimalism and Pop Art, was considered a significant presence on the
American art scene in the ’60s and ’70s.</div>
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widely in the United States in those years, her art is in the
collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the
Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,
and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.</div>
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with the world of fine art or the world of strip clubs, there's no
denying there is something strangely addictive about those electric
colored lights. London-based neon artist <a href="http://godsownjunkyard.co.uk/" target="_hplink">Chris Bracey</a> certainly agrees, given that he's spent the past 40 years making and collecting all things neon. <br />
Whether
they depict an artsy conceptual paradox, a commercial design or the
classic "Girls, Girls, Girls," Bracey's neon signs cater to that primal
urge within all of us to reach out and touch something shiny. His neon
haven, which he's christened "Gods Own Junkyard," combines the works'
heavenly glow with the seedy underbelly of their Las Vegas origins. His
crop features neons made by his father in the '50s jammed up against
neons plucked from Blockbuster movie sets or an art gallery. "<a href="http://schonmagazine.com/2013/04/chris-bracey-heaven-and-hell/#sthash.yqgIFBuF.dpbs" target="_hplink">It’s in my blood</a>," he told Schon Magazine. "It’s like visual cocaine."<br />
We spoke to the neon obsessive about his unusual addiction and passion for flashing lights.<br />
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