28 September 2014 | Art & Photography, Free & Cheap, Museums & Galleries | By: Tabish Khan

Installation View Lee Bul at KCC, London Photo Junyong Cho, Courtesy the artist, KCC and Ikon

The Korean Cultural Centre (KCC), located just off Trafalgar Square, has a gallery space that it uses to exhibit some impressive Korean artists. (Earlier in the year you missed Meekyoung Shins vases, where only the smell gave away the fact that they were made from soap.)

The latest show is by Lee Bul, who has taken over the space with a momentous installation piece. At first it feels like walking on the set of a low budget 80s science fiction set, with the walls and floors covered in silver vinyl and silver tape creating a pseudo spider web across the artwork.

Rather than being a delicate sculpture, visitors are encouraged to duck under the tape and ascend the linked but uneven platforms. We approached this with trepidation as the creaking floor and stretching tape suggest they will give way at any moment but the whole structure is surprisingly robust.

Our ascent put us touching distance from the ceiling and allowed us to view this reflective world from a different perspective. Its like an abstract hall of mirrors with the light reflecting off all surfaces creating a warming glow to this immersive and ultimately fun installation.

KCC artist of the year Lee Bul is on at Korean Cultural Centre, 1-3 Strand (entrance on Northumberland Avenue), WC2N 5BW until 1 November. Admission is free. This exhibition is in partnership with Lee Buls solo show in Birminghams Ikon Gallery.

For more art to see in London, visit our September listings.

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The first problem with moving the antique dragon fountain on display at the Walters Art Museum was that it's really, really large and really, really heavy: a 250-pound bronze behemoth that's about five and a half feet tall and three feet around.

The second problem is that the 19th-century artwork is irreplaceable, is awkwardly shaped and has about a zillion fragile protuberances that could snap off under just a small amount of misapplied pressure. The urn, which is at the Walters on a long-term loan from Towson University, shows a dragon perched on the rim of what appears to be a lotus flower. Its neck and back are arched and its teeth are bared. The needle-like scales bristle, the beast's claws dig into the blossom, and the dragon's tail curls sinuously around one of the urn's four slender legs.

Mike McKee, the Walters' senior art handler, couldn't imagine how he was going to get a grip on the thing, let alone carry it from the museum's galleries in the Hackerman House and down a flight of marble steps, and then into the museum's Centre Street building.

But curator Jo Briggs had her heart set on displaying the magnificent vessel in the big show opening Oct. 26 at the Walters Art Museum. McKee knew he couldn't let her down, so he got to work.

"You look at all the obstacles and you weigh all the possibilities," he said. "You calculate the weather, and you look at the bumps in the floor. But you can't plan for everything."

The Walters recently provided reporters with a rare behind-the-scenes look at the often-fraught installation process for its new exhibit, "From Rye to Raphael," which will celebrate the museum's 80th anniversary by examining the legacy of founders William and Henry Walters. (The "rye" in the exhibit name refers to the trade in rye whiskey that served as the basis of the family fortune.)

It takes lots and lots of pairs of gloves that are nitrate-free so they don't leave a deposit of powder on the artworks, custom-built cases, a textbook's worth of minute mathematical calculations, kilos of silica gel and plenty of human ingenuity to take a priceless artwork from its protective packaging and put it on display in an unpredictable public world.

The number of things that can go wrong are endless. For example, in 2011, a cleaning lady working in Germany's Museum Ostwall accidentally scrubbed away the patina on a $1.1 million sculpture by the late artist Martin Kippenberger.

"There's always a tension between preserving the objects and making them accessible," said Briggs, the Walters' assistant curator of 18th- and 19th-century art. "We want to keep the objects safe and keep them secure without putting too many barriers between the public and the art."

As Briggs describes it, collecting art was a contact sport for well-bred, wealthy folk in the early 20th century. Henry Walters and his "frenemy" J.P. Morgan constantly tried to one-up each other and engaged in the art world equivalent of trash talk.

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St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) September 25, 2014

Precision Office Furniture Installation recently completed a renovation project for Wells Fargo at the bank's 2801 South Market Street office building in St. Louis. The office furniture installation job, which took place on the seventh floor of the bank's F building, was designed to help accommodate the needs of a growing business and took approximately 2 months for Precision Office Furniture Installation to complete. The bank is still awaiting additional work from other contractors to finish the renovation.

To meet the growing needs of Wells Fargo, Precision Office Furniture Installation installed Teknion Optos architectural floor-to-ceiling glass walls. Over the course of their project, the company used approximately 1,100 linear feet of these walls. The company also installed seven barn doors, 95 glass hinged doors, four wood and glass doors, one solid wood door, and one doublewide wood door. The improvements will help Wells Fargo employees better manage their office space, as well as benefit the company as a whole through better accommodation.

Precision Office Furniture Installation is proud of the results of their work, as well as the customer service they demonstrated over the course of the two month project.

"This job was successfully on time, and on budget," said Barb Brooks, a company representative. "The customer was extremely pleased with our performance."

This renovation is just another step for the bank after several years of growth, which is projected to continue into the future. After such a successful project, Precision Office Furniture Installation hopes to help other businesses in the St. Louis area make similar renovations to help their operations expand.

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Posted on September 23, 2014 at 5:01 PM

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(WHAS11) -- Underground tunnel blasting for the East End Crossing was canceled for this week. There will be no further blasting for approximately four to six weeks.

The temporary halt in blasting comes after debris fell from the ceiling of the southbound tunnel, near the north portal, Friday night.

Although it is not uncommon for small amounts of debris to occasionally shift and fall from the ceiling during the excavation for this type of tunnel, the unusual amount that dropped Friday warrants the installation of additional structural support as a precaution.

Our first priority is always worker safety, and were adding some tunnel reinforcements simply to ensure that safety, Rob Morphonios, project director for WVB East End Partners, the company in charge of the design and construction the East End Crossing, said. Were very glad to err on the side of caution.

Morphonios said that earth monitoring instruments at the site, as well as geologists present during all excavation activity, affirm that the tunnel is structurally sound.

Morphonios said tunnel excavation is about three months ahead of schedule. The time required for installation of additional support structures will not cause the project to fall behind schedule. All surface blasting activities for the East End Crossing project will continue as scheduled.

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115303'Obsessive' artist sculpts out of 40 miles of sewing threadGabriel Dawe sculpts 40 miles of sewing thread for his installation piece at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Arts State of the Art exhibit.For more Art Beat: newshour.pbs.org/art2014-09-23 11:29 amdisabledWwU75UymG_Atrue

Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe makes physically imposing and yet nebulous sculpture of thread stretched between points on the ceiling and points on the floor. He creates a multifaceted geometric shape, the color changing like a rainbow as the viewers eye shifts around the form. Essentially a simple concept, like the nail-and-thread art that many children make, Dawe has taken this idea to its extreme. In his words: doing that same idea but in space, and pushing the boundaries of what drawing could be, putting steroids in them.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, founded three years ago by billionaire heir to the Wal-Mart fortune Alice Walton, curates a nationwide survey of more than 100 contemporary American artists for the exhibit State of the Art. The museum wants to showcase what it calls under-recognized American artists from outside the media centers of New York and LA. Dawe is one of those artists.

Every time I have a new installation, I start a dialogue with the space. I have to take into account architectural peculiarities of the space, and see where I can accommodate the hooks that the thread it attached to, said artist Gabriel Dawe.

Its going to be a structure that is formed completely with sewing thread, a geometric structure that reaches from the ceiling to the floor, in the central staircase, he said, as the project began. I dont know exactly how much thread I am going to be using, but roughly around 40 and 60 miles of thread. The thread is in 16 different shades, and it starts with blue on the outside, edges and angles, to green then yellow.

Dawe uses large spools of regular sewing thread, that he selects in turn based on their color to create his rainbow, that fools the eye into thinking the tones fade without seam or transition into the next.

Photographs dont do the pieces justice, said Dawe. They do make beautiful photographs, but I think with my pieces you have to see them in real life to catch the subtleties. They change as you move round them; they are almost kinetic; the lines really start messing with your depth perception, and it comes to life when you move around it.

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Spectra undulates based on NASA data recorded from May 2006 to May 2014. Field

At first glance, Spectra might seem like your average levitating kinetic sculpture. But dig a little deeper, and you'll discover a levitating kinetic sculpture driven by space.

The piece hovers as if to mimic the moon's lack of atmosphere. And its movements -- sometimes smooth and wavelike, other times more jarring -- are synchronized to reflect the effect of meteor impacts on the lunar surface.

Circuit boards and motors control the sculpture's triangular components. Laurence Symonds engineered the installation. Field

The creators of the steel installation, now on display at a space called 43M3 as part of the London Design Festival, based Spectra on NASA data recorded from May 2006 to May of this year.

Each of 12 recorded meteor impacts, varying in intensity, size, duration and origin, triggers movements in the undulating piece over the course of 3 hours, as well as sound shifts in a dynamically generated soundtrack. Viewers can follow the impacts on a data display.

"The mass of data that drives the installation contrasts with its very minimal design, creating an abstract sculptural expression of cosmic events that took place thousands of miles away," the creators, a London-based digital-art duo with a studio called Field, told Crave.

Though the artists have until now dealt solely with pixels, this piece has a definite real-world engineering component. It hangs from the ceiling, and circuit boards and motors control the custom-designed triangular pieces that make up Spectra like so many craters.

"The idea for Spectra is that it is a half-digital, half-physical landscape," Field tells Accept & Proceed, a London design studio and Field's creative partner in the endeavor.

"In a virtual environment you can defy the laws of physics, simulate hyper-real conditions, achieve the most vibrant colors, materials, reflections. We want to fuse these characteristics from our digital work into the physical piece."

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Spectra undulates based on NASA data recorded from May 2006 to May 2014. Field

At first glance, Spectra might seem like your average levitating kinetic sculpture. But dig a little deeper, and you'll discover a levitating kinetic sculpture driven by space.

The piece hovers as if to mimic the moon's lack of atmosphere. And its movements -- sometimes smooth and wavelike, other times more jarring -- are synchronized to reflect the effect of meteor impacts on the lunar surface.

Circuit boards and motors control the sculpture's triangular components. Laurence Symonds engineered the installation. Field

The creators of the steel installation, now on display at a space called 43M3 as part of the London Design Festival, based Spectra on NASA data recorded from May 2006 to May of this year.

Each of 12 recorded meteor impacts, varying in intensity, size, duration and origin, triggers movements in the undulating piece over the course of 3 hours, as well as sound shifts in a dynamically generated soundtrack. Viewers can follow the impacts on a data display.

"The mass of data that drives the installation contrasts with its very minimal design, creating an abstract sculptural expression of cosmic events that took place thousands of miles away," the creators, a London-based digital-art duo with a studio called Field, told Crave.

Though the artists have until now dealt solely with pixels, this piece has a definite real-world engineering component. It hangs from the ceiling, and circuit boards and motors control the custom-designed triangular pieces that make up Spectra like so many craters.

"The idea for Spectra is that it is a half-digital, half-physical landscape," Field tells Accept & Proceed, a London design studio and Field's creative partner in the endeavor.

"In a virtual environment you can defy the laws of physics, simulate hyper-real conditions, achieve the most vibrant colors, materials, reflections. We want to fuse these characteristics from our digital work into the physical piece."

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Posted on September 18, 2014 at 10:03 PM

PHOENIX -- Walter Cwiek has a habit of keeping his thermostat as warm as possible. He uses ceiling fans and tries not to use many lights inside his home. In other words, Cwiek does what he can to keep electricity costs to a minimum.

Still, he says sometimes it's just not enough. "Last month's bill for a 1,400 square foot house was $277," Cwiek tells 3 On Your Side.

So, he took the plunge and invested in solar energy. He hired a company and had solar panels installed on his roof to generate power. But all of those new, shiny solar panels on his roof aren't doing a thing to lower his electric bill. "That's correct. They're just sitting up there getting sunburned," he jokingly says.

Cwiek says the panels were completely installed on June 20, and two weeks later they were inspected and approved by the city. But for nearly two and a half months, the solar panels haven't generated any power.

Why? Well, Cwiek says because APS hasn't installed the meters necessary to read the solar usage. "We've been waiting for them to come out and hook up the meters and get us on the grid so we can start enjoying solar power,"he says.

So, 3 On Your Side got a hold of APS. They investigated and discovered the delay wasn't on their end at all. APS discovered the solar company took an exceptionally long time to inform them Mr. Cwiek's installation job was ready for meters,

APS says in an email to 3 On Your Side that it was informed on "....August 19, and the meter set is scheduled for today, so APS is well within the 6 week timeframe" of installing meters for a homeowner.

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September 18, 2014 - Held in place by rare-earth magnet system, Litetronics 3-Lamp LED Retrofit Kit converts conventional 2 x 4 ft T8 or T12 linear fluorescent troffers to linear LEDs. Consuming 50 W, kit can replace 4-lamp T8 system using 120 W, while matching lumen output and light distribution. Self-contained one-piece unit, suited for 120277 V systems, is available in 3,500, 4,000, or 5,000 K color temperatures, and delivers flicker-free white light output for 85,000 hours or more. LiteTronics International, Inc. 4101 W. 123rd. St. Alsip, IL, 60803-1803 USA Press release date: September 12, 2014

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New Product Introduction: Litetronics LED Retrofit Kit. A truly revolutionary patent-pending system, used to convert conventional 2' x 4' T8 or T12 linear fluorescent troffers (the most prevalent commercial, industrial, institutional light fixtures in use today) to more energy-efficient linear LEDs. Result is a low-cost, lower-energy/ longer-life, maintenance-free interior lighting system for specifier clients, using a facilitys existing ceiling troffers.

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Installation of the Litetronics LED Retrofit Kit is quick (three minutes typical retrofit, start to finish) and easy, greatly reducing labor cost of other fluorescent-tube replacements or their typical retrofit kits. After removing ballast and ballast cover, Litetronics one-piece LED Retrofit Kit simply pops securely into the troffer housing, held in place with Litetronics patent-pending rare-earth magnetized system, allowing a swift, hands-free connection.

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New Construction Bathroom Ceiling Installation Part 2
This is part two of our new construction bathroom in an old house. This episode shows us installing a ceiling and installing new blue board sheetrock. We #39;ll ...

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