The 2012 Olympics - in Newcastle and the North East

[monkchester]

Flow: As it passed Walker Riverside Park late on this afternoon.







Photos by monkchester.co.uk

Extract from http://www.flowmill.org/

~Flow is an artwork by Owl Project and Ed Carter

~Flow is a tidemill - a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel. Step onboard and into the building, which houses electro acoustic musical machinery, and instruments that respond to the constantly changing environment of the river, generating sounds and data.

~Flow spans artforms, blending contemporary and traditional methods. Its wide appeal, combines sculpture, cutting edge technology, hand crafted wooden instruments, architecture, precision engineering and electronic music to create an astonishing audio-visual public artwork.

~Flow is free and open to all on the River Tyne from 25 March 2012.

Chris

[Ken O'Heed]

Pictures taken by myself ( hosted on Photobucket) from south side of the river, the Millennium Bridge & Newcastle Quay, down from Pitcher & Piano Pub

1654



1656



1701 after ceasing to pull and change to "side saddle" - done in vicinity former Spillers Mill



Passing the Kittiwake Tower



Almost opposite the Ouseburn





1721



1728









KEN

[cranfan]

Flow was on the telly last night : iPlayer

Coverage at 20mins onward.

[Newcastle Historian]

Olympics Global Rainbow Artwork, lights up Whitley Bay
by Kim Carmichael, The Journal, March 1st 2012



A SPECTACULAR laser rainbow lit up the skies of Tyneside to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics. Bands of colour transformed the coastline last night as Global Rainbow, a £50,000 artwork created by American artist Yvette Mattern, was switched on for the first time.

Its launch on Leap Day – February 29 – marked the start of the Cultural Olympiad 2012 in the North East – a programme of special events to herald the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The seven coloured laser beams were projected down the coast from St Mary’s headland, Whitley Bay, from 6pm to midnight. The projection will be repeated every night until Sunday.

Alison Clark-Jenkins, regional director of the Arts Council England, said: “Global Rainbow is the perfect way to mark the start of this year’s cultural celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the North East of England.

“Not only is the project delivering art on a very large scale to many thousands of people, but it’s welcoming an international artist to the region, and is the culmination of a great deal of careful planning and creative programming. This is just a taste of what’s to come over the course of what is to be a groundbreaking year for culture in the North East.”


Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...#ixzz1nrIr0rA4

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

Olympics Global Rainbow Artwork, lights up Whitley Bay
by Kim Carmichael, The Journal, March 1st 2012

A SPECTACULAR laser rainbow lit up the skies of Tyneside to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics. Bands of colour transformed the coastline last night as Global Rainbow, a £50,000 artwork created by American artist Yvette Mattern, was switched on for the first time.

Its launch on Leap Day – February 29 – marked the start of the Cultural Olympiad 2012 in the North East – a programme of special events to herald the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The seven coloured laser beams were projected down the coast from St Mary’s headland, Whitley Bay, from 6pm to midnight. The projection will be repeated every night until Sunday.

Alison Clark-Jenkins, regional director of the Arts Council England, said: “Global Rainbow is the perfect way to mark the start of this year’s cultural celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the North East of England.

“Not only is the project delivering art on a very large scale to many thousands of people, but it’s welcoming an international artist to the region, and is the culmination of a great deal of careful planning and creative programming. This is just a taste of what’s to come over the course of what is to be a groundbreaking year for culture in the North East.”

Well this certainly was a popular event with Whitley Bay being brought to a standstill as thousands flocked in their cars to see the 'art installation'. One thing that came as a surprise was the event was not stewarded, especially the area around St Mary's Island. Also no Police present to control the control the traffic.

Used my current camera for the first time on night time shots, bit of a learning curve! - more @ http://www.fototime.com/inv/9F271504FEA5F6B

















Some of my snaps taken of the 'art installation

[Steve Ellwood]

Managed to get down for a first look at Flow, 10thy March 2012 - the new art installation on the Quayside.







Photographs www.steve-ellwood.org.uk

[newcastlepubs]

NH, this probably isn t the best place to post this, but as it will be messing up the road for a while this is a good start. Obviously post anywhere you think more appropriate.

Here is the Olympic torch route from which you can infer the infer the road closures etc:

15th June http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h..._newcastle.pdf

16th June http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h...ead_durham.pdf

[Delaval]

Originally Posted by newcastlepubs

NH, this probably isn t the best place to post this, but as it will be messing up the road for a while this is a good start. Obviously post anywhere you think more appropriate.

Here is the Olympic torch route from which you can infer the infer the road closures etc:

15th June http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h..._newcastle.pdf

16th June http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h...ead_durham.pdf

If, like me, you prefer visualisation of the route, the map and names of torchbearers are on the London 2012 site
http://www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay-map

[Adrian_Swall]

NCC has published details of roads closed round St James' Park (formerly known as A.S.D.A - Ashley's Sports Direct Arena) for the 2012 Olympic football games.

http://www.northeastfor2012games.com.../road-closures

[jkkne]

Originally Posted by Adrian_Swall

NCC has published details of roads closed round St James' Park (formerly known as A.S.D.A - Ashley's Sports Direct Arena) for the 2012 Olympic football games.

http://www.northeastfor2012games.com.../road-closures

These closures are completely unwarranted. They don't happen when Newcastle play (aside Sunderland and even then its just Barrack Road) and thats when the stadium is full.

Now we're having massive disruption for what is most likely to be a less than quarter full stadium watching a competiton that no-one will care about, especially on the back of the Euros.

[WilfBurnsFan]

Can't have the corrupt Olympocrats and various other slimy FIFA 'dignitaries' delayed by the riff-raff.

[Newcastle Historian]

Olympics floating artwork moored on banks of River Tyne
The Journal, March 22nd 2012



LIKE A cross between an eccentric laboratory and the inside of a floating piano, an artwork called ~Flow is being readied for action on Sunday, then the public will be welcomed aboard the curious vessel which has been moored on the Newcastle bank of the Tyne, near the Millennium Bridge, all month.

Yesterday artist and musician Ed Carter, who lives in Gateshead, recalled his initial bid to the Arts Council which had announced it would commission 12 ambitious art projects as part of the Cultural Olympiad. There would be one in each region and each successful bidder would get a budget of £500,000. “My initial idea was that it would be some sort of box with a platform on stilts,” said Ed.

Then he contacted his friends at Owl Project, the Manchester-based group of Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons, who specialise in art machines comprising electronics and wood. London-based architect Nicky Kirk came on board along with Amble boatbuilder Nick Spurr and David Willcox, an engineer and waterwheel specialist from Bedfordshire.

They all put their heads together and the result is a Heath Robinson-style vessel – officially a tidemill – that will make sounds generated by the tidal current passing beneath its huge wheel and also by the water’s sludge and salt content.


Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...#ixzz1pq0wNRyo

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

Managed to get down for a first look at Flow, 10th March 2012 - the new art installation on the Quayside.



Photographs www.steve-ellwood.org.uk

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[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

Now . . .

Olympics floating artwork moored on banks of River Tyne
The Journal, March 22nd 2012



LIKE A cross between an eccentric laboratory and the inside of a floating piano, an artwork called ~Flow is being readied for action on Sunday, then the public will be welcomed aboard the curious vessel which has been moored on the Newcastle bank of the Tyne, near the Millennium Bridge, all month.

Yesterday artist and musician Ed Carter, who lives in Gateshead, recalled his initial bid to the Arts Council which had announced it would commission 12 ambitious art projects as part of the Cultural Olympiad. There would be one in each region and each successful bidder would get a budget of £500,000. “My initial idea was that it would be some sort of box with a platform on stilts,” said Ed.

Then he contacted his friends at Owl Project, the Manchester-based group of Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons, who specialise in art machines comprising electronics and wood. London-based architect Nicky Kirk came on board along with Amble boatbuilder Nick Spurr and David Willcox, an engineer and waterwheel specialist from Bedfordshire.

They all put their heads together and the result is a Heath Robinson-style vessel – officially a tidemill – that will make sounds generated by the tidal current passing beneath its huge wheel and also by the water’s sludge and salt content.


Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...#ixzz1pq0wNRyo

Just a reminder Flow opens from tomorrow - Sunday 25th March.

[newcastlepubs]

Had a look at 'Flow' today. A musical shed on pontoons.



Temping to see if the French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure could give it the Rainbow Warrior treatment. It would be a more interesting show.

Well worth half a million quid [yes that is right £500 000]. Not quite up there with the K foundation's burning of a million, but give 'em time...

[Ken O'Heed]

If you think that the "shed on the Tyne" is a waste a money view this scanned copy of Daily Mail page 5 article of 24/03/12 under the heading " The Oddball Olympics" about "the arts festival costing us £ 5 million"





Have we been lucky?

KEN

[newcastlepubs]

Originally Posted by Ken O'Heed

If you think that the "shed on the Tyne" is a waste a money view this scanned copy of Daily Mail page 5 article of 24/03/12 under the heading " The Oddball Olympics" about "the arts festival costing us £ 5 million"

Have we been lucky?

KEN

J#sus f#cking ch#ist !!!

I ought to be in the middle of the demographic of this stuff, metropolitan resident, 'liberal', buy the odd piece of original 'modern' art [albeit for the walls] yet in my humble and perhaps philistine opinion this is a complete p#ss it against the wall, waste of money.

'With some the link to the games is tangible and really obvious'. Really ????

Dear God, I agree with the Mail, I m off to the Broad Chare for a beer.

[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by Adrian_Swall; 3rd April 2012

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May be a little bit late in the day but is there any mileage in having a local Olympic thread?

Newcastle has the football and the Olympic torch will go through the NE.

Expect this thread would provoke some interesting comments!

What do SSC-ites think?

A very good idea for a thread, so here it is.

I have backdated it to when SJP was first announced as an Olympic Venue!

[Ken O'Heed]

From Gateshead Planning Portal - Approval just Granted

DC/12/00131/LBC

LISTED BUILDING CONSENT: Temporary erection of a set of Olympic Rings on the east face of the main arch of the Tyne Bridge.The Tyne Bridge High Street Gateshead

http://cominoweb.gateshead.gov.uk/Pl...tInDialog.page


This has been noted earlier in Gateshead Developments thread when was first mooted

One face of bridge = associated with "Zip Wire" delivery of flame from north to south side of river

KEN

[Adrian_Swall]

Thank you NH for the work to collate previos post on this Olympic thread.

Of course it is hideously expensive from the original estimate of about £2.7Million to nigh on £10Billion now and the true cost could be double I read recently.

There was an interesting programme on BB4 'You and Yours' yesteday (go to BBC iplayer to listen again) with all shades of opinion from around the country.

There is also a number of venues which are just temporary with the Basketball Arena being dismantled and assembled elsewhere in the UK after the games. http://www.london2012.com/basketball-arena

Why can't we up here ask for it up here as a new arena / exhibition space?

Would look amazing.

Think it's just a big tent so would have to be tethered down well up here?

[Adrian_Swall]

Planning application submitted http://publicaccess.newcastle.gov.uk...=M1JABDBSAP000 to show the olympics on the Big Screen on Grey Street near the summer outdoor cinema site.

If I can just get hold of that remote control?