April 21, 2012
Lukas August Grunert was born at 4:10am on April 21st, 2012 during a new moon just as the Earth passed through the fragments from an ancient comet. A true gift from above.
As Above, So Below - Godfrey Dean Art Gallery
As Above, So Below features architectural and industrial photographs from China, the Americas and Africa. From subterranean excavation of mineral and resource extraction to the shimmering futuristic towers of Shanghai and Macau, time and raw human endeavour are compressed in an alchemical transformation from earthwork to glittering palaces of metropolism.
Exhibition runs at Godfrey Dean Art Gallery until April 13, 2012. For gallery info visit - www.deangallery.ca
To read an interview about this current body of work, visit www.sknac.ca
Pei Partnership wins prestigious awards for HDW
Congratulations! to Pei Partnership Architects. They have garnered both the prestigious 2011 Design for Asia (DFA) Merit Recognition Award and the 2012 United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Merit Award, recognizing the venue of Franco Dragone’s latest spectacular water-based show, “The House of Dancing Water”, for its breathtaking design and technical sophistication. Read more here about this incredible project. It was an honour to have photographed this amazing venue and show for PPA last summer.
“These are not the only projects I hope to photograph in my lifetime.”
Caught up in the excitement of new social site - Pinterest, I created a board. “These are not the only projects I hope to photograph in my lifetime.” It will feature amazing architectural/ engineering and industrial projects around the world. If you find this stuff as fascinating as I do feel free to follow me here. http://pinterest.com/grunertimaging
Industrial Brand promo
I was stoked when Mark Busse @ Industrial Brand asked if I wanted to collaborate on a promo piece. These guys ask the right questions and clearly understand the elements necessary to build a strong brand. Check their blog here.
Ausenco
Worked with Dan O’Leary at Karacters Design Group / DDB Canada to produce this ad forAusenco a leading engineering and project management company.
2K12 Desktop Calendar
To view my 2K12 Desktop Calendar and for instructions how to download, visit http://bit.ly/rUh6wU
10 Ways To Love Others
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse “authenticity” with sharing every complaint, resentment, or petty reaction in the name of “being yourself.” Meditate, write, or do yoga to work through anxiety, resentment, and stress on your own so you don’t hand off those negative moods to everyone around you. Sure, share sadness, honest dilemmas, and fears, but be mindful: don’t pollute.
4. Listen, listen, listen. Don’t listen to determine if you agree or disagree. Listen to get to know what is true for the person in front of you. Get to know an inner landscape that is different from your own, and enjoy the journey. Remember that if, in any conversation, nothing piqued your curiosity and nothing surprised you, you weren’t really listening.
5. Don’t waste your time or energy thinking about how they need to be different. Really. Chuck that whole thing. Their habits are their habits. Their personalities are their personalities. Let them be, and work on what you want to change about you—not what you think would be good to change about them.
6. Remember that you don’t have to understand their choices to respect or accept them.
7. Don’t conflate accepting with being a doormat or betraying yourself. Let them be who they are, entirely. Then, you decide what you need, in light of who they are. Do you need to make a direct request that they change their behavior in some way? Do you need to take care of yourself better? Do you need to set a boundary or to change the relationship? Take care of yourself well, without holding anyone else in contempt.
8. Give of yourself, but never sacrifice or compromise yourself. Stop if resentment is building and retool. Don’t do the martyr thing. It helps no one and nothing.
9. Remember that everyone you encounter was created by divine intelligence and has an important role to play in the universe. Treat them as such.
10. If you want to keep growing emotionally and spiritually for the rest of your life, accept this as your mantra and try to live as if it were true: Everything that I experience from another human being is either love, or a call for love.
(via thelittlesea:)
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To Chihuahua, From Dolores.
“When I was a child I would look up at the airplanes that flew high over our farm yard and wondered who those people were and where on Earth they were going. Now I often look down at the Earth with an open mind and ask myself the same question. Curiosity is no doubt a powerful force that can propel us to new heights.” KG
Fire In The Sky.
Last night I was working on my Prairie Fire series when all of a sudden the sky was ignited by Auroras.
October 24, 2011
To see the full series visit http://www.behance.net/gallery/Fire-in-the-Sky/2379736
New Work
42 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CHINA UPLOADED TO WWW.GRUNERTIMAGING.COM
New images in architectural portfolio and personal work.
Projects include Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid, National Grand Theatre in Beijing by Paul Andreu, Macao Science Centre by Pei Partnership& more.
“Phase 1 of my Architectural World Tour (China) was a success! Next stop Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar early 2012. If anyone has projects in these countries or any other region for that matter, send me an email I’d love to hear from you.”
Photography Monthly - 40 tips for low light photography
It was a pleasure to again contribute to Photography Monthly out of the U.K. This time I offer a few tips for low light photography. If you can’t find the real thing on the news stand, click here to download the article as a pdf. Enjoy!
Ps. I just got back from another life changing assignment, this time in Africa! Stay tuned for more on that…
Yorkton This Week - Article
This article came out in last week’s newspaper here in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
It’s an honor to be recognized locally :) Thanks to Calvin Daniels for the interview.
To read the full article click here.
Currently Untitled - personal series from Beijing
A huge thanks to all those who pre-purchased prints from my trip to China. Without your support the trip would not have been possible. Please be patient with me as I continue to process and edit the work. Here is one image from a series not yet titled. This was in the DongCheng District of Beijing very near to the Linked Hybrid project by architect Steven Holl. Very peaceful place. This young man sat with his smart phone, others escaped the hot night air by bathing in the aqua duct and further down there was a large group playing cards beneath an overpass.
To view entire series, visit http://www.behance.net/gallery/One-Beijing-Night/1936871
