Composed of found, recycled, and reused objects, this new typeface is captured through the photographic process known as the photogram. Each letter is created by capturing the shadow of an object. There is no distortion of scale between the image that is captures and the object from which it was cast. As each object has a unique shape the signature of the shadow is often a surprise. As a collection these signatures have begun to define a new typography and an attitude towards reused and appropriation. While some images are familiar to adults, other present themselves to children. The purpose of this piece is to foster a dialogue of discovery and exchange.
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our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene. Finally, our system allows a user to remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video.
The video is amazing. I would love to see the requirements such as rendering time and how many photographs would be necessary to enhance the video. If this ever gets down to the consumer level, it’ll be brilliant.
School of Visual Arts
Summer Residency Programs
Open Studios 2008
Featuring participants in the following residencies
Painting and Mixed Media
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Printmaking and Book Arts
Public Art
Photography
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Exhibition/Reception
Thursday, July 31, 2008
6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Locations
141 West 21st Street, Fourth and Eighth Floors (Painting)
141 West 21st Street, Ninth Floor (Printmaking, Illustration, Public Art)
141 West 21st Street, First Floor Westside Gallery (Photography)
30 West 17th Street (Sculpture)
Berlin based artist Julius von Bismarck uses his oddly named camera-mod to project images onto street furniture where they appear in the photos of strangers, but remain invisible to their eyes.
How? It’s simple. The device has a slave unit on top which is triggered when it sees a flash fire. This triggers his own flash, which fires through the back of the camera, through a film slide containing his slogan and then on and out through the lens at the front. This works because a camera is pretty much a projector in reverse.
I’m all for graffiti, especially things like Banksi. But there’s something invasive about it. Maybe because it’s the nature of photography that makes it really personal that makes me uneasy. It’s a good thing I don’t use the flash.
Amy Stein teaches photography at both Parsons and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been shown at the the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art.
As I was going through Amy Stein’s photograph series—Domesticated, Women and Guns, and Stranded, I realized I could play a game of exquisite corpse narrative with them. Instead of the traditional head, torso, and legs; my version is beginning, middle, and end of a tale. If I took one photo from each series, I could form a visually eerie, campfire story.
Example 1:
Example 2:
It doesn’t work for all her photos, but it is kind of fun.
To see more of Amy’s photographs, visit her portfolio website here.
This is by no means a comprehensive guide to organizing digital pictures, it’s just what I do.
I have a Perl script that copies all the pictures from my compact flash to my HDD. Why a Perl script? Because my Canon XT splits up the pictures into different folders in sets of 100. When you have a 4 GB CF card, that’s a lot of folders to look through. The script looks in each folder and each file and sorts them by date. It creates a folder on the HDD for each day in the format YYYYMMDD.
Once the card is dumped to my HDD, I go through and rotate all the pictures by opening the folder in thumbnail view. This gives me a good idea of what I shot on that day and if they need to be subcategorized. Example: If a shot a park, then my friend dancing, then a waterfall, each of those would get their own folders. These folders are prefixed by the date and then a letter and then the subject of the pictures.
Over the years, I’ve taken about 50 GB worth of pictures. Archiving them becomes an issue. How do I retrieve the pictures from the 50 or so CDs (now I’ve moved to DVDs)? I physically metatagged each CD with the date and the folder structure. I then put this same information into a spread sheet and numbered each disc, essentially creating an index.
Why not use software? Because most software creates its own database of the pictures. I’m also not looking to tag each individual picture. This solution also makes backing up things a lot easier because it’s application independent.
You can download my simple script. ***Note: You have to have Perl installed on your machine. Download the Perl script
Filmmaking is slowly becoming as easy as photography. With DV cameras, it makes shooting and then editing a breeze. But wading through all that tape is still time consuming if you’re just fooling around. There’s also a lot more setup involved with doing film. That’s where photography fits in.
Whether you use a point and shoot, a hybrid, or DSLR, the investment is minimal compared to filmmaking. You don’t need to lug around as much equipment and if you have a small enough point and shoot, you can carry it with you all the time. The benefit, is that you can capture things for later.
Filmmaking is an amalgam of all these other art forms. We get acting from theatre, music from music, and images from photography. The main difference is that our pictures are moving. Most modern point and shoots also give you the option to shoot short video clips, which is great, but isn’t the main boon. What photography helps you do is set up your shots. You can try different angles and different compositions to see how everything looks. Some cameras also have the option of shooting in 16:9.
So, today, I’m going to go out and do some photography. It’s a beautiful day for it.
