Posts Tagged ‘Photo’
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
This is subversive technicality – very cool:
The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.
Here is a brilliant example of a photographic intervention, and how effective it can be:
Tags: Brilliant Example, Cool Device, Image, Images, Manipulation, Milliseconds, Photo, Photographer, Photographs, Principle, Technicality, Visual Information
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Woo. Last night I managed to break my long D70S drought. I hacked together an effective monopod using a piece of bamboo, and some brackets, nuts and bolts from the Photo egg – stood back to admire my handiwork – and then tromped around Newtown and St.Peters taking steadier-than-usual pictures of things. I tend to venture around at night, so having a steady platform is important for nice long exposures. (Also, you get to feel like some kind of druid carrying a staff around.)
Today I headed of to the Nunnery bike co-op to finally finally get a back brake. I’m sure we can all agree on the advantages of a backup brake, that combined with the front can actually stop the combined momentum of a rider and bike at the bottom of a hill.
Tags: Bamboo, Bike Brakes, Bike Co, Brackets, Diy, Drought, Druid, Egg, Exposures, Handiwork, Momentum, Monopod, Nuts And Bolts, Nuts Bolts, Photo, St Peters
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
The Beautiful Machine – 2005
The Beautiful Machine was both an opportunity to design and etch my own circuit, and a cathartic personal engagement with my love-interest of the time.
The face of said love-interest is etched onto one side of a dual-sided circuitboard, and forms part of the circuit. On the other side is a solid state arrangement to control the segmented LEDs. There are two-modes; “LOVE” and “NONE”. Not particularly difficult to interpret, although it reflected my surprise at how quickly and profoundly changes can happen.
Tags: Beautiful Machine, Circuitboard, Control, Face, Leds, Love Interest, Modes, Personal Engagement, Photo, Retrospect, Solid State, Surprise
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
The Blake prize (Official Site | Wikipedia Entry) opened tonight and I managed to get an invitation as provider of technical assistance to Allan Giddy. After which I was graciously invited to dinner at the Maya Indian restaurant with Allan, his partner, and their little girl.
There were very many old Conservative Christian old ladies there – in fact I was apprehensive of the crowd as I headed up in the elavator with them – though a nice selection of youthful interesting types were milling around once I got in.
I’ve stuck the few shots of interesting works up in a flickr set of their very own. My immediate favourite of those snapped was “The Philosopher’s God” for the humour, although I wasn’t able to spend enough time with the serious works for them to really hit me emotionally. Also, I didn’t have time to work out on which side of emotional resonance versus religious cliche many of them fell.
Tags: Blake Prize, Cliche, Crowd, Elavator, Emotional Resonance, Exhibition, Flickr, God, Humour, Invitation, Little Girl, Maya Indian, Old Ladies, Philosopher, Photo, Technical Assistance, Wikipedia
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