Jesse Lerner (in person) showing The American Egypt and Megavoz @ Balagan (Coolidge Corner theater) 2006.11.30 This was the last show of the year (2006) for the Balagan series at the Coolidge Corner theater. This was my first experience seeing Lerner’s work. The introduction was friendly and efficient, promising not to reveal too much about [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
oz differencing prototype gallery
here. After finding a charming collection of chalkboard notes by Pat Hanrahan, I finally understand how Photoshop determines the values in a matrix of pixels resulting from the composite of two transparent layers. Then thinking like an optical printer (the person, not the machine) and tossing some ideas around with Adam Savje, I put together [...]
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new oz gallery
Here is a series of tests that show various ways the Film and DVD scans might interact. The image below shows the interaction that suits this project best. We are still discussing how neutral pixels, ie: the pixels that are the same in both Film and DVD, should be rendered. Here they are being rendered [...]
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100% Austen
sty·lo·met·rics |stīˈlämitriks|1. A method of studying literary style, frequency of word usage, etc by means of the statistical analysis of a text, usually with the aid of computer programs, which allows for the charting of historical changes in style, the investigation of questions of disputed literary authorship, the authentication or otherwise of written evidence, police [...]
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equivalents project
examples of things we take for equivalents: handwriting and text conversation and telephone film and video rolodexes and contact lists calendars and planners a person and a medical trace (monitors, charts, bills) the place and its map handwriting and type relationships and analysis places and information graphics vanilla beans and vanillin (a chemical equivalent) and [...]
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Score: 1.4 Morse Code on Cell Phones? On June 29th, 2005 with 316 comments An anonymous reader writes “In a recent showdown, veteran Morse coders were able to send SMS messages faster via Morse than the fastest thumb-typists. What… Hardware » Communications, Hardware Score: 1.9 Cellphedia, a SMS Social Network Service On May 21st, 2005 [...]
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association vs authority
If I collect media I am associating myself with it. If I choose to tell you about it, about what it means and why I like it you could challenge me, or challenge it. But if I’m just up there like playing a CD of Noam Chomsky going off about language or whatever then you [...]
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