on the street in front of the reproduction of DW Griffith’s recreation of Babylon.
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L5 prepared for Sert projector
The projector at the Sert gallery didn’t like the 480p video stream coming out of the media tank, so we had to make these changes. On the left you see what’s coming out of the tank–the right shows what’s being seen on the wall.
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mpeg-2 vs mpeg-4 illustration
mpeg compression examples grabbed from YouTube and expanded to 200% using nearest neighbor algorithm.
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lossless #2 at Toronto Film Fest
Lossless #2 was screened as part of the Wavelengths program at TIFF. The reception was tremendous, and L2 is receiving nice notices. Here are a few. Artistic Innovation at Its Finest: A glance at this years Wavelengths Programme By Neil Karassik … exploring nostalgic sensibilities, Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwins Lossless #2 is a mesmerizing [...]
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TIFF::Wavelengths
Wavelengths 3: Horizontal Boundaries Eminent multi-disciplinary artist Pat O’Neill, whose work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), opens the programme with Horizontal Boundaries (USA); Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin’s Lossless #2 (USA) is part of a series exploring the effects of digital compression upon [...]
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my birthday, c. 1972
I’ve kept this catalog bit in the pocket with the precision TV tuning tools. I was too shy to ask for the vo meter option. I still have most of the tools too.
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hacking the 16mm optical track, notes
projector exciter circuit there is a 26 frame offset between picture and sound ie: 1.0833 seconds amplitude modulation: more light => more sound amplitude is the height of the wave, and frequency is the distance between wave crests film moves at 24fps there are 40 frames per foot, so film runs through the sound gate [...]
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Lossless at MassArt Film Society
Nothing That Is Not There And The Nothing That Is April 30, 2008 LOSSLESS #3 and LOSSLESS #4 by Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin 2008, video work in Progress, Filmmakers in Person Two videos in progress in a series of works investigating the dematerialization of film into digital bits, exposing the residual effects of the [...]
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»Zukunft des Körpers«
Franfurter positionen 2008 Film project “future of the body” Six short films (Premiere) 19.04. – 18.05.2008 Directors: Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, Thomas Draschan and Sebastian Brameshuber, Katrin Eissing, Rainer Knepperges, Judge Norman, Jose van der Schoot Germany 2008 Production: Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler, Franz Muller, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Eva-Maria Weerts These short films are a [...]
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Edw. Bellamy’s Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887, summary
Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is no doubt difficult for those whose studies have not been largely historical to realize that the present organization of [...]