on the street in front of the reproduction of DW Griffith’s recreation of Babylon.
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on the road, summarized
Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with his beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound bus at 50th Street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in Hector’s, and since then Hector’s cafeteria has always been a big symbol [...]
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light grafitti
I’ve been shooting nightly walks around Inman Square with my miniature kyocera point n’ shoot (thanks to my favorite sister Barbara). These seemed especially fun. Can you see the aurora?
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signal and media
I’m trying to get a handle on how discrete media (ie: film) is translated to signal. WHat is the history of this? Is discrete media something we can understand? is granular synthesis discrete? what about analog signal, isn’t breaking a signal up into regular clips analogous to frames? When is data a signal? transcoding telecine [...]
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lumpy time
build a light meter that will fire a frame after receiving an appropriate amount of light shoot things with movement we know well watch the movement changes with the amount of light I’m building a prototype sequence now. I want to see what it would do in the following situations: a bright sunny day with [...]
the discreteness of time
most of the time we experience time as a continuous flow. our perceptual systems blend input from the five senses into a continuum we call reality. there is a lot of work done on this reality before we have a conscious apprehension of it, and this allows for all kinds of interesting coloration of reality. [...]
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group theory
Here’s a new idea for the ruby slippers series. Q: What is the most popular recording of all time? A: Bing Crosby’s 1942 White Christmas, it’s sold over 50 million copies. Q: How was this originally consumed? A: On 78rpm records. Q: How do most of us know the song today? A: Either from television, [...]
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contact prints from digital negs
Kevin Sullivan is a keener. I spent over an hour on the phone with him yesterday while he told me about his customer’s enthusiasm for alternative photographic processes. The excitement is about the convergence of old and new techniques: making platinum, palladium, kallitype and cyanotype prints from large digital negatives. The process generally goes like [...]
hwy101 at noon (for Ken)
hwy 101 >>moov silverlake blvd >>moov
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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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