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kerouac’s ear
“Kerouac’s Ear” is a WWII vintage electro-mechanical typewriter which periodically types out text fragments in the beat style. This text is distilled from online chatrooms where the style of each line from hundreds of posts is considered. When a line of chat text is found to resemble Kerouac’s style, it is passed to the typewriter [...]
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Failure sketches
Here are a couple of quick sketches for Failure: Cameras positioned above each screen shoot the data representation and render the image as well as possible. Gallery visitors interrupt the camera’s path causing data dropouts in the rendered image.
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100% Austen, notes on method
Somebody asked me to describe my method over the weekend. It’s been a long time since I wrote the text generator, but this is what I recall. First you gather the model writing into a database. Guternerg.org provided ASCII transcriptions of the complete works of Jane Austen which I strung end to end in a [...]
“ruby slippers” is now “Lossless”
The title has changed, and we’ve refined our pitch. Here’s what we sent to Linz: Good news, Lossless has been accepted into collision 11! Details to follow.
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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 [...]
ruby slippers update
there’s a chance we’ll be showing the ruby slippers in 16mm this february–details to follow. in the meantime, here’s a small taste of how things are developing.
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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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