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The Way the Moon’s in Love with the Dark, Artist: Fred Wilson.
Copyright © 2019 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
Complexity Shot #4. Just a back view of my sisters shoes. High contrast image makes the shoes pop but also gives the background a nice drop.
i love how the dry places of the planet are so water-sculpted. i have tender respect for these hardy plants, late on a cold and bone-dry afternoon in the great silent desert. this is a crop from a larger shot of "nothing" with even more rocks, plants and gravel patterns. i felt this wasn't yet what i wanted to do, but i got attached to each detail.
it got to be like a player piano cyllinder for me... each rock or bush was a note i couldn't crop out. so i threw up my hands and uploaded it.
I am a firm and true believer in the Mystical.
In these two photographs, both of which are micro photos of tiny weed flowers, nature spirits appear.
In "The all-seeing Eye of Nature" one very clearly defined eye peeks at me as I make the shot. (If you don’t see the eye look for the tag I’ve placed on the photo.)
In "Nature spirit visible in Dewdrop in micro of a Weed Flower" an astonishing manifestation occurs: in this series of shots in only one frame a face appears and then vanishes in subsequent identical shots. If you look closely you can see the eyes and even the eyebrows, the nose and nostrils, and red lips. And on one side of the head what looks to be the typically pointed elfin ear.
When we’re observing Nature, Nature is also observing us.
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Some of these photographs appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers; they are not. All of these photos are micro (macro) photographs of the super-tiny blooms that blossom on common weeds.
Weed flowers...wild flowers...whichever appellation you want to bestow on them nonetheless these almost microscopic beauties are the flowers that bloom on the weeds in my yard.
Many people also assume that these flowers are, for example, squash or zucchini-sized flowers, or that they are flowers 1" in diameter or larger and are perhaps on stems a foot tall or so. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Most of these flowers when measured petal tip to petal tip at their widest diameters measure 1/4" (6mm) across…or less...the entire bloom is that small. And the average stem height is only a few inches tall, if that.
The smallest weed flower I've shot yet is a small ring of flowers that measured less than 1/32" (.7mm) in diameter which encircled a spire which measured about 1/64" (0.3mm) in diameter.
For some photos I’ve included references to common objects such as the head of a paper match, or the head of a pin, which dwarfs some of these tiny flowers! On some others I’ve listed a description of the actual size of each object in the photo.
So far I've made over 700 photographs of over 50 varieties of weed flowers.
I hope that seeing the variety, beauty, and intricate complexity of this small world astonishes and pleases you as much as it has me.
Thanks for looking.
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Micro Weed Flowers:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157626023965740/
Micro Weed Flowers II:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029514344/
Micro Weed Flowers III:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029556370/
Micro Weed Flowers IV:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633025347237/
Micro Weed Flowers V:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029592988/
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9 Juli, 2020, Documenting Complexity.
Insights from the front of documentary-making and activism, with five of the most exciting makers talking about their projects and new technologies like AR, VR and 360video in MU Hybrid Art House. Speakers are:
- Karen Palmer, storyteller from the future
- Klasien van de Zandschulp & Natalie Dixon
- Alice Wong
- Lana Askari
- Foundland : Lauren Alexander | Ghalia Elsrakbi
Photography: Boudewijn Bollmann
9 Juli, 2020, Documenting Complexity.
Insights from the front of documentary-making and activism, with five of the most exciting makers talking about their projects and new technologies like AR, VR and 360video in MU Hybrid Art House. Speakers are:
- Karen Palmer, storyteller from the future
- Klasien van de Zandschulp & Natalie Dixon
- Alice Wong
- Lana Askari
- Foundland : Lauren Alexander | Ghalia Elsrakbi
Photography: Boudewijn Bollmann
Step in the computation of a recursive sequence. Intermediate steps can produce huge expressions, one of them shown here as a tree graph.
Corrected the converging verticals with the perspective correction tool. Converted from colour using a black and white colour filter set to red. Boosted the contrast a little with the curves and added a Daguerreotype effect.
On characteristic constants of theories defined by Kolmogorov complexity
(Shingo Ibuka, Makoto Kikuchi and Hirotaka Kikyo)