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Bruno: Hey Julia, can I help you with your homework?
Julia: Sorry Bruno. It's math, and I don't think you're very good at it.
Bruno: I'm awesome at math.
Julia: Really? I didn't know you were awesome at math.
Bruno: Neither did I. I'm awesome at everything though so I'm sure that math will be no different. I just have one question. What's math?
Julia: It's the science of numbers. And right now we're solving equations.
Bruno: Yup. Equations are delicious. Love equations.
Julia: I don't think you're supposed to eat equations.
Bruno: Supposed to or not supposed to. Such binary thinking. I have eaten your homework before and I will do it again.
Julia: That is not what I would consider helpful.
Bruno: Okay, we'll play it your way. Just tell me what's an equation then I'll solve it for you.
Julia: Well, it's when everything on the left side of the equal sign must add up to everything on the other side of the equals sign. You know, like 2 plus 2 equals 4.
Bruno: Oh. I still don't get it.
Julia: Let's put it like this. If I had two cookies then added two more there would be four cookies.
Bruno: Got it. So if we said my mouth plus your paper equals delicious that would be a solved equation.
Julia: Sort of ...
Bruno: Perfect. Lets get going. Now can you get me a sampling platter of some delicious equations?
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Bruno trying to help with grade 5 math. Or maybe he's just waiting for Julia to be done so she can play with him. But most likely he's about to climb on her lap to interrupt the process for cuddles.
I have a love/hate relationship with Lomography. I'll start with the latter part of the equation first. The cameras are overpriced and they fail way too often. I work in a camera store, we carry Lomography cameras, I get to see the defective rate firsthand. It sucks. Now for the love part. I love what Lomography does. I love how they have built up and pushed a very distinct corner of the film market. The world of film photography is a bigger place in large part due to Lomography's work. They have brought out films. I have had a lot of fun with Lomochrome Purple and Turquoise. They have the only 110 film on the market that I know of. They offer cheap (both in price and quality) alternatives in 35mm and 120 to the pricier Kodak and Fuji films. I love the breadth of ideas they bring to the market with their equipment. A spinning 360 degree camera? A point and shoot fisheye? A petzval lens for that swirly bokeh? A medium format camera with an astonishingly wide 38mm lens? They do all this. I just wish they did it at a higher level of quality. Lomography is great at coming up with fun new ideas and bringing them to fruition but it never seems like they stick with the ideas to make sure they get refined to any degree of reliability. This wouldn't be such an issue if the cameras weren't so expensive.
I can coalesce this experience into my introduction to the Lomo LC-A 120, that aforementioned wide angle medium format point-and-shoot camera. The idea of the LC-A 120 is great. Take a camera that makes 6x6cm negatives, give it an onboard meter for controlling exposure, allow zone focusing which is simple and quick and then ice the whole cake with a surprisingly sharp and crisp 38mm lens. Is it as nice as the 38mm on a Hasselblad Super Wide? Don't be silly, of course it isn't. Then again the Hasselblad costs 3-4 times as much and won't fit in your pocket. But even at $400 I wouldn't mind the price for a brand new medium format camera that can do what the LC-A 120 does. Many used medium format cameras sell for at least this much and most of those sell for a lot more than this. $400 isn't too bad. But the first LC-A 120 I laid hands on only gave me six exposures on a roll of film. Half the time it sounded like it was firing but the film was blank. This is particularly frustrating for a photographer like me who really picks and chooses his photos. I don't double up or bracket much, I don't need to, I just make sure I get it right the first and only time I fire the shutter. I trust my cameras to hold up their end of the bargain and actually make that exposure. And then weeks later when I finally finish a roll to find out that half that span of time was never recorded in exposed silver halide is disappointing, to say the least.
I fiddled with the batteries in the camera and by taking them out and reinserting them I got the camera to make 10 exposures a roll. But the the frame spacing was wonky, I lost the last exposure off the end of the film. Then my batteries got drained because of a design flaw. When I put new batteries in I ran into the same old problem of getting 6-8 exposures out of 12. I recently took this camera back out of storage at work (we could never sell something this inconsistent) and rejiggered the batteries. It made about 20-30 test exposures straight... just long enough for me to begin to feel something resembling confidence in the camera and then... missfire. Three more good fires and then another dud. Ten more correct fires and another missed exposure.
I wrote to our Lomography rep about this problem. He was very helpful and Lomography sent us a replacement camera which seemed to test just fine, no issues. So we sold it and the customer seems to be having good luck with it. We ordered another and that one seemed ok, too. But still when your initial impression is so hit-and-miss it becomes hard to shake that.
Still, I have taken this camera out and used it. Why? Because when it works it makes nice images. It really does. I actually like using it. I have to admit I didn't have to pay for it either. Lomography essentially gave my work the faulty first camera. So now it has become the staff camera. I can accept a free camera that is glitchy much easier than I can accept a $400 camera that is that glitchy.
I am not intending this to be any sort of formal review of this camera. I am not even sure what my bottom line opinion of the camera is. Is it good? Or negative? Ha, mind the pun. I just wanted to share some of my own behind-the-scenes thinking in terms of using this guy rather than just throw up an image on Flickr and forego all the stuff that went on behind the curtain, so to speak.
Lomo LC-A 120 / Kodak Tri-X
Crystal Pier has always been a sentimental place for me ever since my childhood and still now in my later years. Once back in the 1940's there was a ballroom on the pier that had a big band orchestra and dancing couples... many years of winter storms have shorten the pier but it's cottages, fishing, and just a walk out still attract many people.
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After a long muddy walk, I finally met this image. Together with its mirrored counterparts the scene was just perfect. The two sides of the visual equation looked immediately in a perfect balance, apparently still and very untouchable. The straws looked so orange in contrast to the gray of the sky that seemed almost fake. It was the first day of spring, 2010, and it seemed as all the seasons were there at the same time.
Then, suddenly, the unbalancing factor. The rain. Don't know why but the beautiful vision I was attempting to freeze in a photograpy was replaced in my mind by the quote of an old movie, Blade Runner:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears... in rain."
The mirrored image was gone in a matter of seconds. Luckly enough, I have managed to make this picture eternal, remaining on the right side of such a beautiful, vanishing equation of my memories.
Dopo un lungo cammino nel fango, finalmente incontro questa immagine. Insieme alla sua controparte speculare, la scena era perfetta. I due membri dell'equazione visiva apparivano subito in un equilibrio perfetto, apparentemente immobile ed intoccabile. I pennacchi apparivano davvero arancioni, così in contrasto con il grigio del cielo da sembrare quasi finti. Era il primo giorno di primavera, 2010, e sembrava che tutte le stagioni fossero lì insieme. Quando, all'improvviso, ecco il fattore che rompe l'equazione. La pioggia.
Non so perchè, ma la visione meravigliosa che stavo cercando di congelare in una fotografia aveva lasciato il posto ad una citazione da un vecchio film, Blade Runner:
"Io ne ho viste cose che voi umani non potreste immaginarvi. Navi da combattimento in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di Orione, E ho visto i raggi B balenare nel buio vicino alle porte di Tannhäuser. E tutti quei momenti andranno perduti nel tempo... come lacrime nella pioggia."
L'immagine riflessa era già sparita, nell'arco di secondi. Con un po' di fortuna, sono riuscito ad immortalare questa foto, rimanendo dal lato giusto di una così bella ed evanescente equazione, nei miei ricordi.
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There is a well-known quote from Bernard Shaw that says: "You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul." Sometimes I think that Nature can help the human mind to go even beyond. What happens when a mirror of water becomes a work of art? What is the feeling when the subtle shimmering, orange light of an awesome dawn plays with the surface of a natural mirror and draws magnificent views? There is no more art, no more soul. Even the viewer is not existing any more. The viewer becomes part of the whole scene, a piece in the puzzle of art and therefore self-art. The ever-changing light makes it impossible to show to others the beauty of every moment. All the elements, the clouds and the weather, the time, the inclination of the sun, the geography, the mood... they are all terms in the ineffable equation of beauty. Get one element wrong, and the result will be null.
When all the elements deliver properly a set of solutions from that blessed equation, the result is pure beauty.
The viewer, the uneven censor, will decide which one solution, which of those precious moments is worth to be part of the permanent memories after the release of the shutter - a time slice-. Sometimes that is the very hardest decision.
But a fraction of a second later, the viewer is overwhelmed by a newer and stronger sensation, a better solution of the same equation, or maybe just different... until the light, the director of the beauty, or one of the other terms in the equation, decides suddenly to change the scene again -and finally- back to ordinary: the equation becomes null. The whole run normally lasts a handful of minutes.
Incontrovertibly. The scene is now cold and meaningless, the water just behaving like any reflecting surface, no different than a cheap mirror on a flea-market desk. A new attempt of solving the equation in the quest of the pure beauty will happen -maybe the day after, maybe not anymore in years-. But I will try to search again for the next awesome, perfect solution, where the mind and the eyes can be embedded.
This is just a small homage to beauty...
6.50 AM, ultrawide angle @ 10 mm, f\11, canon 1000d, No.85 warming filter.
C'è una citazione molto nota di Bernard Shaw che dice: "Si usa uno specchio di vetro per guardare il viso e si usano le opere d'arte per guardare la propria anima". Qualche volta penso che la Natura possa aiutare la mente umana ad andare persino oltre. Cosa succede quando uno specchio d'acqua diventa un'opera d'arte? Qual è la sensazione quando, con un sottile scintillare, la luce arancione di un'alba impressionante gioca con la superficie di uno specchio naturale e disegna una magnifica vista? Non c'è più arte, non c'è più anima. Persino lo spettatore non esiste più. Chi contempla diventa parte della scena stessa, una tessera nel puzzle dell'arte e quindi arte egli stesso. La luce mutevole rende impossibile mostrare ad altri la bellezza di ogni momento. Tutti gli elementi, le nuvole e il tempo, l'orario, l'inclinazione del sole, il territorio, l'emozione... sono tutti termini dell'equazione, ineffabile, della bellezza. Se un elemento è fuori posto, il risultato sarà nullo. Quando tutti gli elementi concorrono per realizzare un insieme proprio di soluzioni da quella meravigliosa equazione, il risultato è bellezza allo stato puro.
L'osservatore, come un censore non neutrale, deciderà quale soluzione, quali istanti preziosi sono meritevoli di essere parte dei ricordi permanenti, dopo il rilascio dell'otturatore. Un'istante determinato. Qualche volta quella è la decisione più difficile. Ma una frazione di secondo dopo, lo spettatore è sopraffatto da una sensazione nuova e più forte, una soluzione migliore della stessa equazione, o forse solo diversa ... finché la luce, il direttore della bellezza, o uno degli altri termini dell'equazione, decide improvvisamente di cambiare la scena di nuovo e finalmente ritorno al normale: l'equazione diventa nulla. L'intero percorso normalmente dura solo una manciata di minuti.
Incotrovertibilmente, la scena diventa fredda e priva di significato, l'acqua torna ad essere una qualsiasi superficie riflettente, non diversa da uno specchio da due soldi sulla bancarella di un mercatino. Un nuovo tentativo di risolvere l'equazione nella ricerca della pura bellezza succederà forse il giorno dopo, o forse non si ripeterà più per anni. Ma proverò ancora a cercare ancora la prossima meravigliosa soluzione perfetta, in cui la mente e gli occhi possono immedesimarsi.
Solo un piccolo omaggio alla bellezza
6.50 AM, grandangolo @ 10 mm, f\11, canon 1000d, n.85 warming filter.
Random Equations Found in a Waterlogged Book
Two floods, not 100 years apart, held in a storeroom two decades. It's bound to be dark.
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A quadratic equation with real or complex coefficients has two solutions, called roots. These two solutions may or may not be distinct, and they may or may not be real.
I should desaturate this :)
EDIT: OK, I won't :)
EDIT2: And our winner is... SAM! (sam_samantha) who clearly explained why it could not be desaturated because of the equation... :)
EDIT3 (19 months later... :) Because this picture is still viewed rather often, I thought it was appropriate to mention the most common equation... With some reservations.
Which would be, *assuming* that the electron donor is water, and the resulting carbohydrate is glucose, as it is most often the case; at least in this picture:
6(CO2) + 12(H2O) + photons -> C6H12O6 + 6(O2) + 6(H2O)
carbon dioxide & water & energy (light) -> carbohydrate (glucose here) & oxygen & water
For the not-so-much-into-that-kinda things: 6 atoms of carbon - "C" [in 6(C02)] , 24 atoms of hydrogen - "H" [in 12(H2O), 12x2] and 24 atoms of oxygen - "O" [12 in 6(CO2) and 12 in 12(H2O)] gets perfectly recombined into other chemicals we need to breathe and feed upon. Pheeeeww...
There are more fundamental equations that can express the phenomenom beyond water and glucose. That one is just an application. Btw, obviously it can be simplified as: 6(CO2) + 6(H2O) + photons -> C6H12O6 + 6O2, but then we only make some kind of *inventory of matter*, loosing track of an important fact, persistence of water as the only source of the resulting dioxigen atoms.
Anyway, this is life... Any real big questions lie way beyond :)
So, is there any beauty here? Though this (beauty) doesn't mean anything per se, I find there is quite a lot. Most possibly because I'm an animal that belongs to the whole story. Indeed, quite an animal to reckon that such an equation is one of our fundamentals (no, we shouldn't talk of an equation, this is a natural phenomenon, what we call an equation is just our attempt to explain and move forward, but we can't help it :)
I prompted the AI text-to-image DALLE mini software, now called Craiyon, with some theoretical physics prompts. Here, "Schrodinger's wave equation becomes more uncertain".
Get to know radioactive man. ∆
In the Simpsons episode "Radioactive Man," Bart encounters a lonely man in an abandoned Spirograph factory while looking for Milhouse. The man says to Bart: "Wait! Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it."
OK it seems i've started a mini personal project - I have been taking expeditions through the University each morning after walking the kids to school. I'm going to photograph most of the staircases in the campus.
This staircase is in the Physics building - they have a whiteboard surround and on it lecturers, researchers and students have written physics formulae all over it. Looks very cool! You can just see some on the right hand edge of the stairs in this photo.