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Trying a new process using used hypo-fixer. This should contain silver and I have been working many experiments to see if i can release that again for some type of VanDyke print. Adding it direct will result in fainter blue. Finally tried following:
- a few ml of used fixer
- add some Copper Sulfate (not much)
- wait till it has reacted (it will become brown or dark)
- add same volume of 25gr/100ml concentration Ferric ammonium citrate (same as used for Cyanotype.
Paint on paper or linen
- let dry for short time
Expose in UV or Sun (about same time as normal cyanotype.
- The paper will have before exposing almost white / light green color
- after 3 minutes it will turn yello
- after 10-50 minutes it will become coffee with milk color.
Contrast seems to have more gradations (see the middle grass halm)
Development:
- I rinsed it in water with a drop of vinager (pH of my water is 8 so i have to bring it down slightly)
- for this print i added some Potassium ferricyanide which changes the color from brown to mor blue especially on the borders.
- Dry the print as normal.
Working on a new music video project. It is probably going to change a bit over the next couple weeks so I want to keep an eye on the screen grabs that I like. I plan on showing it at FiTC on April 22nd. I will write a post about it after the project gets a little closer to completion.
Again, the main point of interest is that there will be no post-production. The entire thing is code driven. Every beat is manually input like in the Solar (Goldfrapp) video I posted a couple weeks back. Every single high-hat hit, every snare, every bass, the vocals, the guitar arpeggio... all of it was manually input. Took about 6 hours to input the data for the whole 5 minutes and 15 seconds of song. Maybe when musicians start releasing multiple tracks per song with isolated instruments, things will get a lot easier.
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It sounds like Morton Feldman playing doom metal. A ten-minute rumble of bass piano cadences interrupted by spirals of right-hand arpeggios. This playful-solemn solo piano-storm thunders along gracefully and we could happily release whole boxsets of this stuff, but this isn’t even the main gist of blue twenty: Quasiviri, which sees the tape series return to its beloved “one epic track per side” safe space.
Rather, the funereal baroque-gone-serialism of the piano piece is what the ‘proper’ music industry calls a B-side, as it is an instrumental run-through of Choro Tempore, the release’s ‘A-side’ pop song, arranged for piano.
And what does the real Choro Tempore sound like? Well, obviously not very pop, except by our warped standard. It’s a blizzard of time changes enacted by belly-slapping, octo-stringed fuzz bass, drums, vocal harmonies and psychedelic synthesiser. Yes, OK, it’s a Blue Tapes prog record.
A big monster of a song that builds and builds and double backs on itself in myriad internal musical conversations and could be at least ten separate songs - or a symphony - but is obviously best as this weird hymnal, minimal rock piece.
I find the best way to listen to Choro Tempore is endlessly, on a loop, as the piece flips mischievously between its ‘rock’ and ‘classical’ forms - the janus faces of Quasiviri, a preternaturally talented Italian trio, alternately grinning and howling at us, as they scramble the mind cells of the listener that little bit further with each iteration.
Choro Tempore also sounds like a pop record because it was mastered by the guy who does Muse’s stuff, but sounds like it eats Muses for breakfast.
Praise for Quasiviri:
“Superheroes should be psychedelic motherfuckers. Quasiviri sometimes sound to me like a pop Oneida – and if anyone are superheroes, then its fucking Oneida. It’s that muscular, fuck-you bass – which sometimes just settles into an up-middle-fingered stomp and then stomps all over your face. It’s those mind-scrambles of organ. It’s the fact you can fill up a fuck of a lot of space with just three instruments and a sound to die for. But it’s not just wig-out mayhem. Quasiviri is tight, clear-eyed, ultra-focused and purposeful rock that just happens to share a sound with your dream psychedelic record. It isn’t prone to noodling, or playing jazz chords with 20 notes when one note repeated 20 times will do just as well. Also it’s playful, and funny, and why isn’t it this stuff that people are obsessing over now? Be not apologetic. Play like a superhero. Walk like a motherfucker.” - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
“Think Ian Curtis and Primus. Then forget and forgive me about that, and press play. Quasiviri.” - Komakino
Built for Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks. I went with a function over form mentality for this build, as the processing plant actually works. You can fill the hopper, then open the trapdoor to let gold down onto the conveyor belt, which in turn is used to fill the dump truck. See it in action here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM0qFY4JgKE
See more pictures here: www.brickbuilt.org/?p=1998
Yeah, my brain feels crossed processed. I have one bad headache and only two days of vacation left. I am already sad. I am not ready for school with its kids, and its meetings, and its rainy day schedules...
I am going to miss Flickr... and all of you guys, but I will get to your streams as often as my time and energy allow.
P.S. Another shot dropped off Explore... Who knows why they make it and then they are not good enough...
I had a little fun with this image. I liked the serendipity of the moment. I just happened to reach a spot on an overpass when I spotted this man crossing the tracks. I had little time to react and got just this one shot off zooming quickly out.
Things are getting a little more interesting. Brought in the bezier interpolation code to get smoother trails.
sharing and caring... If you are curious, or think the process of these recent sketches can help your own path, i wrote a detailed blog about the 'how' at akirabeard.com/blog. My painting isn't much different than my drawing, i feel its just an issue of medium and color difference. I will post that in the future. enjoy!!
I wanted to play along. Here is my contribution to the 'Our first attempts all kinda look like this' group. Trying to learn the pros and cons of Sunflow as a raytracer within Processing (Thanks to Mark at Hipstersinc for the library). Here I am exhibiting a complete lack of control over the clipping plane.
And sure, its cliché to do jumbled-boxes-with-ray-tracer, but its just sooo damn sexy, how could I not!
One day, I will get back to Sunflow, but gonna wait a bit longer.
in a hurry at the airport, bound home. this is all I could get after quickly processing the picture
Please be patient more (better) images of this incredible place will be posted soon
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abandoned coal based power plant
Hey, it's me and super pal James Jankiewicz in the FPP Store Warehouse inspecting the new line of home photo chemistry!
Proof of concept for another kind of mosaic involving 2 kinds of tiles, randomly shuffled.
I first read about this years ago, in a column or book by Martin Gardner, A.K. Dewdney, Douglas Hofstadter or Clifford Pickover. Or maybe somewhere else, but probably one of those four... My idols. :)
Generated procedurally in processing.--
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