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Detail of a tree bark. Each year, the layers get shredded and allow new skin to be exposed.
Some people fear death—what is there to fear? The old passes away to allow opportunities for the youth. If life does not possess a limit, you would likely be wasting it all. It is through the limits of the time availability, that you realize how precious every second is.
In prioritising my own valuable time, my criteria is the same as Steve Jobs’: “Would I do this if I am going to die tomorrow? If I won’t, then it is not worthy of my time.”
If I am going to die tomorrow, will I process this image? Yes, because I love it. If I were a painter, this is what I would paint.
# SML Data:
+ Date: 2013-03-26T13:47:19.56+0800
+ Dimensions: 3456 x 5184
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 280 mm
+ ISO: 1600
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'12" N 114°13'37" E
+ Altitude: 1.0 m
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山遊樂場 中国香港马鞍山游乐场 Ma On Shan Recreation Ground, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130326.7D.36447.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 自然 Nature, 抽象 Abstracts, 形 Forms
“樹皮 Tree Bark” / 自然抽象之形 Nature Abstract Forms / SML.20130326.7D.36447.BW
/ #自然 #Nature #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #形 #Forms #SMLForms #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #自然 #nature #抽象 #abstract #樹 #Tree
This is something dangerously attractive about this to me. I can't quite put into words, but I find this beautiful.
Photographers + videographers in the press section setting up their gear before models hit the runway.
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Fairytale Fashion Show
2010-02-24
7pm - 9pm
Eyebeam
Diana Eng presented the Fairytale Fashion Collection in a technology fashion show on Wed., February 24, 7PM, at Eyebeam. Models hit the runway while an orchestra of circuit bending DJ’s create music from hacked video game consoles.
The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an educational tool that teaches about science, math, and technology through fashion. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by mechanical engineering. She is a designer from Bravo’s Emmy nominated TV show, Project Runway season 2 and author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Diana is cofounder of NYC Resistor hacker group. Diana is currently a resident artist at Eyebeam.
I downloaded a new app for panorama on the iPhone yesterday. This one is called Photosynth, which is created by Microsoft. I actually remembered Photosynth when it was first introduced for the desktop years ago. The interface is slightly better than 360pano, but for stitching the pano itself I think that 360pano is still better. Here you see the seams are very bizarre. You can blame it on the poor GPS reception but at least 360pano will not try to stitch things which physically do not belong together, whereas Photosynth would.
But in some ways all these errors makes this somewhat beautiful, in a very cubist kind of way. The colors are distracting so I removed it.
This is a 360-degree stereographic flat of a pedestrian tunnel near where I live. It is somewhat bizarre to see all the exits, yes? Thus the charm.
The interactive version is hosted on Photosynth:
photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=e0306d93-134b-4558-b593-2e6e...
# Related SML Flickr images shot at the same location:
+ ”我來你往 I come, you leave“ / 人流之形 Human Logistics Forms / SML.20130303.7D.25219: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8525373756/
+ “:::>井<:::” / 香港人流建築全景之形 Hong Kong Human Logistics Architecture Panoramic Forms / SML.20130303.7D.25226-SML.20130303.7D.25236-SML.Pano.001.Rectilinear.44x19: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8524757840/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-21 15:14:43 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 4096 x 1953
+ Camera: Apple iPhone 5
+ App: Photosynth
+ GPS: 22°25'19" N 114°13'40" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山西沙路恆康街行人隧道 中国香港马鞍山西沙路恒康街行人隧道 Pedestrian tunnel at the intersection of Heng Hong Street and Sai Sha Road, Ma On Shan, NT, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130321.IPH5.PhotoSynth.e0306d93-134b-4558-b593-2e6e0bba11db.BW
+ Workflow: Photosynth, Lightroom 4
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography, 黑白 Black and White
“西沙路恆康街行人隧道 Pedestrian Tunnel at Sai Sha Road” / 香港人流建築全景之形 Hong Kong Human Logistics Architecture Panoramic Forms / SML.20130321.IPH5.PhotoSynth.e0306d93-134b-4558-b593-2e6e0bba11db.BW
/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #形 #Forms #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #Photosynth #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #街 #street
The Friend Feeders
Animators:
+ Marina Zurkow
+ Andrea Lira
+ Xue Hou
+ Laewoo Kang
Red Squirrel source footage generously bartered by Nicholas Berger
SML Simulcast
+ www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=185548228034
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4043963534/
+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0wmLKMa8V0
eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-fall-2009
Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design.
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Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Founded in 1996 and incorporated in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.
Since then, Eyebeam has supported more than 130 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists; we've run an active education program for youth, artists' professional development and community outreach; and have mounted an extensive series of public programs, over recent years approximately 4 exhibitions and 40 workshops, performances and events annually.
Today, Eyebeam offers residencies and fellowships for artists and technologists working in a wide range of media. At any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists and fellows onsite at Eyebeam's 15,000-square foot Chelsea offices and Labs, developing new projects and creating work for open dissemination through online, primarily open-source, publication as well as a robust calendar of public programming that includes free exhibitions, lectures and panels, participatory workshops, live performances and educational series.
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
Some photographs work in color, but they work even better in black and white.
# SML Translate: 雨過水滴葉上珠
+ 雨: rain.
+ 過: move (across). Describes the rain has past.
+ 水: water.
+ 滴: drops (water drops).
+ 葉: leaf.
+ 上: above.
+ 珠: pearl.
+ 雨過水滴葉上珠: after the rain, pearl like water drops are seen on the leaves.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-03 16:06:53 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 280 mm
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'32" E
+ Altitude: 12.5 m
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆明街1號聽濤雅苑 中国香港马鞍山恒明街1号听涛雅苑 Vista Paradiso, 1 Hang Ming St, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130303.7D.26235
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 自然 Nature, 黑白 Black and White
“雨過水滴葉上珠” / 自然 Nature / SML.20130303.7D.26235.BW
/ #自然 #Nature #CCBY #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #植物 #Plants #葉 #叶 #leaf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zummo
Peter Zummo (born 1948) is an American composer and musician. He plays the trombone, valve trombone, euphonium, synthesizer, other electronic instruments, and also sings. His music is associated with the postminimalist and Downtown aesthetics.
He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology, a B.A. degree (with honors) in music (1970) and an M.A. degree in music (1975), all from Wesleyan University. He has studied with Carmine Caruso, Roswell Rudd, Stuart Dempster, James Fulkerson, Dick Griffin, Makanda Ken McIntyre, and Sam Rivers.
In his playing, Zummo frequently uses the circular breathing technique, which allows him to extend drones for a long period of time. He is a core member of New York City's DownTown Ensemble and has performed and/or recorded with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, Daniel Goode, Arthur Russell, and Guy Klucevsek.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Tags: Peter Zummo
+ SML Flickr Tags: Arthur's Landing
Videos of the concert on Flickr
01 It's a Boy
www.myspace.com/arthurslanding
Arthurs Landing is a group of musicians, all of whom worked at various times in various contexts with the late Arthur Russell, a cellist and composer from Iowa who lived on the Lower East Side for most of the later part of his too-short life. Russell brought together the worlds of dance, pop, and folk with that of downtowns new music, and fused Western and Eastern musical traditions, driven by his engagement with Buddhist thought and practice. He collaborated often with Allen Ginsberg, and Phillip Glass was also an early mentor. Characteristic of Russell's method was his tendency to work hard and long, and he rarely considered anything finished. What was his unending pursuit of the ineffable becomes a challenge and inspiration for the Arthurs Landing ensemble. It is hard to resist the ambition and humor behind compositions with titles like Temple of Meaning, Terrace of Intelligibility, and Hop on Down to Petland. Russell is the focus of the feature-length 2008 documentary directed by Matt Wolf, Wild Combination. A biography by Tim Lawrence, Hold Onto Your Dreams, is due out this year.
The Arthurs Landing ensemble will perform pop songs and parts of a longer instrumental work called Singing Tractors and will be available following the performance to answer questions about Russells life and work.
Arthurs Landing (songs by Arthur Russell)
Joyce Bowden: voice
Steven Hall: voice, guitar
Ernie Brooks: voice ,bass
John Scherman: lead guitar
Bill Ruyle: drums, hammered dulcimer
Mustafa Ahmed: percussion
Peter Zummo: voice, trombone
Alex Waterman: cello
Video projection by Lorraine Forte
I was hungry after landing in Helsinki, so I walked around to look for food. When it comes to food, I’m highly opinionated, but also very easy going.
If you ask for my opinion, I will tell you what I want, down to the preparation method and maybe even the amount of time and doneness to everything. But if you picked or cooked anything, I will eat pretty much anything.
This sushi restaurant was a block away from the Radisson Blue Seaside, where Supercell puts me at, so that’s where I went.
This has gotta be one of the best sushi’s I’ve had in recent years. I didn’t expect this at all. The place is understated, attended by staff that leaves you alone. When I dine alone, I like to eat in peace, and they let me do just that.
This quick lunch was the first meal I’ve had in Helsinki, and it left a strong impression. Highly recommended!
Restaurant Minato Sushi
Kalevankatu 55, 00180 Helsinki, Finland
Handcrafted sushi & a take-out option offered in a compact, minimalist destination.
@minato_sushi_helsinki
Sushi at Restaurant Minato Sushi, Helsinki / SML.20220921.IPH13.09852
- Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro
- Lens: iPhone 13 Pro back dual wide camera 5.7mm f/1.5
- Exposure: 5.7mm (26mm equiv), 1/60 sec, f/1.6, ISO 64
- GPS Altitude: 11.3 m Above Sea Level
- GPS Latitude: 60 deg 9' 48.61" N
- GPS Longitude: 24 deg 55' 37.15" E
- Date: 2022-09-21 15:05:44 UTC+3
- Process: 2024-05-08 21:46:59 UTC+8
People asked why I include all the data information on my description. Well, although you can view the EXIF info on Flickr, on most sites they are invisible. And in the past when I look at photography I often wonder how people do what they do technically. Ultimately photography is a synergy of art and science. Sometimes to get the effect you want you need to tinkle with the machines. So the data is provided so hopefully they will be useful. I wish that everyone would be so nice to include them—I do try to be a nice person. :)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-18 16:37:16 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3417 x 5125
+ Exposure: 1/640 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'8" N 114°13'28" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 香港中文大學 Chinese University of Hong Kong
+ Serial: SML.20130318.7D.35682.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature, 山水 Landscape, 黑白 Black and White
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“如上以下 As above, so below” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130318.7D.35682.BW
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #山水 #Landscape #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山 #Mountains #水 #Water #雲 #Clouds
It has been mostly foggy outside the past few days. When it is foggy you don’t see anything. The tonal range has already been expanded somewhat so you can at least make out something. This would fall into the minimalism category. The empty sky is necessary to contrast with what is present. The emptiness is intentional—nothing can be something. Sometimes something in fact would be nothing.
有即是空，空即是有。
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-04-14T13:05:01+0800
+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472
+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'3" N 114°13'25" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: Tolo Habour, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130414.6D.00615.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“霧中尋 Seek amidst the fog” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130414.6D.00615.BW
/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #霧 #Fog #水 #Water #空 #Sky #Minimalism #mnml
I have been experimenting with using my own photography as a source image to influence image generation with Stable Diffusion. seeminglee.com/blog/serenity-ai-purple/
The rationale behind this is straightforward — I have taken lots of photos over the years, but the conditions under which they were taken were not always ideal. Photography is subject to a myriad of influencing factors, and even with a specific vision in mind, nature may not cooperate to allow that vision to be captured perfectly. Similarly, the ideal setting we imagine might simply not exist in reality.
That’s where the power of AI comes in. I’ve discovered its phenomenal ability to materialize the concepts I feed into it. A potential point of contention is that since these images are AI-generated, they might be perceived as the product of AI rather than my own creativity. This viewpoint occasionally arises among those unfamiliar with AI work. I personally disagree, but I’ll reserve that discussion for a separate post.
Considering these images are the fusion of my original photographs and my descriptive text prompts, the notion that they’re devoid of human creative input seems baseless. As such, in my opinion, they are completely entitled to copyright protection.
I plan on experimenting this further, exploring diverse series and themes. My archive is filled with photographs that I find intriguing but seem to be missing that final touch to elevate them. I’m optimistic that by leveraging text prompts, I’ll be able to address these shortcomings and conceive new creations that blend my photography and the power of imaginative prompting.
1-9. Night Serenity 夜之寧
Stable Diffusion with SDXL, using my own photography as source image.
- 50 Steps, DPM++ 2S a Karras
- SDXL Base 1.0, SDXL VAE 1.0
- Automatic1111 Version: v1.6.0
10. 春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝 / 香港中文大學夜之寧 CUHK Night Serenity (60-sec LE) / SML.20130513.6D.06547
- Canon EOS 6D
- Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L
- Manfrotto tripod
- Remote release with Canon TC-80N3
- f/11, 24mm, 60 sec, ISO 100
The 界 Division series is mostly about forms divided by lines for balance. The black cat in this capture adds a bit of life to the space, which I like.
The EOS M will go all the way to ISO 6400 apparently—had to move the luminance noise reduction to 100 to make the capture tolerable—I guess there is a first time for everything.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-25 19:37:58 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/2.2
+ Focal Length: 22mm
+ ISO: 6400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'34" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山西沙路恆安地鐵站天橋底 中国香港马鞍山西沙路恒安地铁站天桥底 Under the bridge at Sai Sha Road near Heng On MTR Station in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130225.7D.22460.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 形 Forms, 界 Division
“白與白之間的黑貓 The black cat between white and white” / 形之界 Forms Division / SML.20130225.7D.22460.BW
/ #形 #SMLForms #界 #Division #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #橋 #桥 #Bridge #貓 #cats
J. F. Bautista seen at the Brooklyn Art Project HQ with his paintings in the background during the annual Dumbo Art Festival in 2009.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Someone on Google+ asked to see a black and white rendering of a photograph in the Serenity series [1]. This is one process of it. Personally I think that the color version is better because the colors of the lights adds more to the photograph where as this black and white is mostly about moods and that tranquil quality in the color version is lost.
But the most WTF thing about my photography work tends to follow a very simple formula: what I love, no one likes. What I don’t like, everyone likes. So maybe you will like this. Who knows.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-06 02:07:29 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 4958 x 3306
+ Exposure: 30.0 sec at f/4.0
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°26'58" N 114°12'26" E
+ Location: 中國香港沙田吐露港 中国香港沙田吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P2.L2.BW
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
# Notes
1. “夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城” / 夜之寧 Serenity at Night / SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8447582461/
“夜霧濃 山無影 The mountains disappeared on a foggy night” / 夜之寧 Serenity at Night / SSML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P2.L2.BW
/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #夜 #night #水 #water #山水 #landscape #霧 #fog #攝影 #摄影 #photography
Very tricky shots. Today I went to see Arthur's Landing at the New Museum. They were playing with video projection behind them so the stage is *dark* and I am not allowed to use Flash because they are video-recording the event.
I had to shoot these using ISO 3200, set to manual exposure so I can make sure that the lens is wide open, while keeping the the shutter speed fast enough to prevent camera shake.
Of course, there is still not enough light, and so these were all overexposed in Photoshop again to get to the desired luminance level.
So if they think that their photo will come out just as the same as the last time I was able to use the flash, they must be prepared: the photos from this event will be grainy, contrasty and likely all developed in black and white because the color noise is at its impossible level!
Videos of the concert on Flickr
01 It's a Boy
www.myspace.com/arthurslanding
Arthurs Landing is a group of musicians, all of whom worked at various times in various contexts with the late Arthur Russell, a cellist and composer from Iowa who lived on the Lower East Side for most of the later part of his too-short life. Russell brought together the worlds of dance, pop, and folk with that of downtowns new music, and fused Western and Eastern musical traditions, driven by his engagement with Buddhist thought and practice. He collaborated often with Allen Ginsberg, and Phillip Glass was also an early mentor. Characteristic of Russell's method was his tendency to work hard and long, and he rarely considered anything finished. What was his unending pursuit of the ineffable becomes a challenge and inspiration for the Arthurs Landing ensemble. It is hard to resist the ambition and humor behind compositions with titles like Temple of Meaning, Terrace of Intelligibility, and Hop on Down to Petland. Russell is the focus of the feature-length 2008 documentary directed by Matt Wolf, Wild Combination. A biography by Tim Lawrence, Hold Onto Your Dreams, is due out this year.
The Arthurs Landing ensemble will perform pop songs and parts of a longer instrumental work called Singing Tractors and will be available following the performance to answer questions about Russells life and work.
Arthurs Landing (songs by Arthur Russell)
Joyce Bowden: voice
Steven Hall: voice, guitar
Ernie Brooks: voice ,bass
John Scherman: lead guitar
Bill Ruyle: drums, hammered dulcimer
Mustafa Ahmed: percussion
Peter Zummo: voice, trombone
Alex Waterman: cello
Video projection by Lorraine Forte
A collage of forms seen at a 巴士站 bus stop at 西沙路 Sai Sha Road.
The dominating zigzagged V form is a pedestrian footbridge allowing people to cross the highway. The taller bridge going horizontally is the 地鐵馬山鞍山線 MTR Ma On Shan Line (Hong Kong’s metro network) which runs parallel to the highway.
At the bottom tip of the V form is a 雙層巴士 double decker bus. Almost all buses in Hong Kong are double deckers. The vehicle closed by is a 21 seater minibus.
小巴 Minibuses serve routes which do not have many passengers. They have a defined route with a few defined mini bus stops at the terminals, but you can get off anywhere you like. You just alert the driver when you want to get off and they stop for you. It is a bit like a cab with a route.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-13 17:02:32 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3116 x 4674
+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 21 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'15" N 114°13'36" E
+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山西沙路巴士站 中国香港马鞍山西沙路巴士站 Bus Stop, Sai Sha Road, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130213.EOSM.02002.P1.L1.BW
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms
“西沙路巴士站 Sai Sha Road Bus Stop” / 人流之形 Human Logistics Forms / SML.20130213.EOSM.02002.P1.L1.BW
/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLBW #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #黑白 #BW #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #巴士 #Bus #街 #Street #攝影 #摄影 #photography
Pedestrian footbridge is one of the unique character about urban planning in Hong Kong. Pictured is an elevated walkway at night near Exchange Square in Central.
By using bridges and tunnels, pedestrians are able to get from point A to point B quickly and efficiently without stopping for traffic lights. The always jammed-pack traffic below also need not be halted by series of traffic light—which I reason is the primary reason why New York’s traffic is so impossible.
Almost every building in Central and Admiralty is connected via bridges. Some are even air-conditioned, allowing traders to visit different investment banks and conduct businesses in a nice calm air even in the very humid summer.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-09 22:27:41 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 4781 x 3139
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/4.0
+ ISO: 3200
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°9'27" E
+ Location: 中國香港中環交易廣場行人天橋 中国香港中环交易广场行人天桥 Footbridge, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130209.7D.21814.P1.BW
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Series: 人流 Human Logistics, 形 Forms
“香港中環行人天橋 Footbridge in Central, Hong Kong” / 人流建築夜之形 Human Logistics Forms at Night / SML.20130209.7D.21814.P1.BW
/ #人流 #HumanLogistics #形 #Forms #SMLForms #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLBW #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #黑白 #BW #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #中環 #Central #橋 #bridge #街 #Street #攝影 #摄影 #photography
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zummo
Peter Zummo (born 1948) is an American composer and musician. He plays the trombone, valve trombone, euphonium, synthesizer, other electronic instruments, and also sings. His music is associated with the postminimalist and Downtown aesthetics.
He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology, a B.A. degree (with honors) in music (1970) and an M.A. degree in music (1975), all from Wesleyan University. He has studied with Carmine Caruso, Roswell Rudd, Stuart Dempster, James Fulkerson, Dick Griffin, Makanda Ken McIntyre, and Sam Rivers.
In his playing, Zummo frequently uses the circular breathing technique, which allows him to extend drones for a long period of time. He is a core member of New York City's DownTown Ensemble and has performed and/or recorded with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, Daniel Goode, Arthur Russell, and Guy Klucevsek.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Tags: Peter Zummo
+ SML Flickr Tags: Arthur's Landing
About the photograph
I used only the yellow and magenta info to get enough luminance info.
This is what happens when there's no light, no tripod and not allowed to strobe! The photograph was taken with Canon EOS 10D with the Canon 24-70 f2.8L, f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO 3200 so I have to get creative on how to develop the photo...
Videos of the concert on Flickr
01 It's a Boy
www.myspace.com/arthurslanding
Arthurs Landing is a group of musicians, all of whom worked at various times in various contexts with the late Arthur Russell, a cellist and composer from Iowa who lived on the Lower East Side for most of the later part of his too-short life. Russell brought together the worlds of dance, pop, and folk with that of downtowns new music, and fused Western and Eastern musical traditions, driven by his engagement with Buddhist thought and practice. He collaborated often with Allen Ginsberg, and Phillip Glass was also an early mentor. Characteristic of Russell's method was his tendency to work hard and long, and he rarely considered anything finished. What was his unending pursuit of the ineffable becomes a challenge and inspiration for the Arthurs Landing ensemble. It is hard to resist the ambition and humor behind compositions with titles like Temple of Meaning, Terrace of Intelligibility, and Hop on Down to Petland. Russell is the focus of the feature-length 2008 documentary directed by Matt Wolf, Wild Combination. A biography by Tim Lawrence, Hold Onto Your Dreams, is due out this year.
The Arthurs Landing ensemble will perform pop songs and parts of a longer instrumental work called Singing Tractors and will be available following the performance to answer questions about Russells life and work.
Arthurs Landing (songs by Arthur Russell)
Joyce Bowden: voice
Steven Hall: voice, guitar
Ernie Brooks: voice ,bass
John Scherman: lead guitar
Bill Ruyle: drums, hammered dulcimer
Mustafa Ahmed: percussion
Peter Zummo: voice, trombone
Alex Waterman: cello
Video projection by Lorraine Forte
Audience waits eagerly for the show to start.
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Fairytale Fashion Show
2010-02-24
7pm - 9pm
Eyebeam
Diana Eng presented the Fairytale Fashion Collection in a technology fashion show on Wed., February 24, 7PM, at Eyebeam. Models hit the runway while an orchestra of circuit bending DJ’s create music from hacked video game consoles.
The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an educational tool that teaches about science, math, and technology through fashion. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by mechanical engineering. She is a designer from Bravo’s Emmy nominated TV show, Project Runway season 2 and author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Diana is cofounder of NYC Resistor hacker group. Diana is currently a resident artist at Eyebeam.
KHL had always used P+S in recent years. Last year he asked for my recommendation for a new P+S and I recommended the Canon G12. But it turns out that he finds G12 to be impossibly difficult to use and he went out and bought a Nikon P+S. Since I am now back in HongKong, I told him to just use my old Canon 10D. He reluctantly accepted because he said that he didn't think that he could use it. I told him that SLRs are easier to use. People always think that P+S are easier — the reverse is true. At the end of the trip I just mount the 17-40f4L on “his” 10D permanently and he was loving every bit of it. Even my old Domke camera bag has new use. This is crazy yes? I bought this 10D second-hand from a friend way back in 2005 when he “upgraded” to his 20D. This baby is still running and is at its 55,000+ cycles—crazy. SML loves awesome Canon cameras. :)
Hong Kong Coliseum (Chinese: 香港體育館), better known amongst the public as the Hung Hom Coliseum (紅磡體育館, 紅館) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built by the Urban Council and inaugurated on 27 April 1983. The coliseum has 12,500 seats, which is the second largest among the same kind of indoor facilities in Hong Kong, only behind the 2005-opened AsiaWorld-Arena.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Coliseum
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-15 18:26:48 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3456 x 5184
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/7.1
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 250
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°18'5" N 114°10'53" E
+ Location: 中國香港紅磡暢運道9號香港體育館 中国香港红磡畅运道9号香港体育馆 Hong Kong Coliseum, 9 Cheong Wan Road, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130315.EOSM.03477.BW
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Series: 建築 Architecture, 形 Forms, 體育 Sports
“香港體育館 Hong Kong Coliseum” / 香港體育建築之形 Hong Kong Sports Architecture Forms / SML.20130315.EOSM.03477.BW
/ #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #形 #Forms #SMLForms #體育 #体育 #Sports #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #紅磡 #HungHom #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
So while happening upon the the Tesla showroom was unexpected, the location is fitting, and it was well worth the visit!
These color swatches reminded me a little bit about the color strips at MIT Media Lab www.media.mit.edu/ :)
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
Carter Cleveland is the Founder of art.sy, Curator of The NYC Startup Digest, and Co-creator of the Faster Filter.
Art.sy intends to revolutionize the way people buy, sell, and discover original fine art online. Formerly known as Exhibytes, Art.sy won several business plan competition awards including 1st place at the Next Gen Conference Business Plan Competition at Stanford, and 2nd place and Audience Choice awards at the Princeton Business Plan Competition.
Prior to founding Art.sy, Carter co-created the Faster Filter, a DRTV product that was sold to Telebrands Co. in 2009. Carter was the 2nd employee for Give Real where he did software development and business development. Carter also developed software for Citigroup, and did research for NASA and City College of New York.
Carter graduated from Princeton University in 2009 with a BS in computer science. While at Princeton he played on the Varsity squash team for four years, and performed with the diSiac Dance Company.
Victoria Miro first opened her gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair in 1985. The gallery quickly earned acclaim for showing the work of established and emerging artists from the USA, Europe and Asia, and for nurturing the careers of young artists from the UK. In 2000 Victoria Miro Gallery relocated to a sensitively converted, 8,000-square-foot former furniture factory situated between Hoxton and Islington in northeast London. With exhibition spaces on two floors, the gallery is almost unique in London for having its own garden, a beautiful landscaped area overlooking a restored stretch of the Regent's Canal at Wenlock Basin which has been used to great effect for installations by gallery artists such as Yayoi Kusama.
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The Armory Show 2010
The Armory Show is the United States’ leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.
The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show – Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 4–7, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.
Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC
March 4-7, 2010
Learning to Network
2010-04-26
Mary O's, 32 Avenue A, New York, NY
Are you intimidated by large groups of people you don't know? Afraid to ask people for help or don't know how to sell yourself? Don't assume that your Yale education will open doors all by itself!
Networking is a skill that everyone needs to master in today's economy. The best way to improve any skill is to practice over drinks and conversation.
Learn how to maximize your networking experience and make contacts with other Yalies at Mary O's on April 26th.
Enjoy door prizes, appetizers and drink specials!
yaamnynetworking.eventbrite.com
About YAAMNY
The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) creates a welcoming community for all Yale alumni in the metro area through a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, and a broad range of opportunities for engagement with Yale and each other. YAAMNY is a charitable 501(c)3 organization that enables Yale alumni to share their talents, education, and leadership for the benefit of others.
Carter Cleveland is the Founder of art.sy, Curator of The NYC Startup Digest, and Co-creator of the Faster Filter.
Art.sy intends to revolutionize the way people buy, sell, and discover original fine art online. Formerly known as Exhibytes, Art.sy won several business plan competition awards including 1st place at the Next Gen Conference Business Plan Competition at Stanford, and 2nd place and Audience Choice awards at the Princeton Business Plan Competition.
Prior to founding Art.sy, Carter co-created the Faster Filter, a DRTV product that was sold to Telebrands Co. in 2009. Carter was the 2nd employee for Give Real where he did software development and business development. Carter also developed software for Citigroup, and did research for NASA and City College of New York.
Carter graduated from Princeton University in 2009 with a BS in computer science. While at Princeton he played on the Varsity squash team for four years, and performed with the diSiac Dance Company.
Edie Pijpers, an artist from Rotterdam, does these whimsical drawings which reminded me of illustrations found in children story books. You can find her selling her prints for $20 at Union Square three days a week.
Portfolio: www.edieart.com
Etsy store: www.EdieArt.etsy.com
Related SML
See SML Pro Blog: Newmindspace NYC: People Photographing People Photographing People about the event as well as photos and videos.
Jenny Eisenpresser. Photographed at the artist's studio during the Dumbo Art Festival 2009 in New York City.
Jenny Eisenpresser was born in New York city and studied art earning a BFA and BA at Cornell University. She worked several years as a commercial artist: designing book covers; doing exhibition signage and freelance illustration. Currently she is pursuing her art and experimenting daily in her studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, where she'll be unless she accidentally blows it up.
Her portfolio is available at jennyeisenpresser.com
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
Related SML
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
Video projection by Lorraine Forte. This was taken after the concert. With light, can flash, Oh this is so much better isn't it?!
Videos of the concert on Flickr
01 It's a Boy
www.myspace.com/arthurslanding
Arthurs Landing is a group of musicians, all of whom worked at various times in various contexts with the late Arthur Russell, a cellist and composer from Iowa who lived on the Lower East Side for most of the later part of his too-short life. Russell brought together the worlds of dance, pop, and folk with that of downtowns new music, and fused Western and Eastern musical traditions, driven by his engagement with Buddhist thought and practice. He collaborated often with Allen Ginsberg, and Phillip Glass was also an early mentor. Characteristic of Russell's method was his tendency to work hard and long, and he rarely considered anything finished. What was his unending pursuit of the ineffable becomes a challenge and inspiration for the Arthurs Landing ensemble. It is hard to resist the ambition and humor behind compositions with titles like Temple of Meaning, Terrace of Intelligibility, and Hop on Down to Petland. Russell is the focus of the feature-length 2008 documentary directed by Matt Wolf, Wild Combination. A biography by Tim Lawrence, Hold Onto Your Dreams, is due out this year.
The Arthurs Landing ensemble will perform pop songs and parts of a longer instrumental work called Singing Tractors and will be available following the performance to answer questions about Russells life and work.
Arthurs Landing (songs by Arthur Russell)
Joyce Bowden: voice
Steven Hall: voice, guitar
Ernie Brooks: voice ,bass
John Scherman: lead guitar
Bill Ruyle: drums, hammered dulcimer
Mustafa Ahmed: percussion
Peter Zummo: voice, trombone
Alex Waterman: cello
Video projection by Lorraine Forte
Learning to Network
2010-04-26
Mary O's, 32 Avenue A, New York, NY
Are you intimidated by large groups of people you don't know? Afraid to ask people for help or don't know how to sell yourself? Don't assume that your Yale education will open doors all by itself!
Networking is a skill that everyone needs to master in today's economy. The best way to improve any skill is to practice over drinks and conversation.
Learn how to maximize your networking experience and make contacts with other Yalies at Mary O's on April 26th.
Enjoy door prizes, appetizers and drink specials!
yaamnynetworking.eventbrite.com
About YAAMNY
The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) creates a welcoming community for all Yale alumni in the metro area through a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, and a broad range of opportunities for engagement with Yale and each other. YAAMNY is a charitable 501(c)3 organization that enables Yale alumni to share their talents, education, and leadership for the benefit of others.
Autofocus failed. Manual focus also failed. Sometimes the weather is so foggy that even when magnified 10x on the EOS M I am unable to tell whether something is sharp or not. But the blur actually helps here—rendering a dreamscape like no others. So I processed it.
I am trying to find some graduated filters right now, so that I don’t have to keep on fiddling with Shadow/Highlights inside Photoshop to extract some contrast in the white clouds. But perhaps that bit is unavoidable. Might consider doing some HDRs in the future.
# SML Translate: 朦朧日落白玉雲
+ 朦朧: blurry
+ 日: sun.
+ 落: down.
+ 白: white.
+ 玉: jade.
+ 雲: cloud.
+ 朦朧日落白玉雲: As the sun set, the clouds appear as blurry textures seen on a piece of white jade.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-03-02 17:59:49 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 3456 x 5184
+ Exposure: 1/60 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 200
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'25" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 中國香港吐露港船灣八仙嶺 中国香港吐露港船湾八仙岭 Pat Sin Leng, Shuen Wan, Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, China
+ Serial: SML.20130302.EOSM.03009.P1.L1.BW
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“朦朧日落白玉雲” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130302.EOSM.03009.P1.L1.BW
/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLVideography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape #自然 #Nature
I love photographing trash. I started my “Deadyard” series for a few reasons:
1. Often people respond to photography because of the intrinsically beautiful subject matter. I see it all the time. Sh!tty photos of beautiful men. Very popular photography with no inherent photographic value. It is unhealthy. I have a few of those sh!tty photos on my Flickr stream also. I have no idea why they become so popular. People are responding to the person, not the photography. So by photographing intrinsically ugly things the viewer must respond to the photography itself.
2. I am far from perfect. So in some ways these are self portraits. Broken, battered, depressed and left out to die. They are real. This is what life is. When you face life head one and be able to stay your own, you are fearless. I see beauty in everything around me. Life is much more enjoyable this way.
3. I know looking at other photography works that many people also see the beauty of decay. There are far more interesting things, textures, and forms in wasteland. No one really care to organise them. But they are beautiful. Just imagine for a second that these are not trash but forms in an abstract painting. This is what I would paint if I were a painter. This is poetry to my eyes.
Pictured: the trash file left behind on the roof of some storefront in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Photographed while walking on a pedestrian bridge and thus be able to see all the things which were left behind. Completely random, though every bit interesting.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-11 12:33:04 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 117 mm
+ ISO: 400
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III
+ GPS: 22°16'41" N 114°10'24" E
+ Location: 中國香港灣仔行人天橋 中国香港湾仔行人天桥 Footbridge, Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6
+ Serial: SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
+ Series: 死園 Deadyard
“屋頂垃圾 Rooftop Trash” / 死園 Deadyard / SML.20130211.7D.22543.P1.BW
/ #死園 #死园 #Deadyard #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #灣仔 #WanChai #街 #street #攝影 #摄影 #photography #垃圾 #trash