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I thought I'd try lithing only part of the image, to see if it would enhance the contrast between the old building (1600s maybe?) and the modern ones around it. Taken in Salisbury in the correct week, although I wasn't able to process it until today.
The Gratitude Effect: Great.Full.ness. My piece on one of my favourite topics: neshikabell.com/the-gratitude-effect-great-full-ness/
The Orton Effect, named after Michael Orton who first used the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus.
The Orton image has traditionally been done using slide film with the first, sharp, image overexposed by two stops and the second, out of focus image, over exposed by one stop. It is important to use a tripod for this type of work to ensure your photographic elements remain in register on the film. The shots were then sandwiched together in single slide mount to produce a beautiful, impressionistic image. We are beyond that now and with so many things in the world of digital photography, we can now duplicate the same effect in multiple ways.
Director Jack Arnold masterfully brought Ray Bradbury's science fiction tale to life in this, Universal's very first 3-D feature film. It was the perfect format for roaring avalanches, hovering helicopters, and zooming space ships, magnifying the effect for mesmerized movie goers.On a beautiful evening in Sand Rock, Arizona amateur astronomer John Putnam and his girlfriend Ellen Fields see a fiery ball fall from the sky into the desert. They investigate and John sees a spacecraft of sorts and is convinced something is inside. A rockfall buries the ship before any one else can see it and now no one will believe him. He becomes the butt of local jokes when the newspapers pick up the story and Sheriff Matt Warren thinks he's mad. When two locals, Frank Daylon and his employee George, begin to act strangely John is convinced that they have been taken over by an alien being.
This collaboration between science fiction giant Ray Bradbury and director Jack Arnold remains one of the most intelligent and revered science fiction films of the last century. After a spaceship crashes near a sleepy desert village, the townsfolk begin to act strangely and a local astronomer (Richard Carlson) and his fiancee (Barbara Rush) investigate. This otherworldly one sheet features the classic "giant eye" imagery associated with the film and attempts to depict the "3-D" effect.
It came... (ICFOS) is one of those lesser known 50s sci fi films which really deserves to be better known. On a surface level, ICFOS has good pacing. Director Jack Arnold (who would direct several other big 50s sci fi films) does a good job of keeping up the intrigue and tension. Even when the movie is over, the overall effect is more thoughtful than most B-films. It helps that the screenplay is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Meteor." All this helps ICFOS rise above the average 50s B movie.
ICFOS was filmed for the 3D, which was all the rage in the early 50s, but works perfectly well in 2D. The overall story is step up too, rising above the typical Cold War cautionary tale. Instead, it's an introspective about mankind, both our strengths and weaknesses when facing the unknown. This is rather cerebral stuff for a B-film.
Plot Synopsis
A meteor crashes in the desert night outside of Sand Rock, Arizona. Astronomer John Putnam (played by Richard Carlson) investigates. In the impact crater, he finds sees the hull of a ship with its hatch open. No one believes him, because a landslide covered the hull. Putnam discovers that various town folk have been "taken over" by the aliens. A couple of the possessed folk tell Putnam that they mean no harm. The sheriff eventually believes him when spouses also report odd behaviors. The aliens capture Putnam's fiancee, Ellen, which provokes the sheriff into raising a posse to confront the aliens. Putnam gets to the crash site first and confronts the aliens in the abandoned mine. They say they mean no harm, but crashed on earth by mistake and just want to repair their ship and leave. Putnam convinces the aliens that only by releasing the real townsfolk will the posse by appeased. They do, and it works. The aliens finish repairs to their ship and fly off in a shower of sparks.
Seeing some familiar faces is fun. Richard Carlson starred in Magnetic Monster is great as the stalwart but misunderstood hero. Barbara Rush who starred in When World's Collide plays Ellen very well. She's no mere cheesecake. Russell Johnson, who will feature in many future sci-fi films, plays George, the first person "possessed" by the aliens. All of the actors do a good job.
Arnold introduced a fun first in ICFOS: the alien point of view -- this was made unmistakable by our looking through faintly reflected moist cycloptic eye and oddly Darth Vadar-like breathing sounds. At other times, we whisk along the telephone wires watching the cars of people about to be confronted by the aliens. (apparently, they can 'transmit' themselves) This is a stroke of genius for the story line. It prevents the audience from forming the usual "us versus them" mindset typical of monster movies, such as in The Thing ('51).
Also fun is the strengthening of the alien-possessed-person plot device. We saw it first in The Man from Planet X ('51) in a similar capacity of people helping the alien work on his ship. Those folks weren't really possessed so much as under mind control. In Invaders from Mars('53), people were also taken over to help the aliens. In ICFOS, the possessed are actually duplicates, not the originals under remote control. This pushes the concept into new ground.
Un-human aliens -- The aliens (xenomorphs) in ICFOS look a little hokey when you get a good look at them, but that's not important.
This is a B-film, after all. What's notable is that the aliens are very different. They're not humanoid. The Man from Planet X was small, but still a humanoid shape. The Thing (1951) was big, but still a biped with a head, arms, torso, etc.. The martian in Invaders from Mars was less humanoid, being a big head with six little tentacles, but it still had a very human face. ICFOS may have the first radically non-humanoid alien life forms. They were big, potato-like creatures with one large eye and wispy frond-like appendages. This was a significant moment in sci-fi movie history. Aliens could be totally weird and not just people dressed up in hoodies with lighting bolt logos on their chests.
The Message -- ICFOS has a definite moral to the story. Mankind is not all that grown up and sophisticated. The alien tells Putnam, ""Let us stay apart, the people of your world and ours. If we come together, there will only be destruction." This is more true for the aliens as at least two of them die. (fake-Frank and fake-Ellen), but interestingly, no humans are actually harmed. Putnam later says to the sheriff for why the aliens don't show themselves. "They don't trust us...because what we don't understand we want to destroy. That's why they hide." Message: mankind isn't mature enough for the stars. Yet the tone isn't too pessimistic. As the crowd watch the ship fly away in a shower of sparks, Putnam says, ""Well, they've gone. "it wasn't the right time for us to meet....they'll be back."
Started with a color image, converted with cartoon filter on the "POP ART MACHINE" website. Tweaked it in "PS" and then converted it to vectors in "Vector Magic". Finished it with a "PS" ripple effect filter.
One of my first experiments with the Droste Effect, created using the Gimp and Mathmap after following the tutorial by Josh Sommers. The image is also an Anaglyph, so you’ll need a pair of red/cyan 3D glasses to see added depth.
The pandemic garden is slowly coming into view
The seeds planted on Mother's day causing a quiet revolution
Zinnias and cosmos in effect, another covidious dividend
And all for want of a bolt
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Vice Effect
Ollie Lawson Dressed Doll
Color Infusion™ Collection
2015 W Club Upgrade Doll
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The popular "Vanna" or "Margaret Thatcher Effect" )http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/vanna/index.html gives us insight into face recognition. We take a photograph, cut out the eyes and mouth, paste them back upside down, and then invert the image. the face appears to be smiling, friendly, but when we invert it again, it looks frightening. I discovered that, in the singular case of James Carville, Democratic mastermind, there is virtually no difference.
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Created with PhotoSpiralysis using the mapping from Escher's "Print Gallery" (also known as the Droste-effect).
Brincando de Andrzej Dragan.
Ainda não gostei do resultado, mas como tem tempo que não ponho nada aqui...
21 Years of Begins Here
Pier Band Room, Frankston
Australia
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THE SHAIDON EFFECT - Live at Flygeln
New Media Meeting 3 (Norrköping, SE)
New Media Meeting is an annual international media art festival taking place in Norrköping, Sweden. The festival premiered in 2006 and is devoted to innovative works and projects in electronic art, media, music and visualization. In only two years NMM has become one of the most important media festivals in the Nordic Region – attracting an impressive line-up of renowned and upcoming international artists on the Media art and electronic music scene.
Taken to higher level of excitement by the undefined entity 02L > OUTSIDE STANDING LEVEL, a one-shot and unforgettable show will take place on 19th's night, in a fight between interactive technologies, devastating beats and delectable dancing.
A swedish dancer group (Dom Duliga), DJ, VJ and the public will join an immersive show arbitrated by a sophisticated motion tracking environment that will take dance and sound into a complete merge.
El individuo paga sacrificando su tiempo, su conciencia, sus suefios; la civilización paga sacrificando sus propias promesas de libertad, justicia y paz para todos.
La discrepancia entre la liberación potencial y la represión actual ha llegado a la madurez: envuelve todas las esferas de la vida en todo el mundo. La racionalidad del progreso realza la irracionalidad de su organización y dirección. La cohesión social y el poder administrativo son suficientemente fuertes para proteger el conjunto de la agresión directa, pero no son lo suficientemente fuertes para eliminar la agresividad acumulada. Ésta se vuelve contra aquellos que no pertenecen al conjunto, cuya existencia lo niega. Este adversario aparece como el archienemigo. el Anticristo mismo: está en todas partes en todo momento; representa a fuerzas ocultas y siniestras, y su omnipresencia exige la movilización total. La diferencia entre guerra y paz, entre población civil y militar, entre la verdad y la propaganda es anulada. Hay una regresión a niveles históricos que han sido superados mucho antes, y esta regresión activa otra vez la fase sadomasoquista en una escala nacional e internacional. Pero los impulsos de esta fase son puestos de nuevo en actividad de una nueva manera «civilizada»: prácticamente sin sublimación, llegan a ser actividades socialmente útiles en los campos de concentración y de trabajo, en las guerras coloniales y civiles, las expediciones punitivas y otras cosas por el estilo (...)
Eros y la Civilizacion