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I am completely over looking at all my book spines. They don't go with each other, the fonts and colors are all different and the scifi stuff is just plain tacky. So they're all backwards. Three full shelves. I will never be able to find anything again, but it's cute so who cares!
001,002, two shots of a window sill from the interior of a possible residential building. Interior is covered in plants possibly fichus type plants. Outside the building are a variety of plants, possibly palm trees and cypress or oak trees. On one side of the window sill is wood paneling. 003, shot of the interior of a possible residential type building, such as a private home. Architecture style is a mix of modernist and ecological or sustainable. Floor is covered in carpet including stairwell. Wooden beams and high placed windows allow in a lot of light. A variety of plants and flora cover the floor, walls, and even wooden beams on top of the interior, ranging from palms to fichus plants, to ferns. 004-009,013,016-018, multiple shots of two females, one standing and one sitting in a possible storage room area. Woman sitting down is older and has short light hair and wears a floral patterned outfit. Standing woman has short dark hair and wears a semi formal outfit. Both of them hold and admire a porcelain type diorama of female children in Victorian or Edwardian outfits with the faces obfuscated. Desk lamps, ceiling lamps, boxes and other objects such as a mobile made of small pots occupy the background. 010,014,015, three shots of a window sill that holds a glass stained diorama of an arch with a top with the Christian symbol of a cross on it. In the middle of the arch is a representation of a dove and a small fountain, most likely representing the Christian concepts of the Holy Spirit and Baptism. Setting is most likely a church or other religious institution. 011,012, two shots of a entrance way of a possible residential environment, such as a private home. Door is made out of wood and glass. Large window sills hang overhead. A hat stand sits by the door with hats on it. A large potted plant sits by hat stand. Floor is made of stone but as it descends is covered in carpet. Outside is a large oak tree.
Downtown LA 2013 On a smog-encrusted morning late last August, the otherwise innocuous Mount Baldy was abruptly transformed into the most eminent archeological site in the Western Hemisphere. The incidental discovery of a ceramic protrusion from the ground invoked a routine dig from my team and I, which quickly revealed itself to be the most significant excavation of my career.
Embedded just beneath the sprawl of a few Yuccas lay an archaic time capsule; a deliberately implanted and arranged archive of objects – a cryptic codex of exceedingly peculiar artifacts. The most jarring and prophetic of these specimens is a small shield, emblazoned with the ubiquitous corporate logos and industrial scenery of our present era. I was quick to deem the findings a hoax. Rehydroxylation tests, however, deemed the object to be 800 years old.
Of the progenitor’s culture we know very little. Their cosmology is hardly revealed through the obfuscated objects they addressed to us. My credentials compel me to speculate and prescribe narrative to these inscrutable peoples, to elucidate their way of life so that we may confidently add yet another patch to the elaborate quilt of human history. But I remain mystified; we have dug up the whole mountain, and they have left us nothing more.
Planted in a plaster-like substance and buried upright, this totemic post is the only stationary object in the collection. Granted that there are no traces of the Bald Prophet’s settlements, be they sedentary or nomadic, the specific utility of this post is unknown. The pyramidal trinkets attached to the pole are relatively crude in construction. Both their craftsmanship and makeup are starkly simpler than the other artifacts on display, leading us to believe laymen produced them rather than specialized artisans. The pole may therefore be a communal obelisk of sorts, wherein personal terracotta offerings were brought and strung (the original twine has been refurbished). The figurative aspects of the totem – namely the distinctive nose and adjoining mouth, accompanied by the silhouette of an eye, suggests the possible countenance of a human-like deity, rather than the reptilian beasts featured in neighboring pieces.
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Golden Solution does: Ariel ReCreation (part of their Altertruism series)
Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading
6 & 8 May 2014, 6-8pm
2013 was the pivot-point year drones escaped from the clandestine nightmare of foreign warzones to the daily contemplation of civic life. Accelerating past the usual embargo placed by law enforcement and corporate application, the hobbyists have begun droning themselves, venturing with the new extension into the physical laboratory of the public. As part of the weeklong Altertruism series, Aerial ReCreation proposes new prototypes and invented encounters with a technology obfuscated by standard images and news reports.
Altertruism is a series developed by Brisbane-based philanthropists Golden Solution (Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading). Part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, the three-part series proposes situations and environments that network human action with technological apparatus and systematize activity.
The day after a missile struck a shopping mall in central Ukraine in June, killing at least 18 people, the Spanish-language arm of Russia’s global television network, RT en Español, took to Facebook to challenge the facts of the attack.On its account, available across much of Central and South America and even in the United States, the network posted a video statement from a military spokesman claiming that Russia’s air force had bombed a weapons cache supplied by Ukraine’s Western allies. A video released by the Ukrainian government, and survivors of the attack interviewed on the ground by The New York Times, showed otherwise.When Russia’s war in Ukraine began, Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants moved to block or limit the reach of the accounts of the Kremlin’s propaganda machine in the West. The effort, though, has been limited by geography and language, creating a patchwork of restrictions rather than a blanket ban.In Spanish in Latin America or in Arabic across the Middle East, a steady stream of Russian propaganda and disinformation continues to try to justify President Vladimir V. Putin’s unprovoked invasion, demonizing Ukraine and obfuscating responsibility for Russian atrocities that have killed thousands of civilians.The result has been a geographical and cultural asymmetry in the information war over Ukraine that has helped undercut American- and European-led efforts to put broad international pressure on Mr. Putin to call off his war.“There
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Throughout its run, LIFE magazine endeavored to present what it considered pivotal moments in sociopolitical history through its unique medium of photojournalism. Vital in the dissemination of information through images, LIFE photojournalists and editors had the precarious role of either obfuscating or illuminating the importance and reality of these moments. Examples include LIFE's depictions of the tension of the Berlin Wall, the Louisville flood, the US incarceration of Japanese and Japanese American citizens, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. How, today, in the age of social media and citizen journalism, are our own photos able to preserve sociopolitical memory; what challenges might we face?
The laptop joins the AR.drone WLAN. The names of the six other visible WLANs have been obfuscated. Winter 2011. Arvada Colorado USA.
Differnzierung statt Vereinfachung / differentiation instead of simplification
Analyse statt Infotainment / analysis instead of infotainment
Utopien statt Fortschreibung / utopian dreams instead of updating
Tiefenschärfe statt Oberflächenpolitur / depht of focus instead of surficial polish
Empathie statt Egomanie / empathy instead of egomania
Widerspruch statt Anpassung / contradiction instead of adaptation
Auseinandersetzung statt Belehrung / controversy instead of indoctrination
Werte statt "anything goes" / values instead of "anything goes"
Gestaltungswille statt Fatalismus / creative will instead of fatalism
loc.: Slovenia, stone.
You should imagine that you are looking at round , flat bottom, ~1mm deep pit. Better seen here: agrozoo.net/jsp/Galery_one_image.jsp?id_galery_obfuscated..., but , on top, inhabited by other lichen. Can't imagine any other thing, except that this lichen diggs into stone.
Golden Solution does: Ariel ReCreation (part of their Altertruism series)
Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading
6 & 8 May 2014, 6-8pm
2013 was the pivot-point year drones escaped from the clandestine nightmare of foreign warzones to the daily contemplation of civic life. Accelerating past the usual embargo placed by law enforcement and corporate application, the hobbyists have begun droning themselves, venturing with the new extension into the physical laboratory of the public. As part of the weeklong Altertruism series, Aerial ReCreation proposes new prototypes and invented encounters with a technology obfuscated by standard images and news reports.
Altertruism is a series developed by Brisbane-based philanthropists Golden Solution (Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading). Part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, the three-part series proposes situations and environments that network human action with technological apparatus and systematize activity.
welcome to my very first PS composite...
: )) i added the flourishes and title to it just for gitsNshiggles. all the same, it doesn't obfuscate the inherent badness of this monstrous creation! too much time to kill one day when i worked at the noose-paper, i'd say!! hehe
Golden Solution does: Ariel ReCreation (part of their Altertruism series)
Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading
6 & 8 May 2014, 6-8pm
2013 was the pivot-point year drones escaped from the clandestine nightmare of foreign warzones to the daily contemplation of civic life. Accelerating past the usual embargo placed by law enforcement and corporate application, the hobbyists have begun droning themselves, venturing with the new extension into the physical laboratory of the public. As part of the weeklong Altertruism series, Aerial ReCreation proposes new prototypes and invented encounters with a technology obfuscated by standard images and news reports.
Altertruism is a series developed by Brisbane-based philanthropists Golden Solution (Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading). Part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, the three-part series proposes situations and environments that network human action with technological apparatus and systematize activity.
My small children are either asleep or off at the park with Mum, and my cat is wherever the hell cats go while not sleeping on our bed, so I hit up the piles of Christmas toys to form a crack wind-up dinosaur address obfuscation team. And a dalek because I was afraid to tell him he wasn't invited lest I be egg-whisked to death.
And they call it summer....
I just finished to review and to tidy up some pictures I took next year so I start uploading them.
BTW, this is an evening sky over Kobe where a gathering storm was obfuscating the setting sun. Dramatic!
This image is from the booktwo.org website by James Bridle. It is for the project Dronestagram on tumblr and instagram, etc. I would like to reference Bridle's project of documenting drone strikes as well as draw connections to the photographs of László Moholy-Nagy, which were geometric and Constructivist in approach. These images have the feel of the work of László Moholy-Nagy when viewed as such. The further context of the dronestagram adds another conceptual level. In some ways, I think that this may have been something that Moholy-Nagy would try and avoid- the overt political statement.
Our viewpoint today is even further away than the top of the radio towers of Berlin for Moholy-Nagy, but always are confronted with new "ways of seeing" and being in the world. I would like to overlay these types of image with some graphic work inspired by László Moholy-Nagy.
Inspired by dronestagram, but not limited to it. Options would be to scan Google Maps for "other" landscapes.
"The political and practical possibilities of drone strikes are the consequence of invisible, distancing technologies, and a technologically-disengaged media and society. Foreign wars and foreign bodies have always counted for less, but the technology that was supposed to bring us closer together is used to obscure and obfuscate. We use military technologies like GPS and Kinect for work and play; they continue to be used militarily to maim and kill, ever further away and ever less visibly."
I never know how much of what I say is true.
— Bette Midler
Typefaces: Above The Sky Script
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Veiled Crimson Windmill Sky
The was a lot of complexity to this evenings sky up here in Wyotana. The wind was indeed blowing hard and spinning ol’ “Sneaky Pete” a good bit. I have no idea how many times those bearings have rotated but it’s millions…. many I suspect. As I type this we had a 43 mph gust and the storms that moved through last week gave us an 84 mph gust on my weather station. I now have my weather reporting station back on line. Do a search for DW1087 for my weather station live here on ranch.
Photographic Musings:
From a technical standpoint, doing this in camera with no Neutral Density filter in front of your lens is rare. The conditions must be JUST right. Anytime I point a camera into the bright sun, I’m mostly turning off the all the light valves. This gives me either crimson or burnt umber colorations. Who am I to argue with the camera. No human eye could stare at this live and work later.
Problem/obfuscating factor:
I wanted to blur the windmill sail. A fast shutter speed will freeze it in it’s track and reduce light (less light is good here into the camera). It’s all about balancing these three things. But to blur such a thing, means 1/15th of a second which is VERY LONG in bright light. OVERPOWERING BRIGHT = hard to do right.
Camera Sensitivity to ISO 100. Faster shutter speeds reduce the light coming in too. (you need to)
Leaving F-stop (aperture/iris size) to consider. I want a close far focus with this telephoto so I’m using F36 (a high setting for a 400 mm lens). Higher the Fstop, less light BUT deeper focal field. That means the depth of focus will have both the windmill and the distant sky/horizon in focus).
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Veiled Crimson Windmill Sky
(the original dome – Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles, 532-537; the current dome – Isidore the Younger, 558-562, with later repairs; the buttresses – from different periods)
The pressure of the dome of Hagia Sophia was balanced with buttresses erected by both the Byzantines and Ottomans. The buttresses obfuscate, to a large extent, the general structure of the church, when seen from the outside. As they block some windows, they also make the church darker than it was originally.
Mama duck was quacking loudly and every time the eagle divebombed the ducks, they'd splash around furiously to obfuscate themselves. It seemed to work quite well, with the eagle seeming to eventually give up (or at least take a break).
Artist name - Gavin Rain
Height (cm) - 120
Width (cm) - 120
Medium - Acrylic on canvas
Date artwork created – 2012
Article No - 33688
Other information - "I spent many years developing a style of “hidden in plain sight” It initially was ostensibly a woodcut in different layers. Over the years I gradually made the mathematics more and more sophisticated to fine tune the result. But as the resolve of the image got clearer, it became much too easy to see the image. I wanted it hidden. That’s the message of the work: step back to understand. It’s an allegory for life: take a step back to recognise the invisible things that shape you: The people whose shoulders you’ve stood on. With these works I finally returned to obfuscating the image in the colour – something that had been eluding me for some time. The mathematical solution was kind of obvious, and I’m embarrassed to repeat it here, but these works mark a turning point for me – being able to achieve a high resolve and yet still hide the image from up close. Who are these people? They’re the people you know - The people in your life. You tell me."
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(the original dome – Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles, 532-537; the current dome – Isidore the Younger, 558-562, with later repairs; the buttresses – from different periods)
The pressure of the dome of Hagia Sophia was balanced with buttresses erected by both the Byzantines and Ottomans. The buttresses obfuscate, to a large extent, the general structure of the church, when seen from the outside. As they block some windows, they also make the church darker than it was originally.