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Early morning at Plot 64: The reassuring palisade of ever-green oaks with squirrels doing their aerobics; 'summer igloos' well anchored to the sandy ground, holiday homes on wheels begin to stir, separated by well trodden trails to the loo and shower block...
And yes, 3 trusty bikes at the ready! The 'sawing' of tent zips cut into jolly bird song and familiar night long croaks, oh those local frogs...
The much needed warmth of a hot mug in hand and the whiff of coffee percolates though the fresh Provence air. The shadowy reminder of the task and the day ahead: the Ventoux silhouette, a trigger to kick start anyone's day.
But today: patiently, so patently, Ventoux awaits...
Barn in Kansas near 1-70. This Farm was still active, but all of the buildings on this "plot" were completely abandoned and in ruins. Not sure why the farmer didn't pull the buildings down and use the land for crops....
A Cadet from 10th Regiment, Advanced Camp, plots points on a map during Land Navigation training at Fort Knox, Ky., July 26, 2023. Land NAV teaches Cadets how to navigate over rough terrain during a mission. | Photo by Katie Catterall, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs Office
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
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Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Great way to start out the new year, with a photo shoot for town plot clothing, You can check them out online at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Town-Plot-Clothing/123664934403015...
or townplot.com ~ coming Winter 2012
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My D3s is being cleaned, so these are with a D700 and 85mm 1.4G, 105mm f/2.8G Macro, and 24-70mm f/2.8 lenses.
Plotter Kill Preserve - Muddy, frosty and icy in spots, but reasonably easy to reach the bottom of this 60' waterfall. Muck Boots and hiking sticks necessary when crossing the stream several times, though.
Click or 'Z' for the HiRez goodness.
Digital Excel plot from the line array TSL208R output. Every 2 pixels are first taken the average signal to reduce the number of data to 256 pixels per line. The line laser shows a relatively large variation over the total lenghte of the array, but this is repetief perfectly stable. The variation is due to the light wave of the laser line. Fortunately, a detection signal is very clearly lower. This can be seen here with an object of only 1.4 mm.
The FPGA reads the results in the internal RAM and sends them offline forward to the PC via an Arduino USB 2 Serial Converter for analysis. The internal FPGA RAM has 64Kbytes and can hold 256 scan lines. This pcture is only the data from one scan line.
Readout time 512 pixels = 128 us
Total scan time = 130 us
Line laser on time = 100 us
Line array data rate 4MHz.
2 channels ADC7885, serial data clock speed 32 MHz.
setup:
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/18922568202
Shema:
www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/16804102873
Line array picture:
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
institutions of Resolution Disputes [iRD]
Even though the iRD mimics an institute, in reality it is not a classic, institutional organ. Instead, the iRD multiplexes the term institution, by revisiting its usage in the late 1970s. Back then, Joseph Goguen and Rod Burstall formulated the term institution as a ‘more compound framework’, that dealt with the growing complexities at stake when connecting different logical systems (such as databases and programming languages) within computer sciences. While these institutions were put in place to connect different logical systems, they were not logical themselves.
Inspired by the idea of hyper functional, yet illogical frameworks, the iRD is dedicated to researching the interests of anti-utopic, obfuscated, lost and unseen, or simply ‘too good to be implemented’ resolutions.
The institutions of Resolution Disputes [iRD] call attention to media resolutions.
While ‘the resolution’ generally simply refers to a determination of functional settings in the technological domain, the iRD stresses that a resolution is indeed an overall agreed upon settlement (solution). However, the iRD believes that a resolution also entails a space of compromise between different actors (objects, materialities, and protocols) in dispute over norms (frame rate, number of pixels etc.). Generally, settings either ossify as requirements and de facto standards, or are notated as norms by standardizing organizations such as the International Organization for Standardization. We call this progress*.
However, resolutions are non-neutral standard settings that involve political, economical, technological and cultural values and ideologies, embedded in the genealogies and ecologies of our media. In an uncompromising fashion, quality (fidelity) speed (governed by efficiency) volume (generally encapsulated in tiny-ness for hardware and big when it comes to data) and profit (economic or ownership) have been responsible for plotting this vector of progress. This dogmatic configuration of belief x action has made upgrade culture a great legitimizer of violence, putting many insufficient technological resolutions to rest. While a resolution can thus be understood as a manifold assemblage of common - but contestable - standards, it should also be considered in terms of other options; those that are unknown and unseen, obsolete and unsupported within a time and (technological) space.
Resolutions inform both machine vision and human ways of perception. They shape the material of everyday life in a pervasive fashion.
As the media landscape becomes more and more compound, or in other words, an heterogenous assemblage in which one technology never functions on its own, its complexities have moved beyond a fold of everyday settings. Technological standards have compiled into resolution clusters; media platforms that form resolutions like tablelands, flanked by steep cliffs and precipices looking out over obscure, incremental abysses that seem to harbor a mist of unsupported, obsolete norms.
The platforms of resolution now organize perspective. They are the legitimizers of both inclusion and exclusion of what can not be seen or what should be done, while ‘other’ possible resolutions become more and more obscure.
It is important to realize that the platforms of resolutions are not inherently Evil*. They can be impartial. We need to unpack these resolutions and note that they are conditioning our perception. A culture that adheres to only one or a few platforms of resolutions supports nepotism amongst standards. These clusters actively engage simpleness and mask the issues at stake, savoring stupidity, and are finally bound to escalate into glutinous tech-fascism.
The question is, have we become unable to define our own resolutions, or have we become oblivious to them?
Resolutions do not just function as an interface effect*, but as hyperopic lens, obfuscating any other possible alternative resolutions from the users screens and media literacy. When we speak about video, we always refer to a four cornered moving image. Why do we not consider video with more or less corners, timelines, or soundtracks? Fonts are monochrome; they do not come with their own textures, gradients or chrominance and luminance mapping. Text editors still follow the lay-out of paper; there is hardly any modularity within written word technologies. Even ghosts, the figments of our imagination, have been conditioned to communicate exclusively through analogue forms of noise (the uncanny per default), while aliens communicate through blocks and lines (the more ‘intelligent’ forms of noise).
The user is hiking the resolution platforms comfortably. He is shielded from the compromises that are at stake inside his resolutions. Unknowingly suffering from this type of technological hyperopia, he keeps staring at the screens that reflect mirage after mirage.
A resolution is the lens through which constituted materialities become signifiers in their own right. They resonate the tonality of the users hive mind and constantly transform our technologies into informed material vernaculars.
Technology is evolving faster than we, as a culture, can come to terms with. This is why determinations such as standards are dangerous; they preclude alternatives. The radical digital materialist believes in informed materiality*: while every string of data is ambiguously fluid and has the potential to be manipulated into anything, every piece of information functions within adhesive* encoding, contextualization and embedding. Different forms of ossification slither into every crevice of private life, while unresolved, ungoverned free space seems to be slipping away. This is both the power and the risk of standardization.
We are in need for a re-(Re-)Distribution of the Sensible*.
The iRD offers a liminal space for resolution studies. Resolution studies is not only about the effects of technological progress or about the aesthetization of the scales of resolution. Resolution studies is a studies on how resolution embeds the tonalities of culture, in more than just its technological facets.
Resolution studies researches the standards that could have been in place, but are not. As a form of vernacular resistance, based on the concept of providing ambiguous resolutions, the iRD employs the liminal resolution of the screen as a looking-glass. Here, hyperopia is fractured and gives space to myopia, and visa versa. This is how iRD exposes the colors hidden inside the grey mundane objects* of everyday life.
The iRD is not a Wunderkammer for dead media*, but a foggy bootleg trail for vernacular resistance.
Progress has fathered many dead technologies. A Wunderkammer, or curiosity cabinet of media resolutions would celebrate these dead objects by trapping them inside a glass bell, relieving them indefinitely of their action radius. While the iRD adheres to the settlements of governing media resolutions, it also welcomes ventures along the bootleg trails of the tactical undead*. These undead move beyond resolution, through the literacies of the governing techno-cultures, into liminal spaces. They follow the wild and uncanny desire paths that cut through sensitive forms and off-limit areas into speculative materialities, futures and critical turns*. They threaten the status quo of secure forms of media and provide the ambiguity that is so necessary for inspiration, action and curiosity.
The iRD believes that methods of creative problem creation* can bring authorship back to the layer of resolution setting.
Resolution theory moves against what seems like an unsolvable puzzle of flattening reality. The iRD function one way trail straight into the Sea of Fog and towards the abyss of techno-norms. The iRD can however also be a modular framework, that opens and expands standards through inspection and reflection. As any good theory of media, resolution theory is a theory on literacy. Literacy of the machines, the people, the people creating the machines and the people being created by the machines. Through challenging the platforms of resolution, it can help the wanderer to scale actively between these states of hyperopia and myopia. It can uncover crystal cities of fog as well as shine a light on the soon to be distributed futures. Here we can mine for the yet unscreened timonds.
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Playing with plotter drawing with opencv -> autotrace -> pstoedit -> chiplotle python plotter library.
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I picked up this plotter on consignment for $8.50. I almost didn't buy it because I figured at that price it couldn't work. Turns out it does work, although the paper feed is a little iffy and it only had 6 out of 8 pens, only 3 of which work.
I still need to get the right adapters to hook it up to a computer, which will end up costing more than I paid for the plotter. (The item next to it on the shelf when I paid for it was a 8-inch floppy for $50)
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FALL ON A KERB.
MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED
SUGGESTION OF ASSAULT.
POLICE DETAIN ACQUAINTANCE.
An elderly man, Mr. John Bailey, of 259, Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Saturday afternoon suffering from severe injuries to the head, sustained under circumstances which suggested that he had been the victim of an assault. A man has been detained by the police in connection with the incident.
It is stated that Mr. Bailey, who is a labourer by occupation, had just left an hotel in Customs Street, when he was either struck or pushed. He fell and struck his head on the kerb, sustaining severe concussion. As a result of information given by people who witnessed the occurrence, a man who later proved to be acquainted with the injured man was taken into custody.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19241229.2.96
CHARGE OF ASSAULT.
REMAND WITHOUT BAIL.
A charge of having assaulted John Bailey, last Saturday, was preferred against Robert Wiffen, aged 50 (Mr. Singer), in the Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. J. H. Fray and Rees George, J.P.'s.
Chief-Detective Cummings, in asking that accused be remanded until Wednesday, said that Mr. Bailey had been admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Saturday afternoon suffering from concussion. "He is now semi-conscious, but I would ask that bail be not fixed until Wednesday, as last night, the man's condition was critical, but I understand he is now improving," said Mr. Cummings.
Accused was remanded until to-morrow, no bail being allowed.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19241230.2.10
DEATH FROM INJURIES.
ASSAULT CHARGE PENDING.
OPENING OF THE INQUEST.
The death occurred in the Auckland Hospital yesterday of John Bailey, aged 65, who was admitted on December 27 suffering from injuries, alleged to have been sustained outside a hotel in Customs Street.
An inquest was opened, before the coroner, Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M. Evidence of identification was given by Chief-Detective Cummings, and by a son of deceased, and the inquiry was adjourned pending a post-mortem examination. A middle-aged man Robert Wiffen, is at present on remand on a charge of having assaulted Bailey, and will appear in the Police Court this week.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19250122.2.156
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
ALLEGED ASSAULT SEQUEL.
THE ACCUSED REMANDED.
A charge of having committed manslaughter by causing the death of John Bailey was preferred against Robert Wiffen, aged 50 (Mr. Singer), in the Police Court before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., yesterday.
Chief-Detective Cummings said the charge was a substitute for a former charge of assault. Bailey had been admitted to the Auckland Hospital on December 27, suffering from injuries to the head alleged to have been sustained as the result of an assault. The injuries proved fatal last Wednesday.
Accused was remanded until next Monday, bail being fixed at £IOO,
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19250123.2.142
DEATH OF JOHN BAILEY.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
WIFFEN BEFORE COURT.
As the result of the death in the Auckland Hospital on January 20 of John Bailey (65) Robert Wiffen (50) appeared at the Police Court to-day, when he was charged with the manslaughter of Bailey. Chief Detective Cummings prosecuted, and accused was represented by Mr. Singer. Medical Evidence.
Dr. P. N. W. Murray, who performed the post mortem examination on the body of deceased, John Bailey, on January 21, deposed that the body was thin and somewhat wasted. There was a wound on the scalp which had recently healed. On removal of the skull cap a large amount of old blood was revealed under the dura of the brain. There was also a small patch of softening of the brain tissue on the under surface. There was a linear fracture of the skull extending from the site of injury on the scalp down to the base of the skull. Death, in witness' opinion, was due to exhaustion following on septic pyelitis of the right kidney and accelerated by fracture of the skull and hemorrhage of the brain.
What Eye Witnesses Saw.
Ernest McDowell, a labourer, deposed that at 4.20 p.m. on December 27 he was with deceased outside the Thames Hotel, in Customs Street. Deceased had taken considerable liquor, but was quiet. Witness saw deceased put out his hand and then fall onto the footpath.
Another man, George Hilliard, saw accused and deceased talking together close to where witness was standing, he thought both men were arguing, but not heatedly. Accused struck Bailey whose head struck the pavement. After hitting Bailey accused walked rapidly to the entrance of the Thames Hotel. Witness followed accused and asked hiln to await the arrival of the police. Accused consented, and came back with witness.
Rupert I. Morris, a taxi-driver, the next witness, stated that both accused and deceased were outside the Thames Hotel in Customs Street. He watched them, as they were conversing in a loud tone. They both seemed to be angry, but, witness could not hear what was being said. Bailey caught accused's arm as if to detain him, and accused pulled away, then striking deceased on the chin with a short blow with his right hand. Bailey fell back on the footpath and remained there. Accused walked away. Deceased was a feeble old man and very quiet.
Constable Moore, who detained accused following the incident in Customs Street, stated that accused denied assaulting Bailey, whom he said he used to work with.
General Condition Bad.
Dr. John Mark, of the Auckland Hospital, said that deceased. John Bailey, was admitted to the institution suffering from injuries to the head on the afternoon of December 27. Bailey showed signs of intoxication, and from December 29 to the 31st he improved slightly, but was in a semi-dazed condition. However, deceased's, general condition was bad. He became conscious, but was never afterwards sensible, and died on January 20.
Royston W. Bailey, a salesman, and a son of deceased, said that his father was 65 years of age, and up to the time of his death, followed the occupation of a waterside worker. Statement by Accused.
Chief Detective J Cummings said he saw accused at the Police Station on December 29, when he said he was sorry for what had happened. He was anxious to know how Bailey was getting on at the hospital. Accused said that Bailey and he were good friends. Witness then obtained a statement from accused. He said that he had known Bailey for over 30 years and had worked with deceased on the wharf. Until December 27 he had not seen deceased for three years. Deceased was not drinking with accused in the Thames Hotel. There were several men from Home ships in the hotel bar and they were looking for fight. There were several "'squabbles" in the bar, but accused did not take part in them. On leaving the bar accused met deceased in Customs Street. Bailey did not threaten accused.
"I gave him one with the back of my hand and poor old Bill Bailey fell on his head on the footpath, continued accused in his statement. "I did not kick him, I did not strike him with my closed hand, I was the only person that struck Bailey. There has never been any ill feeling between him and me.
We have always been good friends, and Bailey did not, give me any provocation to strike him. I am very sorry for what has happened."
That was the case for the prosecution. Accused, who had nothing to say, pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence, and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Bail, as before, was allowed.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19250126.2.96
NOT GUILTY.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FAILS.
COMMON ASSAULT ONLY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 10.
At the Supreme Court the jury returned a verdict of not guilty against Robert Wiffin, aged 65, in the case arising out of the death of John Bailey, aged 50, as the result of an altercation outside an hotel on December 27th, both men being the worse for liquor.
When struck or pushed by Wiffen. Bailey fell and sustained a fracture of his skull.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of common assault and the accused was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment and ordered to abstain from liquor.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19250210.2.13
Plot 93: Ivan Bailey
Johnnie Bailey – Waterside Worker
Ellen Bailey (89) 10/3/1960 – Widow (ashes)
IN
Loving Memory
of
our Dear Father
JOHN BAILEY
who died 21st Jan. 1925.
aged 65 years,
Also
IVAN BAILEY
who died 28th Aug. 1920.
aged 2 years.
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Mr. Orange, my incredibly handsome cat, is plotting on how to get more food, even though he has already eaten, and when to chase after Zoey.
265, Day 107: August 2, 2012
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