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More growth forms. Decided to focus on exploring the range of self-limiting forms in the system for a new work, Limits to Growth.
Miranda Parker as Ellipsis, a superheroine and member of the famed Punctuation League. :-)
This is from a studio shoot with the entire cast of "The Baffling Adventures of Question-Mark Man" by Bottled Spider. A really fun show about superheroes...and punctuation. What's not to like? :-)
In search of suitable paper for albumen prints… The thinner it is, the better the result - and the more difficult to handle while processing. I have yet to find my "compromise" solution…
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Deardorff 8x10, Wollensak Verito, Fomapan 100. Tanol 1+1+100, 16 min @ 20°C. Albumen print, gold toned.
That morning was really really foggy. How I wished I had my camera on me. Kept observing through the day..kept my fingers crossed..hoped the same would happen the next day as well. And it did...I was prepared.
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A little process peek - choosing fabric for the bird quilt. www.shinyhappyworld.com/2014/04/choosing-fabrics-bird-qui...
*** For all those do-it-yourself-at-home kids......Never never never!!! wad ALL the hair up into one knot or bun on top of your head if you're using 30vol/high lift, or bleach. The process of lifting creates A LOT of heat, and that will build up inside the 'bun' causing excessive damage, and possibly even burning the scalp. If you're wondering why the hair on your crown is melting??? That's why. Split it into smaller sections so that air can circulate.
This is a drawing I did a few years ago, based a photo of a weightlifter - was never too happy with the way it turned out originally. I've been experimenting with the way I render color and light a bit recently., so I thought I might dig it out and play around with it. It's a bit more detailed and fussy than my drawings usually are -- not sure if that's a direction I want to go in, or if I should be pushing towards simplicity. But that's what sketching and drawing is great for. Always good to experiment with processes. Who knows, I might even start working with ink and paper again one of these days.
Over troubled waters memories soar
Endlessly, searching night and day
The moonlight caresses a lonely hill
With the calmness of a whisper
I wear a naked soul
A blank face in the streaming water
It is cold in here
Frost scar my coat with dust...
- Opeth (Black Rose Immortal)
Cyanotype on Hahnemuhle Andalucia paper. A bit different formula with ferric ammonium tartrate instead od citrate.
Procession de la Maria SantÃsima de la Aurora Coronada, cuesta de San Gregorio, AlbaicÃn, Grenade.
The default colour is PURPLE. Why? I don't know. But many people paint their Alphasmart devices, so I thought I'd give it a go with my Dana.
So, for $25 - $40 and postage, instead of buying a laptop, you can get an Alphasmart Dana or Neo or Neo 2 used on Ebay.
Alphasmarts are basically a portable, battery operated word processor.
The Dana has a larger screen, and runs on the old Palm OS, which means it can run a number of basic apps. However, you'd only really use any of the Alphasmarts for word processing these days.
It gives you room for approximately 80,000 words in memory, I think, and you can simultaneously have 8 documents open, toggling between them with the F1 to F8 keys. The Dana allows two 1 GB SD cards to insert in the back, so you can save your files - because whenever the battery goes completely flat, all in-system memory in cleared.
The Dana gives you 25 typing hours of battery life, with rechargeable batteries. So, not 25 hours lying around, but actual typing on the screen.
The screen isn't the greatest when indoors - it's an old type of screen, like that found in pocket calculators. The Neo 2 is easier to read, because the Dana has a touch-screen panel in front of the text screen, which makes it a bit glary and shiny, and the text is a bit muted.
The fantastic thing about the screen, though, is that in bright lighting or when outdoors, the screen is very, very readable. On a sunny day, the screen is very crisp and the text is fantastic! Compare that to my Ipad or gloss-screen laptop, where it's hard to even make out the screen on a sunny day, let alone read the text...
The Neo 2 which I am getting next, has a much smaller screen, no SD cards, and doesn't have the touch-screen Palm OS, but the text is easier to read when indoors compared with the Dana. In return, the Neo 2 Alphasmart can run for 700 hours on just 3 x AA batteries.
Yes, that's right: 700 hours of use! That's 70 x longer than a typical Ipad before needing the batteries to be changed.
Of course, all it does is word processing - but for writers, journallers, and so forth, it is rugged, super cheap, forget-about-having-to-check-battery-level-for-months, and so on.
To transfer your typing to a computer, you just plug the Dana or Neo 2 into the PC or Mac using a USB cable. Open a word processing program like Notepad or Microsoft Word on the PC, and press Send on the Dana / Neo 2.
The Alphasmart device will then 'auto type' your document from your Alphasmart onto the page on your computer, transferring it. It's kind of like printing out a document, but text is being sent to your word processor's page on your computer screen.
You can even plug it into an Ipad, and Send the text of your documents into any text IOS apps: just get the Camera Adapter for the Ipad, and instead of plugging a camera USB cable into the adapter, plug an unpowered USB Hub into it. Then plug your DANA or NEO into the USB Hub, and it is detected as an external keyboard! Now if you bring up something like Notes on the Ipad, and click Send, it will type your Alphasmart document onto your IOS device for you!
This is neat, because if you use auto-replacement features in programs like Word, you can set up auto-formatting, corrections, and so forth, as the transfer takes place onto your computer.
While writing, I typically transfer pages into Word, save it as a DocX file, then use Calibre to convert it to a Mobi, and I can put it onto my Kindle. Then I have all my current material, plotting, character design, planning notes, etc, referrable on my Kindle, while I continue writing on the Alphasmart.
The more I tweak this project, the more I love it. Through controlled accidents, I got it to look rather Nebular. I will continue tinkering and if all goes well, soon I will have an audio-responsive universe!
Read about it here. There is a short video too!
Moscow. Gorky Park.
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70-210 mm
Film: Kodak Vision3 200t + dev.D-76
Photo taken: 29/07/2017
Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100
Tools of the trade.
I've been really fortunate for getting projects I love. Spent a week in my studio creating graffiti tags and stencil illustrations for a big national client. Excited to share the work when it's done in a few weeks time. Stay tuned.
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Working on a new music video project. It is probably going to change a bit over the next couple weeks so I want to keep an eye on the screen grabs that I like. I plan on showing it at FiTC on April 22nd. I will write a post about it after the project gets a little closer to completion.
Again, the main point of interest is that there will be no post-production. The entire thing is code driven. Every beat is manually input like in the Solar (Goldfrapp) video I posted a couple weeks back. Every single high-hat hit, every snare, every bass, the vocals, the guitar arpeggio... all of it was manually input. Took about 6 hours to input the data for the whole 5 minutes and 15 seconds of song. Maybe when musicians start releasing multiple tracks per song with isolated instruments, things will get a lot easier.