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This may drive purists up the wall. Apologies beforehand.
I've recently learned about the language processing, where you can write your own visual scripts. Fairly cool stuff. This is a "filter" that basically expands pixels with transparency into overlays of squares of varying dimensions.
Nothing cooler than writing your own software to manipulate an image. Kind of like artistic hacking.
once upon a time
there lived a girl
who found herself with camera in hand
traveling through an alley
...
she found the smallest of chairs
and although her photograph didn't capture the size well
...
it made her smile
...
and that, as they say,
is the end of the story.
This image accompanies this science story written by GrrlScientist and published on The Guardian.
Fire-tailed Myzornis, Myzornis pyrrhoura, a monotypic species that was recently (2009) placed into the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. This Asian species lives in moist subtropical or tropical montane forests in the Himalayas.
Image: Price T.D., Hooper D.M., Buchanan C.D., Johansson U.S., Tietze D.T., Alström P., Olsson U., Ghosh-Harihar M., Ishtiaq F. & Gupta S.K. & (2014). Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13272.
This is a rough Polaroid photo of the Guadalupe, still in the studio, pretty far along.
I may have a color slide of the murals but haven’t found it yet. But this does give the ecstatic feeling of the painting.
The mural was set in a candle bay. So she is painted, as lit from below by the candles.
The inner garment will be orange; the outer garment- draped over the head is blue, but the outer garment is not really there. It is made of the sky, only visible because the edge is delineated by the aura. In the finished piece there is no line where the aura starts as there is here.
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WHERE.
Where the murals are is a complicated question because two fates befell them:
They were painted over and later the covered panels were stolen.
The murals are missing, having been stolen out of the church, after a fire in another area.
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- don notes- it is an intriguing fact that the murals were painted over ( probably in anger * ), but were stolen later when the fire occurred.
- it leads one to believe that the thieves knew what they had, and lived in hope that the images could be restored. No one would have gone to the risk and trouble to steal panels with nothing but a solid color on them.
- the problem is that it was very unlikely that the covering paint was chosen with any care. It was likely a paint that would be difficult or impossible to remove.
If someone had knowledge of paint and hoped to get the images back at a later date, they could have painted them over with a type of paint that would work with that plan.
- for example, a craftsman would cover the images with a different family of paint than the polymer clear coat that was used to protect the images.
- then, the covering paint- say oil paint- could be removed with turp, causing no damage to the mural. It would be good as new.
- it makes me wonder if the people that covered the mural were the same people who stole it.
Another question arises.;
The murals were not painted directly on the wall. They were painted on panels in the studio and the panel was mounted on the wall on two 1 by 3 inch boards. As a result, the panels were raised off the wall by about an inch.
But getting the panel off the wall would have been very difficult because you could not reach the boards from the edge and just bust them loose with a chisel. They were several inches in from the edge, in the center of the panels. Also each panel was cut to fit the alcove that each one was in, so it would be difficult to get at them from the side. If there was an inch or so free around the edge you might just reach in and try to pry the panels away from the wall, but that would risk breaking them.
It would have been a long and noisy process to get them down. what a puzzle.
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* - the murals were covered with a muted blue cover and the area had framed traditional prints of the Guadalupe and the Perpetual Help, mounted against the blue that was covering the murals had been. This was due to poor comunication between the architects who commissioned the paintings and the members of the Church.:
I was not asked to paint the traditional images. In the case of the Guadalupe, i would have gone to Mexico and made a copy from the original. What i painted was a depiction of the event.
As for the Perpetual Help image, there was less involved.: it was just a matter of making a direct and faithful copy of the original with the exception that the image had to be adapted to a full figure in order to match the full figure Guadalupe. ( The original of the Perpetual Help image is only a half figure. )
If the parishioners had wanted a faithful copy of the Guadalupe and covered the depiction in protest, they had no reason to cover the faithful copy of the Perpetual Help image. But there may have been no cool heads to point that out. The Perpetual Help was covered as well.
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The location of the Church is _________. It was known as “Army Street Church”, for some reason. Army Street is now Cesar Chavez.
Oh, the church was Saint Anthony’s and it burned ( again, and all of it ) in the 1970s. Read down a ways, here.:
www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=A_Brief_History_of_Cesar_...
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An example of some capabilities of the Processing application. This was generated using code from a tutorial by Amnon Owed.
www.flickr.com/photos/amnonp5/7387457310/
github.com/AmnonOwed/P5_CanTut_GeometryTexturesShaders2B8...
Edited (and heavily processed) ISS043 image of Hokkaido and northern Tohoku at night with lots of bright cities.
VAN14:WORLD CUP HOCKEY:VANCOUVER,BC,20AUG96 - Team Canada captain Wayne Gretzky celebrates his assist on a goal by teammate Eric Lindros August 20 during exhibition action between the U.S.A. and Canada in Vancouver. The World Cup of Hockey will take place in Canada, the United States and Europe over the next month. mb/Photo by Jeff Vinnick REUTERS
File name: 08_06_003747
Title: Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. Parade for Governor Fuller, Boston Common
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1925 - 1929 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Parades & processions
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
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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Homage to a print that Jared Tarbell sent me a while ago. Thanks for the inspiration JT (though yours is much more elegant... nice trick with the black orb with multiple specular highlights... sublime!). Rendered out at 5000x5000. Check the fullsize to see the detail.
My 1st roll of colour (C-41 process) film processed at home, by hand.
The (35mm) film was several years expired.
I used my Zeiss Ikon Contina iii.
I've altered some images in Photoshop, but in general, I was really pleased with the results, and it was so exciting to process at home!.
I had some very steady seeing together with crystal clear air tonight! I haven't had a chance to really process anything, but I threw a few images thru the "Quick" process to see how things are looking (this image). I'm leaving on vacation today, but I have many hours of processing ahead of me when I get back! Highlights: resolved all 4 Galilean moons including some surface features!, Jupiter's SEB which is starting to form again, and many Lunar craters including Tycho.
Late next week, I'll try to post my final results