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dippin' dots have been "the ice cream of the future" for decades. i'm still waiting for the future to happen. i like them and would have bought some, but i didn't want to hang around the food court area any longer.
the first stop was aladdin's castle. it was pretty sad in there, a motif that would be repeated throughout the mall. very few machines left, and no other customers. they were selling a couple of the machines, asking $300+tax for Tokyo Wars, a huge two-screen-two-seat driving game, and a mere $250 for a similar Soul Calibur 2 machine. when i was a kid the idea that you could buy arcade machines for your house was mythical, but now the prices are so relatively low the only thing that would stop me is a lack of physical space or simple lack of interest. it was kind of sad to see them priced so low, especially when the arcade itself was nearly deserted. of course they still had their classic air hockey table that's been there for a quarter century and is charmingly worn around the goals. i should have gotten a picture of that one or even played a round. i love air hockey. instead i dropped a dollar on four tokens and we played a round of House of the Dead 2.
side note: how "life-like" can it be when the whole game consists of zombies running straight at you? these ratings people must lead some very noteworthy lives.
i have a hard time imagining someone buying a brand new lava lamp. obviously people do, but i can't figure out the chain of events that would lead to that shopping trip.
there was a power outage at work and we got out early, so bryan and i went to the new restaurant that was opening today. it's right across from the mall and we had hours to kill, so i suggested we wander around for a while. i am, of course, well known on Inter Net for I HATE THIS MALL, so i figured i should back that opinion up with some recent experience.
right by the food court is this huge sign asking people to beg for chick-fil-a. there once was a chicken fil-et in this mall, i'm sure of it.
taken from the radiolab site "What happens at the moment when we slip from life...to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is, when exactly does it happen? And what happens afterward? It's a show of questions that don't have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from our regular format, we bring you eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die."
From the Radiolab site: "We all laugh. This hour of Radiolab asks why.
If you look closely, you'll find that humor has very little to do with it. We ask what makes us laugh, and how it affects us. Along the way, we tickle some rats, listen in on a baby's first laugh, talk to a group of professional laughers, and travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter."
From the Radiolab site: "There are so many ways to fall—in love, asleep, even flat on your face. This hour, Radiolab dives into stories of great falls."
One of five illustrations produced for Radiolab's live 'Symmetry' show, based on Plato's Symposium.
Read more about it here.
In Radiolab We Trust
A limited print set to benefit Radiolab and WNYC.
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Featuring: Jez Burrows, Frank Chimero, Nicholas Felton, Meg Hunt and Impactist.
First series now sold out!
Certainly one of the highlights of the trip was coming across this juvenile White Rhino. The mother was close at hand, just out of frame to the right.
It's a sad testament to the insane amount of poaching that we had to see this wonderful beast within the Khama Rhino Sanctuary. The sanctuary is still very large, allowing a wide range of animals to carry-on in a natural environment, but it would be nice to have rhinos roaming in larger less-protected areas.
More and more, countries are moving to drastic measures including pre-cutting the horns from the rhinos, and shooting the poachers on sight. Hopefully one day sanity will prevail, but in the meantime...
Just the other day as I was working through my podcasts and came across this (Black) Rhino Hunter story. A very interesting listen, providing some insight on trophy hunting practices and their direct benefit to protecting the animals.
Thanks for looking!
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One of five illustrations produced for Radiolab's live 'Symmetry' show, based on Plato's Symposium.
Read more about it here.
One of five illustrations produced for Radiolab's live 'Symmetry' show, based on Plato's Symposium.
Read more about it here.
i heard this interview of richard dawkins at WNYC radiolab entitled 'in defense of darwin' this morning and it fit perfectly with the picture i shot yesterday.
i took the time to write down a bit of the interview on my blog, if you're inclined to further reading.
EDIT: i decided to add the text here, after all... those with patience can continue:
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Q: your daughter is driving around with you and you look and… she’s 6 years old. she sees a field of flowers. you say to her, well, what do you think they’re for? she says 'well, to make the world pretty and to help bees make honey for us. and you think, well, i’m sorry to tell her that this wasn’t true. and i explained to her that the flowers are not there to make the world beautiful and they are not there to delight bees or anything else. they’re in the world to copy their DNA.'
this is to a six-year old.
(audience laughs)
but essentially what you’re doing there is you’re addressing you’re opening the notion to her that the world is a purposeless, indifferent machine where the meaning of things is not clear, if it exists at all. you’ve found it, i think, kind of brave to say to your daughter , look, step into the wind…
(richard interrupts)
A: no, exciting! it’s a far more exciting view of flowers to understand what they’re really doing and, as six years old, she had no problem understanding that. i explained it to her.
but to come to your ‘what’s it for’ question, it’s a piece of massive presumption to think that the ‘what it’s for’ question deserves an answer. there’s no reason at all why something should have a ‘for’ about it. if i said to you, ‘what is the sun for?’ or 'what is mt. everest for', you would say 'don’t be so silly... it’s not an appropriate question'… but, because it’s flowers, you sort of feel there ought to be a ‘what is it for’ question.
Q: no actually i think it’s a harder question than that. i think most human beings have some deep impulse to explain their being here to wonder about the origins of here and the destiny of them and here. and that question, the meaning of it all is not a silly question.
A: that’s not a silly question and it has a perfectly good answer, which is not an answer to be couched in the language of purpose. it’s an answer to be couched in the language of scientific causation. what brought us all to be here… what is the explanation for our existence… that has a perfectly good scientific answer… and you go back in evolutionary time to the origin of life, and you go back before the origin of life to the origin of the world, the origin of the solar system, the origin of the universe… and that becomes deeply mysterious. needless to say, it’s not a question i could even begin to answer and i don’t think that, at the present stage, physics can either. but to the extent that there’s going to be an answer, it’s going to come from science and that is a deeply satisfying kind of answer to the question, 'why are we here?' we already have, in principle, the answer to that question and it is not an answer of the form ‘we are here in order to achieve some purpose’ it’s an answer of the form, ‘we are here because something happened, which led that something else that happened, which led to something else that happened'.
Q: are you … let me ask you the harder question … is this hard-looking and this telling your 6-year old, this leads to this leads to this, this kind of reductionist way of thinking about everything … does that seem to you to be less than joyously imaginative ?
A: no, i think that’s kind of super-romantic to actually understand that flowers are devices … beautiful devices, elegant devices which are shaped precisely to attract insects and hummingbirds and bats to take pollen from one to another… that is such a mind-blowing thought compared to the tame, sort of washed-out view that flowers are just sort of nice things to have around.’
(audience claps)
interviewer to audience: 'don’t encourage him.'
One of five illustrations produced for Radiolab's live 'Symmetry' show, based on Plato's Symposium.
Read more about it here.
"In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick.
There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. Yet math can't explain most of the human-scale details that make urban life unique. So we head out in search of what the numbers miss, and meet a reluctant city dweller, a man who's walked 700 feet below Manhattan, and a once-thriving community that's slipping away."
For the senior thesis project this semester, I'm focusing on illustrating episodes from WNYC's program Radiolab. This episode was about animal minds and how and/or if we as humans can ever truly understand what other organisms on this planet think.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/flop
(highly recommended to feel better about our flop of a last year)
The straight lines are the wakes of crossing boats — streaking like meteors through Picasso's swirling sky. Like the whorls of fingerprints, no two phytoplankton blooms are exactly alike. Click on image for more detail.
Just off the coast of my Estonian homeland crossing to Sweden, the cyanobacteria are now in florid bloom. Credited in some reports to fertilizer runoff and warmer weather, these blue-green algal blooms have been growing in intensity since I first photographed them here in 2005. Nodularia turns the water a neon color of blue-green with yellow-white filaments, often toxic. They are an ancient type of marine bacteria that captures and stores solar energy through photosynthesis.
These are NASA Earth Observatory images from the Landsat 8 satellite.
And from a Radiolab short podcast: "Every day, every moment, an epic battle is raging across the globe. It’s happening in the ocean. I share the tale of an arms race involving trillions of sea creatures — and why their struggle is vital to our survival."
P.S. the phage-battles are the most epic carnage on Earth — killing 40% of all ocean bacteria, every day... and these blue-green phytoplankton are responsible for half of the oxygen we breathe!
Recently I visited my childhood home and retrieved a few boxes. The contents included many personal items I had accumulated over the first 18 years of my life.
After I brought the boxes home and began examining the items, I was flooded by memories of my childhood. It's interesting that these tiny trinkets could have the power to evoke strong mental images and feelings from so long ago.
More on my mind:
www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2014/01/05/259231250/these-...
And another thing:
FLICKR - I hate how your've restructured viewing my "notes" !! ACKK !!
And even more:
www.radiolab.org/story/things/
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Le Bambole Mk.XIII, "The Pin-Debo-Lair" Pinhole Camera. FujiFilm Instax Wide instant film. 81B warming filter.
In Radiolab We Trust
A limited print set to benefit Radiolab and WNYC.
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Featuring: Jez Burrows, Frank Chimero, Nicholas Felton, Meg Hunt and Impactist.
First series now sold out!
In Radiolab We Trust
A limited print set to benefit Radiolab and WNYC.
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Featuring: Jez Burrows, Frank Chimero, Nicholas Felton, Meg Hunt and Impactist.
First series now sold out!
Still images from my tangential exploration for V&A. Here, I am visualizing a segment of a Radiolab podcast from WNYC.
Read about it here: www.flight404.com/blog/?p=367
Hau‘ula, O‘ahu.
I think I prefer this sepia version over the original color image.
From my series, "Pinholes at high-tide".
Somewhat unrelated, but...
For those of you who are reading this, would like to test their color keenest, and have 10 minutes of free time: Color IQ test
For those of you who think they can see more colors than a mantis shrimp, and have more time to burn, check out this RadioLab podcast on: "Colors"
Le Bambole Mk. VIII, "The Pin-Debonair Pinhole Camera". Kodak Portra 160.
One of five illustrations produced for Radiolab's live 'Symmetry' show, based on Plato's Symposium.
Read more about it here.
Hau‘ula, O‘ahu.
What do you think of while photographing?
Do you wonder/know what the final image will look like? Are you reminded of a memory, emotion, or feeling? Are you at all concerned with how truthfully your images document the scene?
While setting up the above pinhole photos, I thought about the 1855 Crimean War photographs by Roger Fenton. Who would have thought!
If you aren't familiar with the photographs and the bit of controversy with it, check out this RadioLab article and podcast - Click Here.
Le Bambole Mk. VIII, "The Pin-Debonair Pinhole Camera". Kodak Ektar 100.
Originally slated as a “Save NPR” poster, I reinterpreted the traditional cause poster into something that was both functional and informative. Above all, this poster functions as the weekly programming schedule of WBEZ Chicago, a superb NPR station in Chicago. I developed the schedule into an experimental, circular system that could be hung based on the time of day. The poster is separated by either AM/PM programming and is further subdivided into the types of programming/categories by color.
Le Bambole Mk. IX - "The Pin-Deboroid".
50mm focal length, 85º horizontal and 72º vertical angle of view.
Pinhole aperture approx. 0.42 mm, f/119.
3.25x4.25 instant pack film.
My latest pinhole camera project involved hacking together two non-functioning cameras - a Polaroid Colorpack III and Debonair toy camera. The result is a fun, compact and easy-to-use instant pack film pinhole camera!
Filmtastic Plastic Packtastic!!!
Check out my YouTube video to see how I made this camera:
A closer look at the parts needed for this project:
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A special "thanks and mahalo" to Michael Raso of the Film Photography Project. He generously provided me the Debonair camera used in this modification. Super-Positive!
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More on my mind: Radiolab podcast on joybubbles click here.
Still images from my tangential exploration for V&A. Here, I am visualizing a segment of a Radiolab podcast from WNYC.
Read about it here: www.flight404.com/blog/?p=367
In Radiolab We Trust
A limited print set to benefit Radiolab and WNYC.
-
Featuring: Jez Burrows, Frank Chimero, Nicholas Felton, Meg Hunt and Impactist.
First series now sold out!
Genetic code printed on Glass
as used here:
bitesizebio.com/2009/02/19/how-to-get-great-dna-sequencin...
www.yeree.com/nw/002/index.php/article/n85/2009-02-18/415...
monologueblogger.com/2008/02/28/dneirf-drama-1-2-minutes/
blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/03/12/the-code-of-life/
www.allergizer.de/50226711/die_entdeckung_des_allergiegen...