A truth that releases a waterfall of emotion. It is this energy that propels us through The Tree of Life. A voluptuous, bulging energy shaped and encouraged by sweeping camera movement, ultra wide lenses, lyrical blocking, the safe-harbor of Jessica Chastain’s face, and the vacillation in Hunter McCracken’s. These combine to create scenes that perfectly [...]
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Chronocyclegraph of bricklaying
By Frank Gilbreth (1912) Via lecture 4: traces at light matters.
21 June 2010
CCD and computational photography
A few links on imaging and computation: I’ve concluded that the promise of RFID was eclipsed by another technology out there that’s poised to become more and more disruptive, not only to RFID, but to a host of technologies, and that’s the CCD. from CCD by Joe Gregorio. Via BERG. Cameras might allow a photographer [...]
18 March 2010
Crossing Borders
A visualization of private spaces in public photography. A design probe on digital mannerism by choy ka fai Via BERG.
2 February 2010
Graffiti as conversation
I’ve been photographing layers of conversation in graffiti, and tagging the pictures with conversation. Prior art for spatial annotation?
28 February 2005
Photos of touch-based interfaces
In the way that Victor Lombardi is collecting images of cardreaders, I am beginning to collect images of touch-based interfaces like the Oyster card and other ‘touchable’ interfaces on public transport. If you want to contribute, tag your photos with ‘touchinterface’.
25 February 2005
Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004
Here is my presentation [pdf] and presentation notes from Design Engaged 2004. Lots of pretty pictures of stickers, tags, flyposting and such. I will chip in with Dan, Adam, Matt, Molly and Fabio to say that this has been the conference highlight of the year.
15 November 2004
Time that land forgot
Timo Arnall & Even Westvang.
At the Iceland inside and out workshop Even Westvang and Timo Arnall collaborated on a project looking at ways of contextualising photographs by time and geography. We chose to shift the balance of representation away from location, towards image and time. This is a summary of our ideas and process, with an initial working prototype.
30 July 2004
Photography and mapping from Afar
My piece for ‘Afar’ in Copenhagen documents the time from 27 February to 19 May 2004. It presents a linear sequence of images alongside personal maps.
28 July 2004
Geo-referenced photography
In Hofn, Iceland we are working on tools for geographic and time-referenced photography. This is our research into platforms and tools for connecting photographic and geographic data.
6 July 2004
Public markup
This research looks at the marking of public space by investigating the physical annotation of the city: stickering, graffiti and billboards. It attempts to find patterns in this marking practice by looking at visibility, techniques, process, location, content and audience. It proposes ways in which this marking can be used as a layer between the physical city, and digital spatial annotation.
17 May 2004
Selected Flickr
