Street photography series coming soon. I´m waiting to get an epson 500 this week.
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Monthly Archive for December, 2009
Have not touched the software ´processing´since a project this summer, but started playing a few days ago; it´s almost like you forget which powerful tool it is. Last Christmas was a fun experiment time with this with little poet. I hope you don´t let go of this interest too ;) Openprocessing acceses you to a lot of free code that people share, which makes it a very good place to start playing with this code and what it may visualize. This is an example. Sure there´s a bug, but it´s good code.
A very mystic piece of a timeline. Mystic worth your time though. Even just for the sound design. As such it really stages how sounds define interpretation of form. I´m sure the responsible person for the camera was not bored. It would be nice to see the process behind this.
The Interpretation from YouWorkForThem on Vimeo.
“A work of art that explores the relationship between nature, motion and sound, The Interpretation takes us on a languid journey through a slowly flourishing forest. Hinting at vague memories of microbiology and rotating through a cool organic spectrum of greens, blues, browns, blacks and whites; this motion-based work will entrance its viewer as the forest evolves. The Interpretation is set to a minimal score filled with authentic sounds of nature, complimenting the environmental essence of the visuals.”
via changethought
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It might be a good thing to make Sunday mornings excursions a routine. It is already for many people, as well to go early in the morning is for many the transition from their night happenings to going home. It might not be a story of happiness, but it might be a decisive moment in that persons life. My lady and I both witnessed some moments today that made us quite curious of the sequence of events before that. As it is a challenge to capture the person you don´t know, in the right composition, the right setting (contextually) and technically correct. If you can plan or preview these factors in the speed of light and move quickly you have an advantage. There was a youth who really caught my attention on my morning walk, he was dressed all in black, oversized clothes, had shoes double the size of his feet and was as I perceived it in some kind of universe that I could not see. I was walking the same way, but made it so I would really bump into him. I did so because I thought it was so particular, a curiosity of his mindset. You realize sometimes that despite language barriers this might really be also an advantage, because they see you as someone they perhaps will never see again. Anyhows, I sort of asked him if I could photograph him, and he did not object so I needed to be quick, and nail it there and then. It was special. I don´t know if I was able to do it right, but I felt I only had one chance. It´s all about seeing it before “you see it”, or what would be as “we would see it later”.
Later I have been asking myself it would have been more right to just get on a proper conversation with him, and perhaps one should really be brave and say, hey, i´m going to propose something unusual, let me spend half an hour with you and let me follow you and make three frames of you, i would not intervene, just be an observer. couldn´t i just hang around and only talk with him? maybe i could but then there is never the factor of perpetuation, of being able to go back and look at it. perhaps more important is that selecting moments forces you to look at those, and that´s why timing is such a crucial thing. we don´t have the eyes of a camera, this also make a grand difference.
There´s gotta be a comfort level in the dialogue and your intentions. I do this all because I want to understand life better. I am curious yet frightened.
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So it is no secret that I invest heavily too much in films. Enough to actually build (or at least the attempt) a new medium format. It really is mostly dark wherever in Europe now, so either it´s pushing 400 film or genuinely neopan 1600, a very great film. Now it really is time to get a proper scanner; looks like this might be able to become reality soon. Now off to the streets.
Music for a saturday: Honey Trap (Le Matos remix)
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I used to play with filters for my digital camera several years ago, and as I was digging through my archive I refound a series that I´ve never posted before. The interesting thing with these infrared images, is that they cross over to the feel of film; at the very least the aspect of digital photography submerges of significance. I sense this images with suggestive tones, and I think that is something that can make photography so interesting. What you see existed. The pieces between are connected by the observer.
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Elegant graphic layouts by typographic adventurer Aron Jansco. He has design a typeface named Ogaki, of which applied in the second poster here. I find it inspiring to discover so much great poster design lately. Besides his balanced graphical layouts I think what make his work his is his feel to colors as well; going through his portfolio you see a great development. I think we can expect to see more from Aron.
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as they would say in the paix-bas/netherlands. Although this might well not be dutch, it´s in dutch territory; still i´d like to think it´s dutch ;)
So this domestic innovation concept was presented at the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, in Eindhoven. Wouldn´t you sit there, at the very least as a guest. Although the soft side could have pulled its aesthetics, it is still quite cool that the designer blended these together.
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This Monday my team and I took off to Switzerland for project matters, and stayed in lugano 2 nights. We were met with a mild snowstorm on the roads of switzerland, just as we crossed from Austria all the way through San Bernandino, until the tranformation became the less favourable rain. The whole snowfield slowed us down, but it was adventurous nonetheless. The weather did get much better though and specially this morning was perfect. I woke up at 7ish, to go out for a morning jog by the lake, and figured I might as well do a little recording of the moment the sun was rising behind the massive mountains that really are the border to Italy.
Ulrich Schnauss playing subtly from the mac. This is Switzerland, probably the country with the highest standards globally, and also such captivating sceneries. I felt very lucky waking up to this. Might be sorta lengthy, i might make a speeded up version. And sorry about the stupid alarm clock :/
Lugano Dawn from Joachim on Vimeo.
