Category: Photographs

We went to the Bruce Mau show on Massive Change: The Future of Global Design at the Art Gallery of Ontario. After being disspointed in the web site (see Massive Change and Overrated Sight) I was more favorably impressed by the show. The first thing my wife noticed standing in line was how young the people coming were – it seems to have reached a demographic that doesn’t come to galleries. The show itself is didactic – there is lots of text to read and to listen to and most of it is earnest in an improving way. What is impressive is how they have taken what is essentially an essay and turned it into an exhibit that seemed to work for the 20-something crowd. The points are illustrated and exhibited in interesting ways like the room of images showing the ways we visualize our world.
One side of me wished I could afford to turn a course into an exhibit like this. Imagine if you could exhibit a class and then assign the show as a field-trip alternative to the lecture. Hmmmm….
Another annoying feature of the show was that it treated everything as design. In many ways it was about politics and the environment. To think that design in anything other than the weak sense of creative solutions is the key is hubris. In a sense everthing human is designed, that is what we call intentional behavior aimed at a new outcome. In a stronger sense design is a subset of such practices and politicians are not designers.
Continue reading Massive Change, the Show

don’t think, just shoot

The lomographic Society International is dedicated to a style of random and immediate photography. The site is fascinating, even if the results are intentionally pedestrian, everyday, and strangely composed.
See THE.10.GOLDEN.RULES_. It is like automatic writing with a Russian camera.
Note that word is a commercial trademark – a company has pushed the technique and their LOMO camera which is available for sale on the site. This camera in turn has been licensed from a Russian company that originally made them. See Lomography: Information From Answers.com. I love the name and idea, but smell a cult.

The Gigapxl Project shooting super high-resolution images (approaching 4000 megapixels) of landscapes. See the story in Wired News: Photographer Seeks Resolution. If I understand the project, they are not using a digital camera, rather a film-plate camera and then scanning the images.
Thanks to Craig McNaughton for this.

Global Graphica | Photo Blog of Street Art, Graffiti, Graphics, Interiors, Architecture, Urban Landscapes, City Life & Much More | Resource for Global Creatives – well that just about says it all. The photos and text are worth thinking about, even if some are rushed.

I got an e-mail from Joseph Francis drawing attention to a blog entry about pioneering work he did on Photo Mosaics. He was following up a post here on Photo Mosaics.
Digital Artform is the name of the blog, and it has a number of longer posts about digital art effects.

In the wake is in memory of the buried temple I came across on the Tamil coast. It is for us to give.

Shining Dunes of snow is another small photo set from the holidays.

Shadowed Snow is a small collection of photos taken this holiday in the woods of Cootes.

Ever wondered how to make images out of mosaics of other images? William Hunt has a site devoted to PhotoTiled Pictures. Of interest is how Dali copied an early photo mosaic painting each tile – see the history page.
I came across this on a page on Photo Mosaic Software Information for your Digital Photos at the Design & Publishing site (www.graphic-design.com).

The Sky Out East is the first short photo gallery from my trip to Eastern Canada. More to come!