Category: experiment
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MeTube
Or, video blogging for the terminally vain. That may be me. I am well into my third month of recording little studio segments for a putative YouTube channel. The ideas put forward are simple ones, but it is surprising how many occur to the mind. I have not fallen to the level of the man…
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The No Worry Flight
A recent article on flying with lithium ion batteries pointed out the dangers and the necessary precautions. It was well worth reading for those of us who have switched to digital capture, and the measures it advocated were quite sensible. The nervousness about fires and damage reminded me of the era that saw our 35mm…
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The Song Of The Studio Canary
Goes ” Cheap, cheap, cheap! “ And it is a tune we all love. Whenever I get another good idea and am not struck down with a lightning bolt, I repair to the studio parts box and start to construct. The process may involve a good deal of chopping and changing – and a certain…
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Do You Wish To Be A Trend Setter?
Or a fuse-setter. The former encourage people to follow them and then the latter make them regret it. Laying artistic mines has a long history – the dadaists and Pablo Picasso come readily to mind. Dali was the artistic equivalent of HMS ABDIEL or HMS MANXMAN. Andy Warhol was USS TERROR with a soup can.…
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We Need A New School Of Illustrative Art
And I propose that the campus be located in either Kansas City or St. Louis. If we are going to show people what we want them to see, where better than the ” Show Me ” state? If a separate campus is needed in the southern hemisphere the natural choice would be Manangatang in Victoria.…
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Is Your Photography Pure?
Well, mostly. When I did the Ivory Soap job it was 99 and 44/100ths percent pure… Since then I’ve lowered my standards, This enabled me to tuck them in between my morals and my expectations, and I’ve been happy ever since. I’m drawn to this sordid confession by the daily posts of a very good…
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When In Doubt…
Measure it out. I need a Neutral Density filter for my video system – Western Australian sunshine is so strong that it is hard to record outside in the middle of the day and 25fps and 1/50 of a second. I use a Mini Matte Box by Smallrig to shade the lenses and this makes…
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The Rise Of AB
AB? What now? AB – Artificial Belligerence. The tendency for anyone in the artistic or creative world to start a fight as soon as Artificial Intelligence is mentioned. The fights started can be classified: a. Plain fight. Someone mentions the two trigger letters and a photographer, illustrator, writer, or advertising executive arcs up with the…
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The Old And The Unexplored
No – not about ghost towns or abandoned mines. About equipment that has been hanging about for years- unused – and capable of doing things I need right now. I am in the process of learning about video with my computer – and green screen is proving very useful. The native program for it seems…