Hiran, the art director at BlueFly, and I were experimenting the other day. These are small stringed Christmas lights. The circles of confusion take on a star shape because we put sex lube on to the UV filter screwed onto the front of a Canon 70-200 f2.8 lens…and then with a finger, traced a simple five line star, outward from the center. Application was quite sloppy actually, but it still yielded nice results, at f2.8 and back focussed at close range.

The above images were created by opening the movie, “Brian Eno, The Man Who Fell to Earth 1971-1977″ in VLC then, when paused, skipping about through the timeline. At some points the images resolved correctly, but in a lot of others the images got heavily distorted, creating the chunky artifacts you see above.

The effect is on par with the screenshots I’ve taken of OS X getting glitchy, distorted. And while dissimilar both in production and effect, I’m still wanting to get back to the databending I’d done nearly a year ago.

But before I go…the documentary itself is worth a peek:

Saw this photo on Patagonia’s homepage. Love it.

Super psyched for Sound Noir tomorrow night. Dance with me!

A telescope into the past and the future. The Wall timescope lets viewers experience their surroundings in different times and states. Using a combination of binocular optics and web cam, the timescope shows viewers the scene that lies before them as live web cam transmission – and it transports them through time by adding visual content, creating the illusion of the same scene in the past or future. History becomes alive, and the future is only a blink away.

From Wall’s New Perspectives. via Future Perfect

The timing of my finding this work is great, as I’m starting to generate ideas for April’s Sound Noir 3 Year Anniversary.

Because there’s no good place — screen — to project on at The Morgan, I’m again enlisting the balloons I used for the John Roberts / Norm Talley party in November of 2010.

The videos of the piece have opened up my thinking in terms of how the balloons might be arranged. I’m not looking to have them move throughout the space, but hanging them in a more dynamic pattern is definitely a possibility.

Additionally, as Jessica Angel prompted me, I could employ projection mapping onto the arrangement of the balloons. This would definitely be taking things to the next level, and at the moment I’m not at all sure how I’d approach it. I probably shouldn’t have even mentioned it… :)

Below is another perspective on the piece:

via @CJN

860–880 Lake Shore Drive

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