Limitless Pulse

Found a nice collection of film stills from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Lil the Dancer is pictured above, but I found the image on Wikipedia rather than in the film stills thread. The Wikipedia entry contains a breakdown of the clues Lil is using to brief Special Agent Chester Desmond:

• Lil is wearing a sour face:
  • This means that Desmond will have problems with the local authorities; they will not be receptive to the FBI.
• Both of her eyes are blinking:
  • This means that there will be trouble higher up; the eyes of the local authorities.
• She has one hand in her pocket:
  • The local authorities are hiding something.
• Her other hand is made into a fist:
  • The local authorities are likely to be belligerent and aggressive.
• She is walking on the spot:
  • This means that there will be a lot of leg work involved in the investigation.
• Cole states that Lil is his “mother’s sister’s girl”:
  • Missing in that sentence is the word “uncle”; this is then elaborated on when…
• Cole places four fingers in front of his eyes like prison bars:
  • This suggests that the uncle of the sheriff is in prison.
• The dress has been tailored (with different-colored thread) to fit Lil:
  • This is a code for drugs; drugs will be involved with the investigation.
• Pinned to the dress is a blue rose:
  • This is the one element that Desmond refuses to explain to his partner, Special Agent Sam Stanley. In fact, the meaning of the blue rose is never explained in the course of the movie, and is left to the viewer’s imagination. There is an article on the blue rose at Twin Peaks Studios, a website with explanations for many mysteries in Twin Peaks.

Spiro test, originally uploaded by Hobsonish.

I’m looking for imagery for the visuals I’m doing for the March 6th Sound Noir, and not surprisingly, I’ve turned to Flickr for inspiration and raw material.

The “Blog This” link at the tops of Flickr images seems to have existed as long as I’ve been using this app. Somehow I’ve never clicked it.

Clicking it, I composed this post from within Flickr.

This is great as Flickr images often get reposted here on Limitless Pulse. Assuming this looks good, I can see myself using this feature quite a bit.

UPDATE: It looks great.

Slightly forking the subject, related to “blog this” and painting with light, the post’s editing page on Flickr linked to this painting with light gallery. Some incredible work collected there.

I jumped into Google Maps a few moments ago, and found that they’ve now got Street View mapping Whistler’s ski slopes.

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Peep the ride they used to shoot the mountain:

via @sfj

I’ve been taking turns hiding from, then digging into, the pre-production for the visuals for March 6th. Today I saw an image from a post by @sfj that’s got me thinking in a direction I’d forgotten about: projecting on unconventional surfaces.

The shot above was taken by @sfj at the 40th Anniversary of The Loft which happened Sunday. Balloons have been a constant component at the parties from very early on. Aiming a projector at the balloons takes them further.

This isn’t a completely new idea for me. While I was living at 129 Vanderbilt, I was looking to fill one room’s ceiling with balloons and project on them. It would be very different from the example above as the projection would be spread across maybe a dozen or so balloons. The effect of this, and I know it from projecting on flat ceilings, is that from underneath, the projection looks completely abstract. It’s when you’re directly in line with the projected light that the image comes back together and is legible. The effect is similar to that of the 3D sidewalk chalk art we’ve seen.

While the idea isn’t new for me, it’s entirely customary for others. Tony Oursler’s been projecting on unorthodox surfaces since 1991:

via ici et autre part on Flickr

via ici et autre part on Flickr

At our last Sound Noir meeting Lenny brought up the idea of incorporating installation art into the parties. He was suggesting that even lacking an artist working with installations, we could piece together our own creations which wouldn’t need to be particularly expensive, nor time consuming, in order for them to have an effect.

A couple well placed, large balloons serving as screens might do the trick.

It’s been a while since I’ve been paying attention to fashion photography, but I was taken by the images in Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s February Paris Vogue editorial, ‘Vogue-á-Porter.’

Head to The Photography Link for the full editorial.

via @vikramkansara

I was digging deep into my Delicious bookmarks and came across a link to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work. The link was dead, but I remember being inspired by the piece he installed in Mexico City, so I googled him to see what he’s up to these days. Delightfully I found his latest piece launched last night: Vectorial Elevation.

Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this web site lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.

I don’t have time at the moment to play with it, especially since Google Earth isn’t playing with Chrome nicely — laughable. But if I’m able to come up with a compelling configuration, I’ll look to post the results here.

Go out and juggle 20 light-cannons!

I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to. This film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation.

via today and tomorrow via kottke

I’ve worked a bit to tweak the Twitter tweets integration in this site’s sidebar.

I’m using the WordPress feedList Plugin which allows me to funnel in content from RSS feeds. Originally I was piping in the content from my @lightwerk account, but since I decided the @soundnoir feed was pertinent as well, I turned to Yahoo Pipes to combine the two.

I’ve got the Pipe I created for the task grabbing the two RSS feeds from the accounts, but initially the content was doubled up — each tweet was displayed in plain text and as a link at the same time. To fix that I removed the description from the feed.

To edit the RSS feed, I first had a look at the raw contents of the feed using Feed Proxy. With it I was able to pinpoint the “item’s” “description.” Knowing how to address it, I used the Regex module in Yahoo Pipes to find that bit of data and replace it with nothing, essentially deleting it.

Next, I grabbed the newly combined feed’s RSS addy and pasted it into the sidebar.php file of my WordPress theme. It worked correctly, displaying the combination of both feeds in one place.

To highlight the fact that the tweets are coming from two separate accounts, I again turned to the Regex module and searched for the usernames preceding the tweets themselves. By matching ^(lightwerk:) and replacing it with <div>lightwerk:</div> I was able to focus on the usernames and highlight them through their CSS property.

You can see the end result in the image above, and, of course, in the sidebar to the left. I’m pretty happy with it.

One note, since it seems this could be useful for someone else, I’ve published the Yahoo Pipe that drives this functionality. A cool thing about Pipes is that when a given Pipe is published, others can clone and edit it for their own purposes. Feel free to help yourself.