Tag: Art
HDR Summer
I recently discovered the HDR setting (a very rudimentary version of real HDR) on the camera app of my (non-phone) iPhone, and have been playing with its unpredictability. Apparently it takes multiple images simultaneously with different exposures and juxtaposes them together in order to arrive at the “best” exposure. It also seems to make things extremely and artificially sharp. This generally results in a bleached-out, highly textured image. I also noticed some very slight double exposed portions of the photographs, especially evident along contours and thin lines. I realized soon that this was because if the camera moves at all while the picture is being taken (processed), the different versions (exposures) of the photo are set into the frame at different points within the composition. But because this is HDR, nothing is blurry. So some sections are a bit off-set, and slightly translucent. Therefore, significantly moving the camera while taking a photograph results in some very strange ghost-like versions of various sections of the image. Lens flares are also accentuated, which I like quite a lot.
That said, I find that this shoddy iPhone version of HDR produces photographs which strongly portray exaggerated, dream-like aspects of the summer—or at least ones with which I’ve been interested over the years—such as shimmering foliage, sun-bleached vegetation, the pressing, omnipresence of light and the heat it produces, strong contrasts of dark shadows on white-out dirt roads and certainly images that conjure sounds of birdsong choruses and the massed aural punctuations of insect noise. A lot of this imagery is due in part to my memories of summers as a child in Vermont, my fondness of de Chirico paintings and the descriptions of the beach in Camus’ The Stranger.
Nighttime
Cellphone camera.
Creative Music Guild Compilation 2013
Creative Music Guild presents a cassette compilation for 2013 :
Side A :
Elfin Elephant
Rich Halley
Marisa Anderson/Lori Goldston/John C. Savage
Side B :
Grammies
John Gross Trio
Amenta Abioto
Catherine Lee
For sale here, digitally :
http://creativemusicguild.bandcamp.com
and here, physically :
info@creativemusicguild.org
Artwork and design by me.
Lubber at Albany International Airport
Saw this incredible sculpture, entitled Lubber, by Dean Snyder, at the Albany International Airport yesterday. They exhibit some of the best artwork I’ve seen in any airport.
Collages
After making this handbill for the Creative Music Guild, I was inspired to make some collages using similar techniques, but much more involved. I’ve never really done work like this before, except for a bit in college, and creating these was extremely satisfying. All the elements were collaged from my photographs, often abstract photos taken with either an old cell phone or an iPhone 4.
Handbill for Untoward benefit
This is a handbill I created for the Untoward Festival, a benefit for the Creative Music Guild. The following bands are playing: Grammies, Paper / Upper / Cuts, Dragging an Ox through Water and Marisa Anderson. DJ vs. Nature from Beacon Sound will also be spinning throughout the night.
EV Fest photographs
Some pictures from the EV Fest, located at the galleries Multiplex, Sohitek and Timeshare. A fantastic array of experimental and improv electronic, hip hop and varieties of dance music. At Multiplex, there were many video synthesizers at work, as is evident in these photos. Some of the others are of the enormous parking garage which connected the galleries, spanning a city block.
(Camera: Cell phone)
Folded in
(Camera: iPhone 4)
Obscurity in the summer
(Camera: iPhone 4)