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p a n o p t i c o n ∞ is
a warren of rabbit-holes Rabbit Hole: a complexly bizarre or difficult state or situation conceived of as a hole into which one falls or descends https://www.merriam-webster.com/ Rabbit Hole: a metaphor for something that transports someone into a wonderfully (or troublingly) surreal state or situation. |
On the internet, a rabbit hole frequently refers to an extremely engrossing and time-consuming topic. https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole/ |
Meanings, Musings, Interests, Intentions - some more words about pictures
I think that ART usually makes about as much sense as anything else. And sometimes even more.
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Is It Art yet?
What makes any given image a "Work of Art" anyway? Is Photography viewed as a second-class medium, not quite Fine Art like Painting or Sculpture since it is less about hand-eye coordination and is easily reproduced? If the image in question is a painting, then it must be "Art" – ipso facto – because it is the artist's "interpretation" of the original/source image – not a photo reproduction. |
Ten to One? Odds are it's a p a n o r a m a
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I see things differently.
I believe a "panorama" is defined by the AI process used to assemble an image - and not by some 10:1 ratio, wide-angle lens or 170 degrees field of view. For me, "panorama" is a tool, a means to an unknown end, a technological filter that allows the unfurling multiple vanishing points, the blurring of space and time. A digital idiot savant helping me create, remapping a journey through 3-D space onto a 2-D plane. Which is flat-out impossible. Stitch-Glitch Perfection is boring. Flawed photos are more fun. I appreciate the jagged black edges as evidence of the software's limitations and embrace the random choices it makes as it struggles to render order out of the chaos I feed it. These distorted panoramas are not mistakes. They're both intentional and wholly haphazardly accidental at the same time. Here you'll find irrefutable photographic evidence of the fractured realities I regularly encounter. |
Itch
Warning: once seen, none of these images can be unseen. Photos do not lie - and the truth can sometimes hurt. I'm a documentarian, recording specific moments in time and space, capturing bouncing light rays with the digital net of a ccd screen on my phone, storing and sharing the data later - the Ones and Zeros converted back into rays of light, beaming out from the screens of your digital devices directly into your visual cortex. Thank you for your participation in my temporal experiments. When you are viewing these images it gives them meaning. Un-seen, they do not exist. These images are artifacts from the past of a possible reality that I recorded and now share for your enjoyment. All images were taken by me using an iPhone (5, 6, 6S, 11Pro). All (my) images are copyright by me . |
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Meaning + Interests
A Panorama is a unique thing unto itself. It is like a Photograph; it is like a Movie – yet is neither. The bastard child of photography and film, a Panorama shares characteristics of both, but gets less attention, a sideshow attraction. A Panorama, a paradox, how can this image be? A picture that contains multitudes, like a holograph. A Panorama is not a photograph - more like a movie that has been stilled, A photograph freezes time. In a panorama, time is merely gelled. Why is there a 360-degree limit? Because always? And so the auto-stitch software is still focused on the Cylindrical/Spherical single-axis problem-solving - and correcting and adjusting the image assuming it was shot following the Axis Rules. I'm interested in digital degradation. How saving and re-saving a jpeg reduces the image quality. I like to zoom in deep so the image gets grainy. Magnify to the point of mystery, what is that, what does this image represent? I like when the TV glitches, I like blurring the image, the subject is moving or I’m shaking the phone as I’m clicking. This relates to my interest in the idea of Minimal Information. Simplify the Mona Lisa, reduce the visual data to squares. How big can the squares get and still convey what you see? How much can I blur a photo but still have enough information in the image so the viewer can understand what it is a picture of. How it relates to how well the stich-glitching works if you don't look to closely. Often, I’m taking a picture of the light itself and the surfaces and textures, not the object it illuminates. I like the quality of light, more drawn to bright afternoon sun but sometimes dark and overcast light produces more emotional or subtle and maybe therefore more compelling / interesting. It doesn’t hit you over the head with exciting color, you have to look a little harder, pay more attention. I like outdoor photography for the changeable conditions and the variety of opportunities. But indoors by day but more by night with interior lighting can also provide a quality of light I like. Incandescent is my preference but fluorescent has its own harsh charm for me. I’m interested in street photography |
Sometimes an image just strikes me as perfect, like it couldn't have been composed any other way. Sometimes the same place can look completely different seven different ways.
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Musings
I frequently think I am taking a photo of one thing, but when I look at the results,
I find it’s some other detail in the photo that ends up being what I’m interested in.
Every photo has the potential to be something worth seeing. I take multiple pictures
at once – I could never Irving Pen it - “one and done” is only to miss possibilities.
I take at least 3, as many as x, each a slightly different take.
In part this is because when I’m shooting outside I can’t see the screen very well.
Sometimes I don’t (can't) even look at the images until later.
When I say shooting from the hip, I mean it literally.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A simple idiom. Some truth to it, but pictures can also lie.
I feel like my pictures should speak for themselves.
That said, I think about photography a lot, like what do the words
"Pictures," "Photography" and "Art" mean?
Would alien species even think to invent photography? Or bother to, if they did?
Not if they had photographic memories.
I feel things about the pictures I take.
Sometimes I feel compelled to take a picture,
I see something and need to capture it for my collection of meaningful visual moments.
Mostly it’s about the light first, the composition second.
But it’s not enough to stuff them in a digital scrapbook.
Unless I share them, they have no real meaning.
I frequently think I am taking a photo of one thing, but when I look at the results,
I find it’s some other detail in the photo that ends up being what I’m interested in.
Every photo has the potential to be something worth seeing. I take multiple pictures
at once – I could never Irving Pen it - “one and done” is only to miss possibilities.
I take at least 3, as many as x, each a slightly different take.
In part this is because when I’m shooting outside I can’t see the screen very well.
Sometimes I don’t (can't) even look at the images until later.
When I say shooting from the hip, I mean it literally.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A simple idiom. Some truth to it, but pictures can also lie.
I feel like my pictures should speak for themselves.
That said, I think about photography a lot, like what do the words
"Pictures," "Photography" and "Art" mean?
Would alien species even think to invent photography? Or bother to, if they did?
Not if they had photographic memories.
I feel things about the pictures I take.
Sometimes I feel compelled to take a picture,
I see something and need to capture it for my collection of meaningful visual moments.
Mostly it’s about the light first, the composition second.
But it’s not enough to stuff them in a digital scrapbook.
Unless I share them, they have no real meaning.
Panoramas, the Paranormal, Parallel Universes,
wordsParanoia paranormal panorama panic
I have no political motivations; I’m not trying to say anything about what is fake and what is real.
I am trying to prove that Multiple Parallel Universes [MPU] do exist - they are in constant state of flux.
Static Electricity is proof. Not only is it possible to photograph the portals between MPU
- and even take photographs while but in them as well.
Photography is a form of time travel.
They mean whatever they mean to you.
I feel things about the pictures I take.
Sometimes I feel compelled to take a picture,
I see something and need to capture it for my collection of meaningful visual moments.
Mostly it’s about the light first, the composition second.
But it’s not enough to stuff them in a digital scrapbook.
Unless I share them, they have no real meaning.
wordsParanoia paranormal panorama panic
I have no political motivations; I’m not trying to say anything about what is fake and what is real.
I am trying to prove that Multiple Parallel Universes [MPU] do exist - they are in constant state of flux.
Static Electricity is proof. Not only is it possible to photograph the portals between MPU
- and even take photographs while but in them as well.
Photography is a form of time travel.
They mean whatever they mean to you.
I feel things about the pictures I take.
Sometimes I feel compelled to take a picture,
I see something and need to capture it for my collection of meaningful visual moments.
Mostly it’s about the light first, the composition second.
But it’s not enough to stuff them in a digital scrapbook.
Unless I share them, they have no real meaning.
I take pictures with different goals.
In general, I’m trying to push things to make images that are harder to understand or harder to look at
I like imperfections and defects
I like to make it hard for the processor and algorithms keep up.
GRAPHICS - not so much the what the image is of as emotional effect the composition has on me, does it make me happy to look at it.
I take pictures with different goals.
In general, I’m trying to push things to make images that are harder to understand or harder to look at
I like imperfections and defects
I like to make it hard for the processor and algorithms keep up.
GRAPHICS - not so much the what the image is of as emotional effect the composition has on me, does it make me happy to look at it.
Street Photography
Like "Panorama," "Street Photography" covers wide ground.
I TAKE PICTURES
Yes, absolutely. “I took a picture.”
Why is it such an pushy verb for a passive action
- bending light and preserving the pattern for later reference.
Is taking a picture an aggressive act?
I took your picture - and I’m not giving it back.
I’m taking something, but nothing of value to you. Except for your privacy.
“I got the shot,” “I’ve captured the moment,” “Stolen a soul.”
I TAKE A Picture. I don’t give one. Generally speaking, I don't give one.
What if I take your picture without permission?
Do I have the right to anyway, if you are out in public?
Paparazzi are rightfully despised, but why does the regular Joe - perhaps out for a walk
with somebody they shouldn't be - have the right to expect privacy in a public space?
What if it makes for an excellent Street Pic?
Like "Panorama," "Street Photography" covers wide ground.
I TAKE PICTURES
Yes, absolutely. “I took a picture.”
Why is it such an pushy verb for a passive action
- bending light and preserving the pattern for later reference.
Is taking a picture an aggressive act?
I took your picture - and I’m not giving it back.
I’m taking something, but nothing of value to you. Except for your privacy.
“I got the shot,” “I’ve captured the moment,” “Stolen a soul.”
I TAKE A Picture. I don’t give one. Generally speaking, I don't give one.
What if I take your picture without permission?
Do I have the right to anyway, if you are out in public?
Paparazzi are rightfully despised, but why does the regular Joe - perhaps out for a walk
with somebody they shouldn't be - have the right to expect privacy in a public space?
What if it makes for an excellent Street Pic?
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Cropping, Square, Right, True, Diagonal, Golden Rectangle, Third Eye,
A Mobius Strip has only two sides. A Panorama can only be cropped on two sides. I have rules I follow for cropping my pictures - but I break them regularly. I have a love-hate with the square. An easy way out - gives structure to prop up weak composition. But still, effective. It's organic, the image tells me where to cut, what’s in, what’s out. The picture tells a story, the truth of course, but a story about an event. THIS is what/how it transpired. what’s in tells something, what’s left out can drastically affect the image’s effect, change our emotional response |
Gregory Crewdson, upstate NY Artist, staged photographs are a single frame movie, he creates a set. How long the movie lasts is up to the viewer. And then afterwards, how often the viewer recalls the image, how much time spent recollecting - and how accurately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson http://thephotographicjournal.com/interviews/gregory-crewdson/ |
HEROS
You can’t help but be influenced - other photographers of course but also painters and culture and technology. So many artists important to me from age 9 or so. I’m having enough trouble trying to organize my own words and pictures. To comment on so many would take to long. Here in no order are a bunch of famous people who took pictures that I really admire. Some painters too. In no particular order since it would be impossible to sort…
- Elliot Erwin
- Diane Arbus
- Peter Kerns
- Dutch guy
Francis Bacon is a hero. My first choice for 10-hour pub crawl.
In reference to Cartier-Bresson's famous photo essay, The Mind's Eye
Francis Bacon is one of my heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
Saw life as a risk Chance played such a big role in everything
“if anything does work, well chance and what I call Accident takes over”
twisted horrors
violent reactions David Sylvester PR for FB
a way of shielding his images
finding a way to avoid the questions and to keep the paintings fresh 35:42 Damien Hurst
to keep you looking at the paining and to never give you answers
rhys mews off south kent London
38: how are you going to trap reality?
42: when you paint something you’re not only painting the subject, you’re painting yourself,
as well as the object that you’re trying to record
1:00 seems a bit mad to be paint portraits of dead people
after all, if their flesh has rotted away once they’re dead
you have your memory of them but you haven’t got them
You can’t help but be influenced - other photographers of course but also painters and culture and technology. So many artists important to me from age 9 or so. I’m having enough trouble trying to organize my own words and pictures. To comment on so many would take to long. Here in no order are a bunch of famous people who took pictures that I really admire. Some painters too. In no particular order since it would be impossible to sort…
- Elliot Erwin
- Diane Arbus
- Peter Kerns
- Dutch guy
Francis Bacon is a hero. My first choice for 10-hour pub crawl.
In reference to Cartier-Bresson's famous photo essay, The Mind's Eye
Francis Bacon is one of my heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
Saw life as a risk Chance played such a big role in everything
“if anything does work, well chance and what I call Accident takes over”
twisted horrors
violent reactions David Sylvester PR for FB
a way of shielding his images
finding a way to avoid the questions and to keep the paintings fresh 35:42 Damien Hurst
to keep you looking at the paining and to never give you answers
rhys mews off south kent London
38: how are you going to trap reality?
42: when you paint something you’re not only painting the subject, you’re painting yourself,
as well as the object that you’re trying to record
1:00 seems a bit mad to be paint portraits of dead people
after all, if their flesh has rotted away once they’re dead
you have your memory of them but you haven’t got them
Koans
a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism
to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning
and to provoke enlightenment.
When taken correctly, a panorama can provide similar enlightenment
a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism
to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning
and to provoke enlightenment.
When taken correctly, a panorama can provide similar enlightenment