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More kaleidoscopic kuts
The first minute, refined.
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Frames
Playing with individual frames. More kaleidoscopic kraziness.
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More kaleidoscopic play
A continuation of test footage using a kaleidoscope and composition by Mike Vernusky. Considering different color combinations, textures, rhythms. I’ll continue to lay down raw material like this, then begin to play with individual frames.
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Acorns
A brief trip to Wilmington, N.C., for the Cucalorus Film Festival and a screening of “Autumnal.” Of all the photos I snapped, this one is my favorite.
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Video
A short video of the same painted footage in the previous posts. Composition by Mike Vernusky. Test sequence for a larger project?
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Photography[painting]5
This time, a slide from a painted 35mm filmstrip. An Arabesque:
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Photography[painting]3
Makes me think of stained glass or a beehive.
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Photography[painting]2
Closeup of the eyedropper/ink/paper play. Funky little chemical reaction created the copper-like patina.
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Photography[painting]
Playing around with eyedroppers, inks and watercolor paper. Photography through a kaleidoscope reminds me of looking at the world through a slide and microscope. Or a telescope to the stars.
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Letter
I must remember to water the plants tomorrow morning.
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Letter
Dear T.: I keep composing letters to you in my head, yet never commit them to paper or to film. Perhaps tonight, I’ll begin…
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Obama
Real Americans vote.
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Video[stills]
In advance of my screening at the Cucalorus Film Festival, I returned to “Autumnal” to massage a few transitions that didn’t sit well with me. A few stills from the video:
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Seattle
A week in Seattle, exploring, reveals a hidden corner of a crumbling warehouse in the Georgetown neighborhood. Of all the photos I shot, this one is my favorite.
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Greenpoint
Another autumn day too beautiful to stay indoors. My camera keeps me engaged with the world when inspiration otherwise eludes me.
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Greenpoint
A prolonged period of inertia and uncertainty. I come back to the camera. The street becomes theater — or, rather, television. I love how the gel on the spotlight creates a lens flare.
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Filmstrip
Mired in mental muck. A painted 35mm filmstrip from March.
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Video
A test sequence w. a composition by Mike Vernusky.
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Vidéo[caméra]
72 hours in Montreal, including a brief stop to play at Buckmister Fuller’s Biosphere. Highly manipulated audio track by Mike Vernusky.
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Video[camera]
Cutting through the static with sculpture. Kaleidoscopic Kamera at Socrates Sculpture Park. Audio by Mike Vernusky.
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Photo
Not working this week. Staying close to home.
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Photo[s]
More Danaus plexippus through the looking glass. Clickable for larger views.
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Photo
An excursion to the butterfly pavilion at the Bronx Zoo yields a kaleidoscopic jewel.
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Video
Back to animating individual frames for Cosmos. Cutting each image down to a frame or two is tedious as all hell, but I can cheat it by cropping them to a few seconds each, then running the whole clip in fast motion. Nuance and rhythm is lost, but it gives be a basic idea of…