Marc Levoy – Advanced Photographic Research
Photography + technology = *Drool*
This is a great video (almost an hour long, be warned) of an interview with Professor Marc Levoy. Man, I want to take a class with him! He is the part of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford and he gets to work around some amazing imaging technology. (I also like him because of his e-mail listing on this page.) In the video he talks about computational photography; photographs that cannot exist without the help of a computer including images that can have the focus and depth of field changed after the photo is recorded.
This is a long video and, if you can get through the sometimes off-point questions (in my opinion) from Robert Scobble and Thomas Hawk (why are you talking about your 5-D!?!), this is a super video with wonderful information presented by a man who seems to really get a kick out of the work he is doing. What he says about Ansel Adams is 100% right on the money. (You will just have to watch it to find out!) (The snark on Robert and Thomas aside, I thank those guys for doing it and posting it.)
At one point Levoy pulls this huge book off of a shelf that contains various papers that were written for the Siggraph conference that I would love to sift through. If anyone has a copy, I would love to get it from you! I wantitIwantitIwantit!!!
Gigposters.com
I just found out about this site. It is a gigantic library of music gig posters. And I mean Gi-frickin-gantic. I have yet to really search through it but on a quick glance, there are some real beauties in there. There is also a bunch of crap too.
You can search by band or by the designer. They also have a place to sell posters and other music merch. I did a quick search for Modest Mouse and came up with 145 posters. Some are super cool too:
And I have this Decemberists one designed by Mike King (reminder to self: go get it framed!):
If you find any cool posters, let me know in the comments!
Perspective is Everything
This is a detail of a very large image (60 X 100″) by Seattle Artist/Photographer/Activist Chris Jordan. The full size is the visual representation of how many containers are processed in American ports in twelve hours (38,000). This is part of his series “Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait“. It is a collection of visuals that are created in Photoshop that shows contemporary American consumption. It is very impressive.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images.
He is probably right. I would love to see this exhibition some time.
Here is Chris is on the Colbert Report and on Bill Moyers. He is also going to be speaking at the TED conference this year (which I will miss yet again this year because some lacky keeps leaving me off the guest list!)
RAINBOW DIVIDERS!!!!!!!……
Welcome to web .20. Don’t forget to refresh your browser as there seems to be an unlimited amount of these eyesores.
Why do I love this so much? I should envy the blind but…there you go.
Moo
Oh, MAN! I love this! Crazy music, crazy animation with rampaging mutant cattle…give me whatever Cyriak is having and make it a double!
Link to high-res video (via WFMU)
Over 40 – January, 2008
I turned 40 on December 25th, 2007. Since then I am making sure I am in one photo a day.
Month numero two in which I get really sick, eat a monster burrito and snow overtakes our little southern Oregon town. As a bonus, see if you can find the day when I find that a 1 terabyte photo archive fails at work and is unrecoverable. That day was awful. Yay!
Over 40 – December, 2007
I turned 40 on December 25th, 2007. Since then I am making sure I am in one photo a day.
This month I was in Colorado for my birthday. On my birthday I went and shredded some pow-pow up in Nederland and drank a bunch of vodka and was on hand as my brother-in-law and sister-in-law told their oldest child the truth about Santa Claus. Then it was back to Oregon and then straight down to Mendocino for a great New Years retreat. I almost won at poker. But didn’t.
Area Health Education Center
This was a redesign for the Area Health Education Center that we did at Creative Images. I was responsible for the overall design, fonts and layout and information architecture. I also created the graphic maps used throughout the site. The back end has an older content management system that we had to design around. We also added the Helios calendar for their event calendar. Unfortunately, we were forced to make some graphic changes on the site as well as architectural changes (against our recommendations) that I think really hurt the layout and the overall content so the live site is not what it once was. In fact, I am not going to link to it. You have to go find it for yourself. You have been warned.
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J. Simms Photography
J. Simms is a local photographer who needed a simple gallery. We gave him one. We kept the design simple and clean to let his photography be the showcase.
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2007 InUmpqua “Time For Wine” Spread
At Creative Images, we put out a yearly travel magazine for our area to entice tourists to drop their hard earned cash around town. This is a spread celebrating the wine growing region. The photograph was taken early in the morning at Abacela winery on a gorgeous morning. (Original photo)
Mighty Squirrel CD
Design and concept for Mighty Squirrel – 2007
(Center Squirrel Art by Caridwen Irvine-Spatz)
My Wedding Site
Being the big geek that I am, I wanted to build a custom site for my wedding. The main reason is that 90% of our guests were coming from out of town and I wanted an easy place for guests to go to get info. Some guests were even coming from as far away as Ethiopia and Germany. And, considering that I am such a nerd, I also wanted to also create an on-line RSVP for the wedding using PHP and MySql. It worked great! I also skinned a WordPress blog for the site and made a few posts, but not as many as I had hoped. (Man, a wedding takes up a helluvalotta time! Who knew?)
I think my wife wanted to kill me for the time I put in on this but she hasn’t left me yet!
Creative Images
This was an “emergency” redesign for Creative Images (where I am the head of the web department). The designers had come up with a new marketing campaign using spirals to define each department. This had nothing to do with the previous site. I had to create this site in about a week (from design to final coding) to be ready for a few special job pitches that we had coming up. It came out well except for the lack of strong content. (We need more!)
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The Wimberleoni Wedding Site
A friend was getting married in Australia – and the United States! Thankfully, to the same guy. They wanted a site that guests could go to to get information on both of the events. She was a great client as she gave me ALL of her content at one time. It made it much easier to design.God, I wish they all could do that…
Umpqua Dairy
This was a web comp for a redesign of the Umpqua Dairy web site. This proof was completed over a year ago for them but, for whatever reason, they decided to take the site out to bid and you should see the site they ended up with. Click here for the current site and judge for yourself. Yikes. What a disappointment. Any dairys out there need a nice new design? No waiting!
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