Pixel Pile #7 Freezer Phenomenon #1 It was worth buying a digital camera just
to finally be able to document this. Over many months, Susan
and I have watched in Neaderthal-like awe when our ice trays
occasionally spontaneously generate ice stalagmites like the
one pictured. They are usually straight, like the one shown,
but not always. Sometimes they have a gentle curve. They point
in random directions, and appear in random cube locations in
the tray pattern. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to
it. Except maybe to give me material for Pixel Pile.
I'll take it.
^ pixels piled & imparted
9/9/2000 12:36:49 AM Wanna See Past
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Pixel Pile #6 Office Supplies: A Photo Fetish? It's hard to determine trends after only
six days of doing this, but so far Pixel Pile is looking
like some kind of abstract office supply catalog. It could be
because I'm still so focused on checking out what the camera
can do that I merely use what's handy for subject matter. Susan
is an accountant & bookkeeper, so office supplies abound. I
can't promise it will get better, as there's a pile of quite
colorful paper clips, stick pins, and binder clips awaiting
some macro experimentation. But at least the ugly green stapler
has been replaced, eh?
^ pixels piled & imparted
9/7/2000 11:37:43 PM Wanna See Past
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Pixel Pile #5 Stanley Stapler [sunglasses not included] This technique can be done in studio via
multiple exposures and filters, but can be a pain in the patootie.
With a digital camera and a tripod, you can take one shot with
one light on, and another shot with another light on, then combine
them in Photoshop. Using this method you can turn a simple stapler
into something of ugly complexity.
^ pixels piled & imparted
9/7/2000 12:46:04 AM Wanna See Past
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Pixel Pile #4 "Digital Film: The Oxymoron Illustrated" Various marketing departments and ad firms
would have us believe it's "Digital Film," but we all know it's
just very tiny expensive RAM, don't we? And what I would call
a "roll" of film , a 64 MB card, goes for $150-$170. Yeah, it's
reusable, but it somewhat shatters what has been a long held
truth for me: Film Is Cheap. Now, it's more like, Pixels Are
Cheap, but the Pixel Holder is Pricey.
^ pixels piled & imparted
9/6/2000 1:35:30 AM Wanna See Past
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Pixel Pile #3 "Big Ass Spider" I'm not sure exactly what type of spider
this is. "Big Ass Spider" is more a descriptive term for this
resident of my friend Marti's sub tropical backyard. His/her
leg span was about four inches. The background is a curtain
on a sliding glass door.
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9/5/2000 12:14:52 AM Wanna See Past
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Pixel Pile #2 "20 Minute Product Shot" I spent about ten minutes throwing together
this one light composition on my kitchen table. Normally, I
would have to shoot some film, wait an hour or two on the lab,
then crank up the scanner to generate pixels. In this case,
it was 20 minutes from the time I captured the pixels in the
990 until I exported the finished JPG from Photoshop. I'm likin'
it!
^ pixels piled & imparted
9/4/2000 1:07:41 AM Wanna See Past
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Pixel Pile #1 "Self Portrait, Naked, in the bathroom mirror" And so it begins. It seems appropriate for
the first image to be of the pixel procurer itself, in this
case, a Nikon 990. It's my first digital camera, after years
of relying on a film scanner to acquire my pixels. Pixel
Pile will [hopefully] be a daily stab at creative freedom,
mixed with goofy efforts at stress relief, occasional desperation
for the next day's shot, and other pixel combinations yet to
be determined. Be sure to check back each day for signs of visual
de-evolution!
^ pixels piled & imparted
9/3/2000 2:27:17 AM Wanna See Past
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