Archive for May, 2009
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Brian Eno, avant-garde music producer and inventor of ambient music, has illuminated the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Projections of continuously changing colors and patterns onto Jørn Utzon’s masterpieces have transformed the iconic modernist facade into a meditation on light, sound and the environment. Brian Eno is curator of Luminous, a festival of music, ideas, and performance, at the Sydney Opera House this summer.
Read more about the project here.
Tags: Brian Eno, installation art, light, music, Sidney, Sidney Opera House, sound
Posted by Joan Winter on May 28, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
4th St between Layfatte and Mercer from NYC Grid
The blog NYC Grid documents the city of New York, block by block. Each post focuses on the everyday and ephemeral aspects of a single corner or small segment of a street. The author, Paul Sahner, initially began NYC Grid as a means to explore the city, but now primarily documents the present moment. Not an elegy for a vanishing urban past, the blog “is simply a snapshot: New York as we live in it now.”
Also check out a previous Deep Focus post highlighting a selection from the NYPL Digital Gallery. Conceptual artist Dylan Stone took 26,000 snapshots of Manhattan south of Canal Street for a project entitled Drugstore Photographs or a Trip Along the Yangtzee River from the New York Public Library.
Tags: cities, documentation, NYC, planning, public space, urban design, urbanism
Posted by Joan Winter on May 28, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Glocal is an “immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century.” Glocal utilizes the technology developed by archival and networking sites such as Flickr as well as the proliferation of digital cameras to interrogate the role, uses and uniqueness of digital images in our world.
Similarity Map Engine generates ring-like structures that showcase compositional similarities between images. Using a family tree framework, Image Breeder highlights visual resemblances.
Glocal has also created open source software toolkits which transform digital images, emulating experimental techniques from the early stages of photography. Motion Sequence recreates the attempts by Eadward Muybridge to break apart movement and represent change over time on a grid. Multiple Exposure harkens back to the early forays into animation by Etienne-Jules Marey.
Tags: Flickr, Glocal, networks, technology
Posted by Joan Winter on May 27, 2009 in art, images, photography | No Comments »
Image Spark is a free web service that creates customized image libraries. Not solely for collecting and describing the visual and digital, Image Spark allows you to personalize your display and share it with other users.
FFFFOUND! is a web service that allows you to bookmark images, and showcase and create a compelling visual archive. The home page also dynamically recommends new and interesting sites, posted by other users.
Tags: bookmarking, design, free, images, inspiration, internet, tagging
Posted by Joan Winter on May 27, 2009 in ARTstor, art, blog, image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »
DocMorph is a free conversion tools that can convert more than 50 different types of files into different formats. With the online version, a user can convert individual files into PDF, TIFF, or text. MyMorph software, which you can download to your desktop, also allows one to migrate many files simultaneously.
Tags: digital images, digital media, DocMorph, file conversion, freeware
Posted by Joan Winter on May 19, 2009 in blog, words | No Comments »
Repper is a free pattern generator that transforms your photographs into kailedscopic refractions. Patterns created with Repper are available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License.
Tags: free, pattern, refraction
Posted by Joan Winter on May 18, 2009 in image presentation, images | No Comments »
Over 3,000 stock photos from around the world are available at PhotoEverywhere. The site includes not just the typical landmark and scenic images, but also macro details and textures. All the material is free of charge. You only need to attribute or link the images back to the site.
Tags: free, public domain, search tools, stock photography, travel
Posted by Joan Winter on May 15, 2009 in copyright, images | No Comments »
While some larger encyclopedic museums (The Louvre, The Met) have attempted to mirror their physical presence online through 3-D simulations and web pages reflecting traditional curatorial divisions, some museums are attempting to utilize the opportunities provided by Web 2.0.
The Prado Museum has incorporated a 3-D replication of its building into Google Earth. They have also digitized fourteen iconic works from their collection. The digital images contain over 14,000 million pixels (1,400 times larger than an image captured by a standard 10 mega-pixel camera). Viewers can even see cracks in the paint and the weave of the canvas.
One of the more innovative examples comes from the SFMOMA. ArtScope presents a thumbnail grid of 3,500 works from the permanent collection that users can search by title, date, material and keyword. A lens allows one to magnify a striking image . ArtScope provides an overview of the entire collection, bridges gaps between traditional divisions like medium and time period, and helps online viewers make serendipitous connections between seemingly unrelated works.
Read more about museums on the web from Doug McLean’s article in TidBITS.
Tags: museums, museums on the web, Prado, SFMOMA, web presence
Posted by Joan Winter on May 14, 2009 in art, copyright, image presentation, images | No Comments »
The Cr103 library contains more than 6GB of free still and moving images of abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas that you can download and use in your own work. The downloads can be inserted directly in your designs as layer textures or simply used as ideas for further development. In addition, you can share and promote your own work by uploading it for use by others.
Cr103 materials are free to download and use, but must be credited if used in any commercial application or product.
Tags: Cr103, design, graphics, images, photography, textures backgrounds, video
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on May 13, 2009 in architecture, image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »
A library of user-contributed clip art in the public domain, Open Clip Art is a great resource of over 11,000 tagged images available free of charge.
Tags: clip art, free, public domain, search tools
Posted by Joan Winter on May 11, 2009 in copyright, images | No Comments »
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