I love how the sea is slanted, I reckon it's the imperfections that make these so perfect.
Monday 20 September 2010
Saturday 18 September 2010
peoples faces, mug shots
I love how everyone looks different... I've always liked portrait photography because I think expressions and certain emotions shown through photography make a good photograph. It is detailed portrait shots I like, that show a hint of emotion through them, with high quality and character. Then again, something about mugshots, the thug really comes out in some, the little card with identification typed onto it, the facial expressions different in each one, the scrappy-ness of them?
A mug shot, or booking photograph, is a photographic portrait taken after one is arrested The purpose of the mug shot is to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of the arrested individual to allow for identification by victims and investigators. Most mug shots are two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view. A rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used figuratively by extension for any group of shady characters or the line-up of 'mugshot' photographs that might be displayed in the halls of a dormitory or workplace.
I like how the accused would have to hold a card with name, date and other relevant information on it, unfortunately that has been recently gotten rid of because of upgrades in technology.
Mug also can mean a small photo of your face that can be used for other purposes.
What I like about mug shots, is that it is such a simple idea to retract information that is reliable and honest. The genetic make up of someone is something that is tricky to avoid, with a card held up in front of them with their name and date, it's all you really need to know. I definitely prefer the old mug shots, to the newer ones. The quality of them and the card with the information on them is what makes a real mug shot.
Sinatra and Mickey Rourke.
Whoever is being mugshot always tends to look a little off colour as well?
They aren't rehearsed.
A mug shot, or booking photograph, is a photographic portrait taken after one is arrested The purpose of the mug shot is to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of the arrested individual to allow for identification by victims and investigators. Most mug shots are two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view. A rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used figuratively by extension for any group of shady characters or the line-up of 'mugshot' photographs that might be displayed in the halls of a dormitory or workplace.
I like how the accused would have to hold a card with name, date and other relevant information on it, unfortunately that has been recently gotten rid of because of upgrades in technology.
Mug also can mean a small photo of your face that can be used for other purposes.
What I like about mug shots, is that it is such a simple idea to retract information that is reliable and honest. The genetic make up of someone is something that is tricky to avoid, with a card held up in front of them with their name and date, it's all you really need to know. I definitely prefer the old mug shots, to the newer ones. The quality of them and the card with the information on them is what makes a real mug shot.
Sinatra and Mickey Rourke.Whoever is being mugshot always tends to look a little off colour as well?
They aren't rehearsed.
Friday 17 September 2010
piano (pee-yah-no) pianoforte
- Most popular instrument in the world
- Wildly used in classical music for solo performances
- Versatility, ensured it's familiarity worldwide
- Been around since mid 16th Century
- Soft, calming sound delivered through vibrating strings and a special design
- They also, look really good
How it works-
Pressing a key on the piano's keyboard causes a felt-covered hammer to strike steel strings. The hammers rebound, allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a sounding board that couples the acoustic energy to the air so that it can be heard as sound. When the key is released, a damper stops the string's vibration. See the article on Piano key frequencies for a picture of the piano keyboard and the location of middle-C. According to the Hornbostel-Sachs method of music classification, pianos are grouped with chordophones.
The complexity of the instrument makes it even better, it's as if the piano puts a lot of effort into producing it's sound, I appreciate it even more.
The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments. He was an expert harpsichord maker and was well acquainted with the previous body of knowledge on stringed keyboard instruments. It is not known exactly when Cristofori first built a piano. An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the existence of a piano by the year 1700; another document of doubtful authenticity indicates a date of 1698. A friend of the family by the name of Sebastian LeBlanc suggested the idea to switch the black and white keys. The three Cristofori pianos that survive today date from the 1720s.
Bartolomeo Cristofori, how he came up with this?
To be more specific, I realised piano was especially 'good' when I heard it in films, complimenting an scene. I researched into the 'effect of musical soundtrack', through an article by Sandra K. Marshall and Annabel J. Cohen.
"We investigate the effects of musical soundtracks on attitudes to figures in a short animated film. In a preliminary study in the main experiment, subejcts saw the film accompanied by one of two soundtracks or with no soundtrack, or they heard one of the two soundtracks alone. In the main experiment, Semantic Differential judgments on Activity and Potency dimensions, obtained for the music, predicted effects of the soundtracks on corresponding ratings of the film as compared to ratings in a no soundtrack condition. As well, ratings on the Activity dimension of the film characters themselves were altered by the soundtracks. It is hypothized that congruent auditory and visual structure directs the encoding of particular visual features of the film. In addition, associations generated by the music provide a context for the interpretation of the action in the film. As a result, stimulus features and concepts that are initially encoded as disjunctive conjoin in perception and memory."
The research stated that, "researched proved that music and film compliment each other in the type of information each can portray. Whereas music can provide specific emotional information, it lacks the ability of film to depict specific actions."
I definitely agree with that, and can easily believe it as well. I like piano as an instrument, it's sound, how it looks, the depths of it's clockwork and how effective it is as a soundtrack.
Pressing a key on the piano's keyboard causes a felt-covered hammer to strike steel strings. The hammers rebound, allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a sounding board that couples the acoustic energy to the air so that it can be heard as sound. When the key is released, a damper stops the string's vibration. See the article on Piano key frequencies for a picture of the piano keyboard and the location of middle-C. According to the Hornbostel-Sachs method of music classification, pianos are grouped with chordophones.
The complexity of the instrument makes it even better, it's as if the piano puts a lot of effort into producing it's sound, I appreciate it even more.
The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments. He was an expert harpsichord maker and was well acquainted with the previous body of knowledge on stringed keyboard instruments. It is not known exactly when Cristofori first built a piano. An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the existence of a piano by the year 1700; another document of doubtful authenticity indicates a date of 1698. A friend of the family by the name of Sebastian LeBlanc suggested the idea to switch the black and white keys. The three Cristofori pianos that survive today date from the 1720s.
Bartolomeo Cristofori, how he came up with this?
To be more specific, I realised piano was especially 'good' when I heard it in films, complimenting an scene. I researched into the 'effect of musical soundtrack', through an article by Sandra K. Marshall and Annabel J. Cohen.
"We investigate the effects of musical soundtracks on attitudes to figures in a short animated film. In a preliminary study in the main experiment, subejcts saw the film accompanied by one of two soundtracks or with no soundtrack, or they heard one of the two soundtracks alone. In the main experiment, Semantic Differential judgments on Activity and Potency dimensions, obtained for the music, predicted effects of the soundtracks on corresponding ratings of the film as compared to ratings in a no soundtrack condition. As well, ratings on the Activity dimension of the film characters themselves were altered by the soundtracks. It is hypothized that congruent auditory and visual structure directs the encoding of particular visual features of the film. In addition, associations generated by the music provide a context for the interpretation of the action in the film. As a result, stimulus features and concepts that are initially encoded as disjunctive conjoin in perception and memory."
The research stated that, "researched proved that music and film compliment each other in the type of information each can portray. Whereas music can provide specific emotional information, it lacks the ability of film to depict specific actions."
I definitely agree with that, and can easily believe it as well. I like piano as an instrument, it's sound, how it looks, the depths of it's clockwork and how effective it is as a soundtrack.
family photographs (taken with film)
I don't know what is it about family photos, but they also just look so much better than any other photo you might have hanging up in the house.Everything about them is good.
Back in the day when everyone used film cameras, so already they have more character.
Maybe it's also something to do with the fact we are all so young in them, lack of vanity maybe, enables us to actually see the best facial expressions and outfits that we probably love and hate.
Bring back memories. We can remember a lot from our childhood, but photographs can just remind us of perhaps a strop we may have had, or a particular animal we may have fed at the zoo?
Every single photo is unique as well, it comes on a separate piece of thick paper, with a different kind of worn out shine, with a different amount of scratches on it or whatever. No old family photo fails to be good. No old family photo is ever boring.
I also like how the film photography can make old photos look washed out.
Tuesday 14 September 2010
science-
e v o l u t i o n.
adaptation&
is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations.[3] This change results from interactions between processes which introduce variation into a population, and other processes which remove it. As a result, variants with particular traits become more, or less, common. A trait is a particular characteristic, anatomical, biochemical or behavioural, that is the result of gene–environment interaction.
is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations.[3] This change results from interactions between processes which introduce variation into a population, and other processes which remove it. As a result, variants with particular traits become more, or less, common. A trait is a particular characteristic, anatomical, biochemical or behavioural, that is the result of gene–environment interaction.
I'm fascinated with all aspects of science. I can't get over how simple yet complex evolution is, it is simply keeping what is good and what works along the line, but how we manage to evolve, is what is unbelievable.
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY was introduced through the publication of Darwin's book 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859.
GOOD:
evolution is inheritance of traits, these are controlled by genes,
DEEP SEA CREATURES
They are different. They are interesting. They are good.
I went to an exhibition at the natural history museum over the summer holidays, it was all about deep sea creatures :
I am finding it quite hard to justify why deep sea creatures are 'good', only in the sense that I just find them so weird, and therefore so interesting to research.
I can consider the creatures themselves as 'good' due to their amazing survival instincts when up against extremely harsh conditions:
-hundreds of atmospheres of pressure -small amounts of oxygen -very little food -no sunlight -constant, extreme cold
If we lived there we wouldn't last more than a second.
To deal with lack of light, they have developed through evolution, amazing sense of smell, their eyes have large retinas and are constructed only from cones (this increases sensitivity), majority also have large feelers to.. feel around..
At the depth these creatures are at, there is not enough light for photosynthesis to occur, these fish have adapted to survive with little oxygen due to lower metabolisms. They can also go months without food. That is where they find there oxygen.
I can consider the creatures themselves as 'good' due to their amazing survival instincts when up against extremely harsh conditions:
-hundreds of atmospheres of pressure -small amounts of oxygen -very little food -no sunlight -constant, extreme cold
If we lived there we wouldn't last more than a second.
Barometric pressure
These animals have evolved to survive the extreme pressure of the sub-photic zones. The pressure increases by about one atmosphere every ten meters. To cope with the pressure, many fish are rather small, usually not exceeding 25 cm in length. Also, scientists have discovered that the deeper these creatures live, the more gelatinous their flesh and more minimal their skeletal structure. These creatures have also eliminated all excess cavities that would collapse under the pressure, such as swim bladders[1].
Lack of light
The lack of light requires creatures to have special adaptations to find food, avoid predators, and find mates. Most animals have very large eyes with retinas constructed only of cones, which increases sensitivity. Many animals have also developed large feelers to replace peripheral vision. To be able to reproduce, many of these fish have evolved to be hermaphroditic, eliminating the need to find a mate. Many creatures have also developed very strong senses of smell to detect the chemicals released by mates.
To deal with lack of light, they have developed through evolution, amazing sense of smell, their eyes have large retinas and are constructed only from cones (this increases sensitivity), majority also have large feelers to.. feel around..
Lack of Resources
At this depth, there is not enough light for photosynthesis to occur and not enough oxygen to support a fish living at higher levels. To survive, these creatures have much slower metabolisms and therefore can survive using little oxygen. They can also go months without food. Most food comes from either organic material that falls from above or from eating other creatures that have derived their food through the process of chemosynthesis (the process of changing chemical energy into food energy). Because of the sparse distributions of creatures, there is always at least some oxygen and food. Also, instead of using energy to search for food, these creatures use particular adaptations to ambush prey.At the depth these creatures are at, there is not enough light for photosynthesis to occur, these fish have adapted to survive with little oxygen due to lower metabolisms. They can also go months without food. That is where they find there oxygen.
Monday 13 September 2010
film trailers
They inspire to watch or not watch films, they are just as important as the quality of the film itself, sometimes I think they are actually better.
The work that is put into them, music, cinematography, choosing the right clips etc.. is vital, and can be so effective.
It's a chance to use music with impact, good photography and phrases/words that attack and hit the right spots.
The whole package of a film trailer is something I think is good.
The work that is put into them, music, cinematography, choosing the right clips etc.. is vital, and can be so effective.
It's a chance to use music with impact, good photography and phrases/words that attack and hit the right spots.
The whole package of a film trailer is something I think is good.
- first film trailer came out in November 1913, USA
- over 10 billion watched annually online
- consisted of various key scenes from the film being advertised, often augmented with large, descriptive text describing the story, and an underscore generally pulled from studio music libraries. Most trailers had some form of narration and those that did featured stentorian(greek loud voices) voices.
-In the early 1960s, the face of motion picture trailers changed. Textless, montage trailers and quick-editing became popular
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head down.
Okay so..
1. film trailers
2. people's faces () MUG SHOTS
3. piano - the softest type of classical
4. human immune system
5. evolution - briefly
6. poems
7. signatures
1. film trailers
2. people's faces () MUG SHOTS
3. piano - the softest type of classical
4. human immune system
5. evolution - briefly
6. poems
7. signatures
8. family photos - character&memory
9. SLEEP . SLEEP IS GOOD.
9. SLEEP . SLEEP IS GOOD.
Wednesday 8 September 2010
faces.
I am changing my like for 'portrait photography' into 'faces'. I like 'photographs' as a separate issue.
The genetic make up of someone is so complex, it creates us, and makes us who we are, our face is almost a extremely detailed symbol of us.
The genetic make up of someone is so complex, it creates us, and makes us who we are, our face is almost a extremely detailed symbol of us.
Saturday 4 September 2010
david blaine - MAGIC
Magic.
It is something I love to watch, some just seems impossible, whether it is actually real magic or tricks of the eye/slick movements etc, i don't know, all i know is that it looks amazing and I am left thinking, how?
Magic is the claimed art of altering things either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult natural laws unknown to science.
I can't decide whether I think spiritually of magic, or whether it is simply an art, a sport, mastered by magicians in order to fool us. The acts I see, seem impossible to actually occur, but there seems never to be any explanation for it. I think this is what I like so much about magic, whilst each trick seems impossible, it appears easily doable. I am never bored with magic, well most magic.
Criticism accepted, some magic tricks are lame.
Inspired by the film 'The Prestige'
Even though it is a just a film, I can use it as a source of research into the background of magic. Behind the scenes, how some of the tricks really work, this proves that the act itself isn't real but the magic of it is creating an illusion.
Monday 23 August 2010
deep sea creatures
I recently went to an exhibition at the Natural History Museum, all about deep sea creatures;
"if you lived down here, you'd look weird too"
"if you lived down here, you'd look weird too"
Thursday 12 August 2010
Saturday 10 July 2010
Thursday 8 July 2010
Magic
Okay, so, I have decided one of my 'good' things will be magic. Some of the really really good magic...
Saturday 3 July 2010
Wednesday 30 June 2010
decisionssss
My first two posts have basically just become 'design context', which I suppose is what I think is 'good', but that isn't specifically the brief.
UM.
- Films
- Evolution
- Geography
- Traveling
- Photographs/snappy snaps
- Languages
MORE SPECIFIC?
UM.
- Films
- Evolution
- Geography
- Traveling
- Photographs/snappy snaps
- Languages
MORE SPECIFIC?
Saturday 26 June 2010
Wednesday 23 June 2010
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