Tomorrow’s the first of September and by my reckoning that’s one year until I’m supposed to have done IT. With that in mind and in the dimming afterglow of a month in France, a new plan: Firstly, a change in title. “The Olympic Arcades Project” has served well but now: “JPEG: a quadruple object” seems …
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Another apparatus
Following my jpeg camera, another apparatus to imag(in)e with. This one use javascript from FlickrBomb to search Flickr for ‘London 2012’ and ‘Olympic Arcade’ images. These are pulled into the page and, importantly the browser cache. Clicking on the image offers other tagged images. When the page is closed and reopened, the javascript pulls in …
It’s a kind of magic [introduction]
When I started as a photographer, there was magic. A moment after putting the piece of paper in the dish and gently agitating the clear liquid over its surface an image gradually appeared. If all went well, the blacks deepened while the whites remained clear and the greys neatly spaces out between. If not I …
A new apparatus
So, now my upgrade is behind me, I can unveil the latest olympic arcades scopic apparatus, here. As you probably know by now, my practice-research is built around imagining, creating and using there ‘scopic apparatuses’ that work with, against or outside the jpeg protocol. This latest one is designed to work with jpeg, in fact …
Belay: 18 June 2011 (upgrade)
For those of you not in the PhD industry, a bit of explanation. When you register for a PhD programme it is normal to be registered as an MPhil student and then half way through your supposedly three year programme, your supervisors conduct a sort of mini-viva exam where they decide whether a) you’ve been …
To be Frank, it’s maybe a bit presumptuous
Let’s be clear, I’m not comparing myself to Robert Frank. I was a hack photographer, a lens for hire variously photographing CEOs and CFOs for business magazines, racehorses for sports pages and some reportage for charities. Now I’m a flaneur with a fone, photographing ‘things of the day‘. No, it is not false modesty when …
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