A constellation

A guitar. A fireplace. Dark coal-scuttle. A carpet and a banjo. Things left around. A domestic photoshoot, homes and gardens, good house keeping, interiors. Objects of light, photons, stream through the pinhole to the sensor, connecting with silicon, releasing charge-objects to be encoded. photons, cells, pixels, data. Software actants go to work, arranging data, colourspaces. …

A bit of new year carpentry: Ekaw Snagennif

As you may know, I’m engaging in a bit of my practice-research around object-oriented photography and publishing on/in/through Facebook. Using my favourite new camera (the screengrab facility on my phone), I’m ‘taking’ photos of the images in the Haystack, uploading them back into the space (where they JPEG-encoded as visible images). I’m (re)mixing these with …

Robert Frank: object-oriented photographer

Revised version of my Frank musings. “The photographing of America” is a large order — read at all literally, the phrase would be an absurdity. What I have in mind, then, is observation and record of what one naturalized American finds to see in the United States that signifies the kind of civilization born here and spreading …