Just keep on doing
whatever it is that you're doing
whatever it is that you're doing
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Lens Color Cast Correction
House exterior (test)Malibu, CA
Lens Color Cast is an dilemma specific to digital photography. Digital sensors are incredibly flat and are designed to receive light straight on. In the case of ultra wide angle lenses, light reaches the sensor diagonally and creates wild color casts and flares which are incredibly difficult to fix in Photoshop. Thus to the only way to correct is at the time of shooting by utilizing a particular lens filter that is a combination of diffusion and a translucent diamond pattern that evens out the light coming hitting the sensor. This image is saved in capture software as an adjustment setting and then applied to all related images as a set. A new LCC image must be made everytime the camera is moved into a new lighting scenario.
The images generated for the LCC are thus abstract functionaries of a larger endeavor. The LCC images in this set were all generated from an architecture shoot of the ins and outs of a Malibu beachfront home. Each image relates to one particular setup, such as master bedroom, guest bedroom, office, kitchen, outside patio, front exterior, etc.
House exterior (test) Malibu, CA
House exteriorMalibu, CA
Stairwell #1 (morning light)Malibu, CA
BathroomMalibu, CA
Living RoomMalibu, CA
Living RoomMalibu, CA
Back PatioMalibu, CA
Stairwell #2 (afternoon light)Malibu, CA
Sitting RoomMalibu, CA
Breakfast NookMalibu, CA
Entry WayMalibu, CA
KitchenMalibu, CA
Dining RoomMalibu, CA
Dining Room (close up)Malibu, CA
Vote!!! For the International Discourse Coloring Contest
Vote!!!
by number
via comment (link @ bottom of post)
for your TOP 3
or you can email votes to me @ ianmcjames@gmail.com
Voting closes August 15
note: many images were left unsigned, if one is yours or someone you know
let me know!
by number
via comment (link @ bottom of post)
for your TOP 3
or you can email votes to me @ ianmcjames@gmail.com
Voting closes August 15
note: many images were left unsigned, if one is yours or someone you know
let me know!
image courtesy of tryharder.blogspot.com
the rules as posted within the installation
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About the International Discourse Coloring Contest
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Executed during CalArts' MFA Graduate Exhibition, "Why Theory," June 20-27 2009.
39 Theorists and Critics from the Pre-Modern, Modern, and early Postmodern era who have been influential upon Art and Aesthetic Discourse were rendered to outline portraits.
Hung on the wall, gallery visitors were encouraged to sit at a kid's school table, color and post them to the bulletin board.
Individually sequenced coloring books were assembled for take away and a small boombox played theory texts on cassette tape, as read by "Vicki," an Apple Speech voice simulator.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
"The future is we have borders"
- Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security on the CBC
From Wholphin Issue #3
From Wholphin Issue #3
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Debbie Deb// Lookout Weekend
Debbie Deb's "Lost Weekend" popped up on a random ipod a few weekends ago at our hillside party. The four song ep from '85 is spectacular given her particular sensibilities to vocals paired with instrumentation. It's '80s dance pop of the best psych order. Deb was and still is a hairdresser who still takes the jams on tour every once in awhile. And the cover art.... oh my.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Los Angeles MAY DAY Activities
THIS DAY LET YOUR WORK BE UNDONE *
*title borrowed from "The Worker's Maypole", by Walter Crane, see below in the May Day Readings and Research List
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Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON)
http://miwon.org/about_us
http://miwon.org/may_1st_2009
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/02/local/me-mayday2
http://www.struggle.ws/anarchism/writers/ramor/berlinMAYDAY.html
http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/MayDay.html
Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los Angeles: http://www.chirla.org/
1992 LA Rebellion: http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_1_la.html
CalArts 2009 May Day Program
1. Visiting Artist Panel: Every day May day
Thursday April 30, 7:00 pm in F200
Guest speakers: Harry Gamboa (Artist and CalArts Faculty), Wu Ingrid Tsang (artist and co-founder of Wildness and Imprenta), Delia Herrera (organizer for the Garment Workers' Center), and members of the CalArts Student MayDay Collaboration (see below)
Dinner and wine reception afterwards!
2. Join the CalArts Student May Day Collaboration, May Day DIO (DO IT OURSELVES!)
1. Visiting Artist Panel: Every day May day
Thursday April 30, 7:00 pm in F200
Guest speakers: Harry Gamboa (Artist and CalArts Faculty), Wu Ingrid Tsang (artist and co-founder of Wildness and Imprenta), Delia Herrera (organizer for the Garment Workers' Center), and members of the CalArts Student MayDay Collaboration (see below)
Dinner and wine reception afterwards!
2. Join the CalArts Student May Day Collaboration, May Day DIO (DO IT OURSELVES!)
Say something! Make a sign for the march! Protest Preparations @ Imprenta, Wednesday, April 29th, 6pm
Bring lots of big cardboard, paint, brushes, sticks for holding, and duct tape. 705 S Rampart Blvd, Los Angeles, 90057, 213 382-4207
Bring lots of big cardboard, paint, brushes, sticks for holding, and duct tape. 705 S Rampart Blvd, Los Angeles, 90057, 213 382-4207
Meet Friday May 1st from 11:00am to 1:00pm at MacArthur Park (across from Mama's Hot Tamales, 2124 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057), for: DIO protest sign making, Make your own megaphone, Speech Karaoke, Giveaways!
AND THEN MARCH WITH US AT 1PM!
(also starting across from Mama's Hot Tamales)
Contact numbers for May Day and workshops: Carla Herrera-Prats, 212.729.6584; Ashley Hunt, 818.430.9063; Michelle Dizon, 213.265.6128; Jade Thacker, 310.210.9896
Contact numbers for May Day and workshops: Carla Herrera-Prats, 212.729.6584; Ashley Hunt, 818.430.9063; Michelle Dizon, 213.265.6128; Jade Thacker, 310.210.9896
*title borrowed from "The Worker's Maypole", by Walter Crane, see below in the May Day Readings and Research List
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Why we think May Day is important:
As you may know, May Day is generally a labor-based holiday, sometimes known as International Workers' Day. It falls on May 1st and, traced back to the mid-19th century, is linked to the struggle for an eight-hour work day, as well as to other workers' struggles. It's meant many things in different places and times since, and in recent years, May Day in the US has increasingly become a day to stage demands for immigrant rights and protesting attacks upon the undocumented. This connection between labor history and immigrant rights was marked most conspicuously by the LAPD attacks on demonstrators, media and bystanders at MacArthur Park on May 1, 2007.
Far from being a coincidence, the growing articulation between labor and immigration raises provocative questions about labor, identity, visibility, freedom of movement, borders and economic and political rights. We could also say that it links class and race in ways that open up their historical implication in one another. Add to this the current crisis of the global financial system, in which labor and migration are bound up, and we can see May Day become an important moment to address, to unpack, to discuss, to speak, to move.
Finally, in Los Angeles, May Day is a major day for organizing and collective demonstration among hundreds of thousands of the city's workers and organizations, for whom these questions are not just matters of political attitude or tendency, but of livelihood, community, fighting against criminalization, exploitation and racism as they impact people's lives in real ways.
As you may know, May Day is generally a labor-based holiday, sometimes known as International Workers' Day. It falls on May 1st and, traced back to the mid-19th century, is linked to the struggle for an eight-hour work day, as well as to other workers' struggles. It's meant many things in different places and times since, and in recent years, May Day in the US has increasingly become a day to stage demands for immigrant rights and protesting attacks upon the undocumented. This connection between labor history and immigrant rights was marked most conspicuously by the LAPD attacks on demonstrators, media and bystanders at MacArthur Park on May 1, 2007.
Far from being a coincidence, the growing articulation between labor and immigration raises provocative questions about labor, identity, visibility, freedom of movement, borders and economic and political rights. We could also say that it links class and race in ways that open up their historical implication in one another. Add to this the current crisis of the global financial system, in which labor and migration are bound up, and we can see May Day become an important moment to address, to unpack, to discuss, to speak, to move.
Finally, in Los Angeles, May Day is a major day for organizing and collective demonstration among hundreds of thousands of the city's workers and organizations, for whom these questions are not just matters of political attitude or tendency, but of livelihood, community, fighting against criminalization, exploitation and racism as they impact people's lives in real ways.
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Want to know more? May Day Readings and Research:
Rosa Luxemburg: http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1894/02/may-day.htm
mayday2007page.html
tohoku.ac.jp/%7Eholden/MediatedSociety/Readings/2003_04/Appadurai.html
Paris: May 1968 (eye witness account): http://www.
1968: A Year of Revolution: http://www.
U.N.E.F., Strasbourg, On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual, and particularly intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy (1966) : http://
T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith, “Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International,”
Makenzie Wark, The Hacker Manifesto (on-line): http://
"The Worker's Maypole" by Walter Crane: http://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/poetry/crane.html
Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON)
http://miwon.org/about_us
http://miwon.org/may_1st_2009
http://articles.latimes.com/
http://www.struggle.ws/
http://www.socialistproject.
Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los Angeles: http://www.chirla.
1992 LA Rebellion: http://www.
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