images from me to you

Microsoft labs has this cool new program that takes photos from many angles and puts them together. I don't know what the long term appeal of this is, but it probably has some. Anyway here are three of mine. The first two are at the site where my work is in an exhibtion in Germany, the third is in Frankfurt. ps they seem to take a while to load. I hope you don't need any software to load them...

I have been having a good trip so far. Some decent art in Glasgow. Shot a few maps. Hiked a bit. I've walked a million miles so far. I've met a ton of people including Italians, Irish, Germans, South Africans, Australians and of course loads of Brits. It is a lot more tiring walking these borders than driving them like I do in the US (I know thank you Captain Obvious.) but I've had to cut down the number of spots and the number of borders as my legs just can't take it. Tonight I'm in Bath. Tomorrow I map at Glastonbury (probably), then head to London in two days.

Now I must sleep.

I've been lucky enough to have posts about my work on two of my favorite mapping blogs (or blogs in general for that matter):

Cartophilia -- Flounder Lee

The Map Room -- Flounder Lee

It's been forever since I blogged. Not sure why but I needed a break from looking at them and posting them too. But I'll post a few today and maybe a few over the next few weeks.

Firstly, I am leaving in less than a week for my first European trip. I received a New Frontiers Exploration Fellowship made possible by the Lilly Foundation. My plan is 2 nights each in Glasgow, Manchester, Bath, London and Brussels; 3 nights in Amsterdam; 5 nights in Lichtenfels-Sachsenberg Germany and 1 night in Frankfurt. I will be mapping former colonies onto European soil and symbolically reclaiming the land for my native ancestors. As much as possible I will be going to the places that my ancestors are from and also mapping colonies onto their colonizers.

For my time in Germany I will be making work in the park system there. This culminates as I have work in a group outdoor show in the parks. I might give a lecture there before I leave also.



Moved Wind--Hesse, Germany, August 17th to 31st, 2008

Changing the setup from 1783 to 1850. The blues and greens are all the Indians, the yellow ones are the cowboys (United States).

We took the first picture at Honey Creek State Park, Oklahoma. We projected it across the river onto the cliff at Great Salt Plains State Park, Oklahoma. You can see our shadows in the projection.

So after a long break, I'm back. I had a good trip to Oklahoma doing some photography then a Society for Photographic Education conference in Denver.

I have a show here in Indianapolis opening on the 4th. Here is a link to a zoomify of one draft of an image for the show.

This is a reference video of treaties, agreements, and the like between the US government and various Indian tribes. It covers the span from 1796 to 1873. The first frame is actually made from a map of the US in 1783, but the treaties start in 1896 which explains some of the missing parts back east in the end, but also Louisiana and Texas were mostly ceded to other governments and the US government never renegotiated a treaty for those places after buying/annexing them. Purplish Yellow (yellowish purple) means there was a clear dispute in the records, or that more than one treaty was made with different tribes for the same land.

I say it is a reference video because I plan to reshoot it as a stop motion using plastic cowboys and Indians. I'm not sure how that will work/look.

The compression is terrible, thanks youtube!

Images on left UF Photo students at 2002 SPE in Vegas
Image on right: Lucas Samaras, Phototransformation 1973-74

In a sad bit of news, Polaroid has announced it will stop making instant film. The once ubiquitous camera has largely been replaced by digital in the consumer world, but in art and professional photography, it still has many uses: transfers, previews of lighting, etc. I will miss it, but my camera collection will fill up more quickly now that people will be getting rid of them in mass numbers I think I have about 20 Polaroids so far. On a happier note, Fujifilm still makes instant film for professional photographers, I have never used them so don't know if they are an actual replacement.

Update: There is now a petition to save Polaroid film. I doubt it'll help but worth a shot I guess. Online petition - Save Polaroid Film!!



Via Engadget

Here is a blog dedicated to returning lost photos to their owners. I think it is a fun idea. I'm sure I've lost film I'd love to get back. I also have a roll that came from a camera at my friend Vince's house that I still need to develop. I bet there are fun pictures on there.

via Racheal