avad: (Default)
Mediums @ SOLAR installation
photo by Esperanza Leon.
Installation shot of Mediums show @ SOLAR Gallery, East Hampton, NY.
works by Soraida Bedoya, Nanette Carter, Fareen Butt and Darlene Charneco.
March 13-May 17, 2010
more info:
http://artsolar.com/wp/events/

Healers
Healers (resin, nails, enamel, acrylic on wood 5 1/2" square)- by Darlene Charneco
click here to see all images from the show
avad: (Default)
well put in the flickr blog:

Many hands make light work


"Have you ever tagged someone else’s photo? I know I have. A describing word, or perhaps even two joined together; a ‘lasso’ to group photos together from an event; identification of a subject in the photo; a colour; a season…

All that work that we’ve put in has contributed to making something greater than the sum of its parts: an organic information system, derived of descriptive words and phrases made entirely from individual contributions. You can see what’s going on in the world by watching hot tags fly by on our main tags page. You can even see what’s going on now in some of the bigger cities in the world on our new Places pages. All thanks to the determined effort of you, you nerdy taggers, you.

There are about 20 million unique tags on Flickr today. 20 million! They are the bread and butter of what makes our search work so beautifully. Simply by association, tags create emergent collections of words that reinforce meaning. You can see this in our clusters around words like tiger, sea, jump, or even turkey.

What if we could lend this wonderful power to some of the huge reference collections around the world? What if you could contribute your own description of a certain photo in, say, the Library of Congress’ vast photographic archive, knowing that it might make the photo you’ve touched a little easier to find for the next person?

Well… you can. ..read more
avad: (Default)
It's heeeeeeeere......part of the memorypalace tech:



"Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. "Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.

About Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces."

originally from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

days

Nov. 26th, 2006 10:19 am
avad: (Default)
We spent this Thanksgiving with friends in Westhampton Beach. Crazy gourmet feast was provided...utterly delicious food w/good folks...and yet it triggered that feeling again...of being so disconnected from all the need in the world...an inner sadness that pops up at holidays when surrounded by the overabundance that is so culturally normal here. It just feels...too much. xmas too of course. ack. of course I love my niece and nephew but to see the AMOUNT of Stuff...that it's not even possible to process/enjoy. Keep in mind that I'm easily overwhelmed though...I have trouble going into big stores...makes me nervous. anyway, I think volunteering is the way to go for me next year. Maybe with the migrant worker community out here..maybe OLA has something..

ANyhoo...Good portion of days spent recently doing my mailing lists for my upcoming GAMELAND show...data updating and making labels and addressing and counting and making notes on and stamping 225 postcard invites to my show. ga. good thing I'm obsessive compulsive. (aside: send me an address if you want a postcard mailed to ya.)Brent came home one day to see I hadn't left the spot he left me in the morning..still sorting and updating....he insisted we go for a walk and it was supErb. Out to the nature trails again...I can't even describe how happy it always makes me...and yet I have to be dragged there from my little cave, you know? *sigh* I just wanted to stop and curl up on the trail and listen to the sounds and breathe the outdoor earth scents forever....

Painting, painting but slow. Islands and cells like shelf fungus....glitter skies. Another resin pour to do today. Loren Eiseley on the brain.

to procrastinate and for breaks I drink in websites as graphs and play Flickr. Flickr tag is my favorite game these days. It's just boundless in there. I see it as this thriving underground community that developed inside a storage tank (where pictures are stored beneath the land of blogs and websites). fascinaaaating.

ok time's up. back to art. xoxo D

February 2017

S M T W T F S
   123 4
5 67891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728    

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 7th, 2025 11:29 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios