Saturday, May 1, 2004

Color / Intensity I just like this one: Same thing from a different angle: The whole scene was dominated by red, a situation that usually results in a 'blown red channel' where the color red becomes flat, unsaturated and devoid of detail. To counter this, I set the camera to Flash White Balance and used a fill flash. I aimed the flash up, so it didn't directly strike the flower, then held my hand in the beam to reflect light down onto the yellow and red parts of the subject. By controlling the Flash Exposure Compensation, I was able to adjust the brightness of the background while maintaining the aperture I wanted to keep the background nicely blurred. [101-365] 7:39:14 PM

350 Paintings to Heal the World Fleury Joseph Crepin - 350 Paintings to Heal the World. "...While in his sixties, Fleury Joseph Crépin, who owned a welling and drilling business in Pas de Calais, discovered that he possessed powers as a divine healer. At roughly the same time, in 1938, he began to create small drawings in a trance-like state. The following year, a mysterious voice told him to produce three hundred paintings, the completion of which would guarantee the end of World War II. Crépin's paintings are easily identifiable by their hypnotic symmetry and their almost mechanical perfection. His themes are mostly architectural, temples, palaces, geometrical patterns, to which he adds human figures and stylized animals. His motifs are decorated with perfectly calibrated pearled drops, a secretive process, which he will never reveal." [gmtPlus9] 10:50:35 AM

LED and Fiber Optic Electronic Art William Anhang, Crepin. (QuickTime 152Kb). From LED and Fiber Optic Electronic Art by William Anhang - the Shakespeare of Art Poetic Light. "...Anhang, born in Poland to Jewish parents escaped with his family to Manitoba in 1939 and subsequently moved to Montreal in 1960, where he has lived since. Working as an electrical engineer till the quit his job in 1973, he then began creative projects that took on proportions far beyond the casual art enthusiast. With no formal training, but simply listening to advice to follow his creative impulse, his home was converted in the next few years into a theatre of operations from which his visionary and complex projects have been produced for more than 25 years." [gmtPlus9] 10:47:43 AM

Satchmo Satchmo's spirit, wife's flair, harmonize in Queens. NEW YORK -- If you stand in the dining room of Louis Armstrong's house, you can hear America's most famous jazz musician as he dines with friends: "Who was it that asked me if Brussels sprouts was raised in Brussels? They are miniature cabbages," he says, then lets out a mischievous, gravelly laugh. [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News] 8:44:28 AM