connect nothing, f. cried piecing together a puzzling world of ______. by Loren Segal.

This was taken with my new Rolleiflex Automat. I was looking up at the sky and the clouds were full and fluffy, I wanted to record something simple but interesting.

This is a photo taken using the Harris Shutter Effect, following up on my trichromy (a.k.a. technicolor) experimentation. The Harris Shutter effect is basically trichromy with one colour channel purposely changed to give a technicolor “artifact” or ghosting effect.

The colour effect here was achieved with 4 exposures of black and white (Ilford Pan F 50 Plus) film with separate RGB filters and a no-filter shot to compensate for the filter sharpness. Each shot was then superimposed (digitally in my case) in the respective R/G/B colour channel.

You can see this on my flickr account as well as my other trichromy photos by clicking the image.

A photo I took on the waterfront right off of Montreal with fellow photographer and subject Emilie Olson.

Now people know the truth about how I made her famous. For more, read the about in this Youtube video that started it all

It’s also important to notes that Kaki King still owes me a kiss.

I’ve always wanted to do a stop motion animation. I’ve had an idea for an animation spinning around inside my brain for the last few years; I even bought the parts but they’re collecting dust in my basement. Animation is so time consuming, and I have little of it, and the wrong resources. So when Marlon invited me to help him with his own stop motion animation this weekend, there’s no reason to refuse. He has a sweet camera, so it’s perfect. We’ll probably be working on something similar to this pretty interesting piece right here. You’ll see what we cook up soon.

I always forget about this site and then remember some time later. I figured I’d set it down in stone somewhere, and maybe share it with others who haven’t found a useful tool like this yet.

Adobe Labs released a great colour scheme tool a while back called Kuler that allows you to create great looking colour schemes really quick.

Colour scheme tools like this usually cost $30+, but this one is free, comes with pretty much all of the functionality you could possibly need, and supports up to 5 colours (you probably don’t need more). You can even publish, share and rate schemes from other users. Did I mention it’s free?

Adobe has their problems (and inherited some too, cough, Flash), but it’s safe to say they’re an authority in the world of 2D graphics tools and this site definitely lives up to the name.

I may have not “just realized” it, but I’ve definitely come to terms with the fact that I really need a graphics tablet.

Update 01/22/07: Wow, that was fast. Right after posting this blog my good friend Emilie Olson told me she could lend me one of her old graphics tablets and dropped by with it today. Now I have something to play with, thanks!