At 3:15 PM -0700 10/4/02, Doug Seibert wrote: > >But total SERINDIPITY that the image would be as >dramatic as this..........Remember I started the >camera and then watched what happened before my >eyes/film..........But I knew I had something >special............I even got to do a little "jig" > So it was luck on top of experience. An interesting description of the process. > >You said: >"...... in Lucy Lippard's book 'Overlay'. The artist, >> Charles Ross, used a large lens to burn marks into >pieces of paper and wood, making repeated exposures >over periods of months." > >Oh God.....I hope I'm not that anal.........Ive always >marveled at the dedication to make those year-long >figue-8 sun/moon photos....? I never saw your ROSS >work before......COOL! > It does seem as if it would require a reasonably regular lifestyle. I'd say obsessiveness can be a definite plus in trying to make art. Anal I wouldn't know about. For a long time I had wanted to make nightly recordings of CNN Headline News and then play them all back under the title News of the Year in a Week or the Changing Hairdos of Lynne Russell. She's moved on unfortunately, and I have yet to learn to program a VCR reliably. > >OK>>>>>>>>>here's one from Physics class: > >Attach a light to the pedal of a bicycle....and >another to the rim of one tire..........Now pedal the >bike and make a time exposure........No 'freewheeling >allowed'...........change gears and shoot another >frame.........what do they look like? I love that >one! Waveform/length/amplitude/gear ratios! I'd guess two out of phase but harmonic sine waves of different amplitude. When can we see a picture? Andy? This whole business of abstract mathematical forms appearing in visible form is quite interesting. Once while playing a musical instrument and looking at the strings I saw fleeting glimpses of sine curves. What was happening was that my glance was moving down the vibrating string and the image of a bright spot on the string was persisting just long enough to be stretched out into a visible sine curve. Actually, an exact physical analog of plotting a sine function against time. I wonder if you could get a picture of that? _________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! >http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Alan P. Hayes Meaning and Form: Writing, Editing and Document Design Pittsfield, Massachusetts
