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Someplace Else • Beautiful Dorena • Picture of the Week • Pacific Sandard Time
Loveland Pass • Mars Observations • Mugshot Machine • D- • The Virtual Camera
Phrase of the Hour • The Kid Pix Story • Physical Computing

July 20 - July 26, 2008



Open, Closed Sign
Near Helena , Montana, 2008

Why deny yourself the pleasure?
Click here to see larger versions of The Pictures of the Week plus all the past pictures.

I'm testing a new Flash movie designed to teach exposure concepts as they relate to digital cameras. Anyone can use it but it was originally designed for my students at the University of Oregon in the Digital Arts, Digital Imaging class. It still has a few rough edges and bugs, but you can try it out

This new Flash movie presents a common phrase every hour and invites you to use it in conversation within that hour. Your friends will either think you have a great command of English idioms or that you are a complete idiot. It was designed to run on a Chumby. Click here to see a larger version.

 

The Interactive Spelling Wrecker

In 1998 I created D-, a program that took perfectly good spelling and wrecked it in various ways. My friend Chris Rauschenberg mentioned that he still occasionally told people about it. I had to confess that it was no longer available for various technical reasons. This inspired me to re-write it in Flash so a new generation of good spellers could be horrible ones. Here is a link to it.

I've been experimenting with microprocessors, sensors, and motors and here is a link to one unusual device.

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Beautiful Dorena is an experimental and, some might say, puzzling drawing program. It contains a wealth of features, most of which are compelling but of questionable value. It is especially fun if you hook a video camera or web cam up to your computer. You can get information about it here and download it for free (Macintosh version only).

The Mugshot Machine lets you use your computer and web cam like a photobooth machine. Find out about it here and download a copy of it. By the way, I released mine before Apple. (Macintosh version only.)

The story of how I created the original Kid Pix.

 

 

A new picture of mine here every week. You can also look at a slide show of past pictures in the same location. For more pictures like these you can also look at Someplace Else.

Updated and Expanded

Someplace Else is an ongoing, expansive, photographic series primarily made within 60 miles of my home. Look at Someplace Else

Now Work by Other Photographers

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Kirk Thompson

I have started something new at DryReading. I am now showing the work of other photographers. The first is Kirk Thompson. Kirk has been generous enough to allow me to show three fantastic recent series. He lives in Berkeley, California and has been photographing and teaching photography for many years. Please take a look.

New Feature • New Feature • New Feature

Here is a collection of photographs that feature interesting, unorthadox and oddly inspiring uses of type. There are five sets of images. Many of these pictrues also appear in Someplace Else.

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I started photography in high school and continued throughout college. Here are a group pictures from that period and from a few years after. Pictures from this set have previously been seen in a CD rom I did in 1996 called The Box in the Basement and in a limited edition (two copies so far), Pacific Standard Time. New pictures may be added to this set as time goes on.
Look at Pacific Standard Time

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Around the House contains series of photos I put together a number of years ago focusing on my family

Mars Observations is an artist's book I made in 2001. Here you can download a PDF version of it.

CLASSES (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)

Programming for Artists
Digital Imaging

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