Daily Photo Design 0016
Karlshamn Skyline
Continuing the Karlshamn theme from the last image….
Worms in the Apple Garden
I like os x, I like ipods, I like itunes, but I’m not particularly fond of Apple’s business model. A wiki owner called Sam Odio started a diskussion about how to create a sync alternativ for Ipod/Iphone. I didn’t take Apple long to catch up and send their lawyers to stop the discussion. This is why I’m a huge fan of the idea behind web 2.0, a mindset directly opposite to this kind of behavior. Trying to circumvent free speech with a law suit threat is a postmodern version of old school mafia methods - which of course are live and kicking as much as before. If you are an Apple worshiper, please think of this:
- Apple - wants to get on top of Microsoft and Google and rule the world
- Microsoft - wants to get on top of Apple and Google and rule the world
- Google - wants to get on top of Microsoft and Apple and rule the world
- Ubuntu - ? well, probably has a similar wish
If someone asked me to choose one of these competitors as the next king in the digital sphere, I couldn’t possibly choose one. The icing of the digital cake is the diversity of these companies respective business models. But if I was forced to choose between these business models, Apple would come pretty close to the end of my list.
Sometimes I meet persons with an almost religious relationship to Apple or Linux (Never happend with Microsoft, and hardly Google). I don’t like the vibes in that kind of fundamentalism. I don’t like it at all.
Spotify Recommendation: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Vivaldi
Vivaldi's Cello - Yo-Yo Ma
Vivaldi is one of my favorite classical composers and Yo-Yo Ma is one of the best interpreters of his music. Vivaldi created music in a time before the pretensiousness of Bach and many after that - well, I sort of love that kind of music too. Vivaldi’s music is very earthly. I can imagine myself standing i front of a new land, wide open for my interpretations and actions. Not asking some power beyond what to do with this new land, but rather let the soil gleam through my spreaded fingers, rolling up my sleavs and get to the task of building something with my own hands and mind in a harmonious relation. Yes, you are right, I don’t view baroque music as social, but that is a personal anachronism. A non-social aspect of music hardly existed before very late in the technoscientific revolution, ie. the invention of the gramophone (phonograph).
Daily Photo Design 0015
Guö, Karlshamn, Sweden
The last two photo designs were kind of sloppy. There are a lot more work to do with both of them. This photo does not need that kind of polish - I think. The early morning light does it all. It was shot with a compact camera, a Canon Ixus 5 megapixel.
Early visual Draft - The Location of Photography (in Web 2.0)
Early Draft - The Location of Photography
To Clarify: In the taxonomy, Photo Design inherits the properties of Photo Realism, and Photo Art Inherits those from Photo Design. There is no value embedded in this taxonomy….
Daily Photo Design 0014
Pine Tunnel
Location:
Do you like pine nuts? I do. I love pin nuts. I shot the photo for this design in Italy, the Calabrian cost, 2006. (Click the image and choose Slideshow for a larger image)
Daily Photo Design 0013
Daily Photo Design 0013
Location:
I was cooking spare ribs and grilled pumpkin, noticed the beauty of the shape and color in the pumpkin. Little time. Busy busy. Tripod, camera, flash, blue reflector screen (intuition…). Sigma 30/1,4 lens with full aperture to separate background and foreground from the main motive. Busy busy, my wife passes and put the small pumpkin exactly where it is in the photo - Serendipity for sure. Busy busy. Compact Flash card into computer. Photo software. Darken the background - hide the dishwasher and sink. Leaving some details in the background, and most in the foreground to locate the photo. I didn’t want the pumpkins to hover in darkness.
I’m currently thinking (an soon writing) about location in photo/design/art, in relation to everything that happened since the birth of the Internet. With this location / description appended to the photo, no one can mistake it for being an unsuccessful professional studio photo. The location of this photo is elsewhere and the location is built into the photo itself. It’s all about being creative and having fun. Playing with technology, with reality. Share impressions. Learning.
By the way, the water drops are genuine - moisture from pumpkin flesh meeting air… The water drops are instances of serendipity. If this had been a professional studio photo, the photographer probably would have wiped the pumpkin clean and after that added water drops at exactly the right places.
By the way no 2, this is a banana pumkin from our garden. Some say its the tastiest kind of pumpkin, and I find it difficult to disagree. It was delicious!
Spotify Recommendation: Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy
There is quite a lot of classical music in Spotify, but it can be hard to find it. The reason is partly due to the structure of their database. It doesn’t seem to have any column for “composer”, so the “artist” and the “composer” is mixed up in the database. So the best way to find classical music seems to be through the artist and not the composer.
Nigel Kennedy plays the violin like a god. He is known for doing exciting interpretations of traditional music, like Vivaldi.
Copy the uri below and paste it into the search field in Spotify:
spotify:artist:1RrTDtKUNYXtLoaxQFplYV
Flatness
Dissertation 09 - Peter Giger
From the final paragraph:
My project will not use researchers as argumentative tools. I will not use knowledge in the following way: X is a fact because Y say so, and since Y is ranked third in Web of Science, her deductions has a larger truth value than Z, because Z is not even ranked in Web of Science. When I am referring to another researcher, it is the Person, and the communicating act, I am referring to, not the authority. Practically all locations is treated as empirical material, rather than argumentative tools. This non-authoritative approach is an important methodology for me in my search for accountable research. The methodological approach is partly forced by the infinitesimal body of research available to me, which in turn is due to the short time period Internet has been something we could call a life world. This methodological approach render a blogger’s statement on the same level as something written by theorists as Donna Haraway, Jürgen Habermas, Sandra Harding, Nietzsche or Aristotle. Perhaps you could say that this methodology strives for an increasing flatness in the world of discourse.
Click the the picture to read the whole draft… It’s only about 1,5 A4.
