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Here are some assorted photographic works...
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"VGA Fe/Male" (a) and "VGA Fe/Male (NEW)" (b) (a) 35mm (Mamiya-Sekkor) Dimensions: 8 by 10 inches (b) Digital (Olympus SP-310) Dimensions: 3072 X 2048 The first photo was taken during a photography course back in around 2002. It was taken with my Mamiya-Sekkor. The second photo was taken in 2007, using the 7.1 Megapixel marvel, the Olympus SP-310. The irony I find in this is that, back in 2002 when I was selling cameras, 7.1 megapixels was virtually unheard of, and would have cost at least 800USD. Today, the Olympus SP series (sadly, about to be discontinued) commands prices of around 300 to 400USD. When I showed the first photo to the class, someone asked if it was deliberate that the "female" plug was set atop the "male" plug. Although I can honestly say, at the time, I wasn't thinking that way at all, but when setting up the new photo, I decided that, "if people are going to read sexual metaphors into computer parts, they should at least be a positive ones."
"Darby Cuffs" Digital (Olympus SP-310) Dimensions: 3072 X 2304
"Pills" 35mm (Mamiya-Sekkor) Dimensions: 8 by 10 inches Take 2 daily with cream soda: Side effects include sore throat, dry mouth, itchy and watery eyes, upset stomach, anal leakeage, bleeding from the ears, nausea, the hearing of voices, delusions of grandeur, poor gas mileage, Single-Issue party voting habits, robophobia, visions of the Virgin Mary, loss of appetite, hair-loss, stuttering, osteoperosis, extreme scoptophilia, auditing, mild leprosy, and an uncompromising fear of carnivorous batteries. Women who are nursing or pregnant may develop telekinesis. People over 75 may complain of being chased by evil refrigerators. Please consult a physician before complaining of aforementioned side effects or contacting a lawyer or bringing any sort of legal litigation against those who have created this medication and therefore effectively cured your mild headache. You're welcome.
"Active Edge" 35mm (Mamiya-Sekkor) Dimensions: 8 by 10 inches
"Badger Bottle (Valentine to Hosoe)" Digital (Olympus SP-310) Dimensions: 3072 X 2048
"REDD" Digital (Olympus SP-310) Dimensions: 3072 X 2048
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"Cherry-picked" (a) and "Cherry" (b) Digital (Olympus SP-310) Dimensions (a and b): 3072 X 2048 When I was working on the short film series "The Victims of Dr. Tatra", I started gathering various electronic devices and parts, all of which would be mounted into props. Unfortunately, these bayonet-bulb housings are of a very unusual diameter: exactly 21/34 of an inch! By the time I realized how utterly difficult it was to find drill bits of that size (or rough approximations), I had already somehow accumulated about 28 of the damn things.
"AW" 35mm (Mamiya-Sekkor) Dimensions: 8 by 10 inches
"Leftist Theater" 35mm (Mamiya-Sekkor) Dimensions: 8 by 10 inches Some say things like serendipity, most say things like "Ignorance is Bliss." Sometimes, when looking at a negative, in a dark room on a saturday morning when you've only gotten four hours of sleep, it's easy to forget the most basic of things, namely the fine yet subtle distinction of left and right. Oddly enough, the first person to notice the mistake was a leftie. Of course, they didn't call it a mistake, they called it a call to arms for those 1 in 30 Americans!
"Zen Patio" 35mm (Mamiya-Sekkor) Dimensions: 8 by 10 inches
"Tunnels" (part of series) Digital (Olympus SP-310) Dimensions: 3072 X 2048 In my efforts to build my own ringlight, I discovered that the cardboard paper-towel roll fit almost perfectly over the SP-310's adapter tube. Obviously, it would be cut down to avoid vignetting, but in the meantime, aiming the camera into a light, adjusting angles, bracketing exposures, and even using different types of lights produced some very interesting effects.
"Fairchild Box" Vinyl Tile, Wood, Plastic, & Electrical Wiring (digital photograph: Sony DSC-V1) Dimensions (box): 20cm by 20cm by 15cm DImensions (photo): Unknown This is not so much a photograph as much as it is a chronicle of my only real attempt at sculpture. It is a simple wooden box with cut vinyl tiles (black marble style), and four arcade buttons (available from WICO, also check the arcade controls link below for a lot of really cool links about this kind of stuff. The wires underneath really do work. They require a connection to an I-Pac (see arcade controls link below) which is, in turn, connected to a Macintosh running Isadora. Isadora (see troika link below) is a realtime video processing program often used in live video performances. In the case of the sculpture (part of a larger project called Fairchild: Aesthetic Perfect), Isadora was used to link each of the four buttons to one of four animated video clips of a woman walking between rooms (in any of four corresponding directions). The overall effect was that it gave the audience (player?) an illusion of control; they would believe they would be navigating a simple (and very repetetive maze), when actually they were just looping four videos. There was, though, a fifth video, which was triggered by simply pressing any combination of the buttons 32 times.
(c)2007 Matsugawa J. Andrews