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MIT+150: FAST (Festival of Art + Science + Technology): FAST LIGHT — Man studying alone on his Macbook at the library
Image by Chris Devers
More books than you could read in a lifetime and still the Macbook gets more attention. Typical.
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This photo ran in the September/October 2011 edition of The Economist magazine’s More Intelligent Life, with Adrian Wooldridge article, Dr Dole Queue. THANK YOU!
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Quoting from the official pamphlet:
FAST LIGHT • May 7 + 8, 2011, 7 pm – 10 pm
Contemporary pioneers in art, science, and technology have come together at MIT to create one of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has ever seen. On May 7 and 8, 2011, visitors can interact with 20+ art and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River along Memorial Drive at MIT.
Installations scattered around campus (we didn’t quite see all of them), again pasting from the official flyer:
• aFloat
MIT Chapel • Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Inspired by water in the Saarinen Chapel’s moat, a touch releases flickers of light before serenity returns as a calm ripple.
By Otto Ng, Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev.
• Inflatables
Lobby 7, Infinite Corridor
A dodecahedron sculpture made of silver nylon resonates with gusts of air, heat from light bulbs, and the motions of passersby.
By Kyle Barker, Juan Jofre, Nick Polansky, Jorge Amaya.
• (now(now(now)))
Building 7, 4th Floor
This installation nests layers of the past into an image of the present, recursively intertwining slices of time.
By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar.
• Dis(Course)4
Building 3 Stair, Infinite Corridor
A stairwell transformed by a shummering aluminum conduit inspired by the discourse between floors and academic disciplines.
By Craig Boney, Jams Coleman and Andrew Manto.
• Maxwell’s Dream
Building 10 Community Lounge, Infinite Corridor
An interactive mural created by magnetic fields that drive patterns of light, Maxwell’s Dream is a visually expressive cybernetic loop.
By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg.
• Mood Meter
Student Center & Building 8, Infinite Corridor
Is the smile a barometer of happiness? Mood Meter playfully assesses and displays the mood of the MIT community onsite and at moodmeter.media.mit.edu
By Javier Hernandez and Ehsan Hoque.
• SOFT Rockers
Killian Court
Repose and charge your electronic devices using green solar powered technology
By Shiela Kennedy, P. Seaton, S. Rockcastle, W. Inam, A. Aolij, J. Nam, K. Bogenshutz, J. Bayless, M. Trimble.
• LightBridge
The Mass. Ave Bridge
A dynamic interactive LED array responds to pedestrians on the bridge, illustrating MIT’s ties to both sides of the river. Thanks to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, SparkFun Electronics.
By Sysanne Seitinger.
• Sky Event
Killian Court, Saturday, May 7th ONLY
Immense inflatable stars soar over MIT in celebration of the distinctive symbiosis among artists, scientists and engineers.
By Otto Piene.
• Liquid Archive
Charles River
A floating inflatable screen provides a backdrop for projections that highlight MIT’s history in science, technology, and art.
By Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas.
• Light Drift
Charles River
Ninety brightly glowing orbs in the river change color as they react to the presence of people along the shore.
By Meejin Yoon.
• Unflat Pavilion
Building 14 Lawn
This freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDs flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns, and windows.
By Nick Gelpi
• Gradated Field
Walker Memorial Lawn
A field of enticing mounts create a landscape that encourages passersby to meander through, or lounge upon the smooth plaster shapes.
By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim.
• Bibliodoptera
Building 14, Hayden Library Corridor
Newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT’s diverse library pages, a cloud of butterflies flutters above, reacting to the movement of passersby.
By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey.
• Wind Screen
Green Building Facade, Bldg 54
A shimmering curtain of light created by micro-turbines displays a visual register of the replenishable source of wind energy.
By Meejin Yoon.
• String Tunnel
Building 18 Bridge
A diaphonous tunnel creates a sense of entry to and from the Infinite Corridor and frames the surrounding landscape.
By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams.
• voltaDom
Building 56-66 Connector
A vaulted passageway utilizes an innovative fabrication technique that creates complex double curved vaults through the simple rolling of a sheet of material.
By Skylar Tibbits.
• Night of Numbers
Building 66 Facade & E15 Walkway
A lighting installation enlivens MIT architectre with numbers that hold special or historical significance to the Institute. Can you decode them all?
By Praveen Subramani and Anna Kotova.
• Overliner
Building E-25 Stairwell
Taking cues from a stairwell’s spiraling geometry, Overliner transforms a familiar and busy passageway into a moment of surprise and repose.
By Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi.
• Chroma District
Corner of Ames and Main Streets.
Lanterns react to visitors by passing sound and color from one to another, increasing in intensity along the way and illuminating the path to MIT’s campus.
By Eyal Shahar, Akito van Troyer, and Seung Jin Ham.
Artists on Art: Ruza Bagaric / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML
Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
Ruza Bagaric chats with Mac Farr (MMF) (Flickr) about her paintings and drawings during DUMBO Art Center’s annual Art Under the Bridge Festival in 2009.
Ruza Bagaric is a painter in New York City. You can check out her portfolio at ruzabagaric.com
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13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org
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Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org
Related SML
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+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
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This tutorial is a demonstration of the SLR Lounge Lightroom 4 Preset System. With over 200 presets, the LR4 Preset System has been critically acclaimed as the most powerful and intuitive preset system available for Lightroom 4, click the link above to learn more/purchase. DPS users can get 10% off by using the DPS10 coupon code.
This is a step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to take a portrait and create to create a high contrast black and white portrait, as well as a film-like black and white portrait.
If you own the SLR Lounge Lightroom 4 Preset System, this effect can be achieved in around 10 seconds. If you don’t own the preset system, please skip to Step 1 to learn how to do it manually.
High-Contrast Black & White Portrait
1. MY MIXOLOGY > 00 Standard Import
2. MY MIXOLOGY > 13 Standard B&W (Soft | Portrait)
3. BASE ADJUSTMENTS > 45 Medium Darken (Blacks)
Filmic Black & White Portrait
1. MY MIXOLOGY > 00 Standard Import
2. MY MIXOLOGY > 13 Standard B&W (Soft | Portrait)
3. ANTIQUE CURVES > 41 B&W (Vintage Punch)
4. BASE ADJUSTMENTS > 42 Neutral (Blacks)
5. BASE ADJUSTMENTS > 33 Light Boost (Contrast)
6. SPECIAL EFFECTS > 23 Medium (Film Grain)
Whenever we are preparing images for printing, we always run a Dust Correction Curve check to make sure that we don’t have any noticeable dust on our image. The great thing about this curve is that it is also useful in detecting dandruff on dark clothing in addition to any other distracting dust or flecks in the scene. We do this by applying the 82 Advanced Dust Correction Curve temporarily.
For those that don’t have the Lightroom 4 Preset System, here is what the curve looks like.
The spikes and troughs on the curve creates a super high contrast (and frankly quite wonky) look to our image which helps in detecting hard to see spots, dust, flecks and anything else that might be distracting as you can see below:
From here, we will select the Spot Removal Tool (Q) to remove any distracting elements.
Once we have finished, we will simply reset the Curve (without resetting the Spot Removal adjustments that we just made).
At this point, we need to first convert our image to Black and White by hitting “V”. Since this is a portrait, we will want to smooth out highlights on our skin tones, add contrast, and make other Basic Panel adjustments necessary for our Portrait. We are going to smooth skin tone highlights by decreasing our Highlights and Whites, while adding additional contrast by reducing our Shadows and Blacks. In addition, to further boost contrast, we will also adjust the Contrast slider. Finally, to further smooth the skin, let’s decrease Clarity. Your final Basic Panel adjustments should mirror the following:
Your image should now look like the following:
The adjustments made to smooth out our highlights are leaving our image just a bit flat. Rather than adding additional contrast with the Contrast slider, we are going to do so with the Tone Curve so that we have more control over where the contrast is added.
Make sure that you are using the Point Curve mode by clicking on the Curve icon at the bottom-right of the panel.
Using a custom Tone Curve, we will dial in a subtle contrast boosting “S” curve that looks like the following:
This adjustment is quite subtle, so let’s move on to the next step.
Normally, if you are using the SLR Lounge Preset System, the Sharpening are automatically applied. Here is what we typically apply to our image:
We also want to add Noise Reduction because we may have added some noise when we opened up the Shadows and Blacks. The key here is to balance out Noise Reduction and Sharpness so you can smooth out the skin while retaining the fine details in the hair and eyes. We use this setting for Noise Reduction:
Finally, let’s add some Lens Vignetting at +30 Amount and +30 Midpoint simply to even out edge to edge brightness.
That is all the settings that we use to create our High-Contrast Black and White Portrait. Your image should look similar to the image below:
Now we are going to create a black and white image with a filmic look. At this point, let’s create a Virtual Copy of our image so we can retain both black and white versions by hitting CTRL+’ on Windows and CMD+’ on Mac.
Compared to the High-Contrast Black and White Portrait, the filmic black and white portrait is going to have less contrast. Additionally, the blacks are lifted by zeroing out Blacks and Shadows. The Highlights, White, and Clarity are still lowered in order to smooth out the skin tone. We also want to keep Contrast at +25 in order to retain contrast across the tonal range.
Your Basic Panel adjustment should look like this:
Your image should look like the following:
The Tone Curve is the key to achieving the filmic look that we are looking for. In order to limit the dynamic range on both the blacks and whites, we are going to clip both ends. Additionally, we are going to increase the shape of the ”S” curve in order to push the contrast outward towards the shadows and highlights. This will also compress the highlights and the shadows, as well. Your Tone Curve should look similar to this:
And your image should look like the following:
The Sharpening and Noise Reduction remain the same as the High-Contrast Black and White image, so your settings should look like the following:
Instead of opening up the edges by adding a lighter Lens Vignette like we did with the High-Contrast Black and White, we are going to darken them instead. We are only darkening the edges subtly, so your Vignette should like this:
Finally, to achieve the filmic look for our Black and White portrait, we are going to add a medium amount of Grain to the image.
Here is the final image after we add the Film Grain:
Here are the before and after images comparing the original image against the High-Contrast Black and White image and the Filmic Black and White image that are created using the SLR Lounge Lightroom 4 Preset System.
Original
High Contrast Black and White
Filmic Black and White
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How to Create a Black & White High-Contrast and Filmic Image in Lightroom 4
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Now, while you certainly can wait for someone to hand you that experience on a platter, doing so is putting the ball in someone else's hands. Which is fine if you are both patient and lucky.
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