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Half Invisible: Deserted Desert Cabin Remixed with Mirrors

05 Dec

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

see through cabin

Unlike a mirage on the horizon, this quaint little abode is entirely real, even if it seems to half-disappear through alternating wood and (seemingly) see-through slats.

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A project by Phillip K Smith III (images by Stephen King Photography and Lance Gerber), Lucid Stead modifies an existing abandoned home shape that is straightforward and familiar.

see through night light

Through its materials, however, the artist makes the building interact with the landscape in mind-bending ways, reflecting its surroundings via long horizontal siding and framed rectangular (faux) windows that slowly light up at night. The effect is a strange partial vanishing of the structure.

see through house art

Of the work, the artist writes: “Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.”

see through day stars

From the portfolio page: “Composed of mirror, LED lighting, custom built electronic equipment and Arduino programming amalgamated with a preexisting structure, this architectural intervention, at first, seems alien in context to the bleak landscape. In daylight the 70 year old homesteader shack, that serves as the armature of the piece, reflects and refracts the surrounding terrain like a mirage or an hallucination. As the sun tucks behind the mountains, slowly shifting, geometric color fields emerge until they hover in the desolate darkness.”

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Blickfang: Half Life

26 Nov

Als ich die von Bilder Michael Ackerman letztes Jahr erstmals in Berlin vor mir sah, ohne Rahmen und versetzt an der weißen Galeriewand befestigt, hatte es mich gepackt, geschüttelt und getroffen.

Ich musste mir den Fotoband „Half Life“* unbedingt zulegen, ganz egal, was mein Konto dazu sagte. Nennen wir es reflexartige Überlebensreaktion. Seitdem atme ich ein wenig ruhiger und merke es bei einem der Bilder besonders.

Blumenvase © Michael-Ackerman

Kürzlich las ich, dass die Betrachtung eines Bildes immer von den eigenen Erfahrungen und der Sensibilität für bestimmte Themen abhängig ist.

Betrachte ich das Bild, passiert etwas mit mir. Mein Gedankenkonglomerat kippt sich aus und setzt alte Bilder in mir frei. Ich bin ein DDR-Kind und mit meinen Eltern oft weggefahren. Ich kann mich an farblose Unterkünfte erinnern, an leere und große Speiseräume mit Deckchen und jeweils einer Vase und Blumen bestückt.

An die Menschen erinnere ich mich nur schemenhaft, so schenmenhaft wie die Menschen in Ackermans Buch dargestellt sind. Immerhin war ich erst sieben oder acht Jahre alt, da fühlt man sich klein, verletzlich und vor allem unwichtig zwischen all den großen Menschen, die doch immer viel klüger sind und das Kind nicht groß beachten.

Dies ist also mein Bild, obwohl ein fremdes, denn ich bestücke es mit meiner Erinnerung, die versteckt irgendwo in meinem Kopf saß und darauf wartete, hervorgeholt zu werden. Darüber hinaus kann ich diesen Fotoband aber allen ans Herz legen, die Schwarzweißwelten lieben und auch keine Angst haben, gedanklich mit ihnen in die Tiefe zu fallen.

Informationen zum Buch:

Michael Ackerman: „Half Life“
Seiten: 168 (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Abbildungen: schwarzweiß
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Dewi Lewis Publishing

* Das ist ein Affiliate-Link zu Amazon. Wenn Ihr darüber etwas bestellt, erhalten wir eine kleine Provision, Ihr zahlt aber keinen Cent mehr.

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Milky Way Over Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

17 Jun

The Milky Way rises over Half Dome as seen from Glacier Point – Yosemite National Park

One of the many things I love about Yosemite National Park is that it’s equally photogenic at night as it is during the day. During my last visit I focused on astro-landscapes, but Mother Nature had other things in mind with a lot of clouds. Fortunately for me the heaviest clouds cleared just in time for me to take this photo and several others.

My location of choice was Glacier Point as the increased altitude above the valley floor allows you to see the Milky Way rising a little earlier without obstruction. In addition you have an amazing view of Half Dome and Nevada and Vernal Falls. These of course make for amazing foreground subjects.

One interesting note about this photo is that it was taken with out a tripod. I had two other cameras running time-lapses on a tripod when this was taken and I was left with only my ingenuity to stabilize my 3rd camera. To stabilize my camera for this long exposure I lodged the camera on a rock and used the strap with a great deal of tension to lock it into place. If there is interest I’ll go over exactly how I did this.

Photo Details:
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 15mm f/2.8 fisheye, ISO 6400, 30sec

Milky Way Over Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

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Half Dome Sunrise, Yosemite

28 Nov

Half Dome Sunrise, Yosemite National Park

To gaze upon a sunrise is a treasured moment, you only get so many opportunities to see them. Keeping that in mind it always pays to get up early.

John Muir also had an eloquent quote, “God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.” I couldn’t agree more, but it’s easy to see how he came to that conclusion witnessing so many sunrises in Yosemite. Personally there are few things as glorious as seeing sunrise over Half Dome.

Half Dome Sunrise, Yosemite

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The 15 Most Popular Photography Tutorials from the 2nd Half of 2012

27 Nov

As we approach the end of 2012 I thought I would post ‘looking back’ post to follow up on a post I did halfway through the year that highlighted The most Popular Photography Tutorials of the First Half of 2012.

Since posting that earlier list we’ve published 300 more photography tutorials here at dPS – the most popular of them being the following 15.

1. Why Your Kit Lens is Better than You Think

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2. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses for Photographing Women – Part 2

3. 8 Tips for Long Exposure Photography

4. DSLR Camera Focusing Tips for Beginners

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5. 14 Ways to Significantly Improve Your Photography Today

6. 10 Tips for Improving Your Wildlife Photography

7. 19 More Creative Mirror Self Portraits

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8. One Light Portraits: Simple Elegance

9. How to Take Creative Couples Portraits

10. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Groups of People

11. 10 Tips for Landscapes Photographers

12. 12 Ways to Capture the Colors of Fall

13. How to Read and Use Histograms

14. How to Create Backlight or Hairlight Outdoors with Natural Light

15. 7 Steps to Get Over Your Fear of Street Photography

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Lastly – the other page on the site that got a load of attention in the last 5 months was our newest eBook – our iPhone Photography eBook which we launched a few months ago which is still available in both PDF and ePUB formats.

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Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

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Half Pipe, Double Trouble: 2 Skateboard-able Dream Homes

18 Oct

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

Skateboarders often have a tendency to eye virtually every surface as they go about their day, sizing it up for its curves and rails, imagining what it would be like to skate it. What if more structures were skateable, or even designed with skateboarders in mind? These two houses, Skate Villa by Philipp Schuster and PAS House by Francois Perrin and Gil Lebon Delapointe, are ultimate fantasy homes with curved walls, seats and even fireplaces.

PAS House

Designed as a ribbon providing a continuous surface to skate on from one end of the home to the other, PAS House was a collaboration between skateboarder and designer Gil Lebon Delapointe and architect Francois Perrin. The house is planned for a cliffside site in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and a full-scale prototype was shown at Project Darwin in Bordeaux, France.

Created for Pierre Andre Senizergues, a former world champion and pro skater, PAS House includes a living room, dining area and kitchen as well as a bedroom, bathroom and skateboard practice area. The central part of the house forms a loop, with an interior measuring 10 feet in diameter.

Skate Villa

A derelict hunting cabin in Salzburg, Austria is now a bright, beautiful and almost totally skateable house with all the comforts and eccentricities of the original structure. At Skate Villa, concrete mounds added to the base of the walls add curves where there were none, and ramps were even created on interior structures like the fireplace.

Pro skater Philipp Schuster designed, gutted and renovated the house as his own personal indoor skate park after purchasing it from an elderly couple. The original character of the cabin was maintained with dark wood elements, hunting trophies and traditional lodge-style furniture.

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Half life source : Beginning 3D Anaglyph

11 Sep

Half life source the beginning with highest 3D effect .3D Anaglyph (red , blue cyan ) glasses needed Half-Life: Source is a digitally remastered version of the critically acclaimed and best selling PC game half life (1998) , enhanced via Source technology to include physics simulation, enhanced effects, and more. The character is introduced as a theoretical physicist working at the Black Mesa Research Facility and involved in an experiment which accidentally opens an interdimensional portal, releasing confused, hostile beings into the complex. In the first Half-Life, the player, as Gordon Freeman, fights through the facility alongside fellow employees, engaging the aliens as well as a military unit sent in to contain the situation and silence any surviving witnesses. In its sequel, Half-Life 2, Gordon is introduced to a dystopian world years after the Black Mesa incident, along with an interdimensional imperial force known as the Combine that took advantage of the interdimensional portals and has established itself as the ruling force on Earth. Gordon joins the human resistance fighters and aids them in their struggle against their oppressors.
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Half life 2 Complete part.10 in 3D Anaglyph

26 Aug

Chapter 10 : – Entanglement : Gordon meets up with Alyx again, and together they find both Eli and Doctor Judith Mossman, the latter found to be a Combine spy. The four meet at a Combine teleportation room, preparing to return to Kleiner’s lab. While Gordon and Alyx are distracted by an alarm set off by Mossman, she teleports herself and Eli into the Citadel, the Combine’s base of operations. After holding off a large group of Combine soldiers, Gordon and Alyx barely manage to teleport themselves to Doctor Kleiner’s lab before the teleporter explodes, but a malfunction in the equipment causes them to arrive at Doctor Kleiner’s lab a week after they teleported. 3D glasses needed ( red ,blue cyan ) ,anaglyph La 3D fonctionne avec des lunettes 3D anaglyphe ( rouge ,bleu cyan ) HD 1400 x 900, Download the iZ3D Driver for Direct X here : www.iz3d.com Gameplay HL2 half life 2 halflife city 17 recorded with fraps and virtual dub
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Half life 2 Complete part.13 in 3D Anaglyph

19 Aug

Chapter 11 : – Anticitizen One : In the previous week, news of Gordon’s successful invasion of Nova Prospekt has brought new life to the citzens of City 17, causing them to rise up in armed rebellion, with Barney leading the Resistance in an effort to reach the Citadel and free Eli Vance. Resistance fighters led by Freeman travel towards the Citadel to join up with Barney and free Doctor Vance while Alyx helps Doctor Kleiner escape the lab. Later, Alyx briefly rejoins and accompanies Gordon in a battle to disable a Combine power generator, but she is subsequently captured by Combine forces. Gordon is then forced to travel through an abandoned industrial complex to reach Barney. Chapter 12 : – “Follow Freeman !” : After reaching Barney, the pair fight their way to the “Nexus Building”. Gordon shuts down a suppression device blocking access to the Citadel, while Barney stays to help resistance members. Outside, a pack of powerful Combine war-machines, the Striders, attack until they are destroyed by Freeman and numerous rebels. 3D glasses needed ( red ,blue cyan ) ,anaglyph La 3D fonctionne avec des lunettes 3D anaglyphe ( rouge ,bleu cyan ) HD 1400 x 900, Download the iZ3D Driver for Direct X here : www.iz3d.com Gameplay HL2 half life 2 halflife city 17 recorded with fraps and virtual dub

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Posts Tagged ‘half’

Half Invisible: Deserted Desert Cabin Remixed with Mirrors

Blickfang: Half Life

Milky Way Over Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

Half Dome Sunrise, Yosemite

The 15 Most Popular Photography Tutorials from the 2nd Half of 2012

1. Why Your Kit Lens is Better than You Think