This is a few weeks old, but I just want to post it anyway.
Julia and I went to our first Daddy Daughter Dance. Here’s the official photo.
Julia and Dad. February, 2010
A Chinese acrobatic interpretation of Swan Lake. A very amazing performance. I’ve had many friends who are professional dancers of all kinds, ballet, jazz, modern, you name it. They would all say that this is impossible, and I would agree. These wacky Chinese pull it off. They scare me.
And a couple more things tonight…
Anyone from Northeast Ohio will remember ‘The Sons of Elvis’. They were a great band that Dink shared many a gig with. Well, Dave Hill was in that band. He’s an old pal. Now he’s working at being a comedian-performer-tvstar-something. He’s really funny. I like his attitude and wish him the best. Subscribe to his YouTube channel and give him the dickens. He would want it that way.
Another random thing here. Please check out http://craftastrophe.net/
Don’t believe what you see.
I’m really beginning to think the Nishika is a pretty crappy camera. I’m digging out the Nimslo. For real.
Anyway, here’s another animation. This is Kaya .
Kaya in 3D. . . kinda.
The 3D camera takes 4 images simultaneously, each image uses half of a standard frame, so when some junky place like Walgreen’s prints the photos incredibly terribly, it is difficult to crop and place the images on top of each other to make the animation. Walgreens then cut my negatives (which they were instructed not to do at all) through the middle of the images. Grrrrrrr..
So, last week during one of my thrift store runs (that’s where I get pretty much all of the materials that I use to make stuff), I found a Nishika N8000 for 4 bucks. It is a 4 lens 3D camera. I have another 4 lens camera, it’s a Nimslo. When I got the Nimslo about 15 years ago, there was nowhere to get the 3D prints made. You know, the lenticular prints that have the ribbed plastic film on top of them. Like a dinosaur ruler for kids. . . After I found the Nishika, I googled it and found out that there IS a place that makes the prints. It’s in Toronto. I’ll be sending them some film. In the meantime, I shot a roll on the new one and had it printed at Walgreens (they screwed it up BAD) but I scanned the prints and assembled them into this simple little animation. Enjoy. More coming soon.
Parts racks in Fraser, MI.
Kaya has been bugging me to update the blog. I know, I know.
So here’s an update, but it’s not of stuff I’m making. I HAVE been making some beady skulls, but that’s not the topic tonight.
My sister lives in Arlington, VA . Works in DC. She’s been off all week because of the snow storm. . . wooo hoo! I found this cool time-lapse film of the snow that she’s experienced.
Here it is. . .
I also stumbled a very beautiful and profound piece of work illustrating the complexity and beauty of our reality. It’s a dive down deep into a fractal. Please visit the page and read the explanation of this film. THIS should make you think. I know it made my brain loop the loop.
No embedding allowed, apparently, so visit the link below.
Click here to see ‘Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip to e214″