Sensible Erection | 34-month long pinhole photograph exposure

Friday, 30 July 2010

34-month long pinhole photograph exposure

quote [ In 2001 [Michael Wesely] was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to use his unique technique to record the re-development of their building. He set up four cameras in four different corners and photographed the destruction and re-building of the MoMa until 2004 - leaving the shutter (the holes) open for up to 34 months! ]

Unrelated: HOWTO: Pirate a vinyl record

http://www2.lost-in-val-sinestra.com/

[art] [by f00m@nB@r@4:12amGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

f00m@nB@r said @ 4:16am GMT on 30th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
Architect has been living in houses <100 sq. ft. since 1997:

b said @ 5:07am GMT on 30th Jul
charming, but silly. i'm guessing he's single too.

maryyugo said @ 5:29am GMT on 30th Jul
He has a jail fetish.

Todomanna said @ 6:36am GMT on 30th Jul
I think he was propositioning the viewer, or possibly the camera operating, in the loft, so probably.

tickaz said @ 6:46am GMT on 30th Jul
The very end of the clip seems to suggest this is so

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:36am GMT on 30th Jul
Ya ya ya. Try living in the city sometime.

karrdek said @ 4:38am GMT on 30th Jul
link down?

karrdek said @ 4:44am GMT on 30th Jul
Scratch that...

maryyugo said @ 6:43am GMT on 30th Jul
I don't understand how you can leave even a pinhole open with film in the camera for years and get an image -- why doesn't the film fog eventually?

lalanda said @ 7:58am GMT on 30th Jul
It really is just incredibly slow film.

robotroadkill said @ 11:28am GMT on 30th Jul
Like, ISO .01 or something?

lalanda said @ 4:03pm GMT on 30th Jul
Enough time has passed for me to add, "Like Paris, Texas."

maryyugo said @ 4:44pm GMT on 30th Jul
Didn't know there was such a thing. Is there a link? Can you actually buy such stuff?

mechanic said @ 10:31pm GMT on 31st Jul
Set up a long exposure using a camera sent to you from Finland:-

www.solargraphy.com

ComposerNate said @ 9:53am GMT on 30th Jul

robotroadkill said @ 10:32am GMT on 30th Jul
For heading a company that puts so much effort going into aesthetic design you'd think he'd pick a better outfit to wear for 12 years. Unless he's going for the "I'm a genius that has better things to think about than clothes" routine that is sometimes attributed to Einstein.

Ankylosaur said @ 5:54pm GMT on 30th Jul
It's his uniform. It's designed to inform us of his virtues so that we may better glorify him. The black turtle neck tells us he is a creative artist. The faded blue jeans tells us he is casual and not business-as-usual.

It's just like how Ahmadinejad is always wearing those frumpy, tieless suits and Members Only jackets to show he is one of the common people. Or how Kim Jong-Il always wears those olive drab jumpsuit things to show he is a military leader, but an austere and practical one.

Control freaks love uniforms.

ComposerNate said @ 8:54am GMT on 19th Aug
At the height of grunge, black shoes.

EPT said @ 3:07pm GMT on 30th Jul
Hey, he added a belt. What more do you want?

f00m@nB@r said @ 4:06pm GMT on 30th Jul
A front-facing camera in the iPad. At least, that's what a cow-orker keeps harping on.

crom said @ 4:07pm GMT on 30th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
Only because he lost weight and his pants kept falling down.

mwoody said @ 5:14pm GMT on 30th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
Yeah he wears the same thing and that's funny. But I don't really like poking fun at his weight loss and aging, as they're the result of pancreatic cancer.

bluecalx said @ 7:47pm GMT on 30th Jul
Ageing is the result of pancreatic cancer? Oh fuck.

sherlock said @ 12:53am GMT on 1st Aug
don't worry, there are many things that could be causing your aging:

1. pancreatic cancer
2. sexually transmitted diseases
3. radiation sickness
4. the Dunning–Kruger effect

jock said @ 11:10am GMT on 30th Jul
This post is full of win. TKS.

Didel said @ 2:57pm GMT on 30th Jul
The "how to pirate vinyl" is interesting, but stupid. Never mind that vinyl isn't the end all be all that people make it out to be, but making an effectively latex copy of a record is going to give you even more noise and hiss than the original record and going to further degrade the sound quality. It's interesting in a 'how would you do this' sort of thing, but you'd be better off hooking up your record player to your computers sound card and just record off of that (or better yet, get one of those USB turntables that with software will record the songs for you)

f00m@nB@r said @ 4:06pm GMT on 30th Jul
Not getting the point.

f00m@nB@r said @ 5:38pm GMT on 30th Jul
I'll just say it. It is tongue-in-cheek. Of course, if you want to pirate vinyl, just record the damn thing to tape or MP3.

It's a fun thing to do if you want to make one or two to give to friends, or just try a new craft project for a weekend.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

maryyugo said @ 4:48pm GMT on 30th Jul
I agree partly with both Didel and Foo on this one. I doubt that this will be a good copy but on the other hand, digitizing a vinyl record may not give the same sound. Both assertions are, however, subject to double blind testing which, as usual, the enthusiasts on both sides are very unlikely to do. The human ear is marvelous but nowhere as reliable for such discrimination as "high end" audio fools and crooks claim.

I suppose the best way to duplicate a vinyl record is with the original master and if you can't get that, by playing the record from a high quality turntable and amplifier and making a new one with a cutting machine. It just doesn't seem as if silicon rubber, stretchy and flaw ridden as it is likely to be, will make a decent copy.

maryyugo said @ 5:37pm GMT on 30th Jul
Cheese, someone is trying a one hundred year long exposure. I still don't get how the film for that sort of thing could work. What do they use? Do they protect the surface somehow?

maryyugo said @ 5:44pm GMT on 30th Jul
Ooops. Missed this: "The film is archivally-stable black paper, which will fade in the focused light of a pinhole projection over the next hundred years, producing a unique positive print." I am considering that that whole article is some sort of weird joke. It's also not much to care about.