“Parallelostory” will be screening as part of the wow + flutter 09 program at the Pictoplasma Berlinfestival on Friday, April 9, 2010, in the historic Kino Babylon theatre.
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Installations of Systems Six and Seven
Seen above, System 7 is a selection of wooden lengths and colors that we handcrafted for public installation. Simple in its design, it’s surprising how much fun it is to work with these objects. We had a great time planning their construction and final composition within the square medium format frame. Tension of color, shape, and balance all reside within these deceptively plain objects.
If you’re interested in obtaining your own custom set of System 7 for your own compositions or are an educator interested in learning more about how these tools can be used in your creative course work, please contact us directly for more information.
Two new series of photographed installations, System 6 and System 7, are available for view at impactist.com.
System 6
A new series of photographed installations available for view at impactist.com.
Tools We Love – Quarzchrome Film Stock
Silky smooth transitions from dark to light and cartridges that refuse to become bound from unbalanced tension. If you can find it, then buy it. If not then no problem since you won’t know what you’re missing anyways. Ignorance is bliss.
Our experience with this dead-stock has been problem free, as has all our use of russian photographic equipment and supplies. It’s difficult to super-hate on this Super8. Pair this with a Canon Superzoom or even an ultra minimal windup Quarz camera and you’re living the high life. Plus, you’ll gain instant street-cred with the Ukrainian-photophiles in your crew.
Tools We Love – M. Graham Watercolors
Some say it’s the honey in the tubes that’s the key to their quality and we believe them. Open a tube you’ve been using for years and the quality remains like the day you bought them. You can’t go wrong picking these up and they’re cheap for what you get. Forget those other national brands that pack every art store’s shelves and give these a try. Favorites in this line include their Paine’s Gray that shifts towards blue in light washes that’s perfect for solo pigment paintings and the Gamboge is about as close as you can get to the rich light we receive here in Oregon about mid August. Sunshine in a tube that never sets.
Tools We Love – Sekonic Light Meter
It’s a workhorse that has never let us down. Mechanical controls and needle tell you what’s up with an ‘always-on’ functionality that is easy to take for granted. Keeping things simple is a pleasure with this little guy and lets you spend more time taking pictures and rolling film rather than wasting your time fussing with equipment. Of course, everything has its pluses and its minuses and incident meters are great when a reflective-only device won’t do, but from a cost and durability standpoint, the Sekonic Auto-Lumi L158 is hard to beat.
Tools We Love – Hot Pressed Block
Cold pressed is cool, but we find that hot lets us work faster if you’re trying to sketch out something quick and don’t need the long work time cold pressed can afford you, like for storyboards or styleframes. Plus, the fast dry time makes it ideal for rapid scanning.
No secret about hot pressed, but seems people can get in a cold pressed rut that’s hard to escape from.
