lewism » Photography http://www.lewism.org A Tectonic Notebook Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:49:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Tooled up http://www.lewism.org/2007/01/19/tooled-up/ http://www.lewism.org/2007/01/19/tooled-up/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:07:06 +0000 lewism http://www.lewism.org/2007/01/19/tooled-up/ I got a Canon 400D digital slr camera yesterday (Rebel XTI in the US) so now I can shoot some proper digital photos, except here it comes in all the Scandinavian languages that means no English. Luckily i’m on this new fangled interweb thingy and can find it quite easily. Nice digital slr introduction here.

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The MareNostrum in Barcelona is Europes biggest Supercomputer to date. The Photographer Simon Norfolk has documented it with a series of amazing images (like the one shown). The MareNostrum is housed in an old Chapel and thus according to Simon it has become a Divine container for the omnipresent super brain or perhaps alternatively the anti-divine emotionless incontemplateable other. Simon recalls Kubriks HAL in Space Odessey and Jacques de Vaucansons Duck in 18th Century France as defining moments of mans relationship with machine, I would also add the name which means ‘our sea’ reminds me of Solaris by Stanislav Lem where we see an Alien Sea unknowable by man. Bldgblg points out that

In any case, because all harddrives are actually geological objects – careful rearrangements of minerals under the influence of manmade geomagnetic fields – then these are mathematical terrains in the most exciting sense: the surface of the earth dreaming of spherical velocities inside otherwise undetectable stellar detonations.

The Biggest computer in the world at the moment is BlueGene/L which sits in its room dreaming of death for the American military. (All via bldgblog)

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Jugendsali has an exhibition running till currently showing off the talents of four architectural photographers. Jens Lindhe from Denmark, Jiri Havran from Norway, Åke E:son Lindman from Sweden and Jussi Tiainen from Finland. I particularly liked how Jens Lindhe subtly broke the mould of most architectural photography, it was more informal and the pictures were printed three on a sheet with different views of the same building, including people and with depth of focus that most architectural photography eschews. Pity his website doesn’t have more examples of this refreshing approach to architectural photography.

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abandoned is a great photography website of abandoned buildings, full of poigniant photos.

]]> http://www.lewism.org/2005/09/08/abandoned/feed/ Finnish Architectural Photography http://www.lewism.org/2005/08/08/finnish-architectural-photography/ http://www.lewism.org/2005/08/08/finnish-architectural-photography/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:35:00 +0000 lewism http://www.freshlypressed.net/lewis/?p=17

A good place to start if you are unfamiliar with Current Finnish Architecture is Jussi Tiainen’s photography. He has photographed almost all of the best current architecture around in finland. Some more of his work is posted here. You can look at his books here.

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