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Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin
Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he “combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures,” Mark Magazine explains.
The resulting projects look like old factory sites in the American rust belt – Mark describes them as “informal and often dilapidated structures with unspecified functions” – or, in some cases, new projects by LOT-EK, Simon Ungers, or OMA.
For Teller (that’s his full legal name), magic is more than entertainment. He wants his tricks to reveal the everyday fraud of perception so that people become aware of the tension between what is and what seems to be. Our brains don’t see everything—the world is too big, too full of stimuli. So the brain takes shortcuts, constructing a picture of reality with relatively simple algorithms for what things are supposed to look like. Magicians capitalize on those rules. “Every time you perform a magic trick, you’re engaging in experimental psychology,” Teller says. “If the audience asks, ‘How the hell did he do that?’ then the experiment was successful. I’ve exploited the efficiencies of your mind.”
Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
How to Disappear Completely
How to Disappear Completely
Acrylic and resin on wood panel
The narrow middle ground between the hobbyist and pro-sumer model lines is heating up with both Nikon and Canon racing to be the best in a newly formed category. It doesn’t have a name yet, but it has a formula: take the body of the former, throw in the sensor of the latter and add a HD video capability.
On March 25, hot on the heels of the Canon EOS 50D’s release, Canon announced the awkwardly named T1i (hey, nobody liked “Wii” at first either). It is known as the 500D outside the US, and it is part of the Rebel lineup because it has a Rebel-like body, but it uses the 50D’s sensor and records (1080 lines) video. The kicker is the frame rate: it only offers 30 and 20 fps modes. This is a shocking decision on Canon’s part for people who are into film (read about the Nikon to understand why). Redemption may come from the 3″, 920,000 dot LCD on the camera’s back. I’ve shot with the 50D and it is a vast improvement over the screens on previous cameras.
More about the Canon EOS Rebel T1i:
Digital Camera Resource Page
Digital Photography Review
Less than three weeks later, Nikon announced the D5000, which technically falls between the D60 and D90 (and should therefore be called the “D75″), but apparently has a coolness that could not be conveyed in less than four digits. It offers HD (720 lines) video recording in the golden standard frame rate of 24fps, a crucial distinction for those who want to capture the texture of motion picture film. The Nikon’s screen also presents a pro/con decision: it only has 230,000 dots, but it SWIVELS!!
More about the Nikon D5000:
Digital Camera Resource Page
Digital Photography Review
Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor Films
The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?
More info here semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm
