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Is this WWP stuff?
Inaki Rezola 2006-Mar-20 17:26:00
Hi list
When last Wednesday 15 I decided to get my stuff and go out shooting
my 'Borders' panos we had a beautiful day after a long dull rainy
period, so I was feeling as happy as I could be. I had planned three
shots on three different locations around the nearest international
border I have, just 19kms away from my home in Donostia-San Sebastian:
the Spanish-French one.
But when I had already set up my tripod, head and all and I started
programming the exposition, bracketing etc, etc, my D70 started
driving mad: the card light started blinking, I changed the card,
shot once without particularly aiming anywhere to see what happened,
then another one at my hand in front of the lens, as the autofocus
didn't seem to react either, and... The end of it all. I was left with
those two pics: one aiming at nothing special and my hand. So I
thought sadly that that was the final curtain for my Borders WWP. I
brought my camera to Nikon -Spain can bost the most awfully slow Nikon
service in the World, they told me -maybe to help raising my spirits I
thought- and then back home. So I'll be a cameraless panographer for a
while, it seems :-(
About midnight I decided that I was not going to give in, and jumped
to my PTGui and started fiddling with the hand pic. I planned to go
into a kind of sick reflexion on what often borders are by the means
of hands reaching out in opposite directions or melting one into the
other without really stretching one another -by means of symmetry.
Then followed on by adding top and down caps, remapping, duplicating
and melting of layers...
The results show different oppositions -helped by symmetries, of
course. I named them accordingly to the suggestions that spring out of
them. The last one is kind of a perverse commentary on Plato's Cavern
and the nature of modern truth established more by means of simple
accumulation-repetition-echoe from media to media than by rational
discussion (sorry, but couldn't help myself: never forget that i'm a
philosophy teacher :-)
Could you take a look and tell me if something of this is WWP stuff?
I'll be really sad if I can't take part in the WWP, but... :-(
I've uploaded the four panos to my site (you can't access them from
the site itself, there's no link to them)
http://www.panoleku.com/borders/indexborders.html (Quicktime)
and if you prefer DevalVR
http://www.panoleku.com/devalvr/indexborders.html (DevalVR)
Never thought my poor arthritic hand could ever look like that...
Inaki Rezola