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Re: Is this WWP stuff?
John G. Dobbins 2006-Mar-21 04:51:00
These are wonderful!!! I marvel at your great creative use of the
medium...definitely capture the feeling of 'borders'. Very inspiring
Inaki!
On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Inaki Rezola wrote:
> 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
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