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Archive for October, 2008
monochrome dreams
Anne Turyn, Untitled, 1979
Via the Telegraph, a link to a new study about the color of dreams…. apparently the formative early years of TV-absorption are critical to how we dream decades later.
Eva Murzyn, a psychology student at Dundee University who carried out the study, said: “It is a fascinating hypothesis. It suggests there could be a critical period in our childhood when watching films has a big impact on the way dreams are formed. What is even more interesting is that before the advent of black and white television all the evidence suggests we were dreaming in colour.” …
Miss Murzyn concedes it’s still impossible to verify whether the dreams are actually in black-and-white, or whether media exposure somehow alters the way the mind reconstructs the dreams once we wake.
Robert Capa Death of a Loyalist Soldier 1936
I Was There: A new Guardian piece by Geoff Dyer this week - on war photography, proximity, and photographic technologies.
6 month exposure
I was just discussing a potential 6 month exposure the other day, in fact, in the context of a lost pinhole camera. Via the New Scientist, coincidentally enough: Justin Quinnell beat me to it. His technique involves scanning the paper negatives in a dark room, without developing them (!).
Justin Quinnell. Solargraph showing the sun trailing over the marina in Bristol, UK
back from Kent Island again
I am holding back on any posting of more dead gulls this time, so instead I give you a warbler’s demise:
