PXL-2000


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Oddly, simulating the PXL's simple hybrid design turns out to be quite difficult. Indeed, getting the cassette deck distortion just right has proven to be an extremely complex problem. One can, however, get close to the PXL's oddly ethereal quality by putting a video sequence through a number of different processing steps. These must be carried out in this order or the effect will be quite different. * Reduce the saturation to 0. The PXL2000 is a monochrome camera. * Reduce the frame rate to 15 frames per second. Deinterlace the video; the PXL does not interlace. * Reduce the resolution to 120 pixels by 90 pixels. * Apply a Gaussian blur function with a radius of about one and a half pixels. This mimics the lowpass filter. * Sharpen the image slightly (about 30%). * Clamp the black point to about 5% and the white point to about 95%. * Compress the dynamic range of the entire image by about 1.2 to 1. * Posterize to 90 steps * Add a lag effect; this should add a small proportion of the three previous frames to each frame, giving slight trails and motion artifacting * Add whichever video modulator simulation effect you prefer, plus some scanlines (since PXL is not interlaced) * Clamp the white and black points again * Apply a second Gaussian blur with the same radius * Add a black border around the image to push the edges of the image into the title safe area. (The image area is exactly 75% of a full 720 x 540 NTSC frame, or 540 x 405.)

The result of this process should resemble PXL2000 video.

Thanks Nathan!

Dang.....

Fairey has developed a successful career through expropriating and recontextualizing the artworks of others, which in and of itself does not make for bad art. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein based his paintings on the world of American comic strips and advertising imagery, but one was always aware that Lichtenstein was taking his images from comic books; that was after all the point, to examine the blasé and artificial in modern American commercial culture. When Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey, a 1961 oil on canvas portrait of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, everyone was cognizant of the artist’s source material - they were in on the joke. By contrast, Fairey simply filches artworks and hopes that no one notices - the joke is on you.

Interesting

Last post on Anon, but I found their logo and it's shockingly close to this piece I made about a month ago. Here is the logo: Interesting

Here is my piece I posted on 1-18, which means I most likely did it a month prior because I am slow like that with posting... lol!

mine

Interesting.....

New image

Sometimes my ideas get the better of me Made this in about 3 days. My house still has a lingering smell of cigar smoke. It's going to be used as a new promo mailer for the retouching biz.

Alberto Seveso

Alberto Seveso has really come a long way with his style. His new work is stunning. Wish I could link to it better. Here is his home page for those who want to know more.

The designer side of me want to get a hold of his collections of vectors!

Kim Keever

Yeah, here is another one I like Kim Keever. 

I really dig the people who set up these make believe worlds but don't use any photoshop trickery. I think the back story is that this Photog sets upa 500 gallon fish tank, builds these landscapes with plaster and stuff. Then squirts in different inks and liquids to create the clouds. All 4x5. I THINK!

Don't hold me to that. I can't remember or find where I found that info. And my memory is shite.

Jeff Bark

Stumbled upon this guy the other day on a web site that scrapes content. Direct links too.

"How very rude!"

Yes, yes, I thought the same.

Had the guy had a damn water mark I would not have spent 20 minutes staring at blogger code to figure out which direct link was his. That was the only thing that allowed me to track him down.

How many other people would do that? Not many.

WATERMARK your shitz please!

Anyways, his name is Jeff Bark and he is fucking amazing.

This series is amazing.

I love his tones. Very dutch painter.

ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN

Man I have always liked this guys stuff.

Here is a link to one image that is amazing.

The main gallery window is here, no direct linking to his work for some reason...

I like how he takes straight process photography and yet makes it surreal as all hell. Very creative this gent is.

A call for watermarking

This is a call out in favor of watermarking. I know all you purists get your panties in a bunch when people do it. But god dammint, people put their images on the web to be seen right? The internet is the world biggest library right herein my hermit cave / studio. And. I can run ape shit crazy with sissors. 
When I go looking for inspiration and to see what others are doing, I copy that shit to the desktop. Oh, you flash guys? i just screen shot. Get over worrying about people stealing your shit. 
But back on topic, when I go back to these folders and say, "Wow, that one is still cool.... who the fuck was it?" I would god damn well know if it was watermarked.
That's all.

"If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved. To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul.These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese. Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing. But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that."


- Tom Robbins VIA the always amazing Whiskey River.

So I have not been posting lately because my comment spam software went haywire and was blocking my own IP for some odd reason. So not wanting to tinker around I let the site go into dry rot for awhile. But work permitting I'll be back on more often.
Also, I have a showing tonight for my new series, "Tip Well You Bastards" (Yeah, I changed the name). Gonna go out in the rare L.A. rain and get good and drunk at my own show! I like to think it's raining just for me as I am the only person here who enjoys the rain. L.A. is kinda like Portland rain, more misty then anything else. Having grown up in the midwest where rain means thunderstorms and torrents of rain it is actually quite pleasant to walk around in.
Don't drive in it though. Good god man, it will boggle your mind to see how people drive out here when it rains. You can see the series if you are patient and can use the gallery function Pixelrust or you can just go to my Photosite, danielkopton.com


Uh, about the photosite, it's buggy still and not all there.... but hey, it's a start.

Fine Art Stuff

Been working pretty hard on my Bartender series called, "Tip well you motherfuckers" and it's starting to really shape up. Have 6 images atm and when viewed side they make quite a impact. Well, at least to me it does, we will see what others think late November, LOL! I have not been this motivated with my own Photography since my college days and I'm loving it. Here's to hoping I can keep the ball rolling.