Poetics of Light: Contemporary Pinhole Photography

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National Science and Media Museum volunteer Peter Harvey writes about how Poetics of Light proves the simplest cameras can produce some of the most atmospheric images. Envisioned and brought to life by American architect Louis I. Kahn, the Yale Center for British Art stands as a testament to Kahn’s genius and his enduring influence on modern architecture. Completed in 1977, this modernist building was specifically designed to house Paul Mellon’s prestigious collection of British artwork. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, the Yale Center holds the distinction of being Kahn’s final architectural project. The ineffable perception of the “forma universal” is felt rather than comprehended. Dante’s recollection is affective, not intellective. He believes he saw the “forma universal” because he feels joy as he speaks of it: “dicendo questo, mi sento ch’i’ godo” (saying this, I feel that I take joy [93]). Photographers: forget multi-element, multi-coated lenses; ignore pixel density on sensors; all you need to produce stunning images is a soup tin (or any other light-tight container), a surface coated with a light-sensitive material—and a pin. A good deal of patience also helps. Campbell’s Soup Can Camera, 1976, Julie Schachter

Imaginations of Light by Sueyeun Juliette Lee - Poetry Foundation

doing each step for ALL jobs before starting the next step is much more efficient than doing one complete relic at a time. Pro tip : have a dedicated gearset+shortcut to equip the job+ARRrelic you're currently farming books on. Laziness at its peak. You will use that shortcut a lot : it's a marathon. Put the current book on a hotbar, as well. And what are the elements in architecture that we can use to express the simple message of poetic in our space? In discussing the intimate, mutual, and creative relationship between Keats and Haydon, this thesis draws on those modalities of ‘light and shade’ that are emphasized in the poet’s writings, including his letters. As both an artist and an art critic and polemicist, Haydon was a great exponent, in both practical and theoretical terms, of chiaroscuro effects. His exemplary work in this respect is Christ’s Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem (begun in 1814 and finished in 1820). Haydon’s manipulation of clarity and obscurity in the picture served Keats (himself depicted among the crowd) as encouragement and inspiration for his own poetic creations. From time to time, Haydon advised Keats—who considered the picture a ‘part’ of himself—to materialize a similar complex and unstable polarity in the ‘canvas’ of his own medium of poetry. We will witness the fruits of the friendship between the two men in the development of Keats’s ‘painterly’ poetics of light and shade, from his ‘Great Spirits’ sonnet of late 1816 to his last surviving letter of late 1820. Date of Award

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A very well put together and varied portfolio covering a wide range of practitioners and techniques. I think briefly of the film(s) Insomnia. How the perpetual daylight contributes to the exhaustion, anxiety, and tension. There is such a thing, I think, as too much light. And what is it doing to us all across species?) l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle. ( Par. 33.143-45) but my desire and will were moved already —

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A Chinese edition of Film History: An Introduction has been published by Peking University Press. The translator is Fan Bei. Thanks to Luo Jin and Zhou Bin as well! [14.Mar.14] What surprised me most was just how sharp some of the results were. If you are one of those people who characterise pinholes as generally blurry or having an out of focus look, think again. In this particular photograph of Achnambeithach at the bottom of the three sisters, the detail in the house is quite incredible considering there is no lens involved. While Leiviskä’s architecture echoes architectural and musical precedents, his treatment of light also reflects the natural light conditions in Nordic forests, ‘especially counterlight seen through foliage, and the ambience of birch trees with their white vertical rhythms’.Step 5 "Novus" : do Mysterious Maps as your Poetics dump until you get enough Alexandrite for all jobs. Any job any weapon, should be able to one-shot AoE all the mobs (fun fact : for me, the mysterious maps mobs were untargetable, I used WAR AoEs as a workaround...). For the materias, obviously go for the cheapest I & II you can find on the MarketBoard. Through Bachelard’s meditations, I have learned some things. One is that light has an axial imagination. The primary axis Bachelard writes on is vertical—how flames devour and want to rise. “The flame is so essentially vertical that it appears, for one who dreams about existence, to be stretched toward transcendence, toward an ethereal non-existence.” We’ve all probably observed how a flame wants to rise—how it translates the material it feeds from and converts it into color, heat, the air. Though he doesn’t describe this, light moves in waves that have perpendicular planes. There it is—that axial imagination again. How remarkable, that this element would move with such strict parameters. I don’t know what to make of it, but I am charmed.