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ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

#51

I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” - Brian Eno

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

#52

Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. A…

you can still shoot film

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

#53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a specific composition from 1958 that miles davis called Générique. It was composed for elevator to the gallows.

GP’s “Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud” means “elevator for the gallows.” I think they are familiar with the composition, you might be missing the point of their comment.

Parent is asserting that this in a generic title for film music. While others might have, That's not the way the artist used it. He used it like a proper noun specific to that composition.
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