This year, two different artists working independently, one on each coast, mounted exhibits that were remarkably similar: a collection of dazzling images of cut flowers, "photographed" not with a camera but with the moving lens of a flatbed scanner, the kind used in offices every day... Both artists create their images by placing flowers and other natural objects on top of a 12-by- 17-inch scanner - they leave the top raised to avoid crushing the flowers - and then scanning the arrangement from below. The method creates a digital image that is vivid and precise: a photograph that requires neither film nor camera.

Behind this new style of photography is the idea that the moving wand of a scanner can capture a sense of perspective, a richness of color and a level of detail that a single, static lens cannot. Back when scanners were used only to reproduce flat images like prints or documents or book pages, people assumed that images created on a scanner would lack depth. In fact, the opposite is true: the flowers look thick and voluptuous, and the images seem almost three-dimensional. Petals touching the screen appear crisp, while ones raised an inch or two are ghostly shadows, fading into blackness.

5:29:17 PM    

What People Search For

Ever wondered what the most searched for words, besides sex are?

Lycos has their top 50 at:

http://50.lycos.com/

While Google has their own top searched for terms at:

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

5:14:37 PM    

Futureaus

an Australian library of information and links for creating positive social change in our society and environment

This site is heaven for pacifist boomer types or others interested in changing the world for the better.

For me this site felt like a warm slipper on a cold winter morning. Immediately comfortable and leaving that "warm and fuzzy" feeling, that many of us need and want.

Merry Christmas 2002,

hope you enjoy it!

http://www.futureaus.net/

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