Loren

I’m a natural process paint spiller, general cat utility, husbear, and occasional writer. Thank you for stopping by!

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Joined 2 年前
Cake day: 2023年6月7日
  • LorenMtoNatural Process Art•Do we need more soil art?
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    1 年前

    My artwork probably wouldn’t exist in the form it’s in now, if it weren’t for alluvial fans and river deltas being formed by sediment deposition in nature - I suppose that isn’t the same thing as soil art, but as long as the imagery is a result of or inspired by natural processes, then my vote is still “YES”. Thank you for posting!

  • LorenOPMtoNatural Process Art•Crocheted Coral Reef pt. 3
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    2 年前

    The link for this one says the following, but doesn’t say how long it took each person, or a total of hours. I’d like to know that, though!

    “In addition to the “Core Collection” of reefs constructed by Christine and Margaret Wertheim, the Crochet Coral Reef project encompasses a community program in which the Wertheim’s work with citizens of various cities and countries to create local “Satellite Reefs”. As of early 2023, 50 Satellite Reefs have been made including in Chicago, New York, London, Melbourne, Ireland, Latvia, Finland, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates. More than 20,000 people (mostly women) have contributed to this ever-growing woolen archipelago. At the end of this page is a chronological list of all Satellite Reefs and their host institutions.”

  • LorenOPMtoGIF Base Alpha•One of the word's first video images - from 1928
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    2 年前

    Another thing that’s always intrigued me about it is that not only is it “analog”, it doesn’t even require electricity, at least for the audio portion. Sound waves could mechanically move a needle through warm wax which was spinning on a turntable at a regular rate with a hand-turned crank, across a screw drive. That needle would leave a spiral groove in a wax disk (or cylinder) that could be cast in metal using the “lost wax” method of casting. The reverse process would occur during playback, when the needle would read the data that was already recorded, and vibrate a mechanically amplified tympanum. I still don’t know enough about the image recording process to say whether that could be done without electricity, but I know that its inception and the development of electricity happened very close together. There’s no real reason I can think of why the Ancients could not have made something similar for recording audio and playing it back. The first phonographs did not use electricity!

  • LorenOPMtoGIF Base Alpha•One of the word's first video images - from 1928
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    2 年前

    That gif was originally saved as “first tv broadcast” when I found it years ago, but even though I’ve done multiple image searches I have not been able to track down that original image! I literally scoured the internet. Thank you for your help in researching it, can you point me to any links? It always seemed strange to me that we could even see “the first broadcast” unless he had also invented video recording, but laserdisks came a bit later.

  • LorenOPMtoSpace Engine•A Strange Occurrence...
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    2 年前

    I thought about this too… great use of that graphic! I bet you had no idea back then you’d be using it for this!

    I had to remind myself that the two stars were also orbiting each other, so all of that would change periodically! The planet would have a “blue era” and a “red era” depending on which star was in front of the other. …Maybe?

  • LorenOPMtoSpace Engine•A Strange Occurrence...
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    2 年前

    I know!! And to imagine being on the surface of that planet, as the different zones passed over you… It would look like dusk came suddenly (red), then night which only lasted a few minutes, then “morning” (blue). …Like getting an entire tiny day within the normal one!

    What’s also interesting to note is that binary+ systems are the norm apparently, so something like this has to be way more common than what I’ve dumbly stumbled upon in the simulator!

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