OLGA GLUKOVSKA http://vispo.com/dbcinema/olga
KEDRICK JAMES http://vispo.com/dbcinema/kedrick The poet, musician, performer, and scholar Kedrick James visited me for a weekend in July 2009 from Vancouver. I'd been reading his doctoral dissertation titled Writing Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and Sustainability in the Age of Disposable Discourse. We talked about it and many other things and then his partner Olga Glukovska came over from Vancouver to collect Kedrick and go portaging a series of lakes on Vancouver Island. They would return in five days. Kedrick left me his laptop computer and said use any images you want in dbCinema. Being interested in his dissertation, I used some passages from it that I turned into images, along with images of Kedrick, to make http://vispo.com/dbcinema/kedrick As it turned out, there were also some fascinating images of Olga on Kedrick's computer. Olga is a student of visual arts and makes interesting books. But she's also a fashion model. And the pictures of Olga were from a Vancouver fashion shoot. Really striking images. I'd been wanting to do some dbCinemizing with images of faces. If you've looked at any of the previous series, you can see how it's kind of a natural to work with faces in dbCinema. I think there were about 6 images. So I took those and created some more from them by zooming in on some of them at various zoom levels. I ended up with 15 or 18 images. From those I created http://vispo.com/dbcinema/olga . But I didn't have Olga's OK to use these images. They were just too good to not use, so I'd gone ahead with it. When Kedrick and Olga got back from their portaging (Olga was doing OK, Kedrick had a sore back) I showed them both the Kedrick and Olga series. Olga didn't even want to look at them, at first. Probably didn't want the awkwardness of disliking work using images of herself. But she had a look, in the end. And, thankfully, she liked them and gave me her permission to use these. So did the photographer, Miles de Courcy, and the designer of the clothes Olga's wearing. The dbCinemation of the Olga images introduces a darkness that wasn't present in the original photos. Part of that is literal, with the black background I normally use in dbCinema stuff. The images are literally darker than the original photos. But the more interesting darkness is different. They're very bad and very good. Slightly demonic and angelic, in turns. In any case, I was very happy with the results in both these series for my friends Kedrick James and Olga Glukovska. ja _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
