1. detail?
- paul (guest) 8-21-2006 1:12 pm
2. You can click on the image and get a bigger view of the group. They're not particularly significant images individually. These are ink jet-prints from the original snapshots I made off the TV (videotapes). The idea was to freeze the frame on "transitional" shots that were never meant to be stills, with an emphasis on picking the most banal subject matter, then thinking about how they did or didn't relate in a grid.
There's really no good way to get this across on the web. And I've never had much response to them in person. But I remain stubbornly attached to the concept and my choices.
- tom moody 8-21-2006 2:28 pm
3. cool. I think they're nice. just curious how the grain looks up close.
- paul (guest) 8-21-2006 3:39 pm
4. They're pretty TV-grainy, but the prints have a nice quality--semi gloss finish photo paper.
- tom moody 8-21-2006 4:05 pm
5. cool. along the same line, one still from each dvd i have rented so far in 06. i've been thinking of how to print it when i'm done. http://www.tinjail.com/tintype/?cat=18
- m.river 8-21-2006 6:53 pm
6. we have this blog, we hope you like it..... tvontv.blogspot.com/
- Book House Boys (guest) 8-22-2006 8:10 am
7. I suppose I should add that the first steps of my photos were analog.
The TV was a CRT. The VCR was paused, I shot the photo with a 35 mm camera, and then took the film to a 24-hour lab. The resulting snapshots were then scanned and printed on nice paper with an Epson 2000P. The result is, I guess, "warmer"--although ideally the negatives would be printed the old way, with an enlarger, chemicals, etc., since the digital part of the process makes the work
"colder."
- tom moody 8-22-2006 1:15 pm
Count me in that club, I used to set up a camera on a tripod in front of a TV on a sports channel, and shot zillions of slides, didn't even look through the viewfinder. I used selected slides to print out cibacromes, (almost prohibitively expensive for the chemistry and paper alone)
I'm totally on board with the idea that the most interesting stuff on TV is the strangeness happening between the action. And the texture of analog TV images is so beautiful, I've never been bored with it.
(I also really like those blogs)
Tom I do really enjoy how they feel like old film stock somehow - your analog process, I can feel it even over the internet.
The photos above (that's Set 1, Set 2 is here) elicited some discussion that explained them a bit, and I found out about some other people's tv documentation projects. Everyone's coming at this in a slightly different way--I like that there could be a micro-genre, like monochrome painting. Here is the relevant comment thread, hope you can follow it:
- tom moody 8-22-2006 9:37 pm
Count me in that club, I used to set up a camera on a tripod in front of a TV on a sports channel, and shot zillions of slides, didn't even look through the viewfinder. I used selected slides to print out cibacromes, (almost prohibitively expensive for the chemistry and paper alone)
I'm totally on board with the idea that the most interesting stuff on TV is the strangeness happening between the action. And the texture of analog TV images is so beautiful, I've never been bored with it.
(I also really like those blogs)
- L.M. 8-22-2006 10:35 pm
Tom I do really enjoy how they feel like old film stock somehow - your analog process, I can feel it even over the internet.
- Thor Johnson 8-23-2006 8:58 pm