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Related: About this forumEinstein’s Camera: How one renegade photographer is hacking the concept of time.
http://vimeo.com/83664407Stainless, 42 Street (excerpt)
ADAM MAGYAR IS A computer geek, a college dropout, a self-taught photographer, a high-tech Rube Goldberg, a world traveler, and a conceptual artist of growing global acclaim. But nobody had ever suggested that he might also be a terrorist until the morning that he descended into the Union Square subway station in New York.
At the time, Magyar was immersed in a long-running techno-art project called Stainless, creating high-resolution images of speeding subway trains and their passengers, using sophisticated software he created and hardware that he retrofitted himself. The scanning technique he developedcombining thousands of pixel-wide slices into a single imageallows him to catch passengers unawares as they hurtle through dark subway tunnels, fixing them in haunting images filled with detail no ordinary camera can capture.
Magyar set up his standard array of devicescamera, scanner, voltage meters, blue and black cables, battery pack, tripod, laptopand waited for a train to roll into the station. He hadnt anticipated the vigilance of post-9/11 New Yorkers, several of whom complained to the police about the longhaired man wielding what looked like a jerry-built piece of surveillance equipment. It didnt take long before a transit cop approached him.
What are you doing? he asked.
Im scanning trains, Magyar said.
The policeman led Magyar to a room in the bowels of Union Square, then summoned a pair of plainclothes officers to interrogate him. They inspected his equipment, pored through his digital files. Tell us who youre working for, they said.
Once Magyar convinced them that he was not scrutinizing the subway for nefarious purposes, that he was an artist (his website, featuring examples of his work, helped), the police settled on a $25 fine for violating a regulation against using a tripod on the platform, and sent him on his way.
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Einstein’s Camera: How one renegade photographer is hacking the concept of time. (Original Post)
Mosby
Jan 2014
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alfredo
(60,071 posts)1. That is so good.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)2. That is really cool.
Celebration
(15,812 posts)3. wow, just LOVE this
Obviously an amazing talent!