I was walking around Capitol Hill the other night with a friend of mine and we happened upon this massive game of public dodgeball. There must have been thirty or more people playing. I snapped this quick glitch while we walked by. Both the original and the edit are included so you can see what I did to modify the glitch art photograph.
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So I'm involved in this discussion on one of the glitch art groups on Flickr. This is a sort of "hardcore" glitch art group with very very specific rules as to what is considered glitch or not. Needless to say my glitch art panoramas are not considered glitch enough and I'm cool with that. It's just interesting to think that there is a metric by which to measure glitch. This is glitch while that is not. It really reminds me of the way art changes and shifts over the centuries. Realism and romanticism and surrealism and cubism and modernism and post modernism and post post modernism. Each movement causing upheaval and rejection by the academy or the socialized norms of the time. This is art! No it isn't! Yes it is! Well maybe! Ok! That's art. How dare you!?! What is glitch? How can we define it? An error? A malfunction? Something not operating as intended? But what if it creates something beautiful? Something majestic? Something like us? Our universe? Could this all be by chance? A perfect execution of random events? The odds are against us. So many possibilities for failure. Yet here we are. We are the glitch. A perfect glitch. A glitch by nature.
This morning I underwent corrective surgery for a deviated septum. It went well without complications and I was in and out in about 2 hrs.
The pain, however, was intense and I wanted to take some glitchographs visualizing how I was feeling. This is why I love glitch art panorama photography.
It doesn't just freeze moments in time, but rather captures the nuances of the moment. The motion of my hand, changes in perspective, lighting shifts. Its more video than photography.
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I snapped this glitchograph today on my way to work. The original glitch is included in the post so you can see how I've tweaked the image. It's more of a macro panorama of some flowers but hey, its a pretty shot anyway.
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I hiked up most of Mailbox Peak today. Most of because 1/2 way up it started hailing and 3/4 way up it was blizzard conditions and snow up to my shins. Not quite Vibram Five Fingers weather...
I did take these glitch art photographs though. This is a small selection and the rest are going up on Flickr.
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My daily glitch. Check out more glitch art photography panoramas at my Etsy page.
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Another daily glitch.
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Daily Glitch - A new glitch art photography series by Ken Morris of LargerStory.
Each day I'll take a new glitch art photograph and post it here and also on my Flickr page.
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I'm starting a new photography series I'm calling #dailyglitch. Every day I'll shoot a glitch art panorama and post it to my flickr account. I'll also post it here too.
I wanted to take a moment and share some of the stuff I've been working on lately. The real challenge with any art form is inviting the audience to engage the story. This is especially true in the abstract and experimental form. Who is the main character when everything is blurred? It all comes down to shape, composition, and tempo. I've been focusing more on glitches that encode story within the image. Many times it is too abstract to definitively say what that story is, but I'd still like to invite the viewer to try. To take a moment and engage with the piece.
Last week I had my first gallery showing at the RatCity ArtCity Art Walk. GNU Organics down in White Center hosted seven of my pieces. It was an awesome experience. I really like the guys who run the place. You can tell they really care a lot.
The art walk was just so much fun. Really a wide range of talent. I noticed a lot of the artists doing mixed-media and multiple formats. I love that kind of stuff. One artist did these incredible oil paintings in a 19th century romantic style but overlaid them with images of designer fashion logos. Real cool effect.
Of the seven pieces I chose four were more traditional shots (albeit abstract). The other three were glitchographs (glitch art panoramas???). Aside - I'm still figuring out what to call this style. Glitchography? Glitch Art? I guess it's interchangeable but my manager suggested I pick one term and stick with it.
People really responded well to my work. It felt so good to be there and talk with people and be able to engage with them and find out what they like or don't like. I even had my first sale at the art walk. It was the photo titled "Mobile Home" (check it out in the gallery below or onFlickr).
I'm definitely going to participate in all the future art walks if I can.
Great news! Some of my photography is debuting at the RatCity ArtCity art walk down in White Center. Gnu Organics is graciously hosting seven of my pieces. It's a broad selection featuring some of my work with the Panasonic GH3 and some Glitchography. It's tonight, March 14 2013 from 6pm - 9pm.
Check out the RatCity blog or the RatCity Facebook for more details. You can also check out the Gnu Organics page here.
Map of the gallery is below.
I'm really falling in love with glitch art. Like I mentioned before I use the iPhone 5 in panorama mode and then "draw" with it. The phone stitches images together as best it can so you're able to twist it and move with it.
There's something about glitch art that I absolutely love. It's not that they're imperfect, rather that they ARE perfect. Exactly as they should be. Yes, it's an abstraction of reality but aren't all photos an abstraction of reality?
As photographers we don't capture moments - we borrow them. That brief fraction of a second when the shutter flips open, exposes the sensor (or film) and then closes again doesn't freeze time. Time still passes by. Just like it always has. Just like it always will. A photo is an echo. A reverberation. It's a rough approximation of what once was.
Photojournalism is important. I want to emphasize that. Especially conflict photography and images exposing corruption or the plight of the disenfranchised. What reporters are doing in Syria, in Haiti, Africa, wherever, is absolutely necessary and absolutely commendable. They gots them some guts. But I don't believe photojournalism is any better at capturing "truth" because there isn't one. There isn't a universal Truth but instead, many truths, many stories, and many perspectives.
What I love about abstract photography and glitch art in particular is that it doesn't claim to represent "truth." It's perspective. How I see the world. It lets go of the moment that once was and provides a new moment for the viewer to share. It's you and the artwork whether that's photography, painting, sculpture, dance, whatever.
Abstract art isn't about defining; it's about redefining over and over and over.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
So I've been experimenting with the wonderful world of glitch art panoramas lately. What I do is point my iPhone 5 out the window of my car and take a panorama. The phone attempts to stitch together the scene but because of the high speed the image gets a lot of artifacts and strange compressions. The image coming out is pretty raw but I like to cook it a little bit to get the more fluid feel. Here are some examples:
Krystina
Here's a photo of my girlfriend Krystina. She's an actor and a model (and amazing at both) so I often use her as a subject for my photography. We were out to lunch on a cool, cloudy afternoon (like most afternoons in Seattle) and I really liked the way she was slightly silhouetted by the window behind her. The shadows were a bit heavy on her face but I knew I could bump up the exposure while taming the highlights.
This is the reason I like to shoot RAW. Shooting street photography or anywhere with available light you won't always be able to set perfect exposure. By shooting RAW you have latitude on both sides of the exposure settings to push or pull whereas shooting JPEG you're sort of locked in. It's always better to get it right the first time, in camera versus editing in Photoshop or Lightroom but again, sometimes that doesn't happen.
I increased the contrast (to preserve the blacks), boosted the exposure, dropped the highlights, and bumped up the shadows but it really brought out the grain on Krystina's face. Adding noise reduction helped but it smoothed her out a bit too much and I was left with an overly cooked image. Rather than fight it I just accepted it and tweaked the color for a more artistic and abstract feel to the portrait. I also cropped just a bit so that Krystina's eyes fell into proportion with the golden ratio.
I like the moodiness of the portrait and the soft lighting so I'm quite happy with how this quick snapshot turned out.
Original
Edit
Hey world. I'm trying out the photo blog to keep up with some of my activities around Seattle. Currently I'm shooting with a Panasonic GH3 and primarily a 20mm f/1.7. I have a few other speciality lenses like a pinhole, Holga, c-mount, minoltas. I also shoot a lot with my iPhone 5.
Shooting street photography is an interesting experience. It teaches me to pay attention to details that might otherwise have gotten looked over. I like the pacing of it. You don't get three hours in a studio. Just whatever crosses your path. A shot comes and goes in an instant. You have to be ready. Focused. Zen. At least that's what it is for me.
I'd love feedback on the site and the photography. Check out my Flickr to see the full sets and some of my older work.
Cafe in Freemont
Who are these people?
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