print>pixel takes your printed pictures to the digital age. Photos sitting in boxes? Principal Kale Kim will scan in your photos for easy digital archiving. We can also design visual presentations for your special event.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Putting it Together
I know this video has been made the rounds already, but I keep coming back to it. (Not that Google needs any additional publicity.) I have always loved pointillism, especially in the art of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. I'm sure many of you have seen posters where the image is created from a number of other, smaller images. Looking at these images reminds me how important the tiniest speck can be in contributing to a larger, more complicated picture. I also love how a Bay Area artist has re-imagined Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
"She's just about the close up the LI-br-ary!"
I am a huge fan of libraries. That doesn't seem so far off, given the satisfaction I get from helping people digitally archive their photographs, does it?
But within the stacks of a library there's a promise of treasure, adventure, excitement. The long rows of shelves hold books that keep pages bound together that contain letters. If you're lucky enough to read those letters, you can string together words, paragraphs, epic journeys. Even the physicality holds allure for me. To know that an insurmountable variety of documentation exists in a specific space makes my neck tingle.
Which is why I was completely overwhelmed to find that one of (if not THE) largest library collections in our country has been digitizing photos and other memorabilia for online access. The Library of Congress has a pretty awesome website. But it looks like they began uploading photos onto their flickr account in 2008 with a notice to readers to add any particulars, wikipedia-style. Interesting.
If you have some time, check out their pictures. I'm particularly enjoying the Lincoln sets, not only for the chance to look at some great pictures, but the tags are interesting, too!
*The above quote is from "It's a Wonderful Life." Watch the clip here.
But within the stacks of a library there's a promise of treasure, adventure, excitement. The long rows of shelves hold books that keep pages bound together that contain letters. If you're lucky enough to read those letters, you can string together words, paragraphs, epic journeys. Even the physicality holds allure for me. To know that an insurmountable variety of documentation exists in a specific space makes my neck tingle.
Which is why I was completely overwhelmed to find that one of (if not THE) largest library collections in our country has been digitizing photos and other memorabilia for online access. The Library of Congress has a pretty awesome website. But it looks like they began uploading photos onto their flickr account in 2008 with a notice to readers to add any particulars, wikipedia-style. Interesting.
If you have some time, check out their pictures. I'm particularly enjoying the Lincoln sets, not only for the chance to look at some great pictures, but the tags are interesting, too!
*The above quote is from "It's a Wonderful Life." Watch the clip here.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Mutual Appreciation
I spend some time reading blogs. Okay, A LOT of time reading blogs. I follow quite a few here on blogger, as well as a few others I've got bookmarked. Though the topics vary from craft to food to writing to design to photography, I love it when the more personal blogs (those by every day people putting what they love out there vs. companies wanting you to buy their stuff) reflect exactly what's on my mind.
Andrea at Hula Seventy is one of those people I admire and fear. Admire because she's an artist and mom who seems like a great gal to sit down to tea. Fear because since I only know her through my computer, I wouldn't want us to meet and then find we don't hit it off. But I figure a gal who loves the Xanadu soundtrack and taking pictures has got to be a bosom friend.
This week Andrea is celebrating "'roid week," where she's talking a lot about Polaroid cameras and taking Polaroid pictures. Since we here at print>pixel have been pondering the notalgic merit of the new Polaroid 300 vs. the futuristically-interchangeable-lensed-video-capable Olympus Pen, looking at Hula Seventy's photos has been fun. Remember unbalanced color saturation? The white borders? The cool noise the camera made when the picture came out?
What did you love about Polaroids?
Andrea at Hula Seventy is one of those people I admire and fear. Admire because she's an artist and mom who seems like a great gal to sit down to tea. Fear because since I only know her through my computer, I wouldn't want us to meet and then find we don't hit it off. But I figure a gal who loves the Xanadu soundtrack and taking pictures has got to be a bosom friend.
This week Andrea is celebrating "'roid week," where she's talking a lot about Polaroid cameras and taking Polaroid pictures. Since we here at print>pixel have been pondering the notalgic merit of the new Polaroid 300 vs. the futuristically-interchangeable-lensed-video-capable Olympus Pen, looking at Hula Seventy's photos has been fun. Remember unbalanced color saturation? The white borders? The cool noise the camera made when the picture came out?
What did you love about Polaroids?
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