Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
Yes. I know it’s March already. (Though you wouldn’t know it by looking outside.) I had these scans ready to go a couple days after bloom day, but never found time to get them online until now. Maybe a change in the weather will bring on some ephemerals for March bloom day. But I’m not holding my breath.
Cover of a megahit (audio NSFW) that questions (and provides sensible alternatives to) our culture’s obsession with fashion.
Had a few minutes on Friday to take a quick visit to the gallery at Mann Library to check out the Planet Cornell exhibit. The exhibit features works by photo wizards Kent Loeffler (the photographer upstairs for the Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, see his work here and here) and Claire Smith, where they manipulate panoramic images into free floating spherical worlds. (View some of Kent’s planets here.)
The process is relatively easy. (Here are the directions.) But obviously, I need some practice:
The 360 panorama of Minns Garden:
‘Planet’ with sky to center.
‘Planet’ with sky to the edges.
Think I need to stitch in more sky to make it work, which I’m not sure I can do in PhotoShop. I also fiddled with an old panorama (though not 360) of Fred running through the snow:
See also the post below with a pelargonium planet.
I did finally find time to do some scans this weekend, but haven’t had time to process them. In the meantime, here are some manipulations from an older scan. (They’re blooming like crazy in the cold bedroom now):
Four square:
Kaleidoscope:
‘Planet’
The original scan from November 2011.
The cyclamen on the kitchen windowsill continues to pump out flowers, and is the only thing obviously interesting these days. So it is the subject of today’s scan exercise.
Four-pane.
Kaleidoscope.
Mosaic.
Mosaic detail.
Reverse of the original. Amazing the difference.
Best wishes for the new year.
