Snoqualmie Falls

An old Nikon Lenses_Nikkormat EL series

Recently I charged the battery for Kodak DCS 14n and start to use it again.


The lower two photos were took with the Nikon 50mm manual lenses which I got from my parent and my parent got it from my grandmother, and she bought it new from Japan. 


She passed away at her age 60 when I was six grade in elementary school in 1989.


Nikkormat EL series (1972–1977, known in Japan as the Nikomat EL series)

Medium Format in1999

These photos were took in 1999 with medium format cameras.

The first one was Mamiya 7 II+43mm, and scanned by Epson scanner.

The second one was Fuji G690III, and scanned by drum scanner. The resolution is 5405x7966 which is around 43 megapixel  

In 1999 Kodak came out consumer DC215 camera and professional DCS 300 which is 1 megapixel and 3 megapixel. Today 2012 they stop making them.

In 2011 Sony came out a digital camera called NEX-7 which is 24.3 megapixel.

覺得上面這些數字很有趣.攝影也一路跟著走過來了,今天發現這兩張照片放在一起也是有趣.第一張照片是當時后里木工廠的照片,也是支持我們一家的經濟來源,如今工廠改建出租.第二張是綠島柚子湖的照片,大學時期和幾個最要好的朋友一同出遊拍的照片,到目前還未回到那邊,不知變得如何了.

攝影的技術門檻曾經很高,數位相機去除了所有等待沖洗的時間,這巨幅縮短了學習的時間,攝影變得更大眾化,大眾化帶來的便利,攝影神奇的面紗卻被帶走. 比如顏色更美,構圖更加,更驚人的細節這些環節變得更細小. 人是偏向被前所未見的人事物感動而追求. 很多環節都可以觸發那情緒,而且歷史上類似的事周而復始的循環,這代表著我們容易遺忘也容易受感動.

攝影從19世紀初實驗階段,到今天的發展. 看各種媒材都發生過類似的事情.
藝術的產生似乎都是在各種受限的情況下有著驚人的突破而被歌頌,而消費式電子產品的產生也類似的.縱使各種發明讓某些突破在今天唾手可得,卻再也不讓人感動驚奇而漸漸被遺忘,之後人繼續追求在受限環境下的不可能而往前.

藝術的根本

一些經過時間思考仍粗略的想法

數學是可以表現出接近完美的形式,非常的純粹,可以很美,極度單純而複雜.

進了政治大學應用數學系,沒能學透也沒能精通,但卻讓見識到了甚麼是數學,現在回想是件很幸福的事,深感自己是井底之蛙.

然而在學數學的那段時間,有件特別有趣的事,數學看似甚麼都能質疑,然後加以證明,進而理解,所有的疑問似乎都能追根究柢,毫無掩飾的表現,但是到了最根本的那層,質疑還可以被證明嗎? "1"是甚麼? "+"是甚麼 1+1=2這是甚麼嗎? 數學有些根本上的元素不適合被質疑也沒有適合方法證明,如果最基礎的元素被質疑,所有的建構都是虛無.

藝術是圍繞著人而產生的,數學是個很好的借鏡,釐清甚麼是建構我們所創作藝術的根本元素或許是一個能導向學習藝術很好的方法. 物理面,人類普遍擁有著對稱與些微的不對稱;普遍平衡的身體; 一對可以奔跑和投擲的雙臂; 靈巧的手與不可思議的五感等,在感性面,負面的有暴食、色欲、貪婪、忌妒、暴怒、懶惰、驕傲及傲慢這西方七原罪,或是七情六慾喜、怒、哀、懼、愛、惡、慾, 色欲、形貌欲、威信姿態欲、言語音聲欲、細滑欲、人想欲等等都可說是身為人最基本的,都是渴求的,如果質疑這些,那還存在些甚麼? 由這來反證, 脫離這些最基本建構人的元素,那產物的存在價值是很有爭議的. 

最讓人不願意見到的就是質疑自己是人這件事.

Mt. Diablo State Park

"Incomplete" 不完整

Painting the whole thing in Photoshop from the setting I made several days ago.

The Left one was broken because I was backing up the car and ran over it, the right one I got it cheap from a native american store with 7 dollars since it was broken.

"不完整"

剛搬到舊金山的那幾天,左邊的音樂盒掉在車庫被車壓過去,已經轉不動也撥不出聲音了,右邊的應該是山貓的頭骨,在幾年前於北邊黃石公園入口處的一家印地安人商店買的,因為破損,用了7元美金購買下來.

救贖

取個中文名字"救贖"

Aurora

2010.04.04 Oregon Coast

A trip with my sister and her family, and it was raining.

We didn't really go out, so I stay in the room and painted this one.

Right after this one, I also did a small oil painting with the same view.