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Canon Expo, September 2010, nyc my impressions ‘we speak image’

September 15, 2010

the beginning of september i had an opportunity to attend the Canon Expo here at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center held once every five years, guess i am lucky. i’ve ment to post this sooner but the trip to panama came up so quickly i had no time, now the hard part is getting the money for expenses promised.

i must say Canon Expo is quite an event from the opening impression on. it’s nice to see a show hiring a lighting designer to do the lighting and i wonder who the team of set and lighting designers were. the unsung team

Canon Expo entrance

Canon Expo seminar entrance

to the seminars i attended, a couple as i was only available for opening day. but to quote Canon Expo web site This unique event showcases the full scope of Canon imaging as you’ve never seen it before. You’ll experience the latest imaging products and technologies in real-world scenarios. You’ll also get personal insights and best practices from industry experts. And you’ll learn how the future of imaging can have a profound effect on your life and your business. Now is your chance to discover it all at Canon EXPO 2010 New York, where the possibilities of imaging are infinite. so this post will mostly be pictures of the event.

Canon Expo image montage

with lots of color slide presentations and 3D images

Canon Expo photo montage

Canon Expo

to demonstration areas for DSLR cameras and accessories

Canon Expo demo area

the whole expo had some pretty cool lighting, trusses with theatrical lighting everywhere and miles of black velour blocking the daylight making the Javits Center one big black box

Canon Expo hallway

with cool hallways leading from one pavilion to another. Canons whole line of products were displayed from medical imaging. no these guys were actual doctors and not actors playing a part. i had an interesting conversation with one fellow about amounts of radiation given off by one xray machine. they have lowered the amount of radiation a great deal from past machines and are continuing to make advances. i asked about software limiting the maximum amounts a machine could operate under thinking about the UCLA scandal were they were unknowingly administering lethal doses with their machines and didn’t pay attention to their patients complaints.

Canon Expo medical area

Canon Expo environmental room

to a full scale fashion shoot replete with , fashion models and lead photographers who’s images were projected on a large overhead screen

Canon Expo fashion gallery

Canon Expo fashion gallery

Canon Expo fashion guest photog

the guest photographer i saw was , names aren’t my strong point, but i think it was Douglas Kirkland

Canon Expo my fashion image

but i gave it a few moments trying my hand at this fashion stuff which looks pretty easy but looks can be deceiving, then getting discouraged with my location traveling  more hallways

Canon Expo hallway

all leading to free coffee and soft seats

Canon Expo center lobby

oh did i leave something out?………Product ROW introducing the new Canon 60d camera with a swivel led screen and lenses. a camera without an on camera flash or a pc connection on the camera, cool huh?

Canon Expo product row

this was a feast of Canon products.

Canon EXPO 2010 New York is a remarkable gathering of the extended Canon community, including thousands of imaging professionals from around the world. Much more than an exhibition, it’s a total experience unlike any other. So take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to explore new products and technologies, celebrate the ongoing innovation of Canon – and experience the infinite possibilities of imaging.

so we in New York say good by to Canon Expo for another five years wondering what the future holds for us we are left with a few pretty images and questions. i wonder what Nikon is up to.

jene

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japanese woodblock exhibit at nippon gallery

March 3, 2010

new york has so many surprises, today i found a japanese woodcut exhibit and artist Mr. Makino Munenori who’s exhibit  ‘Beyond Hokusai and Hiroshige’ complete woodblock prints, will only be in town from 3/3/10 to 3/9/10 at The Nippon Gallery located in The Nippon Club, 145 West 57th Street, NYC , NY, ground floor lobby.

originally i had gone to the building for a meeting at another office but after a quick glance in passing i knew i wanted to explore this exhibit more fully.  after my meeting  i entered the gallery space where they were making final adjustments to a video of the artist working in his studio.

i watched the video with fasciation and at the conclusion  i opened my wallet to remove a business card to give to the gallery sitter but as i turned around the artist and owner of the gallery stood there. what a lovely opportunity, totally unexpected, to engage in conversation had i only been able to speak japanese or he english. but the  translator who spoke better japanese than i but who’s english was something she was learning.

i gave Mr. Munenori my card, very important in japanese society and bowed we smiled a lot. i am sure that all the words i had to say weren’t translated but who cares. what did get communicated were my feelings about his work. what more is there?

so if you’re wandering around the neighborhood, west 57th street, do stop in for a new york treat via japan.

jene

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for artists who want to know about new spaces and opportunities

December 18, 2009
chashama Studio Application – Brooklyn Army Terminal
DEADLINE : January 12, 5pm – at our office / January 11 – postmark

The chashama Studio Program at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) encompasses 89 visual artist studios in two neighboring buildings in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

We are seeking artists to join our BAT Studio community, beginning occupancy February 2010.

chashama offers low-cost, work-only studio space to eligible individual artists for a period up to one year (depending on availability of the space from the landlord), subject to renewal. Organizations are not eligible. This program does not provide living space.

Studios:
range in size from 200 to 800 square feet,
will cost no more than $1 per square foot per month.
have 8-foot high walls, with ceiling heights that range from 12 to 15 feet.
24-hour access
freight elevators during business hours

A communal environment is encouraged through proximity of the studio artists. The studios do not have individual studio doors (if an artist wishes for privacy, he/she may hang fireproof material over the studio opening.) For an image of the building and a sample studio, check out
http://www.chashama.org/_brooklyn/index.htm

Artists who are awarded a studio are expected to work in their spaces on a consistent and ongoing basis, and must be prepared to actively use their studio a minimum of 50 hours a month or they will lose it; sign-in sheets are used to record studio use. Studios may not be sublet.

Each artist provides a security deposit ($200) along with the first month’s rent upon signing the lease agreement. Studio artists are asked to participate in one (1) open house per year in which their studios are open to public visitation.

Eligibility: All applicants must be residents of the United States or have a valid visa not expiring before the end of the residency, be 18 years or older, and able to demonstrate need for a studio. Applicants may not be residents in another studio program at the same time as their chashama residency, unless agreed to by chashama.

Welding, work that requires use of fire, or work that creates an abundance of air-born particulate matter is not allowed. If your work samples are of this type of work, please describe how your future projects may differ.

Selection Process:
chashama will place artists in a studio based on the information received in the application.
A panel of arts professionals and artists will review applications and select artists based on
• Artistic merit. Quality of work.

We will then interview selected artists to determine
• Need. The need for space measured against other options available.
• Use. Potential for making the most of time in the studio.
• Personal responsibility. Personal references and ability to pay fees.

All applicants will be notified in February if they have been selected for interview. Please do not call our office for selection results.

link to pdf application: http://www.chashama.org/downloads/chashama_Studio_Application_BAT.pdf

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the american’s, robert frank

November 24, 2009

a friend was in town the other week whom i don’t usually get to spend time with but he had a day to kill so we decided to try and see la danse the weisman dance film of the paris opera’s dance company. both his daughters are ballerinas in a european company so we thought that might be fun.

we showed up to the theater to be met with a very long line half way down the block , oh well i don’t like crowded theaters nor crowds in general. so kenny suggested we go up to the metropolitan museum of art and see the robert frank exhibit ‘the americans.’

on the way up on the subway kenny told me why he had an interest in robert franks work. kenny used to work at baldwin pottery on la guardia place a long long time ago. i knew it from my chip monck days because he had a loft  in the building down the alley behind baldwin pottery. kenny worked as a potter before we met working at the filmore east. i met chip as a daily hire for his rolling stones tour of europe in 1970 to take care of the follow spots. long story…….

the owner suggested kenny to mary frank’s who was looking for someone to mix and kneed her clay as she spent many years as a sculpture artist. kenny said she had given him a schetch which now hung in his mothers house. really odd how these connections happen.

what i learned abotut the show is totally different than what kenny walked away with. see the link for pics etc. no they are not mine as pictures are forbidden in traveling shows besides i didn’t have my camera with me, we were going to the movies.

seeing the actual first prints, working prints etc in a way is pretty neat, but what struck me is how far we, photographers, have come with printing. this is also true of a show earlier this year with fred steins work. the new archival prints are so much better than the originals.

now i’ve never seen any ansel adams prints that were created under his supervision, but think they too would show their age now. everything paper, well actually everything is decaying right before our decaying eyes.

but i guess what’s interesting to most people is seeing the originals. the show was certainly crowded enough but lots of tourist wander through new york on any given day. there was a quotation from jack kerouac on the wall which caused me to smile because i knew jack when he was living in northport, ny. i don’t remember the quote but i do remember drinking and closing many a bar with jack and friends.

i remember driving into the sun with jack in the seat besides me, more on that later.

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All i want to do is make art or color management gone wild again.

November 3, 2009

i never wanted to learn how to type on a typewriter because of my phonetic poor spelling.i wanted to draw.

i wasn’t sure i wanted to learn how to use a computer but it did help my spelling. so i bought an Apple CI computer.  but now i am being held hostage along with a few other thousand of people by code writers. i am not talking about the Navaho  peoples who helped this country during WW ll but the whizz kids writing computer code.

at photo expo 2009 i talked with the HP printer people trying to learn how to not have their printers color manage my pictures.it seems turning ‘off ‘color management on their printers isn’t easy. the salesman showing the HP 9100 products had a hard time finding the right places to look, so it’s really not intuitive because they hide it in the print dialog box- copies & pages> paper type> color>  application managed color. now why couldn’t they just say ‘no color management?’ well Epson says that.

i did have a nice exchange with another photographer wanting to learn exactly the same thing as i as we waited for the salesperson to learn how to educate us. he showed me some of his B&W prints to which i asked if he’d ever had them printed on Kodak’s metallic paper, i suggested Adorama prints whom i’ve always found quality work from. i also suggested he try the silver edition B&W prints they carry.one of my  shameless plugs for a friends company PTS who carries Fuji Frontier printers and off topic.

Ok but this is the least of the printing problems i have now under  Tiger OS. now we move onto the big cat Snow Leopard and that gets really strange. i come from using Epson printers since they were the only company that was producing fine art printers, well the only one i could afford, Roland was way out of my league.i learned how to make my own color profiles, well after i huddled in the corner for years at the mention of color management, i found print fix pro from Datacolor way cool and made my prints better.did i mention a free upgrade to my software, now how many companies do that?

so i go out and buy a new Apple quad core 2.93  with  Snow Leopard but thinking i am gonna keep my old G4 as a print server just in case there are printing issues. i am getting smarter in my old age. seems everyone is having printing issues with  Snow Leopard. my yahoo Epson printing group are all a buzz with issues and few soultions.

there is one web site i know of, remember my knowledge is limited, the Luminous Landscape has a work around posted at http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/solving.shtml. but why? how to print a no color managed print or you select the color management and not have it turn out some other color. this is the first they’ve heard of it? what planet do they live on?

don’t these people from Apple, Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung ever talk to each other? why can’t we have some standard to go by in printer drivers. is it such a dog eat dog world out there that we the user can’t have a dependable work tool.

has greed and fear taken over the entire world? i thought it might have subsided a bit, with our newly elected president, so we could believe in creation again, and building a better world.

but old habits are slow to die off. one of the reasons i keep old computers around, remembering when i was young i’d get into all kinds of troubles loading some new software on my computer and being asked by customer support ‘why’d you do that?’ and not having a good answer for them.

oh well

 

 

 

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wasting time is my pastime

October 21, 2009

i just spent hours changing the password on my wireless dlink network, first logging in, configuring the software, then after not doing this for a number of years, i suggest if one is security consensus to do this more often as one forgets how to or take concise notes. need to really learn to listen more closely as tech support isn’t located in this country so the accents are sometimes hard to understand, i am sure they feel the same way.

getting the wireless router configured  i lost my computer ip address. thank goodness for assistants and apple software. i don’t know how windows people survive especially the ones on high floors.so now onto the business at hand.

i bought a hp 9180 printer which so far has reminded me of a sherman tank running into a wall. i’ve never had a printer shake the table so violently as this one does as it moves the carriage side to side. whoo nelly. but they say this is a good printer so i’ve got a learning curve for sure, especially after all these years using epson printers.

hey what’s life without some sort of challenge. did i think i could just sit down at my desk and create. where did the simplicity of pencil and paper in hand go? tonight i go look see at all the wonderful changes snow leopard has even though my new computer is still in the box with nowhere to go,  because i’ve been wasting my time with security issues. but this is tekserve’s schedule and what the heck it’s only an hour presentation.

meat loaf for dinner is all i can think of right now, guess i must be hungry.

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