September 2014 – KUNSTNERD

Veröffentlicht am 2014-09-242018-05-31 von Ruth Reiche — Schreib einen Kommentar

Zeitungsente

In german language a newspaper hoax is called „Zeitungsente“ (newspaper duck). Referring to ORICRANE, Maggsti asked me to draw an ORIDUCK. I studied a lot of origami duck instructions to get a better understanding of the folding and folded some specimens by myself. I used an old newspaper because I didn’t want to waste good paper for that. In the end I got a newspaper duck and I was really happy about that great coincidence. I scanned the duck and added a too big head and slightly distorted feets. It’s nothing but a hoax.

Veröffentlicht am 2014-09-132018-05-31 von Ruth Reiche — Schreib einen Kommentar

ORICRANE

Metamorphosis is a topic which isn’t quite novel but one that never becomes boring. While trying to fold some origami animals (I totally failed), I had the idea to draw some of them instead and to let the abstract figure transform into a real life animal. For this I choose the crane, one of the most traditional origami animals. I did a lot of misshapen sketches before I could move on to the final drawing (see below). But in the end I got it. By the way: Cranes bring luck.

Veröffentlicht am 2014-09-072018-05-31 von Ruth Reiche — Schreib einen Kommentar

Visualizing PSYCHO*

In March 2013 I generated three short clips based on Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960): PSYCHOMEAN, PSYCHOMEDIAN and PSYCHOMODE (I labelled them PSYCHO*; have a closer look here). In a first step of this artistical research project I analyzed the mean, median and modal grey values of each frame of the famous shower sequence (5775 frames); in a second step I re-ordered all these frames in ascending order.

What I did today in the afternoon is much more unspectacular but gives surprising insight into the inner structure of the original montage as well the three different re-montages of the original image material. I put all frames together in one single image with help of ImageMontage, a plugin for ImageJ developed by Lev Manovich and his NY based team. As a result I got four visualizations that show each clip’s frames organized in a rectangular 2D grid. Great advantage of this kind of visualization is that you can catch the whole montage at a glance and grasp differences easily. See for yourself!

Monat: September 2014

Zeitungsente

ORICRANE

Visualizing PSYCHO*

PSYCHO (ORIGINAL)

PSYCHOMEAN

PSYCHOMEDIAN

PSYCHOMODE