Here be my (b)log(file)s, writing, or factoids I found otherwise noteworthy to jot down for everybody.
Older writings can be found in the archive.
2011-10-13 10:22 - Moving day - the video
My brother is an active vlogger, and he happened to make a lifelog video of moving day using an old Android Hero, which he wears continuously. The device captures snapshots once in a while, together with a few seconds of audio. The video you see here is a compilation of this.
Here's a quote:
"Moving my brother and Jo to Utrecht.
Oh god, I was so tired today. Three hours of sleep is not enough.
Besides that, I was glad to have helped my brother and Jo move.
My father explained it nicely. Paraphrase: “It really helps to imagine people living at a new place if you’ve helped them move there.” Couldn’t agree more."
Thanks for making and sharing the vid! Yields a nice impression of the day! :)
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2011-08-09 13:36 - Castlefest 2011
http://photos.ork.be/events/castlefest2011!
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2011-04-18 18:04 - Elf Fantasy Fair 2011
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2010-12-17 21:33 - De sneeuw overviel ons een beetje vandaag..
Meer hier: http://www.flickr.com/photos/orooij/sets/72157625493267569/
.. oh en.. omdat het kan:
(sneak preview resultaatje van een impromptu korte shoot met Sanja, mostly omdat we beiden ingesneeuwd waren in het Science Park.. men moet wat met dit weer..)
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2010-08-09 19:24 - Smoke to glue a dance together
In this post I wanted to write about how we created the Dance of Life shoot which I've just put online. This shoot is continuation on the earlier Wild Hunt shoot with Annicke, but with a slightly (and literally) darker theme.
Both shoots were actually taken on the same day, but we wanted to take some extra time for post processing. During that time I tried a variety of conversion styles to get from original RAW's to the JPG pictures, and we ended up liking two completely different sets of end results.
Both styles are present in the end result. The first series of photos use slightly desaturated color tones for the skin. The remainder of the photos were created by a selective black and white conversion, keeping a distinct tone of blue intact. By tweaking the white balance of the originals this resulted in a beautiful almost black-light effect on the bodypainted lines.
However, just putting them together would cause an abrupt change of style, and lack consistency. I decided on using the poem Annicke wrote for the set as a basis:
Movements tell about a single caress
Recognition of all that is in me
All that leaks out of my heart;
They leave burning marks on my skin
As I dance the dance of life "
For me this poem speaks of the dance of life as the path though life everyone takes, a never ending dance from birth to death, though that still might be a bit hard to visualize in one set of pictures. I therefore took the liberty of re-interpreting it as a more abrupt transformation: the dance depicts a shamanistic dance to guide the dancer from the human realm to a ghost/spirit realm. Using smoke effects we created a series of pictures in which the dance slowly evokes smoke, which then transforms the body from one realm to another. The smoke itself was added using multiple layers of available public domain smoke textures*, each recolored and transformed to the movements of the dance. The final result hopefully shows this transformation.
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