Images from the Tetrahedron Camera. Collotypes on Chine Colle.

Pinhole Cameras

Geodesic Dome Camera. First constructed in 2005, this is an ongoing project. The dome comprises 26 cameras, each with four, five, or six exposures, culminating in 130 photographic marks. I use these marks in compositions that reflect the structure of the dome. The diameter of the dome is 9' and it stands 4.5' tall.

Introverted Simultaneous Panorama Camera (InSimPanCam). 2010. This camera exposes 11 images on a roll of 120 mm film, all angled toward the center of the camera.

Extroverted Simultaneous Panorama Camera (ExSimPanCam). 2009. This camera exposes 12 images on a 12 exposure roll of 35 mm film.

Cube Camera. 2008. One of my most used cameras mainly because of it's compact size, the cube camera has six chambers described by connecting the eight outer corners of the cube with the interior center point of the cube (called the "central angle" in geometry). The six corresponding film planes are folded, and exposed in three dimension which then distort when flattened and printed.

Icosahedron Camera. 2007. The Icosahedron camera is made from 20 tetrahedrons. The film plane of each tetrahedron is folded and exposed in three dimensions, then flattened, creating distortions in printing.

Stellated Dodecahedron Camera v. 2. 2012. This camera has twelve pentagonal film planes, each receiving five exposures. The original version of this camera was too small, making exposure unpredictable and unforgiving.

InSimPanCam v. 2. 2011. Forty-two exposures on a 36 exposure roll of 35 mm film. I typically use this camera to make stop frame animations of found vertebrae of dead animals.

Octahedron Camera. 2006. Eight exposures on eight truncated equilateral triangles.

Tetrahedron Camera. 2012. Three folded film planes with two exposures each.

Decahedron Camera (open). 2013. One hexagon folded into a dimensional pentagonal film plane. Five exposures. 

Extended Cube Camera version 2. 2013. Six square film planes.

Extroverted Simultaneous Panorama Camera 2 (ExSimPanCam2). 2013. Three 4x5" films. 

Dome Series 5. Collotypes.

 

 

 

 

 

This is a series of collotypes I printed in 2011. All of the imagery comes from one exposures session of the Geodesic Dome camera. Rather than compose all 130 exposures into one print, I composed in a more intuitive manner. Still, all of the exposures are in proximity one to another as they would have been exposed on the dome. 

Vertebrae Animation No. 2

This is the second video from the 3D/4D camera. Approximately 42 seconds. It would run on a loop in a gallery setting along with other videos from the series. More to come, including the first sculptural interpretations.

Tetrahedron Camera

Each month in Nacogdoches, the Friends of the Visual Arts group screens an art film at the Cole Art Center. It happens on the first Friday. Various entities sponsor the film each month. This past July (2012), the SFA School of Art sponsored the screening of a film called Between the Folds, a documentary about origami. I was asked to introduce the film at the event, which I agreed to do. As the date drew nearer, I realized that the heat and humidity of an East Texas summer was driving me insane, and that I had to leave town for higher altitudes, specifically Colorado and Utah. So I made a video to act as my proxy. This is the video. Runtime is five minutes, 25 seconds. No music was harmed during the production of this video.

Panoramas

Camera Dissection

Someday, I'm going to make a camera with a lens, a shutter, and variable f-stops. Probably the hardest part is the shutter. This is the mechanism for a shutter on an Ansco Shur Shot Jr. I recorded the video at 60 fps and was able to time the shutter using the Photoshop animation timeline. It's a pretty accurate 1/30th of a second (the lens was visible for two frames, each lasting 1/60th of a second).

Extroverted Simultaneous Panorama Camera (for 35 mm film)

Recent Compositions from the Interior Cube Camera

These are a couple of the compositions I'm making with the negatives from the Interior Cube Camera that I took to Florence with me (see previous post).  I'm printing them digitally, 24" on the short side. I will post more as I compose more.

Interior Angle Cube Camera

So, it's a good thing I brought a backup camera. This little guy was a curiosity I built sometime earlier this year and hadn't used much until now. My stellated dodecahedron camera has proven to be very finicky. It's a camera I'll have to figure out another time, though it has yielded some isolated acceptable results. This camera, however, has given me some great shots. I built the stand while here (previously, it was sitting on one face, making it difficult to use as a camera sitting in one spot and exposing all six faces).