Pixel Breakdown
Alternative Long-Exposure Photographs
Project started 2006/09/25 and last updated 2006/12/13.
This project explores the idea of long-exposure photographs. Long-exposure photographs capture the visual changes in a subject over some span of time and represent the entire changing scene in a single image. But how do you capture change in a subject over time? Think of time as just a series of moments which are "very very small" - so small in fact that no motion, or visible change, can occur during one. If you station a camera at some fixed point and in some fixed direction, it has a fixed frame on the world. Thus each moment presents a single static image in that camera's frame. A long-exposure photograph then can be thought of as simply a composite of the images presented by a number of consecutive moments. For this project I took this idea and wrote a program that could composite a number of consecutive images in various mathematically described ways.
Photomosaic
Composite Self-Portraits
Project started 2005/10/25 and last updated 2005/10/27.
This project was birthed from my lingering amusement with the HotOrNot.com phenomena that struck the United States several years back, along with my desire to write my own photomosaic program and use it to create mosaic images, as well as my general obsession with data. This evolved and became the idea of taking stupid little snapshot-type self-portraits before I left my apartment each day, then having those images rated on a homemade ratings website, then "encoding" those images with the data collected by affecting their appearance based on the ratings they each received, and finally using those images to create photomosaics of the same original set of self-portrait images.
Rate-A-Dan
Ultimate Self-Obsession (for an Artistic Cause)
Project started 2005/09/22 and last updated 2005/10/13.
This is a homemade ratings site akin to the ever-popular HotOrNot.com. The intention of this site is that you rate the images of Dan based on his level of "hotness". It was not made purely out of self-obsession, but instead as part of the Photomosaic project.