“I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I’d be wise to look at the lens inside.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
I see lately a lot of AI, and myself I had been plugged into that for some time and created a ton of images which I might post more at some point. I recently published this one here, about 3 weeks ago: FACE OF THE APOCALYPSE.
Rummaging through my pile of photos (looking for something else entirely) I just happened to run across this one, which I forgot all about, May 2018 - and a totally analog photo:
but of course, I did use a trick: Photographing a detail from one of my paintings through the lens of some distortion goggles. No digital work involved, other than regular photo post-processing.
For a while I was not quite sure which painting it was, but then going through my paintings album on Flickr, I found it - FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING II (2012):
So what posessed me at that time to take this shot? A friend of mine who has had a studio at the Kunstquartier Wien where I am had ordered some fun goggles and was running around with them, bumping into stuff as if drunk. I tried them out, and they were super cool, so I ordered them for myself and suggested we should wear them all day long and see which one of us will be the first one getting seriously hurt, lol.
Here are a couple of shots where I was wearing (but not actually using) them at Carnival time:
another photo which was taken through the lens of these goggles was a selfie I took - rather than milking it for another post, here it is, combined (cloned) with an image I photographed through a Kaleidoscope.
as you can see, there are possibilities to do stuff without AI. In the above case, post-processing included cloning two images together that I created with some simple tricks directly with the camera. Mind you, taking photos through a Kaleidoscope is a bit difficult.
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I mentioned a Kaleidoscope in my post, which I had also used to take photos with it. There are two disks on it that can generate a immense array of different views with every twist. I bought it from a Vancouver artist many years ago. But it is a bit difficult to focus with your camera through the tiny hole on top.
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