Two more red-blue IR reversals
[20th Mar, 2006|06:00]
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Channel surfing.
[19th Mar, 2006|20:41]
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More Musings on the City of the Future
[16th Jan, 2006|08:06]
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Here I sit, on a fully-automated robot train, typing a message that I will trnasmit by radio to in-turn be relayed by wire and light to San Francisco where it will be automatically published. The message will be read on cathode ray tubes and liquid crystal displays across the continent from Vancouver to Los Angeles to Miami to New York. It will be read at opposite ends of the earth, from Europe to Australia. And this is all a routine part of my Monday morning commute.
A century ago I would be lucky to get a letter to Australia inside of three months. The area that I am travelling over was wilderness. Central Africa was less well known than the surface of Titan now; "Tarzan" was brand-new science-fiction. A century ago people believed there were men on Mars, today, right now, there are robots exploring Mars.
Sometimes you have to stop and remember how amazing our "ordinary" really is. |
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Hive
[9th Oct, 2005|00:32]
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The Last Few Pictures from The City of the Future Series
[18th Sep, 2005|00:42]
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(#47) In the future the mightiest tower of the Empire will be lost in a forest of glass and steel.
(This tower with the cupola, the former headquarters of the Vancouver Sun newspaper and still called the "Sun Tower", was the tallest building in the British Empire when it was finished in 1922) |
( Ten More )These were all made just outside Chinatown and in Yaletown on the 4th of September. With these all the the "City of the Future" pictures have been processed and are ready to be put in an on-line gallery for the project. Today I picked up the two prints from this series that were hanging in the Hive show and they are now hanging over my desk. Printed on professional-grade paper (which even smells like a wet-process analogue photo) with the professional-grade printer I purchased in the spring, these look awesome printed at 7" x 9" and matted and framed in a 11" x 14" frame. |
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City of the Future
[11th Sep, 2005|11:06]
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The City of the Future project is now closed. I won't be taking any more pictures in this series. I'll be putting up a project gallery soon and in the mean time you can visit the project blog to see samples as I prepare the last images made in the series. |
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Robson Square
[20th Aug, 2005|19:43]
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City of the Future
[19th Aug, 2005|23:10]
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 Three more from the City of the Future: 
In the City of the Future people trust banks made of glass. |
But rugby players put on helmets to ride bicycles. |
And the Space Age is quaint and ivy-covered. |
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More from the City of the Future
[16th Aug, 2005|18:21]
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 In the City of the Future, pristine towers reach for the clear sky. |
Yet, even as the City of the Future reaches up to dwarf the tallest trees, the past is not completely forgotten. |
But in the future the sweat-shops and flop-houses have become cabarets and luxury apartments, |
the cobble stones stay clear of dung, and the streetlights light themselves with commonplace magic no one notices. |
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What Happened to the Future?
[2nd Aug, 2005|19:41]
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