building .square

In the counterculture movements that started in the 1940s and took momentum in the 1960s a “square” referred to someone who clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided, or “in the box” ways of thinking. The term was used by hipsters in the 40s, beatniks in the 50s, hippies in the 60s, yippies in the 70s, and other individuals who took part in the movements which emerged to contest the more conservative national, political, religious, philosophical, musical and social trends. It was in this context that Sly and the Family Stone’s trumpet player Cynthia Robinson yelled out in the hit “Dance to the Music”: “All the squares go home!”

In modern usage it can be used to describe a person who leads a lawful existence, particularly in regard to employment.

Scan from an old Fujichrome 64 Slide Film.

drain .agace pissette [.002]

so here is the last shot from this place, this is more of a making of, a less polished shot, we can see me and controleman playing around with our many shadows and light, thats it, in the next post i’m bringing the next picture in the building serie

Digital image.

drain .agace pissette [.001]

I just got out of the shower because, today, I made my first trip into a drain, it was amazing ! Here is the first shot made with about ten flash pop and a long neon flashlight. I wasn’t sure which look to give the picture but I like this one. Thanks to controleman for the incredible visit.

Digital image.

building .erection

In the presence of mechanical stimulation, erection is initiated. The ability to maintain the erectile state is key to the reproductive system and many forms of life could not reproduce in a natural way without this ability.

Scan from an old Fujichrome 64 Slide Film.

building .industrial bunker

Typical industrial bunkers include mining sites, food storage areas, dumps for materials, data storage, and sometimes living quarters. They were built mainly by nations like Germany during World War II to protect important industries from aerial bombardment. Industrial bunkers are also built for control rooms of dangerous activities, e.g. tests of rocket engines or explosive experiments. They are also built in order to perform dangerous experiments in them or to store radioactive or explosive goods. Such bunkers also exist on non-military facilities.

Scan from an old Fujichrome 64 Slide Film.

building .infinity

Infinity (symbolically represented with ∞) comes from the Latin infinitas or “unboundedness.” It refers to several distinct concepts (usually linked to the idea of “without end”) which arise in philosophy, mathematics, and theology.

In mathematics, “infinity” is often used in contexts where it is treated as if it were a number (i.e., it counts or measures things: “an infinite number of terms”) but it is a different type of “number” from the real numbers. Infinity is related to limits, aleph numbers, classes in set theory, Dedekind-infinite sets, large cardinals,[1] Russell’s paradox, non-standard arithmetic, hyperreal numbers, projective geometry, extended real numbers and the absolute Infinite.

Scan from an old Fujichrome 64 Slide Film.

visage .still_modif

So, as i was saying, here are my four favorite still shot from the video i just showed you. the whole movie is made of 96 shot looping a couple of times, oh, and by the way, the great song that is playing in the video is Breakdown by Mr. Oizo, one of my favorite artist.

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Still shots from visage .mov_modif

Digital photography

visage .mov_modif

So I had this idea in mind for a couple of weeks now, kind of a follow-up to my last video, it is almost the same technique and gives a similar result, but without any story, i focused more on the facial expressions with this one, give it a look if you want, i’ll post my favorite 4 frames in the next post.

Aberration .strange_being

Dinofuck has just released the aberration project, finally. My work in this project was a strange follow up to my therorical kids project. This kid or “being” is the bad fruit of a fake relationship between a kid (me) and his mother. Here’s the result and a link to the official project page on dinofuck.

Digital photographic montage.

Métro .Beaubien

Dinofuck, after releasing the abberation project, will start working on the “métro project”. The goal of this will be to go around the whole Montréal subway system to seek at least an image for each single station. I decided to take a small headstart with my “homestation”, so this is my first shot for the Beaubien station which is on the orange line.

Métro Beaubien

Scan from a Kodak Max 400 Color.