After seven months of relative quiet, I’ve decided to release a series of photos from Russia.

The Fakeproject Corporation of America: Organic Solids Division presents: Selections from the Archives of the Зоологический Музей МГУ.

Files, folders, dirs, disks, piles, heaps; great yawning data mines and camera-provided context (this year, this date, this time, this number in sequence) sometimes show themselves telling; every so often a new thought, a new technique, a new programmatic approach will yield something interesting from great yawning memory.

With off-the-shelf software I’ve found a way to abuse old images into something representative; something a little more memorial. Each of the following images is a composite of three or more, comprised of all of the same subject(s), or better, completely different places and times, spanning seconds, minutes, hours, days; miles, blocks, feet, and inches. Like memory they tend to conflate, mashing faces, places, and spaces into single images.

It’s not only an average or a composite, though. Many of the images are possible because there was a corpus of pictures with similar-enough subject matter. If I took, for example, dozens of shots of a certain power substation at different times, from different perspectives, the image is wider, denser, and probably has more errors. You can read the density and width of these images as indicators of interest in a subject.

All of these photos represent a certain span of time, from 2001 until 2005; a certain singular college experience, a certain sculptural program, a certain fixation. The process of taking masses of photos, over four years, using four different cameras yielded the different color saturations, depths of field, and misaligned geometry you can see here. I won’t call this data analysis, it’s not; plenty of it is fully faked. This is how I remember things.

I’ve updated my demo reel for Spring of 2006. You can see it here-(Quicktime) (Windows Media). For everyone not familiar with this sort of thing, a demo reel is how computer artists- 3D modelers, video editors, motion graphics designers, and so on - sell themselves to employers. I’m pretty proud of this reel. And I’m confident the next one will be even better.

After long deliberation, downloadation, and backup-ation, I’ve gone and deleted the contents of fakeproject.com from the server. There’s a lot of organization and re-structuring happening behind the scenes, and leaving the content of old up there for all was inhibiting progress. Over time, I’ll make archives of everything that was ever up available; the problems come from inconsistent coding and poor file management- tons of dead links, broken images, pages leading nowhere. Hardly a professional front.

The new fakeproject.com will be back soon, with news on new tunes, new projects, and stuff to download.

I’ve had the pleasure of perusing the spoils spring cleaning week in Fargo this week- most notably, I acquired a Towa T-1000 copy machine. It’s got a blue toner cart in it, and a sheet feeder. After spending some time fixing a bad solenoid (the ferrite rod had rusted to the shell) I got the machine running. It will come in very handy when producing the limited run of my forthcoming album, You Are Not Dead: A Guide To Modern Living. There will be a limited, hand-produced run to give to people who helped with the album; after that, there will be no giveaways or sales, as I’m going to be shopping the demo around.

Today, when riding bike to work, I spotted a pulse-monitor monitor. You know, with the little green graph that jumps when you hear the beeping of your own heart. It had a little printer attached to the bottom too, with a bit of ticker tape sticking out. I’m not sure if it was there to reproduce the graph, or to pump out receipts…