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Monthly Archives September 2010

Mieville on metaphor

“I’ve been very interested in metaphor for several years, and it’s been cropping up in the books (and does in ones not yet out). I don’t know that I can say that much super-rigorous about it, but basically I got interested in, in distinction to some of my other ‘fantasy’ novels, the idea of magic […]

Posted 28 September 2010 † Nomad93 § online § verbal ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Mad daguerreotypists

Daguerreotypists developed their negs inside the dark tent, holding the glass plate above a bow of mercury and a spirit lamp. As heated mercury vapor whirled around the plate, the image appeared. Denny must have done this hundreds of times, for years and years. It’s why his hands shook, and why his gums had turned […]

Posted 19 September 2010 † Nomad93 § NowReading § visual ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Generation Loss

I hate looking at bad reproductions of great photographs, and these online images were uniformly lousy. Generation loss – that’s what happens when you endlessly reproduce a photographic image. You lose authenticity, the quality deteriorates in each subsequent generation that’s copied from the original negative, and the original itself decays with time, so that every […]

Posted 17 September 2010 † Nomad93 § ludic § NowReading § visual ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Braid

artykuł w Technopolis/Polityka

Posted 01 September 2010 † Nomad93 § InPL § ludic § online ‡ Comments (0) °