hapticity » photography

Monday morning cross section

Dave — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:29:08 +0000

A tomato hailing from Capay, California.

Wordplay

Dave — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:36:50 +0000

It’s what we do.

Kenneth Josephson
Chicago
1988

Sudden breakthrough

Dave — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:41:49 +0000

Lucas Samaras
Photo-Transformation
November 22, 1973

Pole haptics

Dave — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:21:29 +0000

All are pictures of the same telephone pole in San Francisco, California, except for the bottom right, which is in Berkeley. Click the individual images to embiggen. This is a reaction to Stephen Vincent’s photo essay Tree Haptics which I previously blogged here.

Friday night smashup

Dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:10:02 +0000

Philippe Halsman
Popcorn Nude
1949

Beerscape

David Birnbaum — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:26:00 +0000

At historied Heinold’s First and Last Chance in Oakland, California.

Phpwned

David Birnbaum — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:57:00 +0000

San Francisco, California.

The haptics of trees

David Birnbaum — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:10:18 +0000

The haptic mark—in whatever form it takes—gives us a rendering of a sensual apprehension of space. The marks it makes are fluid. Within any combination of marks we witness the incisions of a particular history. The group of wrinkles in an aging person’s face, or the apparent cracks and scars on the bark of a tree’s trunk. These incisions—these haptics—are one of the ways in which we may publicly and intimately witness the pace, rhythm, the shape and character of an historical record.

Steven Vincent posts a photographic study of San Francisco sycamore trees.

Sunday afternoon tautology

David Birnbaum — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:06:12 +0000

Oakland, California.

Printshop

David Birnbaum — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:11:14 +0000

San Francisco, CA

Wharf signage

David Birnbaum — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:57:43 +0000

San Francisco, California.

Geometree

David Birnbaum — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:20:43 +0000

Oakland, California.

Philadelphia Hand Center

David Birnbaum — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:37:26 +0000

If you’re in Philadelphia and you misprogram your force feedback master and it rips your hand off, the good folks at the Philadelphia Hand Center will do their darndest to put it back.