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LAB issue 0.5 | front cover




Image by Joseph Robertson

front cover of LAB issue 0.5
photo: Laura Kicey
design: Joseph Robertson

Hooray! The first issue of LAB is finally out. I've been working on this project for the last coupla months, and it's been hard to not let the cat out of the bag.

I'm proud to say we've got interviews with fellow flickrites Simon Pais, Rodolphe Simeon, and Jim Lucio (aka Defekto). We've also re-published Laura Kicey's article on self-portraiture, Self:Interest (originally posted on Utata), which features photos from Dustin Fenstermacher, Edgar Dacosta, Lara Jade, Simon Pais, and Rodolphe Simeon.

A5 MAGAZINE NO.5 - FUTURE - Invitation for our Future issue launching event




Image by A5 Magazine

A5 magazine
Launching the future issue
Sunday 11.5.08, 20:30, Saloona, 17 Tirza st, Jaffa

מ×'זין איי5 משיק את ×'ליון עתי×"
11.5.08
יום ראשון 20:30 סלונ×", תרצ×" 17, יפו

see you there !!!

The scaling issue in digital art




Image by kevindooley

Squaw Valley #19. This is a blurb I posted with a different photo in November. Since I have a lot of new contacts I decided to repost...

Flickr has made me observe a very interesting issue of SCALE in art. Does a piece of art look the same in one physical scale versus another? In Flickr, an image better look good in thumbnail if it's going to get attention. Certain elements do well in thumbnail: humans, repeating geometry, landscapes, bold colors, flowers, bokeh. Pictures dominated by detail and/or subtlety, on the other hand, really only look good when viewed larger, and thus suffer in popularity.

As McLuhan said, "the medium makes the message". As the visual arts went from the physical to the electronic, it enabled scale. I wonder whether we really think of our images very much in terms of this complex issue of scale of view. In this paradigm, is an image that only looks good in one scale a lesser-quality image than one which, all things being equal, looks good in multiple scales?

Practically, on Flickr, I believe that while the quality of a larger version of an image is what generates faves and "custom" comments, it's the quality of the thumbnail in large part that determines views and "award" comments.

(Explore 3.7.2008--Thanks friends!)

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