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Category Archives: New technology
Der Druck ist nicht tot
At least in Germany it’s not. As I stepped off the train in Heidelberg last Monday afternoon an American asked me for directions. At this I was not very helpful because he and I had been in Heidelberg exactly the … Continue reading
Prince Bold made Neue
Every really cool font eventually comes out in a “neue” version. The most famous is Helvetica Neue, which was the modernized version of Helvetica, with its normalized weights and corrected curves and very subtle curve changes. Prince Bold is based … Continue reading
Posted in Art, New technology, Typography
Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, letter forms, letterpress, Raymond Prince, Shakespeare Press Museum, type design, wood type
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A hole in future history
I took over 400 CDs and DVDs to the shredding company this week. This was a collection of old System disks, software that won’t run anymore, and 828,000 photos in an archive that I once thought to be impregnable. Optical … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Gadgets, New technology, Technology
Tagged Brian Lawler, large scale storage, NAS server, Samsung SSD, SSD storage
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My timely obsession with real-time clocks
As a part of my Bishop Peak Portrait Project, I have built a couple of “printed” circuit boards. I made these on my CNC router, which I used to cut away the copper on a blank circuit board, leaving behind … Continue reading
Time-lapse project, part III: a new circuit board
My time-lapse camera has been running now for 25 days. It snaps a photo of Bishop Peak (elev. 1559 ft.) every five minutes. I have over 2,300 photos so far. This is a sample of the photos being taken by … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Gadgets, New technology, Photography, Technology
Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, CNC routing, Raspberry Pi, time-lapse controller
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365 days taking photos of a mountain
On Thursday morning this week I set up my time-lapse camera on the roof of the Kennedy Library at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It’s facing almost due-west toward a mountain named Bishop Peak, which stands over the city of … Continue reading
My mission to Mars, continued
In a blog I posted last year, I described how I developed a series of AppleScripts to control Adobe Photoshop to crop, then increase the canvas size, then draw crop marks on a series of image parts to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Education, Imposition and Pagination, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software
Tagged AppleScripting Photoshop, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, COSAM, dye-sublimation, Mars Rover, MER, Opportunity Rover, Victoria Crater
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Shooting 100 60MB photos every second
with the Red Dragon
For years I have been following the development of the digital video company called Red. They made news first at the National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006. At that show they introduced the world to … Continue reading
Upgrade adventures – a sleek new Mac Pro
A few weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and get a new computer. I have been using an aluminum Mac Pro tower for many years (I have had two of them). The current machine has eight cores, and … Continue reading
The most exciting thing I saw at GraphExpo 2014
I troll the hallways at GraphExpo, looking at the many booths showing exciting technologies to potential customers. There are people selling software, hardware, firmware, middleware, and usually – pretzels. This year there was no pretzel vendor, nor an ice cream … Continue reading