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Tag Archives: Cal Poly
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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Time-lapse weather-proof box construction
This is part two of a blog about making a weather-proof time-lapse camera box, and the camera equipment to go inside it. You can read part one here. With may plan to do a year-long time-lapse project, I began in … Continue reading
Posted in Gadgets, Photography, Technology
Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, CNC router, G-code, Mach3, time-lapse camera, V-Carve, weather-proof box
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Time-lapse with a Raspberry twist
What’s been going on since December? I’ve been spending a lot of time making a cabinet for my camper (another thing I designed in Illustrator and built on my CNC Router). That has taken a tremendous amount of time, and … 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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My brief visit to Mars
I spent a couple of weeks on Mars earlier this year, on assignment to take some photos. There was no oxygen, so I had to hold my breath for two weeks. I did not run into Matt Damon. The work … Continue reading
AppleScripting Adobe Photoshop
I get involved in some pretty big stuff: This was my 58-foot GigaPan photo of San Luis Obispo as it appeared in the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in March. That photo was printed in 17 sections on glossy … Continue reading
Typographical archaeology for Lining Livermore
Continued from yesterday’s blog… After I created the scan of my type proof, I opened it up in Adobe Photoshop and made some corrections (I rotated the G and the O), and I did some tonal clean-up to make the … Continue reading
Digging into history for a “new” digital type design
I am the faculty advisor of the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. The museum is a working collection of type and printing presses that collectively represent the history of relief printing from 1850 to 1950. This is one of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Software, Typography
Tagged antique fonts, Antique type, Cal Poly, font design, Lining Livermore, Shakespeare Press Museum, typography
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Resurrecting Ottmar Mergenthaler
In 1960, John W. Reed, President of the Linotype Company, presented a bronze bust of Ottmar Mergenthaler to the students of Cal Poly’s Printing Department (now called Graphic Communication). The bust is about 2/3 life size, and is mounted on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, People, Typography
Tagged bronze casting, Cal Poly, Frank Romano, Genesis Bronze, Graphic Communication Dept., Linotype machine, Ottmar Mergenthaler
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Rewiring the Linotype machine
I’ve not blogged in quite a while, for which I apologize to my faithful readers. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything going on. It was that I had writer’s blog. I couldn’t come up with anything to say about … Continue reading
Posted in History, Imposition and Pagination, Printing and Printing Processes, Typography
Tagged antique printing, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, letterpress, letterpress printing, linecasting, Linotype, Linotype machine, printing history, Shakespeare Press Museum, typographic history, typography
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