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Neurotype – A New Photographic Process

Pradip Malde — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:22:57 +0000

From Pradip Malde & Mike Ware

We are pleased to announce an exciting newly-invented iron-based
printing process, which we are today offering to the alternative
photographic process community.

It makes use of the recent scientific discovery that human brain
tissue may accumulate deposits of reactive, neurotoxic iron(III) salts:

http://www.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2002/press/200808press.html

Neurotype Instructions

1) Drink regular daily amounts of citrus fruit juice, iron tonic, and
colloidal gold dietary supplement. (see http://www.goldcolloidal.com/ )

2) In the dark, practice lengthy Yoga headstands in order to promote
gravitational sedimentation of the carboxylic acids and metal ions,
forming a sub-cranial deposit of cerebral iron(III) photosensitizer.

3) Carefully shave your scalp (this step may be omitted by the
follically-challenged, and tonsured monks).

4) Tape a photographic negative to the top of your head – emulsion
down, of course.

5) Stand in the sun for 30 minutes, with your hat removed, in order
to print-out a truly conceptual art-work. See illustration.

6) To secure an archival neurotype, the final processing step is,
necessarily, thorough brainwashing.

The Neurotype is designed especially for those alternative
practitioners who are susceptible to degenerative brain disorders,
such as Poissondavril’s Syndrome.

PS. The authors have also developed a camera-speed version of this
process which will revolutionise photography; the secret will be
divulged to selected practitioners only, on payment of an agreed fee.
This version is called neurotype rex.

polaroid resurrection

Pradip Malde — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:08:54 +0000

Luca. Brassai-eye.
Polaroid. 2008

Please let this be true – the Polaroid factory in the Netherlands is going back into production! [Thanks Bjorn!]

the plebs, the priests and the very large hadron collider

Pradip Malde — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:33:17 +0000

Floating Stone (from series, Memory Balance Love)

1989

platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in

The same mental types as those who broke into hives and weeping fits at the onset of solar eclipses centuries ago, and as those who crowed disaster with the arrival of 2000 are now approaching thrombo red-zones with the powering up of the Large Hadron Collider. And things have changed – the high priests, the technicians of what may well turn out to be sacred, are stepping into the uncertain, sure – but they now want to share their knowledge, not use it to wield power over the plebs! So ease up folks. This is an exciting event, and one that is better characterized as a sliding, zonal adventure than a singularity triggered by a Big Red Switch. We are not all going to meld into one tiny speck of density on Wednesday, September 10. (And if we do, no one will be around to say, I told you so.)

chris bucklow

Pradip Malde — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:26:37 +0000

chris bucklow. (wave. particle.)

2008

platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in

Stepen Alvarez's blog

Pradip Malde — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:46:19 +0000

My friend Stephen Alvarez has started a wonderful photo blog. Consistently making heartfelt work for National Geographic and other notable publications, Stephen is now posting images almost daily with an accompanying commentary. Additionally, another friend, Geof Bowie posts weekly tech notes about the Mac and related matters. Thanks guys for sharing so much experience and wonder!

Debra Swack

Pradip Malde — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:29:50 +0000

Debra Swack’s Animal Patterning Project considers the implications and motivations of genetically modification for aesthetic purposes. In this case, Swack ‘explores the concept of genetically altering the patterning of animal skins to make them more aesthetic for human exploitation and later usage in garments and accessories.’

There’s some challenging stuff here. What do you think?

emergence

Pradip Malde — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:41:43 +0000

I’ve been thinking about Steven Johnson’s book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software – and this interview which sums up some of his ideas.

Street in Eatonton, GA. While on my way to to give a talk at GCSU

Curt Cloninger and the Emily Dickinson Difference Engine

Pradip Malde — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:02:07 +0000

Sewanee Alum and long-lost friend Curt Cloninger has put up a fascinating project on the web. His ‘Emily Dickinson Difference Engine‘ layers visual data with text data (Dickinson’s poetry), thereby “revealing the impenetrability of things, the malleability of words, and the feelings that humans associate with things and words.” Thanks Curt!

Art, mathematics and your kidneys

Pradip Malde — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:31:30 +0000

What does this IMAGE have to do with kidney transplant / donor patients? The research that this diagram illustrates (carried out by Sommer Gentry and T. S. Michael, mathematicians at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore) could lead to dramatically improving the chances of finding a match between kidney donor and recipient patient. What does that have to do with art? Well, just take a look at the mathematics of graph theory! And what does that have to do with this:

readymechs… and how to start building your own

Pradip Malde — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:09:37 +0000

“Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5″x11″ page and printed with any printer. [In addition to the paper and printer,] you’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.” This from the amazing readymech site, which is one of several projects put together by Fwis, a graphic design group working from Portland, Denver, Cupertino and Brooklyn.

Some of you (especially some of my middle school teacher pals) may find RISD’s Digication Project site interesting too, and you may want to hit the home button to find out more about the project.