{"id":502740,"date":"2010-04-01T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/visualscience\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:09:03","slug":"the-pixel-vision-of-kirk-crippens-visual-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502740","title":{"rendered":"The Pixel Vision of Kirk Crippens | Visual Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/visualscience\/2010\/04\/01\/the-pixel-vision-of-kirk-crippens\/2\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;\">NEXT<\/span>&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/visualscience\/2010\/04\/01\/the-pixel-vision-of-kirk-crippens\/2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10522\" src=\"http:\/\/discovermd.vo.llnwd.net\/o37\/visual-science\/pixel\/1_Crippens_PixelNation_Sony.jpg\" alt=\"1-map\" align=\"center\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkcrippens.com\/\">Kirk Crippens<\/a> at the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.photoalliance.org\/\">Photo Alliance<\/a> portfolio review in San Francisco a few weeks back, and was psyched to view his project Pixel Nation. I liked that the images in this series isolate everyday textures we take for granted, revealing the unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Crippens reports that while photographing pixels he discovered an ornate world of color and structure that he photographed at varying magnifications. Crippens: \u201cMany of the photographs were taken with long exposures while the images on the screen were changing. This process meant that I did not know what the photo would look like until after the image was captured. With analog television ending in 2009, I decided to include the patterns of older screens, the pre-pixel screens. Changes have occurred in pixel design over the years &#8211; from the simple dashes and dots of early color TVs and computer monitors to plasma&#8217;s gaseous pixels and HD television&#8217;s intricately designed pixels. The ubiquitous pixel has been transforming just under our gaze.\u201d Behold, the lowly pixel!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sony Trinitron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Images courtesy Kirk Crippens<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/visualscience\/2010\/04\/01\/the-pixel-vision-of-kirk-crippens\/2\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;\">NEXT<\/span>&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/E1Mlbx1bZ54\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEXT&gt; I met Kirk Crippens at the Photo Alliance portfolio review in San Francisco a few weeks back, and was psyched to view his project Pixel Nation. I liked that the images in this series isolate everyday textures we take for granted, revealing the unexpected. Crippens reports that while photographing pixels he discovered an ornate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}