EcoTechApproach – EvanL

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Background: This is a quote from legislation passing Acadia national park into just that a national park. I took my Idea of databending an image based on some talk in legislation about a land. How the landscape would be destroyed by building that how the data bending plays in. I’m taking a beautiful landscape and destroying it in a sense much like the building would do!

Explanation:  public lands are at risk and this project brings that to light. This project takes text or audio from legislation talking about a public land and reducing size or funding. Basically, anything that would be detrimental to the land. As a landscape photographer, I need land so I take images of theselands. At that point, I take the audio and put in a patch with some parameters and have the audio change the pixel information. at that point, I add a few more manual effects.

Credits: This was an independent project. I hatched this idea a long time ago so my original inspiration is forgotten.  But I have a love for public lands and how photography played a big part in them existing through Ansal Adams. I try to emulate his work the styling and mood but I wanted to tie this back to my degree so I brought it into the 21st century and in my opinion gave the image more meaning. Anyone can mess with a photo but when the thing that is messing with the photo is someone in power truly trying to mess with the land it real.

Simple Budget: Max MSP $100, Getting to the location/lunch $30, camera and editing software 2k, all in all to much