Blast from the past 14 | Golden times

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Just a small music festival.

Take me back there, man!

Unforgetable 3D Movies

Remember those? No? Not surprising, as the 3D movie craze did not last long and what was supposed to be “a new era” turned out to be a flash in the pan.

.holytaco.com/25-vintage-posters-for-3d-movies

When the Lumière brothers showed one of the first films in history (in january 1896) there was a panic as the public felt they would be crushed by the train.

Later came the sound, the color and finally the panoramic screens.

Since then quite a few inventions appeared, expected to be a next step but none succeeded...

By re-introducing the 3D films, the movie industry expected to create or, more accurately, restore a new interest.

But the 3D films are prosthetic and the effect is there to compensate a complete lack of contents.

Whatever might be offered to the viewers, movies keep spectators in a state of total passivity and, as such, cannot compete with the sole true changement in media: inter-activity.

At the end of the 19th century, the Lumière brothers, albeit inventors of Cinematography, did not expect much impact out of it and thought it would not get farther than a luna-park attraction...

Blast from the Past 13 | A Streetcar Named Desire

"A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. 

The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. 

The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano, Vivien Leigh, and Renee Asherson and was directed by Laurence Olivier."

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Blast from the Past 12 | In Memoriam

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Blast from the Past 11|Tribute to Amsterdam

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Blast from the Past 10

Life Under the Bubble
"Biosphere 2 was one of the most lauded experiments of the 1990s, then one of the most ridiculed. Now it is back, offering a unique way to put theories about climate and environment to the test."
Article by Jordan Fisher Smith; Photographs by Douglas Adesko

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 “Nothing ages faster than the future“

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Black from the Past | 9

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3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W
• Part 7   Blast from the Past 7 | Shakespeare
• Part 8  Blast from the Past 8 | a 100 years old eye
  
  

Blast from the Past 8 | a 100 years old eye

This is a circa 1908 Wollensak 35mm F5.0 Cine-Velostigmat hand cranked cinema camera lens. its as cute as a button...literally... 

"I am a DP and photographer, 90% of the time i use my 5D for stills, professional and not. 
I have an upcoming photography project that needs a vintage look. 
Initially i was going to shoot it on 4x5 large format film, but found the equipment and processing cost prohibitive. 
My friend, a Russian lens technician, who loves nothing more than to frankenstein equipment, was assisting me in building the 4x5 camera. 
After we abandoned the 4x5 solution, i put the project on back burner. 
This morning he called me into his store on NYC. He has something for me.... 
He found in a box of random parts, hidden inside anther lens this gem. 
A circa 1908 ( possibly earlier) 35mm lens. 
Still functioning, mostly brass, and not nearly as much dust or fungus as one would think after sitting in a box for over a hundred years. 
This lens is a piece of motion picture history, and at this point rare beyond words. 
So i say to him, 
"Wow... what do you have in mind?" 
he smiles, and says, ( in the thickest russian accent you can imagine) " i can make this fit EF you know...
" my eye twinkled, and then 6 nail biting hours later,he had it finished. 
My Russian Lens technician is a mad scientist and he took what sounded like an angle grinder to the lens to make its clear the flange distance and the mirror.......
This lens' value is unclear. its sort of on loan. It's the only lens of its kind on a 5D... or any digital for that matter.

Its funny while i was shooting these, EVERY photographer i saw stopped and asked me about the lens... it just looks so goofy on there." 

Timur Civan

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3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W
• Part 7   Blast from the Past 7 | Shakespeare

Blast from the Past 7 | Shakespeare

"Shakespeare's face recreated in 3D by scientists but have they got right man?
Scientists have used state-of-the-art 3D computer technology to create what they say is the first true likeness of William Shakespeare..." by Nigel Blundell

 dailymail.co.uk

 

3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

The earliest color motion pictures that you will ever see.

Kyle Alvut

"In these newly preserved tests, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray appears almost translucent, her flesh a pale white that is reminiscent of perfectly sculpted marble, enhanced with touches of color to her lips, eyes, and hair.
She is joined by actress Hope Hampton modeling costumes from The Light in the Dark (1922), which contained the first commercial use of Two-Color Kodachrome in a feature film.
Ziegfeld Follies actress Mary Eaton and an unidentified woman and child also appear." Thomas Hoehn.

Sources: ifc.com
1000words.kodak.com (article by  Thomas Hoehn)

3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

Blast from the Past: Collection Part 5

Old Pictures is an educational site with a wide variety of 
old photographs

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3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

More ancestors than we thought! Part 4

(Homo gautengensis skull: Credit: Darren Curnoe)

 

(Neanderthal child reconstruction; Credit: Christoph P.E. Zollikofer)

"Today at Discovery News you can read about the earliest recognized species of Homo, the first known member of our genus. 
This latest addition to the human family, Homo gautengensis, was from South Africa and measured just 3 feet tall. 
It spent a lot of time in trees and had big teeth suitable for chewing plant material. H. gautengensis emerged over 2 million years ago, but died out at around 600,000 years ago..." Analysis by Jennifer Viegas.

Get Ready for More Proto-Humans : Discovery News(25 May 2010)
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3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

Medieval snapshot / Part 3

Medieval snapshot / Part 3

Dailymail:

Face of mystery medieval knight finally revealed with modern-day CSI skills

This is a reconstruction of the knight's face. Forensic experts believe the scar on his forehead would have been caused by an blow from an axe. His skeleton was found under the floor of a chapel at Stirling Castle.

The facial reconstruction was completed using forensic techniques familiar to followers of TV crime dramas including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, pictured.

The University of Bradford's Dr Jo Buckberry examines a female skeleton which was found alongside that of the knight underneath the castle chapel

"The battle-scarred face of a medieval knight who was killed some 700 years ago has been revealed with the help of forensic skills employed in popular TV shows such as CSI.

The skeleton of the warrior, who was killed at the time of Scotland's Wars of Independence with England, was discovered under the floor of a chapel at Stirling Castle.

Now a team at Dundee University, led by world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black, have revealed what he would have looked like..."

Read more: dailymail.co.uk

3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

Forward to the Past

Forward to the Past
Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D/ Part 2

Copernicus has left his trace in our history as a clairvoyant man of science. To see his face makes him closer to us as would a picture taken when time travelling.

LINKS

 Nicolaus Copernicus, a forensic facial reconstruction of his skull. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos /60861613@N00/3697608793/

Wikipedia 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

Blast from the past: Remote Ancestors and faces in 3D / Part 1

Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D / Part 1

Not so long ago, probably thanks to the bigots' reaction to Darwin's theory, we were experting to find some evidence of the "missing link". 
Such a belief was so strong that it issued a forgery: the Pildow man... 
Since then and after Konrad Lorenz's comment: " we are looking for the missing link and I found it, it is Us"  Paleoanthropology has progressed strongly and accurately. 
What we see here today is just flabbergasting! 
This travel back through time to meet our ancestors, not even knowing if we are direcly related, but after all we share fifty % of our DNA with bananas, is made possible through 3D rendered figures. 
In other terms, sculpture. 
Since forensic specialists have started reconstructing faces from skulls, the techniques have progressed a lot both in terms of precision and realism but clearly enough, this is not art per se but science. 
Nevertheless what speaks to us all is not the scientific process but the expression we read on those faces as we are deeply accustomed to what remains purely cultural: aesthetics. 
That brings us to the most amazing nineteenth century artist : Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (austrian sculptor 1736-1783) who dropped out of the baroque academism to enter a world of his own using his strong talent to represent humans a very different way. 
No aesthetical intention in his work but the strong, anatomically perfect, representation of human faces as no one had never seen them. 
His work is in fact quite close to paleoanthropological reconstructions of today and, to my concern stands as a perfect introduction to what could be realism today. 
As realism in art has not much of an interest, more clearly no pertinency, forensic/ scientific reconstruction is a developing field. 
If it all started with plasticine and elementary tools, today's 3D softwares are certainly a much accurate processing, starting with a 3D scan of the skull then constructing the volumes, adding colors,  movements... 
Then the true difficulty stands with the soft parts, age, wrinkles, hair, expression, and various "secondary" aspect which must be rendered according to scientific precision. 
We actually don't know if such a dedicated software exists as they are not given public access but we would be strongly interested in whether gathering information about it (them?) or having one developped which would allow the creation of a worlwide online data bank. 
Such a tool would not only benefit to all forensic research but would open widely the doors of the whole human past... Armand Dauré

 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

Sources:

X-Woman

  Daily Mail 

 Ancient 'X-Woman' discovered as man's early ancestors are pictured together for the first time

 Urmenschen

  http://www.urmensch.senckenberg.de/

 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Messerschmidt

 Quand Messerschmidt perd la tête

 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jd1ALGS0

3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W