Festival della Creativita

My previous post was the announcement for my workshop at the festival, here is a little more info about the festival itself (from their English press releases):

FESTIVAL DELLA CREATIVITA 2007

DEDICATED TO THE THOUSAND FACES OF CREATIVITY
Among others confirmed: DARIO FO, ROY PACI and FRANK LONDON
OCTOBER 25 TO 28 –FLORENCE– FORTEZZA DA BASSO

It starts October 25 in Florence, the second edition of the Festival of Creativity, promoted by the Tuscan Region and organized by Fondazione Sistema Toscana.

Free entrance to the over 40,000-square-meter exhibition space, the 400 events that foresee, until October 28, the participation of 1,600 artists and speakers from over 40 countries around the world. A program "without limits" dedicated to the arts, research, innovation and modernity, with networks as the common thread: social and digital, human and virtual.
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Workshop! (Oct 26th, 27th) Firenze, Italy

Perhaps you have been wondering why i've been so quite lately. Well...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Creativity of Camera Tossing



A participation based workshop on kinetic photography, the notorious Camera Toss technique, and the general creative process and thinking. Hosted by Ryan Gallagher, facilitated by Lorenzo "Lugo" Guasti for the Festival della Creativita (Florence Italy Oct 25th-28th).



DESCRIPTION (l'Italiano)

Camera Toss

con Ryan Gallagher of kineticphotography.net and cameratoss.blogspot.com

Ryan Gallgher è uno dei più famosi fotografi al mondo per quanto riguarda la fotografia cinetica e la fotografia derivata dal lancio della macchina fotografica (camera toss). Ha un sito personale e un blog molto frequentato e contenente centinaia di fantastiche foto fatte con questa tecnica. Grazia alla collaborazione tra Ryan e Lorenzo “logu” Guasti, direttore di Digiarte, si è concretizzata la possibilità di inviare Ryan a Firenze per un Workshop dove ci possa spiegare le sue tecniche. Il Festival della Creatività è senz’altro la location migliore per un evento del genere dal momento che l’attività di Ryan nasce da un istinto creativo indiscutibile: chi di noi si sognerebbe di lanciare la macchina fotografica per vederne il risultato? Pochi..

Saranno organizzati uno/due workshop all’interno del Festival per circa 20 persone a sessione.

E’ necessario che gli iscritti portino la loro macchina fotografica digitale compatta (Ryan assicura che non si romperà) e se possibile il loro portatile per eseguire la post-produzione con Photoshop o un altro programma di foto ritocco.

Il workshop è dunque destinato a persone che abbiano già una certa dimestichezza con la fotografia e con il computer. Nel caso di soprannumero saranno fatte delle selezione per decidere chi potrà partecipare agli eventi.

DETAILS

Location:
Florence, Italy
Fortezza del Basso (Festival della Creativita 2007)
in the space called "Palazzina Lorense 1° Piano"

Session 1
Oct. 26th @ 9:00pm (21,00)

Session 2 (identical to Session 1)
Oct. 27th @ 4:00pm (16,00)

Price:
FREE! (applies to entire festival)

Registration:
Required in advance (20 people per session)
Register online here (Italian):

Suggested equipment to bring:
compact P&S camera or phone-cam, image reader/transfer hardware. (optional: Laptop with photo-editing software)

Language of instruction:
English comprehension recommended, but some assistants may be able to provide some instruction translation and tutorial.

Hello Hong Kong readers...

The first major publication of the concept on the Asian continent, that I am aware of, was in DC Photo Magazine (Hong Kong, China) this month.





There was some initial confusion in the interview/images process, where it took a while to explain that many of my earliest examples they were interested in publishing did not exist at resolutions higher than 640x480. They eventually became aware of the relationship of this technique to cheap equipment, and that the sizes available were somewhat to be expected due to this.

In a month or so I'll put the PDF's of this article online for Chinese visitors, but I'll wait till this issue has left the shelves.

clickykbd's picks - issue 27 (and more)

Hover over a thumbnail to see the author attribution, click to follow to the original image on that member's flickr stream.








The community on flickr has seen a lot of activity and a lot of new members the past few weeks. Quite a few of which are included in this posting of a selection from the photo pool.

There has also been a fair bit of renewed interest in exploring designable/programmable illumination sources as subjects for camera tossing with examples coming from members such as mtnrockdhh, j neuberger, and jon62690, each using different tools. I think I was partly to blame for the recent interest due to finally trying the technique myself. My results included below. But my credit for inspiration clearly falls on some early experimentalists in the community such as shane english, EastOfNorth, mappamundi, and El Ray (to name only a few). My own short-lived foray into this technique resulted in these two photographs:



The set-up for these looked like this:



Geometric animations were build using proce55ing. I say short-lived because my little Kodak fell off a chair shortly after and died a very anticlimactic death. *sniff* Quite unfortunate because I don't think I even broached the boundary of "testing/trial" with the technique. Hopefully I'll be back on my feet with a new digital P&S for this soon. Several other regular members experienced equipment loss about the same time too and the Camera Death Stories thread has seen more activity than I like.

Also note, the previously mentioned call for submissions for the group icon is still ongoing, there has been quite a bit of great responses so far in the forums. Here's a few that have been shared:




One of these days soon I'll revise the Camera Toss Mini-HOWTO to include developments in the last couple years. But for now, it's a great resource for those of you confused as to how all this works. The simplicity is part of the charm, give it a shot!