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2010 in Pictures

Max Elman — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:06:35 +0000

2010 was a pretty awesome year for photography. I took more pictures than I ever have before (17,482 exposures) and completed my first project 365 (a photo every day). Here’s a few links and galleries:

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The Bonneville Salt Flats

Max Elman — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:41:58 +0000

Driving to San Francisco from Utah on I-80, you’ll pass through the Bonnevile Salt Flats shortly before crossing the Nevada state line. There’s a rest stop smack in the middle of them, and it’s definitely worth stopping for. Pull over, stretch your legs, grab your camera and take some pictures. At least that’s what we did.

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100 Photos in 100 Days

Max Elman — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:31:26 +0000

From July – November 2009, I “made” something every day. Usually a photo, sometimes a video, but something got uploaded to Flickr daily. Here’s the full slideshow. View images individually here.

Stay tuned for MSCED 2010.

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A 60 Year Long Pool Party

Max Elman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:08:27 +0000

My father recently found quite a few slides from 1948 and had them digitized for various reasons. One of those reasons probably wasn’t so that I could mess around with them with Photoshop, but I did anyway.

Above is my version of my grandfather’s dive into a wonderfully blue pool. A bit different than the original slide below. It’s amazing what 60 years can do to a photograph…

Feel free to click through to Flickr and comment there.

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A flock of easter peeps

Max Elman — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:31:08 +0000

It’s that time of year again.. The time when a few of my pictures find meaning, popularity, and I feel particularly good about my photography. I took this shot a year or so ago and it’s always made me smile. (And no, there weren’t quite that many peeps. Oh, the wonders of photoshop.)

Buy a print here.

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open studios

Max Elman — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:11:00 +0000

Yesterday was open studios here at UCSC, meaning that as as Art major, I’m just about done with this quarter. Rock. I’ve been working on two big projects – the photo series that I’ve already posted images from, and a computer-art piece that’s slightly hard to explain. I made a huge digital frame, hooked it up to flickr and skype, and made a slideshow of all images uploaded from cellphones. You then call in to this frame, control the images, and “vote” which one is your favorite. Sounds simple, but really took about a month and a half of coding. Maybe I’ll post what that all looks like just to scare some people.

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busy busy

Max Elman — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:16:01 +0000

The general lack of attention paid to this blog can pretty much be blamed on two art classes. As one of them results in something I can’t really put online, here’s some recent pictures from the other. planes! cars! ducks!

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content management systems! hooray!

Max Elman — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:19 +0000

So, in an effort to replace the zope/plone craziness of kzsc.org, I’ve been looking into CMS alternatives. I know – exciting, right? It’s been a whole lot of uploading files, changing permissions and using the wonderful new tabbed terminal in Leopard. I’ve set up a few on this site so far, with only one looking like a real option. If anyone’s had any experience with any of these – let me know!

wordpress (duh) – too blog based, but on the other hand, good for multiple blogs (μ – mu edition)
drupral – also blog based
expression engine – not very user friendly and a hell of a time to change skins
joomla – the best for not-blogs so far and very easily skinnable
plone – an actual up-to-date version that makes life better

So maybe joomla for kzsc.org – it’s a whole lot easier than plone, that’s for sure. But for this blog? WordPress all the way.

On another note – anyone have any strong opinions on the Academy of Art? Specifically the School of Computer Arts: New Media? Because that’s looking like a nice place to head next.

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it’s finally official

Max Elman — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:41:20 +0000

As of today, I’m a double art/film digital media major. Awesome. Quite the ordeal, I have to say. College 8 was a bit of a punk about it, and the film department was just plain silly at times. All and all, the art department rocked, and was strangely efficient. Weird.

Definitely glad I’ll never have to do that again though. Unless I decide to minor in Molecular chemistry or something. Who knows.

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the real world is for losers

Max Elman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:07:01 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

next up, my final for art 119.
enjoy.

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