Last set of photos taken May 8.






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Last set of photos taken May 8.
More photos taken May 8.
I took some photos the evening of May 8, taking advantage of the beautiful sunset light.
An experimental science fiction film that adapts Olaf Stapledon’s 1930 book (which itself reads as a precursor to his 1937 book, Star Maker). The film is mesmerizing, soundtrack is amazing. Film was included with the soundtrack, can’t remember for which I was more excited.
Film trailer
Fishing for sounds! Pietro Sammarco using a hydrophone for sound recording and photo studies, April 3rd, 2022.
(I was so excited to get the film developed that I accidentally opened up the camera without rewinding)
Audio field recording with Pietro Sammarco, April 2nd, 2022.
Did a location scout along the Millstone River and around Bowen Park with Pietro Sammarco (https://pipposound.com) last weekend to record audio for Millstone project. Here are some photo studies from walking around with him while he was recording.
Entire album
dir. Michelangelo Frammartino
Entire film
Shot the first test roll yesterday for Millstone project, and two more rolls today. These photos are from earlier this month.
Photo studies around Bowen Park. My plan is to start shooting tests on 16mm colour film in January.
I had taken a picture of a tree growing out and over the river back in November. I didn’t know that would be a “before” shot. Now there’s an “after” (post-atmospheric river) shot of it snapped off.
I wonder if that’s the same heron that I photographed in November?
I took some photos around the Millstone River and Bowen Park in Nanaimo after my project proposal to shoot make a film that documents one year of the Millstone was shortlisted for the Temporary Public Art Program. I found out that the project was picked to go ahead on November 16. The next day we had our second baby.
Photo studies for film Giant’s Head, 2067.
The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) is located in a radio-quiet zone in the South Okanagan situated between Penticton and Oliver. The DRAO is a National Research Council site home to several massive telescopes including Canada’s largest radio telescope Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), which consists of four 100m long 20m wide cylindrical reflector antennae. In addition to CHIME, the Synthesis Telescope is an array of seven 9m wide antennae on tracks that studies the interstellar medium of the milky way and nearby galaxies. The smaller, solid-surface dish Solar Radio Flux Monitor tracks the sun’s movement across the sky and produces space weather data that is used for a variety of purposes, for example, with commercial airlines, flights will be grounded if a solar storm is detected (also pictured, the data collection shed). The centre-piece of DRAO is the monumental John A. Galt telescope, a 26m wide dish that has been used in the Very Long Baseline interferometry (VLBI), a process that involves multiple radio telescopes collecting a signal from an astronomical source by acting as a single telescope the size of the distance between the smaller ones (VLBI was used to create the first image of black hole in April). Also pictured, a couple shots from the completely sound-proof room housed in the main lab building.
A mock-up of the installation I’m planning for the project I’m shooting on Mount Boucherie. Rendered by Genta Ishimura.