 the loop of 3d-scanning to 3d-printing to 3d-scanning to 3d-printing which fascinates..
We can look back to the 80s, again, for an early digital-analogue: what one might term ‘Video-Vernacular’.
Talking Heads’ cover art for their album “Remain In Light” remains a favourite. It’s video grain / raw quantel as aesthetic has a heck of a punch still.
I found this fascinating from it’s wikipedia entry:
“The cover art was conceived by Weymouth and Frantz with the help of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Walter Bender and his MIT Media Lab team.
Weymouth attended MIT regularly during the summer of 1980 and worked with Bender’s assistant, Scott Fisher, on the computer renditions of the ideas. The process was tortuous because computer power was limited in the early 1980s and the mainframe alone took up several rooms. Weymouth and Fisher shared a passion for masks and used the concept to experiment with the portraits. The faces were blotted out with blocks of red colour.
The final mass-produced version of Remain in Light boasted one of the first computer-designed record jackets in the history of music.”
Growing up in the 1980s, my life was saturated by Quantel.
Quantel were the company in the UK most associated with computer graphics and video effects. And even though their machines were absurdly expensive, even in the few years since Weymouth and Fisher harnessed a room full of computing to make an album cover, moore’s law meant that a quantel box was about the size of a fridge as I remember.
Their brand name comes from ‘Quantized Television’.
Awesome.
As a kid I wanted nothing more than to play with a Quantel machine.
Every so often there would be a ‘behind-the-scenes’ feature on how telly was made, and I wanted to be the person in the dark illuminated by screens changing what people saw. Quantizing television and changing it before it arrived in people homes. Photocopying the photocopy.
Alongside that, one started to see BBC Model B graphics overlaid on video and TV. This was a machine we had in school, and even some of my posher friends had at home! It was a video-vernacular emerging from the balance point between new/novel/cheap/breakable/technology/fashion.
Kinects and Makerbots are there now. Sensor-vernacular is in the hands of fashion and technology now.
In some of the other examples James cites, one might even see ‘Sensor-Deco’ arriving…
James certainly has an eye for it. I’m going to enjoy following his exploration of it. I hope he writes more about it, the deeper structure of it. He’ll probably do better than I am.
Maybe my response to it is in some ways as nostalgic as my response to NASA imagery.
Maybe it’s the hauntology of moments in the 80s when the domestication of video, computing and business machinery made things new, cheap and bright to me.
But for now, let me finish with this..
Dancing in front of the eye of a retired-surveillance machine, scanning and printing and mixing and changing. Fashion from fear. Quantizing and surprising. Imperfections and mutations amplifying through it.
Beyonce’s bright-green chromakey socks might be the first, positive step into the real aesthetic of the early 21st century, out of the shadows of how it begun.
Let’s hope so.Mike Leach has made his Air Raid offense work in out of the way places like Lubbock and Pullman, and that has endeared him to the masses. Leach has lifted Washington State from the dregs of the Pac 12 to become a continual bowl team, and he led the Cougars to their most successful run in quite some time between 2015 and 2018. Wazzou went 37-15 during this stretch and 26-10 in conference play, so Washington State fans can’t be too disappointed after a 6-6 season in 2019. Leach will have a chance to lead the Cougars to a winning season for the fifth straight season in Phoenix on Friday, December 27. Washington State will take on the Air Force Falcons in the Cheez-It Bowl, but the Cougars are a slight underdog on the college football betting line. This game is expected to be much more high scoring than last year’s abysmal clash between TCU and California, as those two teams combine to throw a record nine interceptions in a game that the Horned Frogs won in overtime 10-7.
Washington State is the one team in the country that still runs a pure Air Raid offense. While most Air Raid disciples have adjusted their scheme in various ways, Leach continues to just air it out and trust that his offense will outscore your team.
Anthony Gordon was the nation’s leading passer this season. He became the first Washington State quarterback to top 5,000 passing yards in a season, completing 71.9 percent of his passes for 5,228 yards with 45 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.
Gordon is also the single season passing leader in Pac 12 history, and he can add to his record against Air Force in the Cheez-It Bowl.
The Cougars have seven players with at least 40 receptions and 500 receiving yards. Brandon Arconado and Easop Winston Jr. were Washington State’s two leading receivers, and both players should surpass 1,000 receiving yards in the bowl game. Running back Max Borghi was a constant threat out of the backfield too, catching 81 passes for 566 yards and four touchdowns.
Borghi only runs to keep defenses honest, but he was very effective when he did carry the ball. He ran 121 times for 790 yards and 11 touchdowns on the season.
Air Force had a middle of the pack defense in 2019. The Falcons were effective against the run, holding opponents to 3.6 YPC, but they struggled against the pass. They are conceding 7.6 YPA on the year, so Gordon could have another 400-yard game to close out the campaign.
Troy Calhoun and Air Force have one of the most innovative offenses in the country. The Falcons run a modified triple option, and although they mostly run the ball, they throw far more than the other service academies.
Donald Hammond III has been very good in that area this season, completing 52.5 percent of his passes for 1,286 yards with 13 touchdowns and five interceptions. He is the reason that Air Force leads the nation in passing with 13.8 YPA, as the Falcons are not afraid to throw deep when they do decide to move the ball through the air.
The ground game has been excellent too. Air Force has run for over 3,500 yards with 37 touchdowns this season, averaging 5.1 YPC as a team. Kadin Remsberg, Timothy Jackson, and Taven Birdow all have at least 700 rushing yards, while Hammond is averaging 4.6 YPC as the pivot man.
Wazzou has one of the worst defenses in the country. The Cougars are allowing 6.8 yards per play, and the pass defense is allowing 8.9 YPA and more than 300 yards per game. Washington State is surrendering 5.0 YPC too, and we have seen the Cougs struggle against the option in past bowl games.
Washington State had no trouble with its first two opponents this year, but the Cougars from Houston proved to be a tough test. They outlasted Dana Holgorsen’s squad 31-24, yet that was a sign to come for both teams.
The Cougars lost a heartbreaker to UCLA the following week, blowing a 32-point lead in the second half against the Bruins to fall 67-63. They were shell-shocked next week, and Wazzou was blasted 38-13 by Utah, but that turned out to be the program’s worst loss of the season.
Gordon nearly led Washington State to an upset victory over Arizona State in Tempe, and the Cougars almost beat Oregon in Autzen Stadium too, but Wazzou couldn’t pull those games out and failed to win a road game this year.
That left Washington State with a record of 4-5, and the Cougars needed to win their last two home games given those road woes. They blasted Stanford 49-22 to move to 5-5 before winning a wild one over Oregon State as Gordon threw for over 600 yards.
Leach’s offense fell flat in the Apple Cup for the seventh straight year to end the season, casting doubts on the head coach’s ability to improvise or try something new. That’s certainly frustrating for fans of Washington State, but they know that they have an excellent coach regardless in Leach.<filename>manuscript/page-72/body.html<gh_stars>0
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