Sheats Goldstein House

Some views of the underside of the main roof in John Lautner’s Sheats Goldstein House in LA (taken a few years ago), with glass tumblers cast into the concrete. I will be on the road for the next few days so please be patient with me if I am not able to post every day.

More Instrument Six

December 18, 2012

Drawing instruments

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Instrument Six (Nat Chard)

Three views of Instrument Six in action, the two top views construct paradoxical shadows that float in the air, adjacent to the surface you would expect them to land on , in real time. The bottom image is of the instrument in photographic mode where the relative parallax between shadow projections can be adjusted for pairs of stereoscopic photographs, and it uses a single lightbulb instead of a pair of candles.

Instrument Five

December 18, 2012

Drawing instruments

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Instrument Five (Nat Chard)

Some Views of Instrument Five.

Miscellaneous Structures at Cape Canaveral

December 16, 2012

Cape Canaveral

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Cape Canaveral

Space Ship Jacks

December 15, 2012

Cape Canaveral

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Vehicle Assembly Building

A small corner of the Vehicle assembly Building with a collection of jacks, access ladders etc.

More Instrument Seven

December 14, 2012

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Instrument Seven (Nat Chard)

A few more recent shots of Instrument Seven, showing the back of the folding picture plane (above) and a couple more views.

Instrument Seven (Nat Chard)

Instrument Seven

December 14, 2012

Drawing instruments

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Instrument Seven (Nat Chard)

A picture of Instrument Seven with a drawing, after receiving paint thrown by another instrument. The paper follows the folds of the picture plane support (behind) which has tabs to match those on the paper and they are held together with bulldog clips. You can see how little of the main throw of paint lands on the drawing (unlike Instrument Five) and instead it catches just the splatter of paint that collides with the drawing pieces.

Instrument Five in Stereo

December 10, 2012

Drawing instruments

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Instrument Five (Nat Chard)

Another of the new pictures – this time Instrument Five in stereo.

Usual process for resolving the stereo image.

New Pictures of Instrument Six

December 10, 2012

Drawing instruments, Paradoxical Shadows

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Instrument 6 (Nat Chard)

I have been reshooting Instrument Six – the earlier photographs were too saturated. Here are some tests. The surface on the folding picture plane is a material that retains polarisation, made by Da-Lite Screens. The instrument is seen here in real time mode – to see a shadow floating off the surface on which it should, by rights, land.