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Peru, close-in

eperlan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:16:24 +0000

A week in Cuzco, Peru brings the following gallery. Usually, the visual distance between Traveler and Place is pretty large. But in true onecamera style, the job of the telephoto lens is replaced by just getting in there.

"San Francisco Holiday"

eperlan — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:51:34 +0000

Ornette Coleman’s recording with Don Cherry is dark inspiration for a series of vacation snaps in the “City by the Bay.”

Sunshine Statements

eperlan — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:16:50 +0000

A brief getaway down south to see how things might have turned out, given different circmustances. See the Gallery.

Humans win: The IBM jeopardy! Challenge

eperlan — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:33:07 +0000

In February of 2011, an IBM computing system named WATSON competed in an exhibition match against the top human players of the American quiz show JEOPARDY! Ken Jennings (who has that show’s longest winning streak at 74 consecutive games) and Brad Rutter (who had won the most prize money, $3.2 million) faced off against WATSON in three nights of televised play at the TJ Watson Research Center, the IBM labs at Yorktown Heights, NY.

I had the chance to photograph the WATSON research team for two years leading up to the IBM JEOPARDY! Challenge as part of my work at Ogilvy. The story of how WATSON was designed and readied for the competition is documented in a series of films directed by Paul Bozymowski, and a compelling book from Stephen Baker—the photographs here complement the behind-the-scenes story of a revolutionary advance in computing: the development of a system that can understand natural language, and provide confident answers to questions posed to it in real time.

See the photographs here.

West of Cocoa

eperlan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:42:55 +0000

Film workflow just sucks, but boy, I miss it. The smells, the timing, the light leaks. I use film a lot, and though I’m a devout scanner, I still get that darkroom crap-shoot result from my local processing lab. They’ve had to react to the seismic shift in photography to digital (don’t get me wrong; a very good thing) but it’s as if they suddenly forgot after 35 years, how to develop film. Hence the dust and scratches celebrated here, on a visit a few months ago with my father.

Lenny Rentz is Thankful for a New Year

eperlan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:24:17 +0000

Daylight Savings

eperlan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:05:38 +0000

An ode to the loneliest, loveliest time of the season. Who needs stong shadows, direct light?

Jim Hall, Guitarist

eperlan — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:30:51 +0000

Not too many people can reliably be called “legendary.” Jim might blanche at the honorific, but anyone in Jazz will easily acknowledge it. This is from a portrait session I did last month with drummer Joey Baron—their duo project will be released on ArtistShare. Jim is a real gentleman, and, though this frame is more serious, he’s funny as hell (it was hard to keep the onecamera rig steady).

The Lead Story

eperlan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:13:50 +0000

Sorry for another pun. I did these awhile back, and while I wait for more hams to develop, here’s a set on the onecamera flickr page I’ve always thought was fun. There’s more going on in my post-box cabinet that I realized. These little things have a life of their own.

Neighborhooding

eperlan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:51:42 +0000

I took this a long, long while ago on a ramble through places I thought I’d not walk through again (which is why you ramble, anyway). All those years later, I find myself working next door. Go figure.