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Showing posts with label Diane Smithers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diane Smithers. Show all posts

Friday, March 28, 2025

MIST1116/DIANE_SMITHERS-AIRPLANE


 Mistigram: Photographer @DianeSmithers never really understood what we were up to with artpacks (not the only one, I'm sure), framing our project as a species of 'visual art database' (well, she wasn't wrong!), but when I put out a call for submissions to my extensive community of colleagues from decades organizing real-world art events, she didn't let that bafflement stop her from throwing her hat in the ring and sharing some of her art photos with our online audiences. Her involvement with us doesn't rate even a footnote in her CV of incredible arts photography, but as everyone in Vancouver's live music and dance performance communities is taking a moment to process her sudden and unexpected departure, we also must acknowledge our brief time spent working with her. This photograph was included in the MIST1116 artpack collection released nine years ago.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 3, 2016 at 6:32pm UTC

Covering all the bases, from computer art forms to fine arts to … well, one of the first of the modern art forms, photography! This MIST1016 landscape photo of Vancouver’s recent blood moon was taken by Diane Smithers (the watermark doesn’t lie!) and while photography is consigned to always play an unglamorous second fiddle role when in the same orchestra as Photoshop and After Effects, it can still be humbling when you realise that what you’re looking at on your computer screen isn’t purely an assemblage of electrons, but an actual representation of the real world! If she missed this shot after humping her camera gear up the staircase she couldn’t just reset the simulation!

(And for 604 appeal there, in the foreground, are the condos of Yaletown and Vancouver’s West End.)


Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 3, 2016 at 6:32pm UTC