Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

Self Portrait. San Francisco.

Homeless woman, Stockton Street. San Francisco.

The Baby. Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco.

Graffiti, Union Square. San Francisco.

It’s long overdue. Time for a house clearing and some major reorganization of presence on the web.

The openorigins.com site will continue to function as is for the time being. I will continue to post in a somewhat regular fashion, but there will be significantly less new content being published. The new site, www.josephszymanski.com, will now host all of my personal work, while gradually the origins site will be phased out and re-vamped into something completely different. What that is I’m not quite sure, but I have a few ideas cooking.

The feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/MostlyPhotography. The origins feed forward here from now on. I encourage everyone who is subscribe to update to the new address. I’ll send out some more reminders on this over the next few weeks. If you wish to subscribe via email, visit the Subscribe page.

A good deal of the static content here is the same, with a few updates, additions and minor changes. The fine art prints section has been completely overhauled. Check out the print sets page for custom image sets.

Some notes on code. I have done very little debugging for Internet Explorer and make no promises that it will function perfectly, or even properly. If it doesn’t work, download a real browser instead of an over inflated piece of bloat-ware like IE.

As always, enjoy…

Mayhem through the medium of photography and the terrorizing of tourists. Brilliant…

“The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.”

Julius von Bismarck’s ‘Image Fulgurator’ projects an image into the photographs of random people on the street. The image projected is invisible to human eyes. This of course is almost never good or incredibly hysterical, depending on your point of view.

Rigging up a flash unit to project through an old SLR and hooking it up to an optical slave trigger, whenever someone takes a picture, the flash on their own camera trips the slave and fires the “Fulgurator”, projecting an image into the scene undetected.

Both Pop Photo and Wired did a writeup on this. Check out www.juliusvonbismarck.com for a more in depth explanation on this tool of terror.