Re: [pinhole-discussion] Cutting oatmeal box
At 05:58 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: I'll be teaching a pinhole class, constructing cameras from Quaker oatmeal canisters. I'd like to avoid using knives to cut the opening for the pinhole. How about a punch? If you were to insert a piece of soft wood (like a 2x4 clamped to the edge of a table) into the oatmeal box for a mandrel, you could smack a short piece of brass tubing (or anything else you could find lying around) with a hammer and punch out a pretty good circular hole--especially if you filed the edges of the tube to make it slightly sharp (but not skin-cutting sharp). Another possibility would be to use a circle template, a mandrel like above, and a ball-point pen. Use the template to draw a circle on the cannister in the desired spot, and then keep going around and around using the template as a guide, bearing down hard with the pen...soon enough you'll come through the other side. A little time consuming, but pretty safe--I'm not sure you couldn't do as much damage with a Dremel as with a knife! Cheers, Chad
Re: [pinhole-discussion] One way to scoopup our images for others site...
At 09:31 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: Scarry! If this sort of unauthorized image copying impacts your livelihood and/or principals strongly enough, there are actions you can take: ArtistScope ( http://www.artistscope.com/ ) offers a range of products and services (including image and site hosting) that prevent almost every type image copying. The best part is that this protection is largely transparent to your visitors. e-Vue ( http://www.e-vue.com/products/imagestudio.cfm ) produces tools to convert images to the better compressed and more secure MP4 (.vtc) format (the pro version will even translate a whole site). This comes at the cost of visitors having to download a plug-in. These solutions both cost time and money. There are many scripts that can disable casual filching--they're usually free (except for time) but they won't stop the automatic image-harvesting. A good explanation and listing of a pair of scripts that prevent image saving from the browser and direct linking can be found here: http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Graphics/Theft/scripts.html Finally, there is Digimarc's watermarking and MarcSpider ( http://www.digimarc.com/imaging/prspider.htm ). This won't protect your images from being yanked, but at least you can track where and how your images are being used on the Web. This costs money (like a subscription) as well. Disclaimer: I don't have any sort of relationship with any of these companies/sites--just passing along information. Best Regards, Chad pa...@separatrix.com
Re: [pinhole-discussion] poem2002 + Edward Levinson
At 01:27 PM 3/11/2002 -0600, you wrote: If anyone has any information on this site, I'd love to know. Thanks. Laura- The site is in Korean (which I can't read either) but here is the contact information from a whois request in case you want to follow up beyond webmas...@poem2002.com: Administrative Contact: Kim, Tae-han aram...@dreamwiz.com Myeongkok Miraevil 202 1801,Whawonep,Dalsung Taegu, N/A 711-830 KR 82-53-641-3848 Technical Contact: Oh, Sunghoon spon...@new21.net 955-181 Yongdang2-dong Mokpo, Chonnam 530-362 KR 82-2-2614-7047 Best Regards, Chad
