All About Liberal Art

William Turner Gallery
Greg Miller
HollyWood, mixed media and oil on canvas, 6′x16′
The Calm, mixed media on canvas, 45″x70″
I believe that may be Greg in the leather jacket at the right.
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James Gray Gallery Stairway
(Perhaps if you squint a little you might get a rather weird stereo effect)
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James Gray Gallery Interior
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John Asaro Exhibition
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John Asaro Rotating Painting (not a collage, obviously)
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The following collages were shot the final day of the High Desert Test Sites events. It was so cold and windy that the batteries in my camera kept freezing and I had to keep changing them, which isn’t what you expect from that part of the desert.

Joshua Tree Keys View Sunset 1
November 9, 2008
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Joshua Tree Keys View Sunset 2
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Sunburst and 29 Palms Highway, Joshua Tree (in process – incomplete)
I expect to composite these videos with still images to show more coverage of the intersection, but I didn’t really get the coverage I wanted in either medium..
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OK, this has taken forever to get to because these are the most complex assortment of clips I’ve shot. Furthermore, after I shot them, I was told people didn’t want them posted because it was a personal and private ceremony. Well, with some regrets, I can’t help myself. I also haven’t figured out the best presentation for the “sensitive” material, so it’s just a composite grid of the ceremony, and you can’t really hear any thing except the chant we all did. It’s enormous too; an unwieldy 58MB. Keep in mind that at actual size, the widest ones here are nearly 3-1/2 feet wide. That’s as big as Flash can handle; 2880 pixels square.

Fortunately, some of the others are quite breathtaking and not nearly as huge.

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Indian Spring Equinox Ceremony

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Malibu Canyon Sunset

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On Top of the World Over Malibu Canyon

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Malibu Coast at Dusk

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Malibu Coast View

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Malibu Shores

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Taking photos of the Malibu Coast

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Santa Monica Night Coast

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Wright Ranch HouseI find this one to be rather interesting; it has more cubist character than most of the other works. It’s a house they’re building that’s been under construction forever.

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Well, this proves that without much activity happening when you shoot video, you might as well be shooting stills. As I assembled the video clips, I began to realize that the lens and tripod were distorting the images so they didn’t fit together. I could actually skew the video itself, which would probably take forever to process, but it was just as interesting to layer and overlap them.

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Mt. Pinos is an amazing place. The highest mountain in the range at the southern edge of California’s Central Valley, just outside of Frazier Park, you can’t help be be deeply moved by the views, the peacefulness of the place (in good weather, at least) — or the high altitude!

Some new video collages here. These were shot at the beautiful Japanese Garden next to the (ugh!) DWP water reclamation plant in Balboa Park in Van Nuys.

The first is more of an experimental mandala-esque view of the brook.

Running Brook 1
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The second is just a longer view of the brook in a simpler form.

Running Brook 2
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I guess I need to either;
1) get a cable release for the camera, if I can control the video button with it
or
2) spend the time to trim the small shakes that happen when I start and stop the camera
They seem to quake and vibrate, like the earth in California, or perhaps to breathe…

The park is near two airports too, so you hear the planes drown out the running water in the first one.