New guest blogger: Caroline Picard
Happy New Year! Heading the 2011 guest blog is Caroline Picard, Editor of The Green Lantern Press. Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including Artiface, Pinch, Ampersand Review, and MAKE Magazine. She continues to exhibit visual work around the country and lives in Chicago. Caroline has been preparing copious interviews with Chicago-based artists and shakers and we’re very much looking forward to her roster of exciting posts. Welcome, Caroline!
Richard McCoy’s Top 10 iPhone Images
In 2010 I took more than 3,300 pictures and videos with my iPhone.
No matter where I am, I have the thing with me; it’s terribly useful, occasionally entertaining, and mildly addictive (a friend recently called smart phones the new cigarettes). While I use mine to keep up with e-mail & messages, stay organized, connect with social media, play games, and to find a good vegetarian restaurant when traveling, the function I use the most has to be the camera. I have the 3Gs model, which has a decent, 3 mega-pixel camera (sadly, Santa forgot to bring me an iPhone 4). I love the meta data that it includes in each image, especially the geographic information.
Using a smart phone like this makes me think that it’s just a matter of time until we have a device that conservators can use in their work that is not only highly portable, but takes archive-quality images and allows for the easy input of big chunks of text, or better yet voice-transcribed text, and does it with precise geo location! I can dream, right?
In the meantime here are my top 10 art-related images taken from my iPhone in 2010, listed in chronological order. You can see them mapped on my Flickr account here.
Upper Manhattan from the Cab of an Semi Truck
#1 January 5th, New York City. I’m riding down 5th avenue around lunchtime after driving overnight from the IMA to return an artwork from the exhibition Sacred Spain. Sure, courier trips sound great but riding shotty for that long really isn’t that much fun; and, despite my efforts, I’m yet to convince a truck driver to let me drive for a while.
