A Method for Investigating Photographic Visualisation Practices

This paper will explore the possibilities afforded by the utilization of a head mounted GoPro video camera and subsequent screen capture software in the analysis and subsequent understanding of reflective processes in the creation of photographic imagery. The method is contextualized within an understanding of the work experience; affect and memory play in a photographer\u27s intentionality. It is also framed by Ansel Adam\u27s ideas on pre-visualization and Jerry Uelsmann\u27s work in post-visualization or \u27re-visualizing\u27. It seeks to understand the extent recall of the environment and experiences impact on the pre-reflective stage and the later editing process with pedagogical implications for teaching photography

Leaking Thought

Leaking Thought revolves around dyslexia and ways in which dyslexic artists represent reality in their art. The interior is exterior -Imagination is reality. Bellette uses different visual modes of thought to rotate, distort and interrogate an image in any way, and still understand it both in terms of its inherent meanings and as a new, purely personal entity

The Embodiment of Photographic Imagery Through the Lens of Time, Light and Memory

The photograph has its own unseen and implied past and future. The lens of memory accesses both the conscious and subconscious thoughts of its creator and audience. The photographer utilizes memory as an embodied experience in the construction of the photograph. Memory is filtered through the prevision experiences, assumptions beliefs, and cultural biases of its creator. This paper is a theoretical discussion about the way memory, experience and vision can connect the photographer to their photomechanical device, the camera, as an extension of the body. capturing time, light and memory shapes new states of beings and opens possibilities whereby the improbable and the impossible are envisioned as an embodiment of the photographers past, present and future imaginings. In field of visual art and design education, students must develop skills as inventive designers and photographers who can connect to their embodied past. For the students to achieve embodiment of the image, they need to have control of the technical and aesthetic elements of the photographic medium through the lens of time, light and memory

"Does god play dice with corrugations?": environmental effects on growth

Corrugation growth has perplexed many researchers for several decades with remaining challenges including its reliable prediction in the field. In the present paper, the effect of environmental variations on corrugation growth is investigated using field measurements and mechanics-based modelling. Statistically significant relationships between average daily rainfall, humidity and the growth of rail corrugation were investigated using meterological and railway site field monitoring of a metropolitan network test site with a recurring rail corrugation of about 95mm wavelength. Corrugation growth rate (G) was determined by systematically measuring the longitudinal rail profile with a Corrugation Analysis Trolley (CAT) on the 240m radius, narrow gauge, concrete-sleepered curve. Both roughness generated and weld initiated profile growths were investigated. The weather data was obtained from records held by the Bureau of Meteorology. The modelling is developed to provide insight and mechanics based analysis of the field corrugation growth under changes in environmental conditions and vehicle speed variability. Results show a strong correlation between variations in rainfall and corrugation growth that is consistent with changes in steady state wear. Changes in contact patch geometry and the damage mechanism as the corrugation amplitude grows are shown to have substantial but slower effects on growth. The results are used to explain observed changes in corrugation growth rate under variable speed control at the same site

Investigation into the effect of asymmetric train speed distribution on rail corrugation growth in cornering

The transportation phenomenon known as wear-type rail corrugation is a significant problem in railway engineering, manifesting as an oscillatory wear pattern on the rail head. These profile variations induce unwanted vibrations, excessive noise and other associated problems. Recent studies have shown that uniformity in train passing speed accelerates the corrugation growth process and conversely, widening the probabilistic speed distribution can be used as a mitigation tool. This paper investigates the effects of an asymmetric speed distribution on corrugation growth rate for a train in cornering. A frequency domain corrugation growth prediction model, based on experimental vertical rail receptance, is developed further to achieve this. Results provide insight into optimum asymmetric conditions required to minimize corrugation growth using speed distribution control

Tony Bellette (Art Forum)

Tony Bellette examines contemporary aboriginal art of the desert, from it's origins at Papunya to it's current international status