Lincoln Schatz: Random Access Portraits

[Synthetik]

There's an interesting article on Lincoln Schatz's random access portraits on apple's profiles. His whole process for making portraits is interesting, and i think you can look at it and take some inspiration for things you could do with a single video camera or digital camera and studio artist (as opposed to having to have a translucent cube environment with 30 cameras and 30 mac minis. For example, you could build an image database from a half hour video of your subject (the individual frames) and then make portraits using art mapping in msg evolver or movie brushes in studio artist. Or you could build a PASeq in Studio Artist that would combine random pieces of individual frames into a composite canvas. I think the real message to take home from Schatz's work is that you can create interesting imagery by setting up a random process to create imagery and then combing through the results for the individual images that work.