vincent bidaux  freelance web and application design

So we went from Ljubljana SLO, to Szeged HU with Cedric Truck. We thought we could do it the straight way, but we had to review our plans, and we followed the red path…

Ont the road to Szeged

We finally arrived and registerd the firsts in the morning : )

The place was really cool, a part of the very modern Szeged University

Cedric’s conference for Open Web Solution on their boucheron.com drupal/flash website

Attendies were very well treated, we met a bunch of very nice people.

We also spotted a Daniel Invasion. Hey, Daniels, now you known we know…

Drunk Late at night, we played magnet Throwies with new mates from Holland, Poland and Belgium. MadCap.com provided the magnets, big up guys!

Szeged is lovely.

And the conference was geat.

On my way to Szeged, Hungaria, I stopped by Ljubljana, at Cedric and Amandine’s. They just moved there, from Paris, indefinitely. As for now, they have great time. The country seems nice and Ljubljana is lovely, a curious mix of humble farmers market and hipster riversides.

My plane from Paris was late, very late. I met this guy, the one thumb-up in the picture, Sasha, from the popular slovenian band Laibach. What’s funny is the day before, when I told my colleague Robin that I was leaving to Ljubljana, he said to me “You’re gonne see Laibach?”

I don’t own a decent camera yet. I played with the crappy iPhone and panoramics.

Ljubljana symbol is the dragon.. How cool!

More than two month now and I still haven’t replace my stolen photo gear. I couldn’t imagine how this would miss me. I couldn’t imagine how fucked up could my insurance company be. Let’s say this straight, this is not going to be my insurance company any longer. At this time, I still don’t know if I am going to get any cent. Follow my advice if you’re French, don’t go AGF, never, and tell your friends. They’re even suspecting us upon.. we don’t know what.
SO on saturday afternoon I took my wife’s litle compact Sony camera and went for a walk in my house neighborood. But I could dealt with the lack of settings, couldn’t get a blue sky without a critical underexposed foreground, so I got myself a drink at a terrasse and reviewed the pictures on the camera. I have to say, the cam can be lame, but the screen is amazing. You can really enjoy pictures right on the screen. And going back and forth I started playing with pictures shot at almost same time and angle, and it was pretty close to my stereographic tests above.
I then decided to really test it, found a sight with great fore-middle-background, and voilà, first trys with stereographic pictures.
When I see some of these on flickr or ffffound.com, I can’t get my eyes out of it. It’s going to be my new thing for a while and I can wait to get my new reflex body to get even better results.
Will you get in the video above how I managed to mix two pictures to get three defferent views and do a ping-pong loop with it? This took me quite a while but now I have the process, I transformed it into a Photoshop script, to be able to process a lot more.
Next project: video clip made of it.

According to you, does this apply to the “Long photo” definition? Considering the amount of time I can pass watching them, I thing at least “long” should apply.

Edit: sorry for the lame quality of the video. I can’t get flickr to accept my movs anymore. Process goes up to 99% and stay stuck. Will solve that later.

Recovering datas from a dying hard drive is always stressfull, as you’re probably losing some valuable pieces of document in the process. however, you sometime have very very good surprises on how the hard drive crash affected the jpeg images it was hosting. When all the other corrupted files are simply good for the trash bin, jpeg images can still be opened even if some data has been lost during the recovery. And the result of what is called here “data bending” (in reference to “circuit bending”, an audio and visual technique consisting in torturing electronic circuits and boards by properly bending them or creating short circuits to produce undesigned effects) is sometime just amazing. Here are some jpeg recovered from my wife’s dying iBook.

Data bending can be perfomr volontarily on a file. You have to open it in an Hex editor and start to delete, copy paste and replace datas, randomly, to see what it does. But it is quite hard to get good results. So my advice is to keep around one very very weak almost dying hard drive to host some pictures you will recover afterwards. Yes, it’s tricky, but I’m sure the result worth it!

The complete set on my Flickr
A data bending poll on Flickr
About circuit bending, Wikipedia

Grand Magik Tekno Circus, by Parisian sound-systems Heretik and Trouble-fête, featuring Juliette Dragon and her girls for “Le Cabaret des Filles de Joie”, a representation mixing old fashion french music as well as modern techno with girls wearing costumes and acting around mini-scenes in various sets. A kind of stripping show, very fun, taking its place within another spectacle. Most of the night, there were DJ’s and techno livesets. After having performed during the entrance of the audience, the “Cabaret” came back three times for a 30 to 40mn sexy and colorfull show. Really pushed the enveloppe of the old-fashion-no-surprise techno party.

• The French Cancan set
• The Charleston set
• The Studio portraits
• The setup set
• The rehersal set

• Myspace profile for Le Cabaret Des Filles de Joie
• Myspace profile for Juliette Dragon
• Heretik System

Here is what you can do with this generator! Making hair from a picture of yours. I was optimistic enough to try it on a blurry picture, and I just love the result. It’s also fun to watch in action as every single fiber grow seperately. I let it processed all night long, and it’s endless. But you can achieve the same result in only 20 minutes or so.

• The hairy generator
• The Generator Blog, a new fun generator almost every day.

Marvinmarvin is a rock’n’roll bandband, and we love it! Especially on stage. They also singsing love songsong, here is oneone.

I have been freaking out ever since I heard about the upcoming video feature on Flickr. Finally it’s not so bad. First test without sound.

I played with this serie around with Lightroom first, for lightning adjustment and grain smoothing, then DXO-Optics for color matching and a cross process with the Filmpack, then back into Lightroom for color tone adjustment, and almost by mistake a grain-enhance, who produced this monochromatic noise in the background. Found it nice and kept it. I was vaguely trying to reproduce the green-yellow Emerica 90’s ads color tone.


Also found out during the process that DXO won’t open Lightroom DNG files! Shame shame shame DXO! Of course you’re supposed to developp first with DXO for hardware correction, then to save in DNG and continue the process in Lightroom, but I was expecting to be back in DXOto use the Filmpack at the very end. Will have to set up the standalone version. Now I have to deal with 70Mo 16bit TIFF files and the “primary scratch disk full” good ol’ song…


Shooting location at the border of Boulevard periphérique, Paris, XIXth, spotted during last Shaïwear private sales (warehouse facing the location). I did good, didn’t do HDR