Rick Doble
Having just turned 70, I now realize that the subject of time has always been at the center of my work. From reading T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets in the 1960s, to spending two years reworking the hundred-year-old motion photographs of Eadweard Muybridge into digital form with software that I wrote (10 years before digital photography existed), to my later work with experimental digital photographs shot over an extended period of time, to today as I write my blog DeconstructingTime, (http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com) the simple question "what is time?" has always been there. So the work I have posted here on academia.edu is about the subject of time, but from many different points of view.
I am an independent researcher with a Master of Arts in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974. I am also a photographer who has written a book about my experiments with digital photography, a book entitled Experimental Digital Photography (Sterling Publishing, New York/London, 2010). In addition I have written two other books about the craft digital photography.
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I am an independent researcher with a Master of Arts in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974. I am also a photographer who has written a book about my experiments with digital photography, a book entitled Experimental Digital Photography (Sterling Publishing, New York/London, 2010). In addition I have written two other books about the craft digital photography.
Address: PO Box 117
Smyrna, NC 28579
USA
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These articles were first published in Doble's blog DeconstructingTime which has recorded over 50,000 page views and has been seen by readers in more than half the countries of the world. Individual blog articles were also published separately for the academic community as PDF documents at Academia.edu and Figshare.com and have recorded over 2000 views and downloads. Doble's work has consistently been in the top 2-5% of documents accessed at Academia.edu. A number of articles have been reprinted on the Internet by various websites.,
This eBook is published under the Creative Commons Copyright, so that scholars, students and researchers and others can use the information in this book without permission as long as they credit Rick Doble and the name of the eBook.
Deconstructing Time is an eBook about the human experience of time. This 3rd Edition is almost twice the size of the 2nd Edition and is organized into sections. With over 500 pages, 60+ articles and 400+ photographs and diagrams, this book covers the human experience of time starting with human biology through the Paleolithic time period to our modern concept of time and includes personal and cultural aspects of time. This fully illustrated work is the result of almost five years of independent research from 2012 - 2017.
These articles were first published in Doble's blog DeconstructingTime which has recorded over 50,000 page views and has been seen by readers in more than half the countries of the world. Individual blog articles were also published separately for the academic community as PDF documents at Academia.edu and Figshare.com and have recorded over 2000 views and downloads. Doble's work has consistently been in the top 2-5% of documents accessed at Academia.edu. A number of articles have been reprinted on the Internet by various websites.
This eBook is published under the Creative Commons license, so that scholars, students and researchers and others can use the information in this book without permission as long as they credit Rick Doble and the name of the eBook.
This PDF document includes the poster from that exhibit, Doble's artist statement, and Doble's experimental photographs next to pictures of Italian Futurist art that were all shown in a repeating cycle on a digital picture frame at the exhibit.
Mauro Francaviglia, a leading Italian expert in art and science, wrote in an article in the Journal of Applied Mathematics (Aplimat, Volume VI, 2011) that Rick Doble was the first person to make the claim that the expressive qualities of digital photography could now achieve many of the artistic aims of the Italian Futurists.
From the “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting”: “All things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears”.
This PowerPoint show contains an audio interview with Rick Doble and a display of his associated artwork. On June 13, 2009 on All Things Considered, NPR (National Public Radio, USA) aired an interview entitled "Is Digital TV A Problem For Artist Inspired By Static?" This interview was about Doble's photographs of static on an analogue TV screen and the artwork that he made from them. The artwork includes static from the echo of the Big Bang, the explosion that created the Universe, static produced by the CMBR (cosmic microwave background radiation) from the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago. The website explained, "Artist Rick Doble works with television static to produce abstract works of art. Guy Raz asks Doble how his work is going to change now that the conversion to digital television is complete — and TV static is almost a thing of the past." NOTE: YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THE POWERPOINT SHOW to hear the interview or click on the following link here to hear the interview at the NPR website. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105371296
What he meant was that an artist can draw on a variety of styles and stir these into the pot together. A contemporary painter can use pop or comic book figures, photographs from a family past and paintings from Leonardo Da Vinci all in one work. Paul McCartney can become a classical composer and Billy Joel can play Schumann. Multimedia artists can mix just about anything for creative effect.
I wrote this essay in 2002. It was published in a newsstand magazine, LIA: Life Imitating Art.
These articles were first published in Doble's blog DeconstructingTime which has recorded over 50,000 page views and has been seen by readers in more than half the countries of the world. Individual blog articles were also published separately for the academic community as PDF documents at Academia.edu and Figshare.com and have recorded over 2000 views and downloads. Doble's work has consistently been in the top 2-5% of documents accessed at Academia.edu. A number of articles have been reprinted on the Internet by various websites.,
This eBook is published under the Creative Commons Copyright, so that scholars, students and researchers and others can use the information in this book without permission as long as they credit Rick Doble and the name of the eBook.
Deconstructing Time is an eBook about the human experience of time. This 3rd Edition is almost twice the size of the 2nd Edition and is organized into sections. With over 500 pages, 60+ articles and 400+ photographs and diagrams, this book covers the human experience of time starting with human biology through the Paleolithic time period to our modern concept of time and includes personal and cultural aspects of time. This fully illustrated work is the result of almost five years of independent research from 2012 - 2017.
These articles were first published in Doble's blog DeconstructingTime which has recorded over 50,000 page views and has been seen by readers in more than half the countries of the world. Individual blog articles were also published separately for the academic community as PDF documents at Academia.edu and Figshare.com and have recorded over 2000 views and downloads. Doble's work has consistently been in the top 2-5% of documents accessed at Academia.edu. A number of articles have been reprinted on the Internet by various websites.
This eBook is published under the Creative Commons license, so that scholars, students and researchers and others can use the information in this book without permission as long as they credit Rick Doble and the name of the eBook.
This PDF document includes the poster from that exhibit, Doble's artist statement, and Doble's experimental photographs next to pictures of Italian Futurist art that were all shown in a repeating cycle on a digital picture frame at the exhibit.
Mauro Francaviglia, a leading Italian expert in art and science, wrote in an article in the Journal of Applied Mathematics (Aplimat, Volume VI, 2011) that Rick Doble was the first person to make the claim that the expressive qualities of digital photography could now achieve many of the artistic aims of the Italian Futurists.
From the “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting”: “All things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears”.
This PowerPoint show contains an audio interview with Rick Doble and a display of his associated artwork. On June 13, 2009 on All Things Considered, NPR (National Public Radio, USA) aired an interview entitled "Is Digital TV A Problem For Artist Inspired By Static?" This interview was about Doble's photographs of static on an analogue TV screen and the artwork that he made from them. The artwork includes static from the echo of the Big Bang, the explosion that created the Universe, static produced by the CMBR (cosmic microwave background radiation) from the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago. The website explained, "Artist Rick Doble works with television static to produce abstract works of art. Guy Raz asks Doble how his work is going to change now that the conversion to digital television is complete — and TV static is almost a thing of the past." NOTE: YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THE POWERPOINT SHOW to hear the interview or click on the following link here to hear the interview at the NPR website. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105371296
What he meant was that an artist can draw on a variety of styles and stir these into the pot together. A contemporary painter can use pop or comic book figures, photographs from a family past and paintings from Leonardo Da Vinci all in one work. Paul McCartney can become a classical composer and Billy Joel can play Schumann. Multimedia artists can mix just about anything for creative effect.
I wrote this essay in 2002. It was published in a newsstand magazine, LIA: Life Imitating Art.
Deciding to call himself an Internet Artist in 1998, Doble pushed the boundaries of many existing art forms such as self-portraiture and invented some new art forms -- all the while creating artwork specifically for the Internet. This paper also covers a number of essays about the future of digital and Internet art, starting almost 20 years ago -- which were republished across the world and are still on the web today.
Selfies are popular today, yet they are part of a centuries-old tradition in art -- the self-portrait. Photographer Rick Doble was one of the first artists to explore the new possibility of selfies and self-portraiture with a digital camera, including GIF animations. In this eBook he shows how his work developed and offers tips for creating unusual selfies. This interactive PowerPoint presentation offers a wide range of selfie photographs to inspire artists who want to go further than the standard smiling selfie. Also included are galleries of contemporary selfies plus self-portraits in history by men and women along with self-portraits by famous artists such as Durer, Rembrandt and van Gogh.
This eBook contains 35 animations made in the early days of digital photography and the Internet. These may be the first cinemagraphs (still photos with moving elements) made more than 10 years before the term cinemagraph was coined. Also some of these may be the first animated selfies. This eBook also contains links, reviews, and articles establishing the time period when these animations were created.
From Plato to Einstein to Ernest Rutherford, who discovered the basic structure of the atom, to abstract expressionist painters such as Rothko, this essay details the similarity between science and art when it comes to experimenting. After discussing basic problems and pit falls, it details a specific method for experimenting in the arts with examples.
First printed in 2011 at HASTAC (www.hastac.org)
(Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory)
In each language, in virtually every sentence, a kind of time stamp or time code is implied, such as verb tenses which vary from culture to culture and language to language.
William Blake wrote, "What is now proved was once only imagined." This paper examines works of the imagination in the past that have led to ideas and technology of today. It also explores what will be needed to imagine and then create the technology of the future which will deal with the effects of human civilization on climate change and the environment.
In 2003 I sent the following proposal to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. The Exploratorium is "the museum of science, art and human perception." I submitted an "Opportunities for Artists at the Exploratorium - Artist Application.” The proposal was rejected.
In 2011 I submitted this proposal to the archive for UNREALIZED PROJECTS (AUP Projects) at e-flux.com. It is available in DOC format along with the two pictures that I submitted originally to the Exploratorium at the following address: http://e-flux.com/aup/project/rick-doble-the-cosmic-microwave-background-radiation-cmb-from-the-big-bang/
This UNREALIZED PROPOSAL is indexed by e-flux.com as follows:
W406523.05.2011THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION (CMB) FROM THE BIG BANG - Rick Doble
You can download the doc file I submitted to e-flux.com at:
http://e-flux.com/aup/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/doc_590.doc
The story of how humans came to live on the Earth, as told by modern theories, is beautiful, profound, compelling, and comprehensive. Whether we will still believe all or most of these ideas in a thousand years is open to question. However, the picture painted by science today is vast and mythic. I believe we owe it to ourselves as a culture to tell this story -- as we know it today -- in simple terms to our children who will live with these ideas all of their lives.
Using 250 years of paintings, etchings and photographs of varying performances of Shakespeare's Macbeth arranged in chronological order, this paper shows how this play has been seen differently for hundreds of years and continues to be popular to this day.
The stories cover high school, learning, college, divorce, travel, hitchhiking, writing, photography, painting, music, theater, film, book authoring and marriage.
Quotes from Robert Frost, Albert Einstein, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, Vincent van Gogh, Robert Graves, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Wilfred Owen, Thoreau, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Claude Monet.
Doble, author of 6 books by major publishers, e.g. Random House, commented, "I believe this is one of the first times an artist has told a complete story from childhood to old age about his artistic and emotional development."
Contemporary monologues for both men and women make up the second part of this eBook. Author Rick Doble received about a hundred emails from teens and professional actors concerning his monologues, including an actor who performed one at the Actors Studio in NYC.
One reviewer wrote: "Dramatic monologues that have contemporary spunk." Two of these monologues were included in the anthology "Millennium Monologs: 95 Contemporary Characterizations for Young Actors," Meriwether Publishing, Colorado Springs, 2002. Meriwether Publishing claims it is "America's foremost publisher of theatre arts books."
While most of my work here at academia.edu is about photography, art and the science & history of time, I also have an interest in literature. I have a B.A. in English, Honors in Creative Writing, from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC and a M.A. in Communications also from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC. My thesis was a creative writing movie script.
Written in 1989 this eBook contains a series of wide ranging essay/interviews with a fictional character who is a modern day Renaissance man, named Kirk Elbod. 25 years ago he made a number of accurate assessments about the future as many of his predictions have now come true. Kirk Elbod is a fictitious rebel who thinks 'outside the box'. His knowledge is not specialized but rather covers and connects a wide variety of disciplines including art, music, history, time, the environment, science, imagery, anthropology, technology, and the future.
About the Neolithic Era
THE NEOLITHIC MINDSET
A New Concept Of Time
A New Relation To The Natural Environment
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MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE NEOLITHIC ERA
Incorrect Assumptions And Modern Biases Have Prevented A Full Understanding Of The Neolithic Era
by Rick Doble
When Did It Start?
Rethinking and Redefining: Civilization, Neolithic, and Prehistoric
I believe that we became the dominant species on the planet because we learned to manage time and to work with time. We are the only animal that does this in a pervasive way. Our understanding allowed us to take control of our environment. Today our shared cultural sense of time is critical when it comes to creating, planning, building, and being civilized.
New radiocarbon dating has determined that prehistoric artifacts, based on a basket weaving technology, found in the 'Bat Cave' in Spain (Cueva de los Murciélagos, Albuñol, Granada) are 2,000 years older than previously believed. The oldest are about 8,500 BP and related to early nomadic Holocene hunter-gatherers in Europe. These artifacts are direct evidence of the skills and technology of nomadic hunter-gatherers, a technology that was not believed to be possible by these cultures.
I believe many misconceptions and false assumptions have prevented research in prehistory. This article uses an example from my academic past about the ideas of Marshall McLuhan who we were not allowed to study when I was getting a Master's degree in Media.
This how-to article explains how a pinhole camera or camera obscura arrangement could have been possible in the Neolithic era which could have been used to measure the sun's position at the time of the winter solstice in real-time and by direct observation. This article describes how students or others could inexpensively make a large room-sized camera and configure it so that it magnifies or enhances the image of the sun. With a basic prehistoric optical device, the very difficult measurement of the position of the sun during the winter so1tice might have been determined. This determination was so difficult the Romans could not do it with direct observation 3000 years later and often made mistakes even when using other methods.