#i read that some fax machines will take 6 minutes to send one piece of paper and i am sending 27 papers. so i'll let it do its thing

[yoshistory]

OKAY .... apparently i had to open their app and go into appliance management to activate my landline number even tho i didnt have an appliance to activate. BUT ...... it is now faxing. i probably will leave it overnight or something because it is taking a very long time (40 minutes insofar) and thinking very hard about it but i did get it to function STOP THE PRESSES .....

AS I WAS TYPING THIS ... NOW I GET TO GO TO BED HAPPY ... GOOOOOOODNIGHT!!!!!!!!!

[clarestrand]

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize Catalogue with text by Orit Gat.

The award will now be announced (virtually) on Sept 14th. For further info on how to join the webcast please consult The Photographers Gallery Website.

Image = Information

Orit Gat

1 A beginning

In Paris, an artist painting in a studio that used to be part of a monastery. She goes out and gets the largest drawing papers she can find. Surrounded by paint pots and brushes, it’s an image that belongs in a tradition of artists painting away in Parisian garrets, only this is not that story. What Clare Strand was painting in her Paris studio during a three-month residency at the Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France in 2017 was a translation of pre-existing photographs that were ‘read’ to her over the phone by her husband in the UK. From across the English Channel, he would give her directions that would encode an image of his choosing, and she would paint it.

2 Transmission

Strand and her husband were following an existing model. The method they were using to transmit information was described in George H. Eckhardt’s ‘Electronic Television’, from 1936, in which he outlined how a photograph can be transmitted via code over telegraph. In this system, the original image is divided into a grid, with every square being given a value from 1 to 10. 1 is white, 2 has a tinge of grey, 3 is greyer, 4 darker and so on until 10, which is black. The initial source images from which Strand’s husband chose the images he would transmit to her were 10-by-8 inches, which they divided into a grid of forty-nine squares across and sixty down, each about 5 square millimetres. If it’s boring to read, imagine the couple’s phone conversations: he would call and say 24-2; 25-4; 26-5; and so on. Through conversation, with Strand following her husband’s direction, the language would form a representation of the original image. Like a human fax machine.

3 The result

Is a series of ten black-and-white paintings in acrylic on paper. The history of art brings forth associations and relations, from the development of the grid as a foundation for perspective in the Renaissance, to the nineteenth-century illusionism achieved through Pointillism. There are Gerhard Richter’s black-and-white paintings, László Moholy-Nagy’s telephone paintings, Agnes Martin’s feather-light grids. But the connection to the history of art crumbles in front of the actual framed paintings. They’re human, Strand says, as she reasserts that she is not a painter. They’re messy, imperfect. There are hairs that stuck to the paper, dust congealed into the paint. However, in installation shots of the whole series, they look like another kind of work. Photographed, the paintings seem faultless: the black, white and grey hues reminiscent of aestheticized black-and-white photography; the paintings look clean, their edges not frayed, the small mistakes blend into the frame. It’s like they have two lives, as object and as image. When I ask Strand which one matters more, she answers, ‘I don’t know. What I find ironic is that, as much I try to push “photography” into different mediums, I can never escape the camera and how it operates as a tool of representation. With each press or catalogue reproduction, the paintings are represented as photographs, which is somewhat at odds with the concept of the work – photography transposing into painting only then to be represented by photography!’

4 Utility

To talk about the history of art and about installation shots is to ignore how the objecthood of the paintings depends on their creation. This series, titled The Discrete Channel with Noise, is at once the result of and the documentation of communication and its possible failures. Looking at the paintings, I want to say they look pixelated, but that would make them more photo than painting, more final product than process.

5 The first man who saw the first photograph

The relationship between painting and photography always makes me think of Roland Barthes writing in his essay on photography, Camera Lucida, that ‘The first man who saw the first photograph (if we except Niépce, who made it) must have thought it was a painting: same framing, same perspective. Photography has been, and is still, tormented by the ghost of Painting.’  Later in the book, he writes about photography’s relationship to reality, or to the document: ‘No writing can give me this certainty. It is the misfortune (but also perhaps the voluptuous pleasure) of language not to be able to authenticate itself.’ The photo as confirmation of fact. That fact, that reality, is communicated over phone lines in The Discrete Channel with Noise. When we look at a photograph, what we’re looking for, according to Barthes, is knowledge that a thing, an event, happened. He writes about Polish soldiers in a 1915 photo by André Kertész: ‘that they were there; what I see is not a memory, an imagination, a reconstitution, a piece of Maya, such as art lavishes upon us, but reality in a past state: at once the past and the real.’ What we see, in The Discrete Channel with Noise, is a story about reality rather than proof thereof.

6 Whizzing through the air

When I meet Strand, she hands me an assortment of notes. She’s hesitant about it for a minute, as if giving me homework rather than help. Or as if she expects communication can fail, and thinks a list of references may offer a way out of an impasse. The history of Morse code; pigeon post between Paris and England c. 1870–71; Eckhardt; Cybernetics founder Norbert Weiner and American mathematician Claude Shannon’s information theory, which gave The Discrete Channel with Noise its title: Strand’s research does not explain as much as expand the work. And then in the notes is a quote from the 1973 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory based on Roald Dahl’s writing, recreating Eckhardt’s transmission of images over radio. Here the character Mike Teavee, the winner of the fourth golden ticket, who loves this technology, explains: “You photograph something then the photograph is split up in to millions of tiny pieces and they go whizzing through the air, then down to your TV set when they are all put together in the right order” 

Mike Teavee, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (1971).

That it is possible to share an image, and the labyrinthine process of it whizzing through the air is in line with Dahl’s 1971 book, in which the candy factory includes an impenetrable room-sized machine that, when operated, makes a lot of noise, takes a lot of time, and then produces a single bit of chewing gum. Unimpressive until someone chews it and realizes it is as nourishing as a three-course dinner: tomato soup, roast beef with baked potatoes, blueberry pie and ice cream for dessert.

Proof: the overcomplicated can sometimes be amazing. 

A lesson: also worth exploring.

7 Thirty-six images on a journey

The ten images in The Discrete Channel with Noise were chosen from a collection of thirty-six images Strand has compiled for a previous work, The Entropy Pendulum (2015), in which each of these photographs, which were taken from a tabloid newspaper’s archive, was eroded by the weight of a pendulum over the course of one day in an exhibition, then framed. Strand rephotographed the physical photos from the archive, creating a digital output that becomes a dataset ready for reuse. The subject of those images related to what Strand refers to as the subject of her work in general – magic, illusion, the paranormal, communication, transmission, the way people thought communication technologies were magical when they were first introduced, the way Alexander Graham Bell called the telephone a way to ‘talk with electricity’. How to read the transformation of these images through the process in The Discrete Channel with Noise These images are on a journey of losing and gaining information. The project is a metaphor, if not a realization, for what images do anyway: in flux, they move and shift in meaning.

8 Shifting in meaning

Why pay attention to shifts? Because shifts in context can mean that information is lost, or misused. An art historian friend of mine regularly points out that Alexander Nix, the founder and CEO of Cambridge Analytica, studied art history in university. Art matters, images matter, she wants to say. All channels of misinformation need to be decoded. Is there a present and a real, like Barthes thought there was in an only slightly less technological time than the one we occupy, today? Or is the subject of study now how realities are fractured across channels of communication?

9 An entire history of communication

The diagram used to explain Eckhardt’s ‘Electronic Television’ has a man sitting at a table in front of a large black-and-white image divided into a grid of a woman with short, curly hair who looks a bit like an early Hollywood film star. His sleeves are rolled up, his back a bit hunched, he is clearly concentrating. He holds a long pointer stick and taps information onto a device resting on the desk he is sitting at. The cable running from that device spirals into a growing network of telephone poles that reach a window, and from that window to a box on the wall, and straight from the box to a set of headphones that another man wearing a blazer (or is it a lab coat?) standing in front of a large grid, only partially completed with the recognisable top of the short-haired woman’s head. He holds a paint brush at the same spot the other man’s pointer is. Behind him on a table are 10 boxes of paint numbered from 1 (white) to 10 (black) and some paint brushes. The caption reads, ‘Fig. 26. A Simple Method for Sending Pictures by Wire or Radio.’

Visually, it matters that the example is always a woman and the transmitters and receivers are always men. The message is that even in new technologies, even in a new world, some old signals remain. That is what Eckhardt’s diagram exemplifies. An entire history of communication reinforces the idea of who gets to speak across these lines. It is therefore fitting that The Discrete Channel of Noise is structured and executed by a female artist.

10 A piece of Maya

When Barthes writes that ‘no writing can give me this certainty’, he is asserting photography’s relationship to what he calls ‘the real’. But as a writer, he must have known that it is the rest of the above-cited list – ‘a memory, an imagination, a reconstitution, a piece of Maya’ – that is one of the potentials of art: to reconstitute is a way of reimagining the world. After Cambridge Analytica, or in line with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I want to argue that the redefinition or the exploration of that real is the contemporary condition. We come to things with suspicion, some of which is about recognising the failures of the systems around us. But we also come to them with a sense of possibility, a remnant of the Maya or the three-course meal chewing gum: the idea that the world is a story, and it can be shared.

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Speed up your Mac in a few clicks with CleanMyMac 3

I am normally cautious of “device cleanup utilities” because, to be flawlessly frank, they don’t try this a lot and may purpose greater harm than appropriate. However for a long time, I would be hearing top matters about CleanMyMac 3, so after taking a backup of my machine — just in case — I decided to look what it may do for me. And I’ve to say that I’m inspired.

Earlier than I go on, permit me simply explain the state that my MacBook Seasoned turned into in

Basically, this gadget has had pretty a good deal day by day use for the beyond 3 years and nearly nothing in the way of upkeep. I open the lid in the morning, and near it inside the nighttime, and repeat the technique day after today. The component slightly receives rebooted (previous to this check my Mac were strolling for 24 days straight).

So it is truthful to mention that it has had hard lifestyles.

On top of that, it has quite a few software program hooked up, some new and modern-day, some old junk that was transferred over after I first set this Mac up.

I would not say that my Mac changed into creaking beneath a load of all this overlook, However, it had truly lost a number of its sparkle, and was due for a piece of a spring cleaning.

And that is what it was given!

MacPaw claims that CleanMyMac three “removes gigabytes of junk in only two clicks,” so I put this to the take a look at.

And certain enough, after installation, after two clicks it had freed up almost ten gigabytes of various detritus off of my SSD.

High-quality.

Subsequent I used the uninstaller to dispose of some undesirable applications. In view that I wasn’t even certain what some of the applications were, I did this in several hits. The primary pass eliminated 9 packages, and that I went on, later on, to dispose of some other fifteen programs.

Via this factor I might free up approximately twenty gigabytes of space on my SSD, getting rid of virtually two dozen applications with just a few clicks. This was lots faster and less difficult than manually uninstalling programs.

I then determined that my Mac deserved a touch upkeep, so let CleanMyMac three-run a sequence of jobs on my gadget ranging from cleanup scripts to a complete verification of my device disk. Sure, I recognize I may want to have finished most if no longer all of this myself, However no longer that quickly I couldn’t (and no longer without quite a few time on Google. I walked away from my Mac to get a cup of coffee, and by the time I got here back the whole thing was completed.

I then rebooted my Mac and that I need to admit that it does feel snappier, specifically apps inclusive of Safari and Mail. Boot up is also a couple of seconds quicker, and there’s much less lag for The primary minute or so on getting to the MacOS desktop.

Does my Mac experience like “new”? Of course now not, that could be unrealistic to expect, But I do have extra free space, and I am enjoying the blessings of getting a quicker, snappier gadget, interested in some clicks.

What is the Average Reading Speed and the Best Rate of Reading?

The common reading pace of a child in primary college is round 200 phrases in line with minute (wpm). By the time we attain adulthood, it hasn’t advanced very a lot, as, on average, most adults study at a charge of about two hundred – 250 wpm. At the same time as comprehension at this rate is considered reasonable, at 250 pm it will be difficult to examine huge quantities of records in a quick time frame.

Certain people claim to study at speeds of 10 000 wpm or maybe 25 000 wpm and say they’re still able to recognize all they have got examine. Despite the fact that prices like this will be performed via these incredible individuals, a speed of 1000 – 1200 pm is the fee at which contestants study at the world Championship speed reading competitions. Consequently, if your average studying pace comes everywhere near this fee, you could remember yourself doing particularly nicely. Do now not sense which you want to reach championship ranges with a purpose to acquire your studying and reading desires. It’s miles as much as each and each character to decide how ways to push the rate limits!

For a person interested in increasing his capabilities, an intention of 500 – 800 wpm is a terrific target. At this charge, It’s far possible to get thru large portions of labor in a brief time and hold a comprehension stage of approximately seventy-five% or more. That is a first-rate degree of comprehension and possibly extra than adequate for any of your desired purposes. Examine this to the average reading rate of adults (two hundred – 250 pm), where their comprehension level is best 1/2 or slightly extra of the fabric they’ve studied.

800 – a thousand wpm might be an outstanding fulfillment. for you to have reached this level, an individual may have invested in an incredible pace studying direction and practiced pace drills. Believe it or not, comprehension at this degree is also incredible, attaining levels of one hundred% or very near 100%.

How to Do Faxing From Mac OS and Linux

Mac OS, like built-integrated, gives already 7fd5144c552f19a3546408d3b9cfb251 fax integrated talents. Here is a step-by we built integrated-step guide to integrated your Mac OS laptop or computer as an implicit fax built a device and send integrated loose fax online everywhere built-inintegratedbuiltintegrated:

As a way to comply with these steps, your PC ought to have a modem attached to a cellphone built-in. In case your modem is connected to a telephone integrated, then your Apple laptop is on its very own configured to send faxes.

Step 1. Pick out File > PR integrated

Step 2. Click on Fax PDF from the PDF pop-up menu after which pick your fax integrated from the Printegratedter pop-up menu. If, at this, you notice an errors message built-in “No Fax Modems Were Discovered”, built-innately have built-incorrectly connected your fax modem or are the built-in the use of an unsupported fax modem.

Step 3. After built-in integrated the fax built-in and beg built integrated the Fax PDF device, K built integrated your recipient’s fax wide variety integrated the to place. You could additionally Pick out and paste a number of integrating to the sphere from your Deal with Book.

Step 4. Some cellphone structures needs you to dial a prefix That allows you to contact an outside integrated. If essential, the type that prefix built into the Niall built-ing Prefix field (if built-in, simply go away it empty).

Step 5. Click on Use Cowl Page built integrated require to create and fasten a Cover Page for your fax.

Step 6.Ensure, you have selected the precise fax tool from the Prebuilt-inter pop-up menu.

Step 7.Alternate fax options under the PR integrated alternatives pop-up menu if required. The one’s options built-in your modem’s behavior, dial integrated styles, and communications menus.

Step 8. Click on Fax to send your fax. It will be sent out as early as your modem is to be had.

  Article Topics That Attract Views and Clicks

With almost 5 hundred articles on-line, published over a duration of five years, it’s far thrilling to pause to check which subjects attract the maximum views and which spark off the maximum clicks through to every other internet site on the lookout for extra information. Some of the results are as might have been anticipated but others have been not expected. Typical, however, it changed into clean that maximum visitors are in search of statistics of instantaneous personal benefit or of the unique hobby.

Sex is a subject of accepted interest, and any name that consists of the phrase is probably to draw visitors, however, those for whom Intercourse is a priority are likely to be disenchanted in articles for widespread readership. Subsequent most popular are articles inside the fashionable category of the way of life, along with garments and shoes, food and drink, hairstyles and health. For example, a chain of articles on Vietnamese silk clothes for plus-size women were right away famous and reproduced on different websites which shared this interest, and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa stimulated hobby in an editorial on the fitness of Europeans in Ghana.

Next in reputation are articles approximately other international locations, their climate, and scenery, wildlife, inns, food, humans and tradition. Those are useful to travelers and holidaymakers in addition to those with a much wider hobby in geography. extra than expected hobby became discovered in articles on traffic and driving situations, possibly because growing numbers of human beings are attempting to drive when overseas on the excursion or on commercial enterprise. hobby in aspects of lifestyle: languages, oral literature, and local artifacts is much less trendy and falls into the special interest category.

All authors have their regions of the unique hobby and within the gift case they’re: engineering, Ghana and Vietnam and their languages and subculture, teaching English as a foreign language and kid’s books. Articles on computer manufacturing and nuclear-powered submarines are the slim technical hobby but those offering individual personalities and work locations appeal to their hobby corporations of household, pals, and workmates. One subject matter that attracted more than expected attention became ‘supporting boys to learn how to read’ however this seems to be the hobby to so many mothers and father and teachers as to be extra a subject of the trendy hobby.