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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.38,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Greenpoint, Brooklyn]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.64,0:00:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DOOR SLAMS]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.42,0:00:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LIGHT SWITCH FLICKS ON]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.28,0:00:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF COMPUTER STARTING UP]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.68,0:00:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[New York Close Up]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.96,0:00:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Lucas Blalock's Digital Toolkit"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.64,0:00:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is "The Smoker".
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.62,0:00:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.89,0:00:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That picture started off by me wanting to\Nmake a picture of a smoker.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.26,0:00:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sort of relates to this Magritte \Npainting from the late Forties.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.74,0:00:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was going to have an exhibition \Nin Brussels
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.55,0:00:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Magritte is from Brussels.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.70,0:00:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seemed like a suitable environment for\Nthis, sort of, game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.20,0:00:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.94,0:00:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CASSETTE BEING LOADED]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.88,0:00:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.46,0:01:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lucas Blalock, Artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.05,0:01:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started using Photoshop when I was still\Nin undergrad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.94,0:01:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was just, like, a procedural tool.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.22,0:01:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, it was a replacement \Nfor the dark room.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.28,0:01:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It felt like special effects for a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.47,0:01:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It felt just like something after the fact—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.60,0:01:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was, sort of, making up \Nground for a picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.78,0:01:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took me a long time to get to a place
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.34,0:01:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I understood how I might be able to\Nuse it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.49,0:01:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around the time I read Bertolt Brecht's \Nbook on theater—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.07,0:01:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was talking about bringing the labor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.66,0:01:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that happened offstage—in a theater production—onto\Nthe stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.31,0:01:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to think about the kinds of labor\NI was hiding.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.52,0:01:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are all these ways to, sort of, hide\Nyour labor in Photoshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.18,0:01:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd been really interested in, sort of,\Nundermining those things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.31,0:01:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a lot of things the computer \Nwill do for you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.75,0:01:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that don't need you,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.88,0:01:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those have never been tools that I've\Nbeen particularly attracted to.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.26,0:01:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, I'm attracted to the ones that are \Nsort of the dumbest tools in Photoshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.84,0:02:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I tend to use them in the most \Nblunt way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.76,0:02:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[1. Eraser Tool]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.30,0:02:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the rules of photography seems to be\Nthat
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.89,0:02:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the photograph needs to be homogeneous--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.43,0:02:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it needs to be one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.61,0:02:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually that's one view.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.75,0:02:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was really interested in how I add \Nlevels of labor to photographs
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.45,0:02:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without losing that sense of photographicness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.51,0:02:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the cutting through was part of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.26,0:02:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[2. Masking]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.42,0:02:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In commercial practice, masking is a way to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.26,0:02:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,select the sky in a photograph and make it\Na darker blue,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.79,0:02:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to select someone's eyes in a \Nphotograph and sort of brighten them up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.90,0:02:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for me, masking has sort of opened up\Npossibilities of drawing out relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.08,0:02:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, when I saw this bag, it looked like\Na human torso to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.96,0:02:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I took its picture,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.58,0:02:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's sort of what was on my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.88,0:03:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got the negative back, I started to\Nlook for opportunities
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.15,0:03:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sort of enhance that relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the tools that I've used a lot \Nis the clone stamp--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.96,0:03:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[3. Clone Stamp]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.63,0:03:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would use to take out imperfections,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.17,0:03:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you would use to remove a lamp post \Nfrom a street.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.20,0:03:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think something with the clone stamp \Nparticularly that I'm really excited about:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.18,0:03:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an activity that can be either \Nadditive or subtractive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.59,0:03:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you could cover something up--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.21,0:03:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say, take an object out of the picture--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.37,0:03:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you did it poorly,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.20,0:03:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would leave this, kind of, interference\Npattern in the background.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.22,0:03:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's been an anxiety about, sort of, you\Nknow,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.38,0:03:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[4. Brush Tool]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.52,0:03:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why would you make another picture now?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.96,0:03:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What's the point?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.56,0:03:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There are pictures of everything already."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.29,0:04:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really had started to think about \Nphotography as an activity of drawing--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.37,0:04:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a way to try to understand the world \Nthrough making a picture of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.75,0:04:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this seems to be a continuation of the\Nhistoric activity of drawing--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.48,0:04:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, drawing with a pencil.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.37,0:04:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started, what I was doing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.59,0:04:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was sort of making a burlesque of \Ncommercial practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.58,0:04:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, really, these were the only \Npeople who were using
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.49,0:04:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,digital effects in their pictures.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.25,0:04:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I use all of the tools that I use
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.25,0:04:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a really similar way.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.44,0:04:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.04,0:04:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all, really, this shovel, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.24,0:04:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're this extension of the finger.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.65,0:04:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.12,0:04:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being sort of stuck into space,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.51,0:04:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an entry into a space that I couldn't\Nenter any other way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.24,0:04:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but through Photoshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.28,0:04:50.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humor, for me, has been an important thing\Nin my work
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.93,0:04:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's a way to, sort of, bring \Npeople into the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.75,0:04:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's literally disarming.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.75,0:04:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, Buster Keaton,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.65,0:04:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or like, early cinema--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.79,0:04:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's people who were incredibly effective
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.07,0:05:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at drawing our understanding of the cinema.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.88,0:05:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buster Keaton's gags give us a way to \Nenter movies.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.68,0:05:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humor for me is about relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.60,0:05:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about an invitation to relate to the\Nobjects in the pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.69,0:05:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that more and more, as time has\Ngone on,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.81,0:05:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's been also about relating to this sort\Nof
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.12,0:05:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ambiguousness of photographing digital space
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.38,0:05:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way that it's now being construed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.87,0:05:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe in art because art makes new \Nspaces.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.95,0:05:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aesthetics is a way of, sort of, proto thinking--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.03,0:05:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of thinking before you can think these new\Nthoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.49,0:05:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in the goofiest, most ridiculous way,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.21,0:05:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aesthetics is a way of, sort of, unpacking\Npossibility.