Many Faces of Decay | Timm Suess

Intervaluino now on GitHub

Saturday, May 11th, 2013 | non-decay, time-lapse | No Comments

I’ve finally come around to creating a repository for the Intervaluino on GitHub. If you would like to contribute, fork, add or otherwise participate: That’s the place to go!

It’s great if somebody takes an idea and makes it better. Like Enekochan who took my old Intervaluino design and improved it to include an LED display and some other improvements (along with a better schematic). Check it out at:

http://tech.enekochan.com/2012/06/21/intervaluino-plus-a-configurable-intervalometer-made-with-arduino/

Here’s a video of it:

Pitworker

Monday, December 17th, 2012 | sounds | No Comments

A couple of months ago, sound artist Panoptic Sweep has published a great soundscape remix of my “Elevator of Doom” recording. It’s called “Pitworker” and is an intensely atmospheric experience. Listen with headphones, but not too late at night…!

Check it out at: http://margaretnoble.net/blog/pitworker/

Interesting Kickstarter project: Safecast X

Sunday, June 10th, 2012 | non-decay, odds and ends | No Comments

Safecast X (image by Safecast, CC -by -na)

By chance, I stumbled across Safecast, a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements. I.e., it’s a crowdsourcing approach to measure worldwide radiation. Their scope is mainly Japan, but looking at the yesterday’s strange Reddit story about a radiation spike in Indiana/Michigan, one might wonder if a global preparedness network might not be a good idea.

Safecast has now a crowdfunding campaign running on Kickstarter to produce an open source Geiger counter for alpha, beta and gamma radiation (most counters only measure gamma). It’s called the Kickstarter X.

Check out their campaign (which is already fully funded) and consider donating – I think it’s a worthwile effort. Rewards include a range of goodies, from stickers to a fully working Geiger counter to a measurement trip to Fukushima.

Safecast X Geiger Counter on Kickstarter

Tags: campaign, crowdfunding, Geiger counter, Kickstarter, radiation, Safecast

Siblings of Kali

Sunday, June 10th, 2012 | decay, gallery | No Comments

One of the first abandoned industrial places I’ve visited was a potassium mine in Alsace. It was a glorious expedition, full of bewildered sights and cathedral beauty admist the rust. Most of those old mines have been torn down, now that the industry is no longer. Their memories linger on in the stories the Alsacians tell you of their fathers and neighbors who used to work in the mines. Stories of pride and cameraderie. Stories of re-used worker homes. Stories of suicides after the closures. The photo set was called “Sisters of Kali“, and is still available in the gallery. A couple of years ago, shortly before Chernobyl, I went back on another tour. The result is a winter series called “Siblings of Kali”.

It was a cold day in January. The sun was a distant memory somewhere in the sky while the remains of the once proud mine opened up to us through unbarred gates.

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Tags: abandoned, abandonments, Alsace, decay, France, mine, photography, potassium, travel, urban exploration, urbanexploration, urbex, winter

New Polyptychs

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 | abstract, decay, gallery | No Comments

I’ve started to work on a new set of abstract polyptychs (pictures in parts) from a recent trip to a local industrial area. Enjoy!

The full set is here (new images will be added as the set grows)

Tags: abstract, photography, polyptychs, urban exploration, urbanexploration

Beauty in Decay

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 | decay, odds and ends | 1 Comment

I’m proud to announce that a number of my Chernobyl pictures have been published as part of a abandonments photo book project called Beauty in Decay – and what a beauty it is! Editor RomanyWG and his team put a lot of effort behind this opus, featuring 200 pictures from 50 artists. The book is available for £19.95 at CarpetBombingCulture.

In this context, two well-known UK newspapers have reprinted some of my pictures – the Sunday Times Magazine and The Sun. Find the articles below.

Tags: abandonments, beauty in decay, book, collection, newspaper, Sun, Times

Abstract Squares from the Dockyard

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | abstract, gallery | No Comments

I’m currently publishing a set of new abstract squares based on my recent Balls & Boxes series from the Basel dockyards. The whole set should be complete within a couple of days, and I’ll continue uploading the pictures as they are ready.

Below are some impressions. The full set is here.

Tags: abstract, dockyards, industrial, photography, squares

Timelapse: Garbage Day

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 | non-decay, time-lapse, video | 4 Comments

Why go out on big tours when you can film interesting scenes right from your kitchen window…?

Tags: basel, garbage, garbage truck, switzerland, time-lapse, timelapse, truck, video

New Photo Set: Balls & Boxes

Monday, April 26th, 2010 | gallery, non-decay | 2 Comments

On a chilly Saturday morning in December, it was still dark, David and I jumped into a bus to shoot some rare sights at the dockyards in my hometown, Basel, in Switzerland. Uneasy in its sodium nakedness, the container crane and his minions greeted us like bugs on a table cloth.