{"id":1148,"date":"2013-04-11T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2013-04-11T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:12:27","slug":"small-change-writ-large-the-fundamental-units-by-martin-john-callanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1148","title":{"rendered":"Small Change Writ Large: &#8216;The Fundamental Units&#8217; by Martin John Callanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-11-at-11.11.50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-11-at-11.11.50.png\" alt=\"Core77\" width=\"660\" height=\"898\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-11-at-11.11.50.png 660w, https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-11-at-11.11.50-110x150.png 110w, https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-11-at-11.11.50-257x350.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rain Noe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/photography\/small_change_writ_large_the_fundamental_units_by_martin_john_callanan_24718.asp\">Core77<\/a> writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What does that look like to you? The cave drawings at Lascaux, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>How about this one? A shield from an ancient civilization?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, these are the lowest of the world&#8217;s low-value coins, those forgotten bits of metal that keep lint company in our pockets or fill forgotten jars. Perhaps sensing that cents are on the way out, Martin John Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u201dself-described as &#8220;an artist researching an individual&#8217;s place within systems&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis photographically preserving them for posterity with his The Fundamental Units project.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker is that a regular camera wouldn&#8217;t do, not for what Callanan had in mind; so he teamed up with the UK&#8217;s National Physical Laboratory, which is that country&#8217;s national measurement standards lab, to use their infinite focus 3D optical microscope. Callanan then captured some 4,000 exposures of each freaking coin, resulting in a series of 400 megapixel images that, blown up and hanging on a gallery wall, reveal details you&#8217;d never spot on the real deal. Every nick, scratch, dent, ding and discoloration are laid bare.<\/p>\n<p>So far he&#8217;s captured cents, pesos and pence from Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Iceland, Latvia, Lituania, Myanmar, Poland, Romania, Swaziland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, not to mention the Euro; but by the project&#8217;s end, Callanan plans to have captured &#8220;the lowest denomination coin from each of the world&#8217;s 166 active currencies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/photography\/small_change_writ_large_the_fundamental_units_by_martin_john_callanan_24718.asp\">see the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain Noe at Core77 writes: What does that look like to you? The cave drawings at Lascaux, maybe? How about this one? A shield from an ancient civilization? Nope, these are the lowest of the world&#8217;s low-value coins, those forgotten bits of metal that keep lint company in our pockets or fill forgotten jars. Perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,1408],"tags":[1706,65,1705,1717,1703,1715,1483,1714,1708,1710,1713,1704,1702,1477,1478,1711,1709,1712,1707,1701],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-output","category-the-fundamental-units","tag-ancient-civilization","tag-callanan","tag-cave-drawings","tag-core77","tag-denomination-coin","tag-exposures","tag-fundamental-units","tag-kicker","tag-lascaux","tag-lint","tag-lituania","tag-megapixel-images","tag-national-measurement-standards","tag-national-physical-laboratory","tag-optical-microscope","tag-pence","tag-posterity","tag-real-deal","tag-scratch-dent","tag-writ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}