Category: China-2009

DA Training Follow-up #1

Harlan and I have returned to Dunhuang to follow-up with the Dunhuang Academy team on the implementation of techniques presented at...
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In-cave training

The rig is up and working in the caves, and the DA team is adapting to the new system very quickly....
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Comprehensive efforts, complex projects….

The negotiations, contracts, grants, people and equipment that moved to get us to this point is a fairly complex project. From...
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Delivery of the new rigging

After several delays and confusion as to the exact whereabouts of the driver and our shipment, the truck finally arrived on...
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Sunday presentation at the DA

Today I spoke to the DA training teams about Photoshop techniques before unveiling schematics of the new rigging. Both were very...
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Lights to Servers

We’ve just completed our second day of training at the Dunhuang Academy. Today’s topics covered lighting, data management, and server. Jim...
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We start three days of classroom instruction

This is a “blended”  demonstration,  a graphical depiction of lenses and frames based on different lenses on similar camera setups, and...
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Tiananmen Square 20th Anniversary

  Every time I come to Beijing I like to come to Tiananmen Square. I don’t feel like I have been...
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The Crew Is on the Continent

Jim, Stefani, and I arrived in Beijing this evening. We passed the CCTV headquarters in the taxi. After a little duck...
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On Arrival

Our plane was not allowed to get access to the jetway upon arrival. This team of quarantine officials boarded to check...
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James Prinz – NUAMPS Guest poster – China project collaborator

My name is James Prinz and I have been a collaborator on the China project since it’s inception in 1999. This...
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First stop, Toronto…

  The rest of the high-resolution digitization training team (myself, Chris Wallace and Jim Prinz) has departed today in Harlan’s wake,...
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