8-bitscapes : Artist Jamie Sneddon and photographer Kevin Rozario-Johnson take cityscapes and add in elements from classic videogames with delightful results.
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posted by quin
on May 16, 2012 -
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Tchaikovsky Timelapse manually snapped frames in-between the frames the animator intended to use, in order to capture the animation process in action. Not sure if the actual time-lapse has been released, but more on the elaborate production of it is available
here.
posted by gman
on May 13, 2012 -
14 comments
(NSFW) The contemporary meaning of
Shibari describes an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage.
Hikari Kesho
aka Alberto Lisi is an Italian
photographer, some of
whose Shibari
photography could be called
sublime.
Fotofest 2012 Biennial – The Art of Contemporary Shibari Exhibit is
currently running
with
these artists, all of whom have links to their websites, some of which are more extreme than others.
posted by adamvasco
on Apr 18, 2012 -
50 comments
True Adventures in Better Homes -
Here is a collision of two worlds: men’s adventure magazines or “sweats” meets Better Homes and Gardens. These photocollages are set against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, advertising, sexual repression, WWII and the Korean War. The cool, insular world of mid-century modern living glossed over all danger and darkness, which the heroic male fought off in every corner.
posted by Artw
on Apr 16, 2012 -
44 comments
Observations, stories and photographs by and of art model, sometime dancer,
Alex B. (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
(NSFW)
posted by Trurl
on Apr 8, 2012 -
7 comments
Seat Assignments: "While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture."
Seat Assignments will be on view in San Franscisco's Catharine Clark Gallery from April 14th through May 26th.
posted by Greg Nog
on Apr 6, 2012 -
52 comments
"The Secret Gestural Prehistory of Mobile Devices is cultural anthropology. It seeks to recover those moments of intuitive prehensile dexterity, when the famous and the ordinary alike felt the unconscious desire to occupy their hands for an as yet unknown purpose. Like Roy Neary's obsession with the image of Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), this gesture was vague, uncanny and compelling. It is the intimation in images of a gestural second nature to come."
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posted by taz
on Mar 20, 2012 -
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Bent Objects is the creation of Terry Border, a photographer and sculptor with a flair for visual puns created using every day objects, clever lighting and twisted wire.
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posted by quin
on Feb 16, 2012 -
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NSFW
Lucien Clergue is a French Photographer from Arles, and renowned for his
Nu zébré.
He was a friend of
Picasso and
Jean Cocteau.
He still gives the occasional
talk:
Ansel said to me "I have been here for 40 years and I have never seen what you see."
Clergue: " I am Mediterranean by birth. What you see, I don't see. I look at the details."
posted by adamvasco
on Feb 2, 2012 -
5 comments
We and the Color is a blog about creative inspiration in art, graphic design, illustration, photography, architecture, fashion, product, interior, video and motion design. Also
on Flickr.
posted by netbros
on Oct 28, 2011 -
1 comment
(NSFW)
In all of my years of work with the lens (since 1906) I've dreamed of and loved to work with the human figure - to embody it in rocks and trees, to make it part of the elements.
The Glory of the Open - Camera Craft - April 1926.
At a time when decent Christian women in the U.S. were expected to be modest and to achieve fulfillment in motherhood, Anne Brigman was trekking up into the mountains in trousers…a scandal in itself…carrying a heavy pack of camera equipment. There she
shucked off her pants and societal expectations, and she entered into a pagan world inhabited by dryads and nixies...and there she made art.
Anne photographed herself, her sister,
and friends using California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains to backdrop a
liberated woman decades ahead of her time.
YouTube
slideshow.
She was championed into the
Photo Secession movement by Alfred Stiglietz, and she was the only woman member from west of the Missouri.
posted by adamvasco
on Oct 3, 2011 -
20 comments
There's no place like home. It's where we live, work and dream. It's our sanctuary and our refuge. We can love them or hate them. It can be just for the night or for the rest of our lives. But whoever we may be, we all have a place we call home. THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films that explore the idea of home; what makes them, how they represent us, why we need them. [more inside]
posted by Ahab
on Oct 3, 2011 -
3 comments
