Sets for a film I'll never make

jillithd — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:37:05 -0800

Daniel Agdag, a Melbourne based artist and filmmaker, is presenting his first solo show, “Sets for a Film I’ll Never Make”. A playful nod to his short career as an animator, “Sets for a film…” presents a meticulous industrial world of his own imagining. The unassuming use of boxboard as a medium belies an elaborate world of transmission and communication that preserves the incessant redundancies of the modern industrial world. His short films have screened worldwide, and garnered a Dendy Award and an AFI nomination. His work has been described as architectural in form, whimsical in nature and inconceivably intricate. This new series of work features a number of his structural experiments which he refers to simply as “sketching with cardboard”. Each work is created without detailed plans or drawings and are improvised as he works. I want to live in a world made by this guy. (And sets from a film he *did* make.)

Sara Lando - On Photographing People

jillithd — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:58:55 -0800

Picture a tiny Italian woman gesturing continuously as she uncorks a full brain dump (from a very, very creative mind) on all of the little things that many people never think of when photographing others.

"... the first time I had to photograph someone that wasn’t myself, I spent the night before puking, and it was half a disaster. Ten years later, these are the things I wish someone had told me back then."

Sara Lando's On Photographing People: Pt. 1, the first in her three-part series on photographing people on Strobist.

"There are few things I wouldn't do to get the photo I have in mind, but I've never accidentally killed anyone (yet)."

See more of Sara Lando's fascinating creative work and processes on her blog, papermoustache, and her graphic novel Magpies.

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Sets for a film I'll never make

Sara Lando - On Photographing People