Joachim Baan — Anothercompany![]() Joachim Baan — Anothercompany Notes on art, design, fashion and technology. Articles
Tribal Decoration
2008-02-29 15:12:00 "The lower valley of the Omo, at the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, remains one of the wildest places in Africa. Over the course of numerous voyages to this forgotten land, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma and Mursi tribes, who share a taste for body painting and extravagant decorations borrowed from nature.With 160 colour photographs, this magnificently produced book provides a priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, climate change and tourism."Hans Silvester's Tribal Decoration from Africa at Thames & Hudson and in the Daily MailThank you Yamandu for the tip!
Haunted
2008-02-29 08:08:00 Photography is a language guided by exposure to light and a rehashing of the world. The conquering power of tools have been with us for some time, but I feel regardless how I may print, the initial lure of what I shoot in the world haunts me still. Wayne Liu in an interview at Coutorture.comPicture from the series Haunted by Wayne Liu.
Bags from the North
2008-02-28 09:40:00 The good stuff by Sandqvist via LifIsCarbon More About: Bags , North
Remain the Light #1
2008-02-26 07:38:00 New print publication seeks submissions of recent photography work for first Volume. The final selection of sixteen photographs will each be printed on separate cards and presented unbound in a specially created slipcase. Call for entries More About: Light
Against the evening wall
2008-02-24 11:55:00 A strange mix of chaos and fragile nature in the works of LA based Wendy Heldmann More About: Wall , Evening
Success Making Machine
2008-02-24 11:37:00 A Success Making Machine (SuMM) isn?t a nuts and bolts contraption that can only achieve limited functionality. The SuMM gives you the ability to get what you want, fast and with less effort. The SuMM can do some of your tasks at night when your sleeping and other tasks just go away. Amazingly the SuMM doesn?t cost anything.The Success Making Machine is you! All you need is your brains and a few tools that you already have and success is practically given. The machine is the system you build to enable success in all aspects in your life.Next Action: Write down three items that you want to achieve. Read Building Your Success Making Machine and start aceiving success.
Bonsai Tree Table
2008-02-20 09:06:00 A beautiful project by Anke Weiss. Via Dezeen More About: Bonsai , Tree , Table
The ‘perfect dog’
2008-02-18 15:34:00 A beautiful project by Jo Longhurst"For several years I’ve been working with top breeders, photographing their dogs by bloodline, exploring their obsessive quest for the ‘perfect dog’....My study of the Whippet foregrounds the intimate relationship between human and animal, and the increasing significance of photographic technologies in the development of human identity." This project will be exhibited at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, 5 April - 15 June 2008. More About: Perfect
Poland
2008-02-18 11:58:00 I've had a nice weekend in Poland . Making pictures for Tenue de Nîmes (later more on that)
More illustrations today
2008-02-11 09:19:00 Daisy Fletchers work (via ffffound!) is just beautiful... More About: Today , Illustrations
Back
2008-02-05 15:56:00 We've left a beautiful country behind us, the stunning views, the amazing silence, the breathtaking wildernis, and returned to rainy cold holland. Thanks to all the kind people of chile, all the trip advisors, all the car rentals we used and the guides who guided us thru this lovely country, but most of all, thanks to the beautiful weather!Enjoy some pics More About: Back
¡muy bien!
2008-02-02 00:13:00 After 3 breathtaking weeks in Chile, we are flying back tomorrow. Ciao!
Secrets of success in 8 words
2008-01-09 22:47:00 Thank you Luis for sharing! More About: Words , Success , Secrets
Distant cloud formation
2008-01-08 21:42:00 Beautiful and estranging settings from Axel Antas. ...Antas is exploring the realities of man's own relationships in nature. Figures are identifiable in the drawings, somehow occluded and viewed from behind... (Michael Spens) More About: Cloud
NY Streets
2008-01-08 10:58:00 "A reflection of every day life ? real, unaltered impressions of public places, places that everybody visits every day, the street where you live, the parking lot of your favorite grocery store, the subway. Street photographers document the truth and take candid pictures of things that you don't notice in your daily grind."Markus Hartel on street photography More About: Streets
Thank You
2008-01-04 16:29:00 We have just launched our new project, called 'Thank You Too'. Its a business-card sized booklet with 30 cards, 5 post cards and a stamp. These cards can be send to a friend or a stranger, left behind anywhere someone might find them. In a book in the library or a bookstore, in a bag of an unknown passenger, in the mailbox of your neighbour.To give some respect, love and happiness to the people around us. To give a smile.Please visit www.thankyoutoo.org and spread the word.
Small Signs
2008-01-02 10:38:00 Some real nice photographs by Jon Feinstein More About: Signs , Small
As Far As I Could Get
2008-01-02 08:27:00 A beautiful fourth publication by Farewell: As Far As I Could Get by John Divola. Running as far as he could during the ten seconds the camera's self-timer allowed, Divola creates a meditation on time and mortality. As Far As I Could Get is Divola's fifth book. It's now available from the Farewell store.
The slowest car
2007-12-28 11:52:00 Breath taking. Audi R8: The slowest car we've ever built. This is such a beautiful ad!!
Beautiful Losers
2007-12-27 09:37:00 Beautiful Losers : A film by Aaron Rose, release spring '08 More About: Beautiful , Beautiful Losers
My Best of '07
More articles from this author:2007-12-24 08:41:00 2007 was a lively year. Started my own company, traveld a lot, and found some amazing new inspirational stuff, collected on this blog. I hope you enjoyed my posts, my view, and I hope you'll come back in 2008. I wish you all a peaceful christmas with your loved ones and a wonderful new year!Here's a short 'best of' 2007.The Best BookPresence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change?how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book introduces the idea of ?presence??a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts?to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old patterns o... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |




