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Best of Tokyo Design Week 2007
2007-11-13 16:32:00 PingMag has selected the best 20 ideas of thiis year’s edition of the Tokyo Design Week . I really love two of them: > Abake’s ‘Limo typography’ ‘limo typography’ is, at first glance, a simple black screen with several slots in it. But when you and your buddies jump behind it, you can stick your arms through the ...
Rolling numbers
2007-11-13 12:07:00 I’ve just added to the right-column links World-o-meters, a real-time, running-figures, conscious-raising site. Just so we don’t forget. More About: Numbers , Rolling , Number
6th Fotobild berlin
2007-11-12 16:16:00 We went yesterday to Photobild, a photographic exhibition organized by Photomarketing. I did not really know what to expect before getting there but I somewhat imagined it’d be something small. It was certainly tiny but also accessible and ‘warmhearted’. No galleries, no agencies no big PR machines behind. Just the photographers in their spaces, presenting their ... More About: Berlin , Tobi
Swimmers and pools
2007-11-09 10:28:00 Carlo Van der Roer has a beautiful collection of empty swimming pools and swimmers at open-air pools. The smart arrangements, the strategic positioning of the people and the pronounced vanishing lines make the pictures look as beautifully staged geometry compositions. The author comments on his work in his submission to Hey, Hot Shot!: Swimming pools and the ... More About: Pools
Pobre Juán
2007-11-09 10:14:00 Juan se lanzó marchándose al norte iba en busca de un vida digna, cruzando México por valles y por montes, iba Juan lleno de fe. La historia es que Juan se iba a casar con María embarazada, pero él no tenia ni un centavo, ni un clavo que darle. Pero este Juan iba muy decidido y a la frontera él llegó con todo el ...
The work of
2007-11-08 11:53:00 Cary Conover Conover’s paired facing-photos compositions are impossible, astonishing. Perfect! -talk about superb editing skills… The pictures alone are great but when mixed together their visual impact shoots up. More About: Work
Bitter photographer
2007-11-08 11:44:00 Bitter photographer is acid, caustic, ironical, sharp and so much fun to read!!! (via A Photo a Day News) More About: Blogroll , Photographer , Bitter
John Berger says
2007-11-07 15:00:00 “Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.” More About: John , Berger , Berg
Standing winter shadows
2007-11-06 11:31:00 Vincent Laforet has some nice aerial pictures. More About: Winter , Shadows , Standing
Latidos de un mundo convulso
2007-11-05 17:36:00 (Heartbeats of an upheaval world) is the name of a war photo exhibition in Barcelona, at Obra Social CajaMadrid. Ten of the best Spanish war photgraphers present 100 breathtaking pictures. A must. Northern Ireland. (c) Paco Elvira More About: Mundo
Pieter Hugo
2007-11-02 14:24:00 South African photgrapher Pieter Hugo ’s ‘the hyena and other men’ portraits are impressive, menacing -they leave no escape.
Strassheim?s nudes
2007-11-02 14:10:00 Though I find interesting Angela Strassheim’s ‘Left behind‘ series on new born christians, its her nudes which really blow me off.
Pine trees -or seestrandkiefern
2007-11-01 09:51:00 I grew up in an atlantic town sorrounded by thick pine tree forests -slim, sometimes tall, dark-brown trunks holding perfecly-rounded, flashy-greens tops, the trees emerging from and fighting with moving dunes. Every time that I walk into a wood similar to those of my chilhood, like a few years ago south of Arcachone in the ... More About: Trees , Sees , Rees , Strand , Tran
Poema a Maria Luisa
2007-11-01 07:18:00 No se me importa un pito que las mujeres tengan los senos como magnolias o como pasas de higo; un cutis de durazno o de papel de lija. Le doy una importancia igual a cero, al hecho de que amanezcan con un aliento afrodisíaco o con un aliento insecticida. Soy perfectamente capaz de sorportarles una nariz que sacaría el primer premio en una ... More About: Maria
The work of
2007-10-31 14:41:00 Chris Jordan ‘Pants rack in a women’s clothing store, St. Bernard Parish’ from the series ‘In Katrina’s wake’ More About: Work
Il cenacolo
2007-10-31 09:30:00 Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ at 16,000,000,000 pixels at Haltadefinizione. From the press release: Milan, 27 October 2007 ? Today, for the very first time, The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, the most famous, most discussed and most controversial work of art of all time, declared a World Heritage work of art and registered at the UNESCO worldwide ... More About: Cena , Naco
West Coast
2007-10-30 17:01:00 I wish I were listening Gerry Mulligan’s ‘Night Lights’ right now… More About: West Coast , West , Coast
Gute Aussichten
2007-10-30 10:39:00 (c) Agata Madejska (c) Andrej Krementschouk (c) Marget Hoppe Gute Aussichten this year’s edition has awarded the work of 11 young pgotographers. I particularily like 3 of them: - Agata Madejska abstracts common ’spielplätze’ elements (like the side above) and transforms them into suggestive contours. - Andrej Krementschouk presents a delicate reportage on his Russian homeland. - Leipzigerin Marget Hoppe’s project ...
Eugene Smith says
2007-10-29 09:44:00 “The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.” More About: Smith , Eugene
Saudade
2007-10-26 10:54:00 (c) Matheus Alves I ‘ve just happened to stumble upon this look at Design Klicks Saudades, só portugueses Conseguem senti-las bem. Porque têm essa palavra para dizer que as têm. Fernando Pessoa
Trust Your Eye, Not Your Gut
2007-10-25 16:41:00 To some extent, nothing you didn’t know already. Photography classes might teach about composition, lighting and depth of field, but no photographer judges the quality of an image by measuring whether the horizon falls exactly according to the rule of thirds.The same is true of the opportunity to take a good photo. Talented photographers can ... More About: Blogroll , Trust
watercolors -or the thin edge between documentary & fine art
2007-10-24 14:13:00 (c) Naralle Autio Las night I discovered the underwater work of Naralle Autio in a past issue of the documentary photography ‘Agence VU”‘ eNewsletter. “The figures in Narelle Autio’s underwater pictures, despite being ordinary people enjoying a swim at the beach, seem almost posed for dramatic effect, as if on a stage.”, reads the text. It reminded ... More About: Documentary , Fine Art , Edge , Fine , Watercolors
Censored kiss
2007-10-23 12:40:00 (c) the Blue Nose Group The Russian government has censored two works (above, one of the images) of the exhibition ‘Sots art: art politique en Russie‘ that opened at ‘La Maison Rouge’ in Paris last Sunday. You can read more here (Spanish), here (French) and here (French). More About: Kiss
Now
More articles from this author:2007-10-23 11:36:00 Now Say nay, Man dry man, Dry lover mine The deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor, Should he, for centre sake, hop in the dust, Forsake, the fool, the hardiness of anger. Now Say nay, Sir no say, Death to the yes, the yes to death, the yesman and the answer, Should he who split his children with a cure Have brotherless his sister on the handsaw. Now Say ... 1, 2, 3 |
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