Thomas Hawk provides a very useful, informative and well written list of things you can do to help increase visibility of your images in the Flickr image hosting and photo sharing community site. Read it here.
Drop Clock
Kaze To Desktop
I was reading recently in Creative Review about one of the internets most inspiring artist and designers, Yugo Nakamura who other than his own personal visual creations also founded one of the most interesting 'social media' sites, FFFFound. The site allows registered users to bookmark images they find around the internet and share them with the rest of the community. This is one of those painful sites that is so full of amazing content that you can't leave.
The only down side is that it is currently invite only, and I don't have an invite. If anyone has a spare FFFFound invite, please would you be so good as to invite me (rich(dot)holley(at)gmail(dot)com).
Some of Yugo's other latest works come in the form of screensavers. One, 'Kaze To Desktop' which blows your windows and open documents across your screen, and another, 'DropClock" which acts as a clock, where slow motion footage of numerals drop into water.
Visit FFFFound for visual inspiration, and SCR for more digital art projects.
Finally it is here. But it has been worth the wait. You can now buy online from the Diesel site, from Europe and USA from a single online store.
The Diesel Online Store officially launches today, and does so with an interactive window called the Diesel Style Lounge, that is designed to explore things that would not be possible in the window of a normal highstreet store. Models are seen floating underwater in a submerged space that the user can explore and discover the key outfits of the season. The models spin and flip as the camera pans around them Matrix style, and uses effects that are more commonly found in Hollywood movies than online.
For those that prefer a quicker and more direct experience, they can navigate direct to the male and female sections and browse from over 1,000 specially selected items. There are about three times as many items in this store than you would find in a normal Diesel store, and the selection has been chosen specifically for the more demanding and forward thinking online consumer. Some of the most sought after pieces, including specialist denim and fashion show items previously only available in a few cities, are now made available to people worldwide.
The presentation of the collection in the Style Lounge, in my opinion really represents a new direction in fashion photography. The technique used is a kind of 'Motion Photography', where the focus is still clearly on presenting the product, but adds a new dimention to the emotional angle of the image.
I have been fortunate to be a part of this amazing project, which has brought together people and companies from many different countries, and had a lot of fun on the set of the motion photography. The shoot in Berlin, Germany used a specially hand built HD Digital Video camera. The models, suspended from rigging were shot at 250 frames per second at full high definition resolution, so that when played back at normal speed it would slow one second of time down to 10 seconds. It was a fun shoot, and there was an elemtent of luck that shone down on those days. Firstly one of the models turned out by chance to have worked in a circus as a trapeeze artist since she was nine, and my Apple Power Book that got dropped actually remained in full working order (despite now sporting a rather nasty dent!).
Here are some images of the site and the shoot.
I have just returned from a shoot that used a camera that could capture video at 1000 fps, and the results were beautiful. I can't wait to post the resulting project here soon. High speed photography can create amazing results.
With a desire to see what else people were doing with this technology I had a look around and came across the work of Marting Klimas. We are all familiar with images of bullets speeding through apples, and the shattering of glass, but Marting Klimas has gone beyond the 'simple' cliche and made images that really create something unique. The smashing porcelain figurines not only look dramatic as they explode, but the way that the figures are fragmenting, and the fragments themselves complete a scene.
The magic split second moment when the figurines and their exploding fragments create a scene that perfectly expresses the original expression of the figurine. Each one amazing in its improbability of capturing such a perfect scene. The fragments seem to become crashing water into which the figurine is plunging. The fighting figures that seem to have caused themselves to have shattered through their own energy.
The images much better express themselves, than I could ever articulate and do justice, so just look at the images for yourselve. Awsome!
It also made me think just how did Martin come up with the idea - I can only imagine that it was through a lucky accident. and I would love to know just how many figures were smashed to achieve these results.
These are rare images where they say so much, yet the concept is so painfully simple. Totally awe inspiring.
Found on - Where We Play
These photos really caught my eye this week, in the current edition of Wired 15.09.
Shot by Daniel Stier, featuring people participating in scientific experiments that aim to seek out the physical limits of the human body. There is something very retro looking despite the hi-tech and advanced nature of the subject.
Check out more of Daniel Stiers photography here.
I stumbled across this site while searching for more info on Adam Neate in the previous blog. It is a visual magazine made up of slideshows set to music. Slideshows are submited based on different themes each month. They should make them available as desktop themes or screensavers.
Check it out here.
NOTHING CAN EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!!!
Maybe hyperbowl, (maybe not!!)...I let you decide!
A maid comes in the room and starts taking pictures of the three - The girls in panda suits, the guy dressed as a pink dinosaur. Mayhem ensues.
The people posting...and there were tons went crazy! A digital orgasm.
The models took their own images...and I think they are amazing!
Just look at the guys images on Flickr - tell me if they arn't better than Terry Richardson!
I love it.
See ALL the images here!
But tune in and follow the insanity here!
Maybe these girls could get some commissions! Chat with them now, before they get taken down!
Having posted about french artist Philippe Ramette several months ago, I thought I would have a look around for some more of this inspirational artists work. I found this series 'Exploration rationnelle des fonds sous-marins' released this year that continues to demonstrate his incredable talent for creating shocking, beautiful and extemely clever visual irony. He has a skill for setting up very stark and graphic senarios that reveal the suprising in what appear apparently ordinary situations. The characters appear at ease despite the unnerving reality behind the scene, such as sitting on the seabed while reading a newspaper, taking a stroll, but across the open water of a bay.
More images from the series can be seen here...
The above image shows an origianl 2D photograph (top left in image), and subsequent renderings of the same scene from different angles.
This 3D understanding of a 2D image is the result of researchers of Carnegie Mellon university. They took 300 images from Google image search and 'mechanically' taught the computer to recognise horizontal and vertical planes. The results are stunning. Watching their video makes you feel nostalgic as you fly directly into an image as it transforms from a photo into an emersive scene. I can imagine this becoming a wonderful addition to iPhoto, and being able to fly into all tose wonderful old holiday photos from years past.
Check out the research - and you can also download the software.
Watch the video below.
Thanks to Florian (Hi-Res) for this link.
One of the most interesting articles I have ever found in an inflight magazine (Air France's), was a feature on Philippe Ramette, a French performance artist, who's human sculpures, photographed by Marc Domage. Inserting himeself into what appears a normal scene, in an unconventional way to skew and distort perspectives with breathtaking results.
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