D. Yee
Posted by Danica van de Velde • September 7, 2010 • Photography
The photographs of New York-based painter and photographer D. Yee are reminiscent of forgotten film stills that capture fleeting on-set moments. Is is hardly surprising that he is behind a growing series entitled, Life as Cinema. The heighten mood and atmosphere that emanates from his imagery shares with Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Films Stills an uncanny sense of déjà vu, leaving viewers with the feeling that we have witnessed this scene or moment before. Of course, we haven’t, but that is what makes Yee’s photographs so wonderful. His profound interest in the human condition shines through in the sensitive manner that he shoots his subjects and his ability to distill emotion so effectively on film.
FOUND THROUGH MY MODERN MET
Danica
Pinhole Camera on a Turntable
Posted by Bobby Solomon • September 5, 2010 • Photography
What happens when you place a small pinhole camera on the top of a turntable and expose the film for the length of L America by The Doors (which is 4:35, by the way)? You get the crazy, beautiful photo you see above by photographer Tim Franco. Seems like such a simple idea and it turned out so well. I think what really sells it for me is that the label on the record is in focus while the rest of the world is merely a blur.
Found through Paul Octavius via kateopolis
Bobby
‘Naked’ by Susan Orlean
Posted by Bobby Solomon • September 5, 2010 • Internet & Photography
Susan Orlean wrote a short piece for the New Yorker called Naked which compares Twitter to real life and I think she has a rather good point. I use Twitter almost as a second blog, posting interesting things about design, music and creative ideas. But I also use it to share tidbits of my life as well, what I’m eating, where I’m drinking and what movie I just saw. Is this entirely interesting all the time? Definitely not. But I do think her comparison is fair, that we oftentimes look at people we live around and wonder what their story is, getting but the briefest glimpses but putting together a story nonetheless.
“Life in Manhattan is like living inside a gigantic Twitter stream. What you get to know about people you don’t know simply by accidental adjacency is astonishing. For a few years, a guy who lived in the building across the street from me practiced piano every day in the nude. He had double-height windows in his apartment and had positioned the piano to take advantage of the nice western exposure, and would plop himself down every afternoon and begin his etudes wearing not one stitch of clothes. I had an unobstructed view of him from my living room. I wouldn’t have recognized him on the street and I didn’t know his name, but I knew him, or at least knew his body, and knew this odd habit of his. To put it in social-media terms, it was as if @weirdneighbor were tweeting, “I like playing piano in the nude. Whatever.” Because of the slant of the sun and the size of my windows, I don’t think he could see me, so our relationship, as it were, was less like Facebook, where the exchange is mutual, and more like Twitter: in other words, I was “following” him, but he wasn’t following me.
You can read the rest of the article by clicking here. Also, the photo above is from Gail Albert Halaban’s Out My Window NYC series which exactly describes what Orlean is talking about. Be sure to check it out if you’re unfamiliar.
Bobby
Toko
Posted by Bobby Solomon • September 1, 2010 • Design & Photography
Toko is a Dutch design agency now based in Australia who are doing some rather great work. Toko is made up of Eva Dijkstra and Michael Lugmayr, who together in all kinds of disciplines and their portfolio shows it. I’ve grabbed my two favorite pieces, the top one being a poster for a graphic design festival in Breda, The Netherlands which has some amazing color combinations that totally grabbed my attention. The second one is a photo that was commissioned for Kalina Magazine, run by Mr. Noah Kalina, that was so fun and surreal it was a must post. Definitely browse the rest of their portfolio for more beautiful work.
Bobby
Steffen Schrägle
Posted by Alex Dent • August 25, 2010 • Architecture & Photography
Steffen Schrägle takes photos of stuff– stuff like Nissans or Mitsubishis. But when not making sleek images of cars, he focuses his lens on things like infrastructure and architecture. In the two images above, the results vary from looking similar to Iwan Baan to looking like something produced by the two children of the Auralab divorce: Luxigon and Laptop. These are good things! As you can probably tell from the lower image, Steffen sometimes employs elaborate post-production CGI to achieve the other-worldly effects apparent in his photos. He was recently recognized by the International Photography Awards for his architectural photography of bridges. He is a native of the Black Forest.
Alex
@ryanisinallofus Oh, I made mine into a single speed and it has a front and rear brake. I have no need for a fixed gear.
