via HUH Magazine, see the film here
12 October 2011
4 October 2011
29 September 2011
Gareth Pugh S/S 2012
via SHOWstudio
Fach & Asendorf Gallery
28 September 2011
Sarah Samy | Against My Skin
Sarah Samy is a chemical engineering student based in Alexandria, Egypt. She mostly works with computers making digital paintings and drawings, animated GIFs and websites. Samy explores the essence of a device through technical glitches, either found or provoked. Occasionally works with video and photography.
Sara tells us about her ongoing great series called "Against my skin";
"I am interested in creating digital representations of skin marks, scars and other traces left due to physical interactions. My intention is not create realistic images of skin, but rather images that would reflect the nature and force of such interaction; sometimes it would be intense and harsh and other times, it would be soft and slow, almost absent, like that caused by merely the passage of time."
via Triangulation Blog
via Triangulation Blog
19 September 2011
The Golden Filter's SYNDROMES
New York music duo The Golden Filter have collaborated with Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli to create a darkly beautiful short film entitled SYNDROMES. The trailer for the film features their new track Mother, and the final film is accompanied by a soundtrack the duo created especially.
The film focuses on a young girl whose bizarre, and unexplained ability to help others has led to her involvement in a sinister underworld. The storyline is definitely one you'll want to work out for yourself, but the film is shot beautifully, and its cryptic storyline is perfectly matched by The Golden Filter's brooding soundtrack.
via Creative Review
11 September 2011
29 August 2011
25 August 2011
Jill Greenberg | Landscapes, etc
See a previous post here featuring her series Glass Ceiling
16 August 2011
5 August 2011
30 July 2011
28 July 2011
25 July 2011
23 July 2011
22 July 2011
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12 July 2011
6 July 2011
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 2011
4 July 2011
1 July 2011
So Long Animated GIFs, Hello Cinemagraph
Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg have been making quite a splash this year with their “cinemagraph” technique, combining still photography and video to “unfreeze” a photo in time. The results are stunning, and show that there was more potential in the old animated .gif format than had yet been realized.
Turnstyle: Animated .gifs have long been the territory of goofy forum signatures and internet memes, what caused you to take the idea of animated photographs up to the level of art?
Jamie & Kevin: We wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph, but didn’t want the high maintenance aspect of a video. In preparation for Fashion Week we were trying to figure out a way to show more about what it was like being there, so cinemagraphs were born out of a need to tell a story in a fast digital age.
The basis for these is always a still photograph which is why they maintain the artistic approach and visual style of Jamie’s still photography. What we strive to capture is the moments before and after a photograph is taken.
TS: Why “cinemagraph”?
J&K: There’s a cinematic quality to them in both the way it captures a moment as well as the coming together of still imagery and moving imagery. “Cinemagraph” represents, in a single word, what the images represent visually. Coco Rocha put it well: “More than a photo, but not quite a video.”
TS: Technically speaking, how are these different from animated .gifs? I’m perceiving a lot more frames of animation for one, but is that just my brain filling in the blanks? It also feels like the animated parts are isolated from the rest of the composition.
J&K: An animated .gif is usually a sequence of stills pulled from video, animated art, or other imagery that is repurposed into a .gif. What we do is different because it’s a traditional still photograph with a moment living within it. For us it’s less about the .gif format – that’s just the vessel by which it’s best to deliver them on the web, although the limitations of the format have been very influential on the visual style of our images. The .gif format itself is ancient by internet standards but much like photography people are always finding interesting new ways to communicate within the confines of existing formats.
TS: How long did it take you to develop the technique?
J&K: Kevin has a background in motion graphics and has been playing with the .gif format since getting a computer in the mid 90s, but this particular technique started taking shape about a year and a half ago. It was the coming together of Jamie’s photography and this technique that made it what it is currently.
J&K: Kevin has a background in motion graphics and has been playing with the .gif format since getting a computer in the mid 90s, but this particular technique started taking shape about a year and a half ago. It was the coming together of Jamie’s photography and this technique that made it what it is currently.
TS: How do you choose a subject for a cinemagraph?
J&K: A cinemagraph always starts with a photograph. As a rule of thumb, we only create a cinemagraph from subject matter that would also make a good still photo. Often times we’ll have an idea for a cinemagraph that captures the essence of the subject through an action or moment in a way that a photograph can’t. When we decide to take a still photograph, and make it into a cinemagraph, it’s when there’s more to the story than can be captured in a still frame. We really feel this is an opportunity to look at everything we know in the world and show it in a new way, which is an extraordinary opportunity as artist and visual creators.
You can see more cinemagraphs at Jamie’s Tumblr photo blog From Me To You and on his websitevia Turnstyle
29 June 2011
Chinese faked photograph leaves officials on street of shame
For government officials in Huili, a distinctly modest county in a rural corner of south-west China, attracting national media coverage would normally seem a dream come true. Unfortunately, their moment in the spotlight was not so welcome: mass ridicule over what may well be one of the worst-doctored photographs in internet history.
The saga began on Monday when Huili's website published a picture showing, according to the accompanying story, three local officials inspecting a newly completed road construction project this month. The picture certainly portrayed the men, and the road, but the officials appeared to be levitating several inches above the tarmac. As photographic fakery goes it was astonishingly clumsy.
The outraged – or amused – calls began to the county's PR department, which immediately apologised and withdrew the image. The explanationwas almost as curious as the picture itself: as other photos showed, the three men did visit the road in question, but an unnamed photographer decided his original pictures were not suitably impressive and decided to stitch two together.
"A government employee posted the edited picture out of error... The county government understands the wide attention, and hope to apologise for and clarify the matter," a Huili official told the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Officials from the county, in Sichuan province, even hurriedly signed up to the hugely popular Sina Weibo social media site to post an explanation.
All this was, however, too late to prevent a torrent of mockery as the offending image was passed around chatrooms and other websites. Inevitably, within hours there was a flood of parodies showing the officials variously landing on the moon, surrounded by dinosaurs and, in one instance, joined on their inspection tour by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il.
via Guardian
28 June 2011
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