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Iain Macarthur

2011-06-16T12:00:00.005-04:00

While we are looking at bird pictures, here's a couple more. I like that this guy owns his style. It seems like he's just doodling and having fun, but also making great works. Enjoy.

This one's for Russ

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Stephanie Martin

2011-06-15T12:00:00.000-04:00

I like birds. And I like etchings. Enjoy.

Orange-crowned Warbler

Marsh Wren

Four Crowns

Bird in Hand

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David Carol

2011-06-14T12:00:00.003-04:00

It's great to see some good old fashioned film work. A bit contrasty, but that's part of the beauty. These photos give us a view of roadside Americana. I can't even count the number of photos of American flags in his portfolio. Enjoy.

This one's for Sean

This one's for me

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Crystal Gregory

2011-06-13T12:00:00.006-04:00

Think these are really neat, almost like spiderwebs. Enjoy.

Invasive Crochet

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Colleen Plumb

2011-06-12T12:00:00.003-04:00

Love this stuff. This lady shares my aesthetic. Enjoy.

From Animal's Outside

Older Works

oh yea, this guy

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Brian Wilson

2011-06-11T12:00:00.016-04:00

I usually don't like Street Art, but this guy just seems like a nice person. Plus, he's not defacing anything in the act. Enjoy.

Link to tagged photos on Flickr

Thomas Allen

2011-06-10T12:00:00.009-04:00

I think these are really fun. Enjoy.

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Gerco de Ruijter

2011-05-24T10:00:00.000-04:00

Dutch Photographer Gerco de Ruijter uses Camera Kites (and now also blimps) to capture these abstract aerial landscapes. Thinking about attaching my Nikon to one of my turtle kites now - haha. Enjoy.

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Joe Baran

2011-05-23T10:00:00.000-04:00

Visitors

Dinosaur Truck

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Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés

2010-10-29T17:30:00.000-04:00

Some stunningly gorgeous images of the Namib desert taking back its territory in
Kolmanskop, a ghost town that had once been a mining village.

The Desert Inside:

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Cedric Pollet

2010-10-29T17:14:00.000-04:00

Isn't nature amazing? Photographer Cedric Pollet took these stunning close-up abstractions of tree bark, and even provided us with the information about what each tree is. Enjoy.

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Jonathan Blaustein

2010-10-29T16:48:00.000-04:00

"The Value of A Dollar." Enjoy.

one dollar's worth of early season organic blueberries from california

one dollar's worth of tomatillos from mexico

one dollar's worth of doublecheeseburger from mcdonalds

one dollar's worth of potted meat food product

one dollar's worth of conventional grapefruit from supersave

one dollar's worth of organic grapefruit from the natural food store

one dollar's worth of shurfine flour

one dollar's worth of saffron

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Richard Renaldi

2010-10-29T16:07:00.000-04:00

Thought these were touching. Enjoy.

From portrait series "Gay and Lesbian Elderly"

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Christoph Neimann

2010-10-29T15:54:00.000-04:00

Here are a few excerpts from Red Eye, Neimann's "visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin." Enjoy.

Link to Neimann's blog at NYTimes.com

Lori Nix

2010-10-29T15:44:00.002-04:00

No, not tilt-shift, but actually the opposite. Lori Nix creates all of these strange, miniature worlds. Enjoy.

From Unnatural History:

Galapagos Turtles, 2009

Gallery of Important and Interesting Rocks, 2010

From Some Other Place:

Food Chain, 2002

Birds in Flight, 2001

From Accidentally Kansas:

School Bus, 2000

Ice Storm, 1999

I am often asked questions about the inspiration for my work as well as my working process. As a ‘non-traditional’ photographer (I construct my subject matter rather than go find it) people find it hard to grasp what exactly it is that I do. And the fact that it is all done in front of the camera, with no digital manipulation, adds its own set of challenges. Building materials, lighting, issues of scale and space all become significant when you are recreating the world on a table top.
--Lori Nix
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Keith Loutit

2010-08-05T12:00:00.011-04:00

Ah, the beauty of Tilt Shift photography. This is real life, filmed with a special camera that gives it the appearance of a miniature scene. Enjoy.

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Slinkachu

2010-08-04T12:00:00.001-04:00

This is a project called Little People: a Tiny Street Art Project. I love that people can just wander up and see these tiny figures in their fun, mischievous, and sometimes naughty world. Enjoy.

The Den

The Den Detail

Man Hole Swimming

Man Hole Swimming Detail

Scavengers

Scavengers Detail

They're Not Pets, Susan

They're Not Pets, Susan Detail

Company Car

Company Car Detail

Majestic

Majestic Detail

He also has a project called Innercity Snail: a Slow Moving Street Art Project :)

Policeman: Excuse me, sir. Would you mind telling me what you're doing?
Slinkachu: Oh. Er. . .I was just gluing down this little plastic person.
Policeman: Eh?
Slinkachu: Here, look. It's an. . .er. . .an art thing. Kind of. I take photos of these little people. Then I leave them.
Policeman: Oh, ha! Cute! Sorry, I though you were sniffing glue, what with that superglue. We get a lot of that around here.
Slinkachu: Yeah. Ha. . .
Policeman: Yeah, this is cute. Ha, a little car too! Sweet. My kids would love this!
Slinkachu: Yeah. . .It's, er. . .a little prostitute. And a punter. In the car.
Policeman: Oh. . .well, er. . .carry on.
Slinkachu: Er, yeah. Thanks.

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Andrew George

2010-08-03T12:00:00.016-04:00

This guy does some beautiful work. Love the way he photographs nature Enjoy.

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Steve Lambert

2010-08-02T12:00:00.004-04:00

Love it! Enjoy.

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Jeong Mee Yoon

2010-08-01T12:00:00.011-04:00

These images are sickening, a portrayal of just what stupid animals humans are. Enjoy.

Jake and His Blue Things

SeoWoo and Her Pink Things

Yeachan and His Blue Things

Yealin Yang and Her Pink Things

Seyoon and His Blue Things

Yerim and Her Pink Things

More animals

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Gakuranman

2010-07-31T13:00:00.016-04:00

The Island of Gunkanjima in Japan was at one time home to a thriving coal mine. When Petroleum became a more lucrative industry, workers left the island metropolis behind. The island was deserted in a mater of days, and stayed that way for decades. The island is now open to tourism, but this lucky photographer made the forbidden journey into the heart of the city, to capture these haunting photgraphs. Enjoy.

Then again maybe this is why I like him... ;)

All in all, I had far more fun shooting turtles than viewing the park – but it was beautiful!
--Gakuranman

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Knipso Graf

2010-07-13T12:00:00.004-04:00

Thought these were some cool lens effects. Enjoy.

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Link to artist's Flikr

Hunter Freeman

2010-07-12T12:00:00.005-04:00

Love this series, only wish there were more photos! Enjoy.

...and working as a custom framer I can't help but be partial to this series :)

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Tenso Graphics

2010-07-11T12:00:00.004-04:00

I have no words for how awesome this is. Enjoy.

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Ho-Yeol Ryo

2010-07-10T12:00:00.013-04:00

I absolutely love this image. Enjoy.

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Pete Dungey

2010-07-09T12:00:00.004-04:00

Dungey says it's "an ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads.” I think it's genius, beautiful. Enjoy.

Pothole Gardens

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Fred Lebain

2010-07-02T12:00:00.012-04:00

I love this body of work by Fred Lebain. Initially he photographed different locations in NYC, then he return with life-sized prints of the spot, held them in place, then photographed them again. This overlaying of images is something that could very easily be done digitally, but he's done it in real life. Check out how each print is hung in the final print. Enjoy Un printemps à New York .

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Jiyuseki

2010-07-01T12:00:00.008-04:00

I don't really dig a lot of sculpture. These I dig. Enjoy.

Coin Purse

Clockwork

Ripple

Rock in Rock

Laughing Stone

my work consists of optimizing a stone's original shape.
--Jiyuseki

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Link to artist's Flickr

Peter Brown

2010-06-30T12:00:00.030-04:00

I guess I'm fond of these images because they bring back memories of my senior year photography class in college. We carpooled 30 minutes away from our college town once a week, to the sleepy little town of Liberty, Indiana. We had to make it come alive in photographs. Peter Brown does the same thing in the small towns of the Great Plains in his West of Last Chance series. Enjoy.

Walking Rain, Limon, Colorado, 2006

Corn Stubble, Causey, New Mexico, 2003

Last Chance Restaurant, Cotton Center, Texas, 2003

Yellow Road, Sand Hills, Nebraska, 2003

Shop Fronts, Claude, Texas, 1995

Burritos, Tahoka, Texas, 2004

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Liesl Pfeffer

2010-06-29T12:00:00.002-04:00

I usually don't like this kind of stuff, but for some reason these collages appealed to me. I think it's because Liesl isn't a one trick pony, she knows how to take some other great shots, like the last one taken with a toy camera. Enjoy.

Summer Fjord, 2010

The Crystal Lake, 2010

Pink Elephant, 2007

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Martin Parr

2010-06-11T12:00:00.001-04:00

Martin Parr is a British photographer, whose work will always put a smile on your face. His campy photographs poke fun at tourism and patriotism, while still being charming and beautiful. Enjoy.

bonus video:

At first glance, his photographs seems exaggerated or even grotesque. The motifs he choose are strange, the colours are garish, and the persepctives are unusal... [His photographs] show us in a penetrating way how we live, how we present ourselves to others, and what we value.

--Thomas Weski [on Martin Parr via MartinParr.com]

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Tim Noble and Sue Webster

2010-06-10T12:00:00.003-04:00

Tim Noble and Sue Webster are British artists that create sculptures that might seem like piles of trash, that is until you see the shadows they project! It's like magic! Enjoy.

J. Henry Fair

2010-06-09T12:00:00.003-04:00

I also discovered the work of J. Henry Fair while researching for that same essay in Printmaking. I love his Dirty Pretty Things Series, even though that is not currently featured in his portfolio on his webpage. My photo teacher was always trying to push me to make these types of images, finding the beauty in otherwise devastating things. After seeing Jason Hawkes and J. Henry Fair's work, I'm really thinking I need to get a helicopter. Enjoy.

"Blood From A Stone"
Coal ash waste pond near brown coal-fired electricity generating station in Lausitz, Germany

Coal combustion waste storage ponds at Allen Steam Station near Belmont, North Carolina

Aerial view of bauxite waste

Rio Tinto, an acidic river in southwest Spain

My work is a catalyst. I take on a project, study it: what it is, who it is, how it is, and then I take a camera, point it, and go. Sometimes I bring a truckload of lights, other times I might only take a spy camera. I might shoot it on film, might go digital. Sometimes I might even choose the wrong film for the job. What I get is different every time. It will be different if you give me the same job next week.

--J. Henry Fair

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Beth Dow

2010-06-08T12:00:00.001-04:00

I found Beth Dow's work while while researching artists for an essay I wrote during my final semester of printmaking. We had to research the art periodicals and discover artists with similar ideas about art. Similar? We pretty much are the same person. Enjoy.

Burning Stubble

Wood Pile

Ruts

4 Life

Looped Branch

These photographs depict peculiar sculptural arrangements I find by chance - ordinary places where little dramas unfold.

--Beth Dow

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Lisa Brawn

2010-06-07T12:00:00.003-04:00

Lisa Brawn is a wood block artist, who's final product is the block itself. I really love her animal prints, but her pop culture portraits are wonderful too. Enjoy.

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Tim Barber

2010-06-06T12:00:00.004-04:00

Tim Barber is an urban photographer who also does a lot of fashion shoots. Here are some of his pics that I really like. Enjoy.

KITTY CITY!

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Young Me, Now Me

2010-06-05T12:00:00.002-04:00

Young Me Now Me is a collective project on the internet, where people recreate photographs of themselves when they were younger, yielding interesting, and often creepy, results. Why not try your own? Enjoy.

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Edward Bateman

2010-06-04T12:00:00.006-04:00

I absolutely love Bateman's series "Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny," which merges 19th century imagery, with 20th century robotic characters. Sorry for the tiny pix. Enjoy.

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Vegar Abelsnes

2010-06-03T12:00:00.002-04:00

Vegar Abelnes usually photographs food and portraits, neither of which I find very interesting. These few images do not fit very well with body of work, but I find them absolutely stunning, and I could not just pass them up. Enjoy.

"He no longer uses Russian cameras."

--interesting tidbid from Abelnes' brief bio

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Jason Hawkes

2010-06-02T12:00:00.002-04:00

Jason Hawkes is a photographer who specializes in commercial aerial photography. These images provide cutting commentary on human society, as well as awe-inspiring looks at the wonders of nature. If I had the guts to get up in a helicopter I would love to take photos like these, they are simply stunning and provide us with a view of the world which we otherwise would not see. Enjoy.

Apartment blocks, Hong Kong mainland. China.

Red vans awaiting shipment, parked on disused aerodrome at Upper Heyford Oxfordshire, UK.

Crossroads in countryside

Blackheath Funfair, London, England

Lines of crops growing near the Village of Prickwillow in Cambridgeshire.

Patter of Trees

Wakes off the coast of Ryde, Island of Wight

"...Often to be found slung on a harness dangling from a helicopter with its doors removed"

--Image Magazine [on Jason Hawkes]

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Mark Slankard

2010-06-01T12:00:00.000-04:00

My boyfriend saw these works at the Weston Gallery, in Cincinnati, but unfortunately I did not get a chance to see them. They were part of the Disturbing Realities exhibit. Slankards Series is "Minor Invasions." Each is illuminated by its own lightbox. I think they are cute, funny, and dark all at the same time. Enjoy.

Gigantisized fingers, hair, artifacts, elements, and unseen destructive entities act out against the unassuming environments. These transgressions refrence adult anxieties that emerge early in life - desires for power and control; fears of natural disasters; domestic violence; understanding of our own potential for destruction; and the unknowable terrors that threaten to invace the tranquility of our insulates spaces of domesticity.

--Mark Slankard [On Minor Invastions]

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Simone Lueck

2010-05-31T12:00:00.004-04:00

It's photos like these that make me wish I could make art somewhere other than Ohio. But who knows, maybe Ohio has some stories to tell too. Enjoy.

Cuban Television Sets (or green-hued beasts jimmy-rigged with ancient computer parts and fantastically adorned like religious altars)

The Once and Future Queens (or older women posing as glamorous movie stars)

I live in LA and I like it here. I like that the palm trees were all planted at the same time. I like that Gloria Swanson played herself in Sunset Boulevard. I like that she had it, and then she lost it, and she didn't know the difference. I like that she buried her dead chimp in a satin lined casket. Making pictures in LA is good. It's like sifting through an old trunk filled with worn out fan letters and a bright blonde lock of hair from 1953.

--Simone Lueck

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Catrina Dulay

2010-05-30T12:00:00.003-04:00

I hate it when artists act all pretentious and deal with issues that are way too serious and that are over my head. These go to show you that great art can be simple, and adorable. Enjoy.

From "Things with Googly Eyes"

From "In a Perfect World"

From "Queen of the House"

This photography project is a fun on-going endeavor that aims to change the context of different objects by strategically adding pairs of craft googly eyes. It's a bizarre concept, but quite hilarious and sometimes adorable. It plays on the idea that even the smallest characteristic can make a vast difference. This is probably the best two to three bucks I've spent on something from the arts and crafts aisle at the store

--Catrina Dulay [on "Things with Googly Eyes" Series]

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Annie Marie Musselman

2010-05-29T12:00:00.005-04:00

I really love Annie Marie Musselman's wildlife photographs. She captures their emotions, and makes them seem almost human. Enjoy.

Angel in Blue

Baby Orangutan at the Door, Nyaru Menteng Sanctuary Borneo

Trumpeter Swan with Friends

Eeya #2

Barred Owl With Eye Injury

I looked into her eyes and saw my mother, my father, and everyone that ever loved me...

--Annie Marie Musselman [on Angel, one of the animals photographed at the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center]

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Michael Hughes

2010-05-28T12:00:00.001-04:00

Ask any photographer what they think of vacation photography and you'll get the same answer. Michael Hughes makes photos that are beyond your typical holiday snapshots. Enjoy.

Egypt

Netherlands

London

Paris

NYC

Link to artist's page
Link to "Souvenirs" on Flickr

PES Films

2010-05-27T14:07:00.006-04:00

Well, it's been a while so I thought I might finally get around to posting a few artists that I've been saving up. These have been piling up in my "Bookmarks" Art folder for months. Enjoy =)

I came across this these video artists when one of my art professors posted this video on his facebook. I'm glad he did. Enjoy.

Stop-motion is not an art form that you see very often these days, and I think these films are really great. There are many more on their website, and some are even used commercially.

Link to artist's page

Catherine Ledner

2009-07-10T22:43:00.005-04:00

Glamour Dogs

also check out the other animals, they are all good but I can't post them all!!

almost forgot this guy

John Divola

2009-04-02T17:22:00.003-04:00

from the series "running from camera"

a few older ones as well from as far as I could get.

The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.
--John Divola

Erik Johansson

2009-04-02T12:27:00.002-04:00

One last post along the lines of manipulated imagery...

There was something about the tulips

Strange forest

Road workers coffee break

Homosapies

Maggie Taylor

2009-04-02T12:06:00.006-04:00

It's only fitting to give Maggie Taylor, Uelsmann's wife, a post as well. Uelsmann quite literally inspired many aspects of Photoshop. He was offered a chance to be one of the first to explore with Photoshop artistically, but he refused to work digitally. Instead Maggie Taylor tried it out, and her images are very interesting as well. I love the olde photograph quality, mixed with the surreal images.

Quite the couple, eh?

"Making images for me is a way of life. I can't imagine not doing it... I guess in terms of what motivates me, the best answer would be, if I don't make images I'm unhappy.
--Maggie Taylor

Jerry Uelsmann

2009-04-02T12:02:00.003-04:00

This is a long overdue post, because Uelsmann is just one of those all time classics. I never was fond of his images, but the process was always beautiful to me. Uelsman used multiple enlargers and printed multiple negatives into one image in the darkroom, merging them seamlessly.

Like I said, I was never big on the images, but these two made my jaw drop, literally. Maybe it's just my own taste, and love for human v. nature concepts in art, but I think these are stunning!!

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. For me to walk around the block where I live could take 5 minutes. But when I have a camera, it could take five hours. You just engage in the world differently. If you can get to a point where you respond emotionally, not intellectually, with your camera there’s a whole world to encounter. There’s a lot of source material once you have the freedom of not having to complete an image at the camera.
--Jerry Uelsmann

Bert Monroy

2009-04-02T11:53:00.003-04:00

It's been a while, but I've been massively busy. I've got tons of artist to share, so hold tight.

You'll have to see this one to believe it...

it may look like a random snap of a Chicago train platform... but it was ALL created by drawing in Photoshop...

Dude has some mad photoshop skills...

"Creating What You See"
As a photo-realist painter, I have often been asked why I don’t just take a photograph. Good question, when you consider my paintings look like photographs. Well, for one thing, I’m not a photographer. To me, it is not the destination that is important—it is the journey.
The incredible challenge of recreating reality is my motivation
--Bert Monroy

Ruang MES 56

2009-02-05T17:54:00.002-05:00

Where would you rather be?
There's something exciting, and something eerie about how digital manipulation of images can create events that never happened, even mundane things that aren't real.

The emerging of Digital technology as if an ironic progress for the photography world, especially to its ability to change, add and even “create” the event.

Jason Lee

2009-01-31T22:18:00.002-05:00

Jason Lee shoots his kids. It's kind of hokey, kind of great.
Check out his Flickr or this blog

It's Cold

Just Chillin'

Bread Winner

We Like to Hangout Together

Teamwork

This began as a personal project in November of 2006 and I hope to continue with it until the kids start running away from the camera.
--Jason Lee

Creepy Olde Time Mirror Photographs

2009-01-25T22:40:00.003-05:00

I came across this freaky blog a while ago, it's got pages full of old Atlantic City postcards that people got on vacation, that have their image repeated multiple times using mirrors. Cool? Scary? Both.

B-wayklein

Sebastian Palauklein

Thelmaretklein

Woof

Classics in Lego

2009-01-25T22:20:00.004-05:00

another lighthearted post for the time being... :)
work is by Balakov?

C. Ebbets

Lego: C. Ebbets

Rough Justice on a Siagian Street

Lego: Rough Justice on a Siagian Street

The self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc

Lego: The self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc

Create New Adjustment Layer?

2009-01-23T15:50:00.003-05:00

Here's some cute Photoshop graffiti I ran across. It resonates well with me because I'm a photographer, and I know how Adobe works miracles on shitty pictures, and because I'm a woman, but as a woman sometimes I see images like these of celebs and get :( even though I know how they are made...

Great Photoshop Adbusting of a boring advertisement which you see everywhere in Berlin, Germany: Britney Spears, Leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera selling their albums. The adbusting was done by the FTW crew (Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy) and consists of overlaying the image with stickers from Adobe Photoshop’s interface panels.

Lewis Hine

2009-01-01T22:35:00.008-05:00

This is another I meant to share after history class. At the turn of the century photographer Lewis Hine went to factories claiming that he worked for the machine companies and told the owners that he needed to take pictures of the machines, but he was really taking pictures to help get child labor laws passed.

Mary Todd Lincoln

2009-01-01T22:23:00.006-05:00

I meant to share this photograph a while back, when I was studying the early 20th century in history class.

People ate this shit up, do you even know how easy it would be to make :)

Ilkka Halso

2008-12-12T00:57:00.003-05:00

inspired by Joni Mitchell... the Ilkka Halso's "tree museum"

Nature theatre

Nature Coaster

Tree Museum

I make plans and construct visually buildings, which protect nature from threats of pollution and what is more important, from actions of man himself.

I visualize shelters, massive buildings where big ecosystems could be stored as at present. These massive building protect forests, lakes and rivers from pollution and what is more important from actions of man himself. At the same time I study different aspects of man's relation to nature as rare unique endangered place.

While putting nature into a museum you have to take under consideration aspect of audience/ consumer. Nature becomes joyride for tourists or beautiful landscape turns into a meditative theatre show.
--Ilkka Halso

Daniel Eatock

2008-12-12T00:26:00.007-05:00

I could spend all night on this post, you could go thru Daniel's website for hours on end... he's kind of all of the place, but wonderfully so.

seriously, just explore this guys work, it's very fresh.

mitten socks

fixed pen guestbook

bottled water colors (colors mixed with each bottle)

and I love this vid, it makes me giggle every time:

and there's such creative intimacy in posts such as this one.

and the picture of the week section is amazing and addictive and endless

Jamie K. Lund

2008-12-12T00:17:00.002-05:00

I thought Sean would be interested in this guy, it's not the greatest work but the idea is pretty neat, and Sean's tried things along this line before as well...

All from the "memory" series.

Michael Neff

2008-12-12T00:04:00.004-05:00

all from his "Chalk" series...

Ronau Woiceske

2008-10-13T20:53:00.004-04:00

Here's an oldie but a goodie. I don't know how in the world he can create etchings of snow.

Emily Arthur Douglass

2008-10-12T22:52:00.003-04:00

I'm at a total loss of ideas for what to do for my two color etching, and I came across this artist in a google search. I hope someday my art work will be in a google search too.

Dark Bird and Moth

Exotic Plants and Animals

Peony and Moth

Song Bird with Twine

Songs for Home in Green (Stargazer)

In my work I do not see nature as the backdrop for human drama but an interdependent living force that we change and that changes us. As environmental crisis moves into the foreground of our lives I visualize a meeting point for all to survive. Not only to save native species but to save the native parts of ourselves which is deeply connected to the moth and vine, bird, water, sky, woods and yes the snake.
--Emily Arthur Douglass

Water Printer

2008-10-11T22:54:00.004-04:00

Here's another 'is it art?' post, but I really like the technology this implies. I'm sure this has all been going on in places like Vegas for a long time, but I still think it's pretty amaizing.
I also kinda love the sound the falling water patterns create in the video. It's almost soothing.

There is a better (and shorter) vid on the company website, just click on the "Space Printer" link.

dolphins! :)

stars! :)

Sky Factory

2008-10-11T22:38:00.004-04:00

I'm really not sure how to describe these myself, so I'll leave you with the company's description. Is this art, I'm not sure. But it's definitely some cool technology that I'm sure we'll see in the future...

SkyCeilings are photographic illusions of real skies that fit into standard ceiling grid systems. Luminous SkyCeilings feature fluorescent or LED lighting that illuminate the translucent images from behind. Ambient SkyCeilings are made from opaque image tiles that are lit by room or cove lighting.

Luminous Rectilinear SkyCeilingTM

Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center

Sima Rafati, DDS

I especially like the idea of these being installed in places that inspire fear, or ho hum places, like hospitals and office buildings.

The Vastness of the Sky Inside...
--Sky Factory

Sleeveface

2008-09-26T23:35:00.002-04:00

Sleeveface is a collective sort of project, that has probably been around forever, but makes for some pretty rad photos. Check this stuff out.

Nina Hagen Band

Madonna

Ray Conniff

The Western Movie... Something

Dylan

Manilow

Coltrane

Francois de Roubaix

Spyro Gyra

Rickie Lee Jones

James Last

Phillip Toledano

2008-09-25T22:39:00.006-04:00

Phillip Toledano's Days With My Father is a beautiful touching site, journaling the relationship of an aging father and his son, after the death of mother/wife.

Please take time to view the whole series, it is just beautiful. And real.

I love moments like these.

For just a few minutes, everything almost feels normal
again. My mum isn't dead, and we're not just pretending
she's gone to Paris.

She's popped out to the store, and she'll be back
shortly.

How sweet that would be.

My dad spends enormous amounts of time in the toilet.

Because he has no short term memory, he can be in
there for 2-3 hours at a time.

It's both heartbreaking, and infuriating.

He'll do his business, then stand up, and as he's putting
on his pants, say, "Wait a second-I have to go."

If you try and reason with him, and explain that he's just
gone, he'll look at you as if you're an idiot...

I asked my father to look in the mirror, while I took his
photograph.

Now, the thing you have to realize about my dad is that
he was a very handsome man when he was young.
When people talk about 'film star handsome,' well, that
was my dad. In face he WAS a film star (of sorts), in
Hollywood, during he 1930's.

So when he looks in the mirror, he sees a man ravaged,
a man no longer beautiful, and that upsets him deeply.

You see, he's still vain at 98. In fact, his vanity can be
quite extra ordinary.

I tried to take him to the doctor a few months ago, but
on the way out, he caught a glimpse of himself in the
hall mirror.

He was so horrified with his appearance, that he
refused to leave the house until I found a 'black pencil'
to dye his white hair with.

My father is very funny.

I put these little cookies on his chest, and he said-"look
at my titties!"

How can you not laugh?

I find these scraps of writing all over the house... they
are a glimpse into his mind, the disquiet he tries to hide
from me.

Where is everyone.

What's going on.

How lost he feels.

Because my parents had me so late, my dad was
essentially retired when I was growing up.

But for my ambitious, driven father, he wasn't retired at
all, just working on his next career.

Being an artist.

I have so many memories of him listening to opera,
sketching, painting, sculpting.

Although he doesn't paint anymore, he still sees. He still
has the artistic impulse.

He was admiring the sunset, saying that he could make
a 'whole series' of paintings around those wonderful
colors...

The urge is still there, even if the physical ability is not...

My dad is an amazing storyteller.

I've loved listening to him for as long as I can remember,
and I've always taken pride in his oscar-winning
performances.

If he's in a bad mood, I'll ask him to tell me one. He
embraces the role with sch gusto, that his gloom
dissipates instantly.

Here, he's telling one of my favourites:

The Italian Fishmonger. (Judging from the crazy
gesticulations and accent)

The man would tell my father, then a 10 or 12 year old
kid:

"Donta squeeza the fish!-it makes the eysa-a bulge."

My father has always been obsessed with being
healthy. Long before it was in vogue, he was eating
brown bread and bran.

He would do calisthenics every morning.

I still remember him in his underpants in the living room,
touching his does, doing sit-ups.

In a return to the days of his youth, he drinks orange
juice with a raw egg in it.

He always asks me if I'll join him, and then laughs with
glee, when I tell him how disgusting his foul
concoction is.

My father was 98 today.

Sometimes, when we're talking,

my dad will stop, and sigh,
and close his eyes.

It's then that I know that he knows.

About my mum.

About everything.

Sorry for the excessively long post, but I'm in love with this site.

This site is a journal.

An ongoing record of or our relationship.

For whatever days we have left.
--Phillip Toledano

Zack Kowalczyk

2008-09-20T22:57:00.005-04:00

Zack Kowalczyk is an Indiana University student currently earning his BFA in Photography. I'm pretty much in love with this series of his...

one in a series of food that takes the shape of its container

one in a series of food that takes the shape of its container

one in a series of food that takes the shape of its container

one in a series of food that takes the shape of its container

one in a series of food that takes the shape of its container

one in a series of food that takes the shape of its container

and he does other stuff too... beautiful lighting, don't you think?

Michael Kenna

2008-09-19T15:46:00.006-04:00

It's been a while guys, but trust me there are a lot more posts to come... :)

I stumbled upon some works from Michael Kenna's Silent World series, without realizing that he has a much larger body of work. Take some time to look through his whole portfolio, with it's stunningly beautiful and at times simple photographs of nature and much more.

Imagine being out at night, alone, under starry skies, listening to silence, watching the world slowly move, all senses alive, thinking, imagining, dreaming. The camera is recording, creating, documenting, seeing what the eye cannot see - cumulative time... I love almost all aspects of the photographic process - except perhaps the processing of film!
--Michael Kenna

Steve Schofield

2008-07-19T23:38:00.004-04:00

My practice is concerned with exploring the fascination that the British public has with American popular culture and the sub-cultural world of fandom. In the images, I have shown people in their own homes and environments wearing costumes that they would be dressed in to attend events with other like-minded individuals. It seeks to offer a glimpse into seemingly ordinary lives of my subjects and allows the private to become public. The work hints at the depth of people's fantasies and the methods they employ to adopt this culture as part of their own lifestyle as a means of escapism.
The work makes a political reference to globalisation and America's ongoing ability to infiltrate all cultures via various channels of media. Much of daily life is influenced by 'Americanisms' whether through language, food or fashion, which can often be traced back to music videos, the Hollywood film industry, advertising and American sit-coms.
By working in the individual's homes and personal spaces, I have sought to present my sitters in their very British 'found' environments and to allow the viewer to evaluate the juxtaposition of cultures and how neither appear to sit comfortably with each other. Although presented in the context of their homes and personal environments, a certain amount of vulnerability and discomfort radiates from the sitters and is passed onto the viewer. Not quite in full character, they seem at odds with their surroundings. The work is intend to make the viewer question the perception that others have of themselves as much as they allow us to question our perception of others.
The title of the work (Land of The Free) refers to the American Anthem, and makes reference to Archibald MacLeish's 1938 book of FSA photographs. It also refers to a degree of irony when talking about personal 'freedoms' when one would choose to 'copy' the look of cowboys, sci-fi characters and pop stars. I want the viewer to see the relation to ideology; here are the effects of American mass-culture; consumed and re-enacted by British people in my photographs.
I seek to make the images on my own terms. I aim to marry the two genres of portraiture and documentary. I want to take documentary photography out of the context of realism, and encourage the viewer to ask questions about the politics within the image and question the implications of documentary photography being perceived as a true representation of reality.
--Steve Schofield

I thought I'd use his entire biography quote because it's pretty good. It only really references the first image in his project called Land of the Free. See more here.

Yarisal Kublitz

2008-07-19T23:32:00.003-04:00

No quote again. And no images!

Sculptural noisemaking mechanical contraptions speaking of entropy. Or just neat things that fall apart. They mostly invite the viewer to partake in the fun. :)

Just click here.

Fred Einaudi

2008-07-19T23:11:00.003-04:00

the chocolate donut - oil on canvas - 14 by 22 inches

holywar (study) - oil on canvas - 16 by 24 inches

homunculus - oil on panel - 8 by 8 inches

leda and the swan - oil on panel - 8 by 10 inches

paddy paws - oil on canvas - 14 by 18 inches

I don't have a quote by Fred, but I can tell you a little bit about his life from what I've seen on his biography page. Fred was born in 1971. He is currently painting in 2008. Fred will be dug up as a skeleton by a future civilization in 2154.

Visit Fred Einaudi's site here.

Christine and Justin

2008-07-10T19:49:00.007-04:00

This is a couple whose art I have been watching for a while, they basically paint cute little canvases of items that they want, and then sell the painting for the retail price of the item. cute idea.

WANTS FOR SALE:

then there's NEEDS FOR SALE, which benefit charities (they aren't just materialistic/selfish!)

and then there's this, Justin's artistic venture in which he collects and seals nyc garbage in neat little cubes, and sells them. There are themed cubes to, from events like New Year's Eve, Opening Day at Yankee and Shea stadiums, and even the Republican National Convention. Pretty neat, you kind of have to check out the site to get it.

Christine and Justin are a couple from NYC, whose love of stuff and art inspired them to start this project.
--Wants for Sale

Chris Jordan

2008-07-10T19:18:00.007-04:00

pretty neat stuff, don't know if his large scale works are digital collage or if they are actually set up. I'm really hoping for the latter.

Barbie Dolls
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.

detail

detail

Plastic Bottles
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

detail

detail

Open Drums, Seattle

The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.
--Chris Jordan

Georges Hugnet

2008-07-10T19:12:00.002-04:00

LOVE this technique, can't wait to try it

Portrait automatique de l'automate d'Albert-le-Grand [Automatic Portrait of the Automaton of Albertus Magnus], 1938

This 'portrait' was made with a technique known as decalcomania, frequently used by the the Surrealists. Paint was brushed onto very smooth paper, which was covered immediately with another sheet of paper. The two pages were pressed together and then the top sheet was removed to reveal a spongy-textured and highly suggestive surface. The subject of the picture was inspired by the images the artist could 'read' into the textured paint. Hugnet has satirically titled his work a portrait of Albertus Magnus, a thirteenth-century, German theologian and alchemist who was a hero of the Surrealist group.
--National Galleries of Scotland

Matt Stuart

2008-07-09T23:08:00.009-04:00

a great street photographer with a wonderful sense of humour.
plus, you've got to love his tag lines such as "Matt Stuart Shoots People" :)

Trafalgar Square

Russell Square

Bank Underground

Office

Barbican

Soho

Bank Underground

I am not sure what came first, being nosey or an interest in 'street photography'...
--Matt Stuart

Steven Gill

2008-07-04T02:15:00.002-04:00

I love these photographs, and very much admire Gill's ability to approach all sorts of strangers in their everyday lives and take their photographs, he makes it look easy.

Billboard series (back views billboards):

No Need to Keep the Receipt. A Diamond is Forever.

L'Oreal Paris. Because You're Worth It.

Inland Revenue (British IRS)

Movie Lapse:

Audience

Audio Portraits:

Boyzone

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Day Return:

Gallery Warders:

Buried Series (photos taken and buried in the park, the decomposition is beautiful!):

all the series are worth looking thru

Yeondoo Jung

2008-07-04T00:25:00.005-04:00

I suppose this post really belongs to Sean, who showed me this guy, but I'm going to post it anyway :)

From his "Wonderland" Series, turning children's drawings into photographic images:

Sleeping Beauty

Afternoon Nap

I Want to be a Singer

Mother's Garden

Modern Wedding

And then there is this one:

Evergreen Tower (32 family portraits)

Cool stuff.

Janet Morton

2008-06-28T23:39:00.008-04:00

I LOVE Janet's mix of traditional "craft" type work with more artistic intent. This work is beautiful and inspiring and you really should click the links and see it all.

Early Frost

Lindon in Lace

Capitol (detail)

Sweater Bike

Mandola #3

Mandola #1 (detail)

Trust (A Map of the USA)

Trust (A Map of the USA) (detail)

The intent has been to playfully transform objects, critically examining impulses of anthropomorphization taken to extremes, misplaced sentimentality, and control of nature
--Janet Morton

Rachael Herbert

2008-06-15T14:21:00.004-04:00

my kind of stuff...

RIP

Stacked Apples

Bread Faces

On Top of the World (Today)

Against the Odds

Sprouting

Martin Klimas

2008-06-09T16:44:00.004-04:00

this guy keeps popping up, so I figured I might as well share :)

talk about stop action...
these make me think about photographs that have some sort of higher meaning or value to them, photographs of something that will never again happen or exist again. wonderful.

Liyu+Liubo

2008-06-02T00:49:00.005-04:00

Artists Liyu and Liubo work collaboratively to create photographic reenactments of stories found in local newspapers:

Chutian Metropolis Daily 2006-06-15
Peasant Workers Poisoned by Unknown Smoke
At 8 p.m. yesterday, a white smoke was emitted and poisoned 20 migrant workers before a small-sized construction site in Luojia Village, Qingling , Hongshan District. Six were seriously-injured and had to be sent to the hospital. An examination by the Hongshan Environmental Protection Bureau suggested the components of the poisonous smoke were: phosgene, chlorine and hydrogen cyanide.

Chutian Golden Paper 2006-04-30
Hair Salon Wonder - Hairdressing while Smashing
At 2:00 p.m. yesterday, a group of people rushed into the hair salon at 87 Renhe Road, Hanzheng Street. They began smashing the store while telling the salon owner not to do business there anymore. Two female customers, unhurried by the commotion, demanded that the stylists finish their respective haircuts.

Chutian Metropolis Daily 2006-8-15
Same Face, Different Weight
At first glance, it's hard to tell the twin sisters apart; but as you look more closely you will see that one is plump while the other is slim. This startling change dates from March when the younger sister was sent to Beijing for two-months of advanced study. During her stay in Beijing she took Paiyousu diet pills and lost 14 kilograms.

Chutian Metropolis Daily 2006-10-12
Chopping Horror: Eight fingers lost and not found
A shocking horror occurred in Erqi Road, Hankou last night. Five suspects chopped off a man's eight fingers and then threw the man into a taxi. The victim was brought to the hospital, but he will still be disabled for the suspects refused to return the chopped fingers. Afterwards, the victim's wife went back to the scene of the crime with the police to search for the fingers but found nothing.

Chutian Metropolis Daily 2006-11-03
In Order to Solve Dog Problem Police Hunt Stray Dogs in East Lake Scenic Spot
Yesterday, the reporter accompanied the police as they hunted down stray dogs in the East Lake tourist site. The policemen found a fierce dog and shot it dead with a shotgun. According to statistics, they have shot down 14 stray dogs in the scenic spot since late October.

Chutian Golden Paper 2006-12-31
Young Girl Drowns off Yangtze River Bank
At 6:30 p.m. last night, a young girl walked slowly into the Yangtze river at Dadikou. The girl had already drowned by the time the body was found. Reporters quickly arrived on the scene. The girl looked to be about seventeen years old. Policemen found a cellphone and keys on the body; at present, the identity of the dead and the cause of death are under investigation.

Chutian Golden Paper 2006-04-05
Failing to Steal Anything, a Thirteen-year-old girl Sets Fire to Classmate's Home
Thirteen-year-old Xiao Qian (a pseudonym), made a copy of the key to her classmate Lin Yu's (pseudonym) house. Xiao Qian stole money from Lin's house many times. On April 1, Xiao Qian went into Lin's apartment again, but could not find any money. Xiao Qian was upset and set fire to the Lin's master bedroom. Yesterday, the two families reached an agreement, according to which Xiao Qian's family would pay Lin Yu's family RMB 30,000 in compensation.

How can one decide whether these stories have truly happened or not simply relying on written words? Maybe it's not important, at least they have truly existed in the papers... That's the so-called media truth. The life of today is the history of tomorrow.
--Liyu+Liubo

Andreas Kohler

2008-06-02T00:40:00.005-04:00

searching old glasses - visiting the house of my departed grandmother

wrinkled alabaster

Joshua Dalsimer

2008-06-01T18:40:00.006-04:00

René Maltête

2008-05-29T02:40:00.003-04:00

Some Photos of That Day

2008-05-29T02:13:00.005-04:00

I was going to try to explain this, but I feel that it's better if you take it like a movie or a novel and try to figure it out yourself. I won't even mention the creators name because that would be easily enough to google now (and it's not Hugh Crawford).

http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

Some dates though:

8/28/86

4/8/87

Ellen Harvey

2008-05-29T01:18:00.013-04:00

My Venus is better than yours
Still frames are taken on a security camera in a museum of someone copying "Venus and Amor" , with one shot taken every minute. Not captured in the security video is where the original painting is switched out with the copied painting. The installation of this work shows the fake painting framed in the original paintings frame along with a framed copy of the museum's "rules for copyists," as well as the 12 minute video of stills. Post cards of the copied painting were available in the museum gift shop, as were post cards depicting the original painting in the artist's home.

Painting of a Painting
Painting of graffiti hung at sight of original street graffiti

Paintings of wood on wood panels

Inviable Self Portraits
oil paintings based on Polaroids taken with flash in mirror, set in old frames

And then there's this one. You have to explore it yourself.
New York Beautifiation Project
Forty 5 x 7 inch oval landscapes painted in oils without permission on graffiti sites throughout New York City from 1999 –2001. Free map and postcards of the project distributed in 2001.

Duane Michals

2008-05-29T01:00:00.002-04:00

This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen, she did love me. Look see for yourself!

I build a pyramid

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this now, in some way the lines of our lives have intersected... For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.

It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.
--Duane Michals

Charles Cohen

2008-05-28T23:55:00.006-04:00

Overcoming darkness with artificial light, we frame a state of mind: the routine of day in, day out is okay. At the first sign of the sun's descent, street lights ignite to insure a seamless close of the day and to preserve a sense of security and control...

Set

Take, for example, the instant in which you, looking out the side window of a car, passing a billboard sign on the highway, are only able to see its profile: a meaningless, vertical stitch in a stream of information. I adore this instant...

That

Buff does not have to be based on pornography, but because its intended function is simple and explicit -- to entertain the voyeur -- it is thus easily manipulated. Ironically, it is because pornography suggests participation that we can observe the phenomenon of stimulation in a more heighten fashion. This is the process of abstraction.

Buff

Adrian Firth

2008-05-23T19:36:00.007-04:00

We all knew it was coming. A Penny artist

the happy couple

lizzie

My work can be thought of as a backlash against consumerism, fashion and what I am taught, as I often have great affection for things that I am told have no value and very little connection to things, which are apparently significant.

--Abelardo Morrell

Scott Blake

2008-05-05T00:18:00.007-04:00

I'm really not sure, at all, how I feel about this artist.
A lot of his work kind of reads as (dare I say) one liners, and half-assed. Some of it is pretty cool as well. Blake's work seems to center around consumerism, 9/11, and disestablishment of art itself.
I'll leave you to navigate his site cause there's a whole lot going on there, and it's fucking with my computer. He also has a youtube channel here.
And with that I'll leave you with a barcode Jesus.

check out his other works too, not just the barcode ones, which get old pretty quickly.

George Steinmetz

2008-04-28T23:02:00.003-04:00

some neat work from photojournalist George Steinmetz.
It'd be great to travel the world and take photos like these.

Camels near Wadi Mitan, Om

Artificial lakes and heated swimming pools define the lifestyle in suburban Las Vegas, Nevada.

A closeable roof allows Houston's Astro Stadium to be air conditioned.

Dawn Roscoe

2008-04-28T13:34:00.004-04:00

Here are some works from Dawn Roscoe's Exquisite Suburbia series, pretty creepy stuff.

Caroline at Play

Teatime

Family Portrait

Alone Time

Philip Scott Johnson

2008-04-27T00:18:00.006-04:00

Here is another artist worth watching on YouTube. I'm not even sure "artist" is the right word, but I'm also not sure it isn't. you decide.

women in art

women in film

van gogh

I'd like to see more from this guy, I love these 3 videos and I hope to see more like them.

Sarah Illenberger

2008-04-23T22:51:00.005-04:00

This is an interesting German editorial/commercial photographer I ran across who does some neat work.

from an interesting series of shadows, not even quite sure how she did some of them

i just like it when true artists do things better than the "artists" i know...

Joan Fontcuberta

2008-04-17T12:39:00.008-04:00

Joan Fontcurberta creates creatures and places them into real world surroundings and photographs them. Fontcurberta placed these photographs into a science museum, complete with scientific names and everything.

Fontcurberta's work crosses that line of what is real and what isn't real in photography. Photographs historically were known to present reality, and truth. With the used of digital imagery these days anything can be altered to appear real, but what is real? Can you believe everything you see?

Abelardo Morrell

2008-04-17T12:04:00.005-04:00

Morrell does some wonderful work using light as the subject. He is also kind of a normal, humble, family guy, who feels most comfortable working at his own home. Watch the trailer for Shadow of the House, a documentary about Morrell, and you'll fall in love with him even more

Camera Obscura Image of the Empire State Building in Bedroom, 1994
This series is really neat, basically he sealed off all light from entering these rooms and made a tiny pinhole for light to come thru... thus creating a life-sized pinhole camera/camera obscura in the room.

Camera Obscura Image of Santa Maria della Salute in Palazzo Bedroom. Venice, Italy,2006

Light Entering Our House, 2004

$5, 2002
from a series of photographs of money

Folded $20 Bill Resembling the World Trade Center, 2002

Portrait of Inghirami by Raphael, 1993
another neat series, using books as subjects

Self Portrait in Book, 1995

We cannot see life without any means, without any media. Life is too big, too radiant, too chaotic... we all need some way to observe life.

--Abelardo Morrell

Phil Hansen

2008-04-17T00:25:00.012-04:00

This guy is my f a v o r i t e contemporary, living, breathing, working artist. I just love his spunk, and his talent is absolutely amazing.
Phil used to have a segment on his website and more recently on his youtube channel every week entitled "Goodbye Art" where each month he'd pick a subject, and make one piece of artwork every week related to it. He'd document it's creation (and usually it's destruction, because the point of "goodbye" art is that it only lasts temporarily). Phil is creative and fun, and you've got to admit he's quite talented as well. I love when he does large scale works and just dives right in without even so much as sketching.

Phil's methods are completely new and unconventional, and i have no idea where he gets his patience from. It is refreshing to see an artist who makes art because they want to, and just doesn't take it too seriously.

Anyway, I can't do him justice on this blog so just go to his site or youtube channel, you won't be sorry.

and of course I couldn't resist posting this vid... yea... that's me at the end :)

there was a contest for everyone who sent in a picture of themselves with the completed maze, and a winner was picked at random to get his old video camera :)
if only i could get it to work with my mac...

Art is my life. I keep working on new projects and am trying to figure out how to make a living at this.
--Phil Hansen