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There's just something about the simplicity of animated gifs I really love (click the image above if it ain't movin'). There's a bunch of them on Jaime Martinez's site which have a lovely calm, surreal feel to them. The rest of the portfolio's worth a look too.
I got hold of this 1974 copy of Pumping Iron magazine for a friend's birthday and it totally pained me to post it to him. It had signs of wear, but was generally in great condition and full of amazing shots of people like Mr Schwarzenegger in his Mr. Olympia heyday.
For the design geeks among us, it's designed by Martin Stephen Moskof and it's 205mm x 275mm, 221 pages and a softback publication.
Thanks to Celine at Counter-Print.co.uk for great service, careful packaging and general loveliness - if you have the two key ingredients of good sense and a little spare money, you'll head over there right now and buy something amazing.
I tidied a drawer the other day, which is a pretty rare thing. Almost as rare are these images which are 007 promo shots. I think they're from the first Bond film, Dr. No. If I had the original contact sheets as opposed to a crap photocopy of a crap photocopy, I'd probably auction them off and retire.
A truly stunning photograph, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo taken in California, has won the deep space prize in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010. It's a panorama of part of Orion, including the famous three-starred belt. Apparently, it's also got the Horsehead nebula and the Orion nebula.
Just looking at it for a while sets my imagination racing and kind of helps put things in perspective a bit. We are mere specks, aren't we?
Photograph: Rogelio Bernal Andreo/National Maritime Museum
Walking around Bristol and the balloons started taking off.
Max Abadian has worked with the likes of Lady Gaga & Dita Von Teese (and a bunch more on top of that) and has just shot Doutzen Kroes (Dow-tzen Crew-s) in NYC for the cover of Canadian fashion mag Flare. The shots are a messed up, mixed up version of classic Brigitte Bardot style images.
This is what a decade of Playboy centrefolds looks like. It's 1988 - 1997, in case you're an aficionado on such things, and it's a work by Jason Salavon where he's used "...point-by-point mathematical averaging..." to produce the image.
via @Booooooom
Task: take image of old pin up or good shot of a lady. Add laser effects to her breasts. Lazertits. A totally pointless website, but worth a butchers.
via Neil Mason Studio
A Beautiful Machine is a two-week event curated by McFaul Studio and howies and is running from the 26th March to 9th April. A combination of art, talk and ride based above the howies store in Bristol.
With over 50 artists from around the globe, 15 incredible speakers, a bicycle treasure hunt and a special bicycle auction it's going to be a whole lot of fun.
Christoph Niemann is well worth a mention, his work has a nice sense of wit. He's got a new book out which is "A playful homage to New York" and shows aspects of New York depicted through the medium of photographed Lego bricks. The above image is taken from a n Abstract City series which are well worth a look.
I love these shots of Stormtroopers on their day off. If they weren't so good, I'd say someone has too much time on their hands, but some of the poses are so perfectly positioned it's a high quality project well worth the hours that have been invested in it.
Just got hold of this copy of me and my brother when I'm probably about 3, back in the days when photo booths didn't do colour shots (Holy crap, that was about 30 years ago). I'm the good looking, quizzical one on the right. I got the brains too.
Unlike many people, I'm a fan of spiders and never kill them. They're good for controlling the pests in the garden and lets face it, they're pretty stunning when not squashed under your size 10 boot. Thomas Shahan's amazing up close and personal photography with some eight-legged friends makes you realise just how wonderful they are.
Pretty striking stuff. Original post from Abduzeedo
Ok, so. If you're ever bored, get into a photo club like this, shown on the English Russia website. This photo is from the project where the community have to construct and shoot the following scenario:
“A Zombie: A man, rolled up in bandages should crawl on his stomach at a pedestrian crossing. He should have a knife sticking out of his back. Another guy should chase him with a working chainsaw”
Others include a waiter up to his waist in a refuse chute - that one is well worth checking out. This is now one of my favourite websites.
Matt Stuart has "...a fascination with people and the way they live their lives is why I enjoy the business so much..." and I think his work is excellent. Nice to see a sense of humour in anything these days, so hats off to him.
Just seen these old photos on the Time website of Obama, looking quite young and different from the image he has these days. I'm going to have to dig out the old copy of a contact sheet I have of Sean Connery posing for his first promo shots for Dr. No in 1962. Will post them when I find them...
Some really interesting work by Miru Kim, including the Naked City Spleen, a series of shots taken around the world with nudes in unconventional places. Probably quite cold, damp, dangerous, unconventional places by the look of it. That's probably the point, so I won't get to artsy about it and let you decide for yourselves.
First day back after the new year is normally a shock to the system, but I've had a pretty calm Christmas break as we (almost) completely closed for the festive period. The result? An enthusiastic start to the next year of Trap 5, with a lot of good stuff planned for 09.
It's snowing outside but I'm happy working (although the lure of catching snowflakes on my tongue is pretty strong). If you haven't tried doing that since you were five years old, you really need to.
New years resolutions are to be more organised. To back up my work more often. To be more organised with how I back up my work (spent a lot of time over Christmas trying to rid my various drives of duplicate files and I just don't trust Time Machine yet). To keep on top of my finances better. To keep running. To cook more. To cook more varied dishes than cheese on toast. To drink less tea. To drink more water. To clean my teeth more thoroughly. And the staple NYR in most people's arsenal... To stick to the NYRs for more than a week. Oh, and to be more optimistic.
Work wise, we've uploaded our little YouTube animation for Winergy Equilibrium, which was great fun. If you own a horse, you have to feed them this stuff - it's catered specifically for your kind of horse and they love it. It's just a bit like eating a weird cereal and a fistful of hay. Apparently.
I'm off to drink tea and eat cheese on toast while randomly backing up some files into the first TO SORT OUT folder of 2009... Happy New Year.
Max Abadian has worked with the likes of Lady Gaga & Dita Von Teese (and a bunch more on top of that) and has just shot Doutzen Kroes (Dow-tzen Crew-s) in NYC for the cover of Canadian fashion mag Flare. The shots are a messed up, mixed up version of classic Brigitte Bardot style images.
This is what a decade of Playboy centrefolds looks like. It's 1988 - 1997, in case you're an aficionado on such things, and it's a work by Jason Salavon where he's used "...point-by-point mathematical averaging..." to produce the image.
Task: take image of old pin up or good shot of a lady. Add laser effects to her breasts. Lazertits. A totally pointless website, but worth a butchers.
A Beautiful Machine is a two-week event curated by McFaul Studio and howies and is running from the 26th March to 9th April. A combination of art, talk and ride based above the howies store in Bristol.
Christoph Niemann is well worth a mention, his work has a nice sense of wit. He's got a new book out which is "A playful homage to New York" and shows aspects of New York depicted through the medium of photographed Lego bricks. The above image is taken from a n Abstract City series which are well worth a look.
I love these shots of Stormtroopers on their day off. If they weren't so good, I'd say someone has too much time on their hands, but some of the poses are so perfectly positioned it's a high quality project well worth the hours that have been invested in it.
Just got hold of this copy of me and my brother when I'm probably about 3, back in the days when photo booths didn't do colour shots (Holy crap, that was about 30 years ago). I'm the good looking, quizzical one on the right. I got the brains too.
Unlike many people, I'm a fan of spiders and never kill them. They're good for controlling the pests in the garden and lets face it, they're pretty stunning when not squashed under your size 10 boot. Thomas Shahan's amazing up close and personal photography with some eight-legged friends makes you realise just how wonderful they are.
Ok, so. If you're ever bored, get into a photo club like this, shown on the English Russia website. This photo is from the project where the community have to construct and shoot the following scenario:
Matt Stuart has "...a fascination with people and the way they live their lives is why I enjoy the business so much..." and I think his work is excellent. Nice to see a sense of humour in anything these days, so hats off to him.
Just seen these old photos on the Time website of Obama, looking quite young and different from the image he has these days. I'm going to have to dig out the old copy of a contact sheet I have of Sean Connery posing for his first promo shots for Dr. No in 1962. Will post them when I find them...
Some really interesting work by Miru Kim, including the Naked City Spleen, a series of shots taken around the world with nudes in unconventional places. Probably quite cold, damp, dangerous, unconventional places by the look of it. That's probably the point, so I won't get to artsy about it and let you decide for yourselves.
