May 2012
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Robert Canali
“Abstractions of refracted light, visible only “in dust”, emphasize the physical and chemical aspects of photography through the unique character of the negative. This work was inspired by phenomenons of light and rendered by means of large format photography. Comprised of both colour and black and white photographs, this body of work is an exercise in ‘seeing’ and photographic looking....
Retratos Pintados
Beautiful. More here (thanks to Mico Toledo for bringing this to our attention)
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Keith Haring
Amazing little journey of clicks this site will take you on. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/keith_haring/
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Physicists on Banknotes
George Stephenson
Christian Huygens
Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham
Alessandro Volta
Niels Bohr
Galileo Galilei
Sigmund Freud
April 2012
10 posts
Simon Davidson – Bonneville
Really love Simon Davidson’s Bonneville salt flats series, be sure to check out the rest of his work here
Jeff Milstein - The Jet as Art
Jeffrey Milstein’s favorite spot for photographing aircraft is runway 24R at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). “You have to find the right spot underneath the flight path,” he says, “Not too far away and not too close. The plane can’t be coming in too high or too low, and if the wing dips a little bit to correct for wind, the symmetry will be unequal. It is just a matter of finding the...
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Mark Powell
Mad. Biro on envelopes.
Presidential Runner-ups
1996 - Bob Dole
1980 - Jimmy Carter
1968 - Hubert Humphrey
1912 - William Howard Taft
As-Found, a creative response to the trillions of images available on the Internet. Bookmark.
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Chris Little
So simple. Super nice.
Take Ivy
Beautiful photographs by Teruyoshi Hayashida, as shot on various Ivy League university campuses in the early 1960s. (From the book Take Ivy). So atmospheric, so good… like time travel.
(Guest post by Hana Tanimura)
Eric Valli - Off the Grid
If theres one thing you do today, checking out Eric’s work should be it. http://www.ericvalli.com
Melchior Tersen – Hellfest
http://melchiortersen.com
10 Bullets.
By Tom Sachs
R J Shaughnessy
Talent. http://www.rjshaughnessy.com
March 2012
10 posts
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Virgil Finlay
Blown my mind. His signature alone. They are created using pen-and-ink
Adolf Hitler
Gave up becoming a professional painter in his youth to enter into politics (think along with probably the rest of the world he should have stayed with the painting) subsequently he became the dictator of Germany and led the world into World War II, causing the death of millions.
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Gary Panter
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were comics before Kirby, but for the most part their page layout, graphics, and visual dynamic aped...
Matt Hoffman
The man who inspired a generation. If his documentary has passed you by, ‘The Birth of Big Air’ you can find part one here. Enjoy.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel, a master for the feel and rhythm of lines + movement, allowing nearly all his sculptures to be viewed from any angle without compromising on their impact.
1770 – 24 March 1844. You can watch a video to see more of his works here.
William Miller
Ruined polaroids by New York photographer William Miller. Beautiful.
Guest post by Hana Tanimura.
Teddy Fitzhugh
One of our favourite up and coming photographers Teddy Fitzhugh has his first solo show this Thursday (8th) March at Protein. Going to be ace. Check out his site here.
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Climbing the Alps in the 1940’s
L’Arête nord du Weisshorn (4505m)
The Matterhorn via the Furggen Ridge.
Les Périades (3401m)
La Fiamma (2400m)
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Ralph McQuarrie – Star Wars Trilogy Concept Art
“I just did my best to depict what I thought the film should look like, I really liked the idea. I didn’t think the film would ever get made. My impression was it was too expensive. There wouldn’t be enough of an audience. It’s just too complicated. But George knew a lot of things that I didn’t know.”
—McQuarrie on Star Wars.
February 2012
8 posts
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Ellsworth Kelly
“I’m not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow” – Ellsworth Kelly
Johan Rosenmunthe
All the images in this post are enlarged crops of the first photograph. Loving how the pixels soften up and start to look like pencil drawings… By Danish photographer Johan Rosenmunthe.
Guest post by Hana Tanimura.
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Woodcuts by J. Borges
Depicting the heroic, the wonderful, the religious or moral, the satiric and historic. Truly original, totally other worldly, see more.
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Eyvind Earle
Mr. Earle came to Walt Disney’s attention in the early 1950’s, when he created the look for the animated 1953 short ”Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom,” which won both an Oscar and a Cannes Film Festival award. For the rest of the decade, Disney kept him busy painting the settings for films like ”Peter Pan,”.
He was showing his work in galleries in...
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Joe Johnson – Mega Churches
Joe Johnson’s series Mega Churches investigates the architectural ornateness of the contemporary, American place of worship. Perfect. More here.
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Simon Harsen - Melt
Melt: A portrait of an Iceberg. Title pretty much says it all. Beautiful More here
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Quaderna by Superstudio
Objects built on the base of the spatial lattice orthogonal grid. Sick. Designed and built by Superstudio in the 70’s.
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The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database
The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database has a wealth of super lovely late 19th too early 20th century watercolour sketch designs of japanese toys. See lots more.
January 2012
9 posts
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Ramón Figueroa Collection
“The posters are a great expression of a time when Mexico made an investment in popular culture as a way to promote the values and virtues that would unify society and consolidate the power of the system. I think it is very interesting that some of the poster artists (such as Josep Renau or Ernesto García Cabral) were also muralists. There is research to be done on the Mexican poster...
Skinemax
“Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.
A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that...
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Jean Charles Pellerin's Paper Theaters...
Jean Charles Pellerin’s paper theaters were wildly popular in the nineteenth century. Depicting folk themes, Gothic gardens, domestic drabberies, prison life, and Napoleonic battlefields. Completely mesmeric.
Gutzon Borglum – Mount Rushmore
Essentially a project to promote tourism to South Dakota, Gutzon Borglum + 400 workers started the colossal sculpture in October 1927, it took them a further 14 years to finish. (Read more about the history of it here)
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Daniele Villa
Super nice collages. http://www.danielevilla.com/
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Eric Cahan
Cabo San Lusas, MexicoSunset 7:09pm
Two Mile Hallow, NYSunset 7:22pm
Bridgehampton, NYSunset 7:48pm
Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, NYSunset 8:10pm
Captured gradients as the sun rises from across America and Mexico. So nice: http://ericcahan.com/portfolio/sky-series/
Keith Warren Greiman
This man will change your horizons. http://keithgreiman.com
Ana Cabaleiro
Beautiful. Check out Ana’s portfolio here.
The Stonemasters: Californian Rock Climbers in the...
Decked out in bandanas, shades and cutoffs, they blew open the conventions of climbing. Dubbing themselves the Stonemasters, these now-legendary adventurers established techniques that allowed for some of the most spectacular climbs in history. They were loud, proud, smoked dope and chalked their lightning-flash insignia across rock faces. The glamour of their lifestyle made a huge impact...
December 2011
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Larry Burrows: Vietnam
In the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971, when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam–Laos border. His images, published in Life magazine, brought the war home, scorching the...
Paul X. Johnson
Panther. Masonic book. Axe… Check out more of Pauls work here. Really lovely.
Wrapped Monuments
By the infamous Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Monuments (Vittorio Emanuele II, on Piazza del Duomo, and the monument to Leonardo da Vinci, on Piazza della Scala) were wrapped up with polypropylene fabric and red polypropylene rope. Milan, 1970. More here
Thomas Struth - Museums
Museums by Struth, one of Germanys greats modern photographers. Be sure to check out his other works here.
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La Mer de Pianos
Short film about Marc Manceaux, the owner of the oldest piano shop in Paris. Like this man a lot.
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Wolff & Tritschler
Photos by Paul Wolff and his partner Alfred Tritschler.
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Damien Florébert Cuypers
Jeffrey Deitch
Grayson Perry
Hans Ulrich
Charles Saatchi
“The two-minute sketches started in a bar in Paris,” explains Cuypers. “All we had were crayons and paper so we thought we’d see how quickly we could draw people.”
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Memphis Furniture
Colourful 80’s Furniture design that changed the face of modern design. More via design museum: designmuseum.org/design/memphis
MaricorMaricar
Otherwise known as Maricor and Maricar Manalo. Amazing stuff, especially love their letter ‘C’.