Archive for January, 2011
Synthesist
We know how much I like bokeh. Jonathan Rahmani certainly does as evidenced by his sharing the above video with me. The examples of bokeh above have the exact colors and compositions I’ve captured when shooting streetlights and cars’ taillights. What’s cool here are the juxtapositions between the obviously camera captured circles and the crisper, [...]
Brock Lefferts’ Daily Designs
Brock Lefferts has set out to do an illustration/design a day which are then posted to his Tumblog. Thus far he’s done one for each day this year. The images, while striking, look fairly labor intensive, so I’m curious as to how far he can run with this project. In addition to this Tumblog Lefferts’ [...]
Paul Rand
via futuremilk
Too Late To Die Young
I Dreamed That…
Edit: I’ve taken out the embedded videos originally in this post. Once the page was loaded, the videos started playing a ridiculously annoying soundtrack. Yes, the site’s cool, but damn, do the embedded clips really need to act this way? Found this newly launched site that functions much in the same way Subservient Chicken did: [...]
Revisiting Andreas Gursky
People who know me and my work know I’ve got a fascination with the pictures Andreas Gursky makes. While my work differs from that of Gursky in an array of ways, some similarities are obvious. I was digging through some old Evernote notes and found the above images tucked away in a corner I carved [...]
Databending with TextEdit in OS X
Technology can fail in such aesthetically pleasing fashions. The first time I was able to capture one such malfunction was finding the PSP billboard on Houston crashed. The next time I was struck by a failing billboard was when I shot the LED ad at the subway entrance at 22nd and Broadway. In the Pixels [...]
Megabytes of Spring
Megabytes of Spring is a V Magazine editorial comprised of a series of animated GIFs. I came across the editorial through Amanda’s great IS MENTAL blog. Animated GIFs have crept onto this site before. Now I’m wondering how I can use them for events. They’re so lo-tech that I’d like to make them work without [...]
“falling objects, gelatin and a slo-mo exploding balloon!”
Loving the work the Barbarian Group is doing for GE. via @colinjnagy
Dashing Through the Snow
This video was shot on my way up to Donner Summit last week. I can see myself using this, and future clips shot with a similar technique, in the visuals work I do for Sound Noir. The flashing highlights can be filtered and layered to create what I hope would be interesting effects. The only [...]
