Holi Festival of Colour

Virtual Lighting Studio

I came across this the other week and for those that want to play around with portraits and lighting its a great way to experiment without setting up or getting you camera out and best of all its free and works off you web browser... what would be good is if it works on smart phones too, ill get back to you on that one. check it out and have a play.

http://www.zvork.fr/vls/

For Use / Numen

Numen/For Use is a Croatian-Austrian design collective working in the fields of scenography, industrial and spatial design and conceptual art. A particular piece of work that has caught my attention is their use of tape to create architectural forms within a structure.



The tape concept developed further towards a more sculptural architectonic form. It was practically "found" through the act of chaotic wrapping, where a one-dimensional line (“tape”), slowly turned into two-dimensional plane, which then finally curved into volume.
The installation was envisaged as a site specific, parasitical structure invading an arbitrary location. The straight lines of main trajectories are stretched across a given area and these tendons are then wrapped diagonally with layers of elastic tape, giving shape to a complex organic form through a process similar to the emergence of such structures in nature.
With the further layering of the tape, the figure becomes more and more corporeal as it picks up on the slow increase of the curvature. The interior of the structure is supple, elastic, and pliable while the form itself is statically perfect, as it ideally follows the trajectories of forces, being literally defined by them. In the moment when the audience enters the installation, what started off as a sculpture seamlessly morphs into architecture.

Josh Ritter

A little stop frame animation but the kind of twist i really like. Josh Ritter created a stop frame animation using 12000 laser cut pieces of colour paper. You could be mistaken for think that just makes it that much easier, however each one of the 12000 shots need to have been drawn on the computer and then sent to the machine for cutting just as time consuming as doing it by hand. The final effect though is pretty damn good.


Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.

A Little Look At Portraits

I have chosen to post these portrait examples because of the intensity of the colour and the full frame effect. This first guy Georgs Kamelakis is a young ish photography starting out but his main inspirations are those below him you can clearly see. 

George Kamelakis. Born in the USA and living in Heraklion Crete since 1992








Peter Hapak, 1973, Hungary, is a versatile photographer based in the US. He works for commercial and editorial clients, but his main focus lies on portraiture and the human body.








Martin Schoeller

Born Munich Germany 1968, works in New York.

Martin Klimas

I don't have any info on this guy so check his images and website, this seems relevant to some of my students.

Stefano Bonazzi

Born in Ferrara in 1983, Stefano Bonazzi is self-taught, and a fan of modern art, video art, digital graphics, architectural design. Stefano tends to use charcoal drawings, photo editing and digital photography. check out his site here. His best work is through digital photography and photo manipulation and i finf his smoke photos some of his best.

 

 

 

Drinking Fountains

The latest work from Luzinteruptus is a piece on drinking fountains in Madrid, or the lack of. In Madrid, in less than 30 years, more than 50% of the public fountains in service have been lost, which now are seen to be dismantled, broken, without a tap to drink from or simply dry.
Check out thee site for more info listed on the right, some great images though yet again, their work with light is stupendous and highly effective.

Willis Elkins

Some objects get disregarded without notice and others people have now idea they carry them let alone throw them away. But when 2 and half billion people smoke in the world the lighter is an object that probable outs sells most disposable item. Willis Elkins is an artist from outer Brooklyn that collected lighters washed up on the shore and photographed the spectrum. simple but effective.

Aaron Moran

Aaron Moran received his BFA from Emily Carr in 2007, and further supplemented his visual language with two years studying film at SFU. His practice incorporates sculpture, assemblage, drawing, and print media. Aside from his traditional work, he is also involved in an array of self-published projects ranging from zines, to artist books, and everything in between. He is the current artist in residence at the Ranger Station Art Gallery through the Kent / Harrison Arts Council in Harrison Hot Springs, BC.
via Artsy Dartsy

I have come across Aarons work before and just not out it up on the blog, check out his Tumblr for a wide range of works, i really like the selected work iv posted but to be honest i beginning to be a fan of all his stuff. Seeing some of the students do something similar in the past i have real appreciation for his work and style. http://aaronmoran.tumblr.com/

Pop Up brought to life

A cool little animation using a range of different methods.

a second a day

There are some things that i find really naff, one of these are light paintings. It seems that everyone is doing it and when i see them i often just think that's so cheap and nasty looking. The other thing is the self portrait each day of my life montage crap, so tired of seeing it and who cares.
However i do quite like this film i found on Petapixel of a second footage each day of 2011, its well put together and for that many individual clips it flows really well and must have been extremely laborious. The end result is a great watch and interesting to say the least.


2011 from hey_rabbit on Vimeo.

Quentin Arnaud

i had been meaning to post these portraits since i found them months ago, I'm not sure why iv left it until now but they have certainly been on my mind since i saw them. Eery is a word to describe them but i find myself wondering about the face, its expression, its emotion and can this be classed as a portrait if there is no face? Quenin Arnaud certainly captures the shape of the face and its depth.

Prometheus

Check it out, one of our ex students worked on the special effects on this movie most of which is in the trailer. Makes me want to go back to uni and have a career change.

Christopher Bucklow's Pinhole

Bucklow begins by projecting the shadow of his sitter on a large sheet of aluminum foil and tracing its outline. He then makes about twenty thousand small pinholes in the foil silhouette (one for each day of the average human lifespan). Using a contraption of his own device that places the foil over a large sheet of photographic paper, Bucklow wheels his homemade 'camera' out into daylight and pulls the 'shutter' to briefly expose the paper to direct sunlight. Thus each finished picture becomes a kind of photogram silhouette composed of thousands of pinhole photographs of the sun. The intensity of light on a given day and the length of exposure create unique color variations on how the resulting piece appears. via Danziger Gallery:

Buckow's cast of characters are drawn from his circle of acquaintances and, unlike conventional photography, each image is unique and unrepeatable.

Nuala Darcul

I Don't know much about Nuala Darcul apart from i found her on Intimate Vignettes, but check out her work on flickr. I was talking earlier today with a student about going right back forgetting all the rules and going against what we had learned when taking a Photo mainly focus, shutter speed and aperture try and regain an innocence in the image. Im not sure if this was what i meant but its as close as i could find and i Reilly like the images.

Paulina Otylie Surys

Paulina Otylie Surys, 1979, Poland, is a fine art and fashion photographer based in London, UK. Only recently she has launched herself as a fashion photographer. She studied fine art in Poland and photography in the UK. She uses a variety of camera's, mostly vintage one's working with 35mm, medium format and large format film via 500 Photographers

check out her own website here, here work has such a wide range but me being me i just love the process she goes through to create her images, old school and then further touching up but physical rather than digital.

Jonathan Schipper

Talking with a student the other day about dis-assembly and destruction. The careful process of taking something apart with the intent to put it back together and then the process of smashing up an object with no intention or possibility of returning back to its original state. Jonathan Schipper did both and used it to explain and demonstrate the moment of destruction of an object over and over again enabling the viewer relive a mindless act.

ars electronica: measuring angst from Fabian Mohr on Vimeo.

Mark Mawson

I'm always excited when find new photographers as it always urges me to go and have a go at some thing new. Mark Mawson has a style and method in his work that is not only enchanting but refreshes you retinas. The way the colour is portrayed through what i think is smoke is fantastic, setting up the shot and having the conditions just right must have been time consuming and frustrating but it is certainly worth the effort. His web site displays other work different from this with some pieces that i myself can relate to with his style of colour saturation.

Alter Ego

Many people tend to have an alter ego, whether its when they go out at the weekends, during work or in a virtual reality sense, A split personality could be another way of describing it or a defence to hide the true you. It could be in many forms, the way you dress, the way you act, the way you speak or the way you look.
Robbie Cooper put together a selection of photographs showing a selection on alter egos in a digital form, look through his photos on his website, you can see similarities in some and sense that people wish they were something else. At first its strange then it turns to funny but eventually it becomes quite emotional.