Saturday, August 28, 2010

Dark Side of the Lens

Inspiring stuff...



Relentless Energy presents Short Stories, a challenge to recognised core sports and music filmmakers...

The first Short Stories film, by renowned photographer and body boarder Mickey Smith, explores his world as a true waterman - both as an athlete and artist, and is called The Dark Side of The Lens.

"Originally I planned for the film to be more anonymous, rather than biographical, an all encompassing piece, to represent the photographers keeping the surfing machine afloat", explains Smith.

Something that offers insight into what it takes to grind out a living as a water-based photographer in the surfing industry: a short experimental glimpse at a life lived in the shadow of obsessive photographic pursuits."

"It also gave me the chance to ask myself a few questions, like, if you're always observing and documenting what you see and experience, are you ever truly present? Questions like that where I could step back think and then see what the answers were", Smith says.

As well as documenting various voices and experiences across surf photography, Smith worked with Allan Wilson from the Astray Collective, who acted as Director of Photography on the project. Together they logged hours of footage across the Atlantic coastline, traveling around Ireland, Cornwall and Manchester. Shot in Super 16mm film, as well as groundbreaking work with Canon 5D Digital SLR, Smith also projected images of the huge walls of water within which he works, on to monster urban landscapes such as sky rises and castles in Manchester, as well as the cliff lines at his home of Ireland.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Asymmetrical House

Todays dream home is Allandale House, an asymmetrical two-story A-frame home by William O’Brien Jr., independent architect and Asst Prof of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

Allandale House by William O’Brien Jr.
Allandale House by William O’Brien Jr.
Allandale House by William O’Brien Jr.
Allandale House by William O’Brien Jr.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010

Just Do It

Loving Jordan Metcalf's recent typographic work for Nike's Design studio in Portland:

Nike by Jordan Metcalf on the Behance Network
Nike by Jordan Metcalf on the Behance Network
Nike by Jordan Metcalf on the Behance Network
Nike by Jordan Metcalf on the Behance Network

Jordan Metcalf on the Behance Network - for more typographic gymnastics.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Linear, Geometric and Abstract

Pixillation by Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton

Photographic stills from the computer animation 'Pixillation' by Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton - part of the collection of computer art at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Artist's Interpretation of a Pandemic

Artist's Interpretation of a Pandemic from A Journey Round My Skull
Via A Journey Round My Skull

Reminds me of Karel Martens' Printed Matter book:

Karel Martens - Printed Matter

Some more of Karel Martens' work on but does it float

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Cathedral of Power

Ratcliffe Power Station by Michael Kenna

Ratcliffe Power Station by Michael Kenna
Ratcliffe Power Station by Michael Kenna
Ratcliffe Power Station by Michael Kenna
Ratcliffe Power Station by Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna first began photographing the Ratcliffe power station in the early 1980s, and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna's grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna's Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work. by Jeremy Reed

On Amazon:
Ratcliffe Power Station by Michael Kenna - 64 pages of beautifully printed duotones on matt art paper.

Monday, August 2, 2010

The Eco-Commune

by Richard Hardy, a recent graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London:



Short film exploring a dystopian vision of London in the near future. The economic meltdown of 2009 has left the financial district abandoned, allowing space for nature to reclaim it's iconic structures, and a new community of scavengers to settle within its midst.
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