Powerful self-portrait ~ Brooke Lynne
(And very… Paolo Roversi!)
Have just come across the work of Luis Andrei Muñoz who makes excellent images with his 50mm f/1.2 Nikkor (presumably fairly wide-open!). This Hasselblad image reminds me of the work of Polish-French fashion photographer Jeanloup Sieff, and the American Ralph Gibson… both long-time favourites of mine.
Jeanne Moreau in my favourite film…
“Jules et Jim” was directed by François Truffaut in 1962 after he found the original novella in a book shop. I first saw this film at art college in the 1960s and still have a book published on the original scenes from the film script. BTW: I love the acetylene lamp on her bicycle… brings back memories of when I used to descend potholes, caves and old Roman mines with adventurous school friends, using that dangerous chemical to light the way.
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“Spring in Town” ~ Grant Wood, 1942.
Grant DeVolson Wood (1891-1942) was an American painter, born four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.
Wood is most closely associated with the American movement of Regionalism that was primarily situated in the Midwest, and advanced figurative painting of rural American themes in an aggressive rejection of European abstraction.
“Wood’s previous biographers have turned a blind eye to the demonstrable fact that he was a deeply closeted homosexual. Evans documents the always-chubby Wood’s infatuations (many of them apparently unrequited and sublimated into parental role-playing) with an unending series of slim, dark-haired young men who were his students, protégés, and secretaries. As the bartender in a famous Cedar Rapids watering hole Wood favored put it, ‘Wood was only gay when he was drunk.’” - Doug Ireland
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Ingrid’s Hat…
Didn’t quite know where to re-post this rather “rough-chic but cute” (“rough” as in ToyCameraAnalog effect) set of pix (a problem when having 20 different Tumblr sites and themes) so I thought, what the hell… post them on my main page! Hope you like them…
Remember Ingrid’s hat? Well, it’s finished, it’s brilliant and it’s mine. And boy oh boy is it ever fun!
Go on, you know you want to read the entire page to find out if you are different from…
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Book Art by Samantha Y. Huang.
Samantha Y. Huang was born in 1985, in Changhua, Taiwan. She began studying business upon graduation from high school, but decided working in an office was not for her and quit after one semester. She subsequently moved to Vancouver, Canada where she studied English and began to take an interest in the Arts.
She writes, “In my art practice, I use mediums that have a strong relationship with people’s creative art productions: books, crayons, coloured pencils, paper, and acrylic paint. This is intended to portray the awareness of mediums as themselves through a sense of touch and lead the audience to reconsider the relationship among mediums, creators, and audience. The art pieces are as accessible for touching as the mediums being experienced initially by the artist.
I believe that the messages of mediums /ideas/concept cannot be received fully by sense of sight alone. Many hidden characteristics can only be unfolded by other human senses. I would like to invite my audience to explore the experience and interact with my artwork by using sense of touch. The experience of art provides more feelings and understandings when it has a multi-sensory approach.”
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Climbing Ali Baba, Aiglun, France.
“This is one of the harder multipitch routes in this style, but it’s also one of the most beautiful,” says French climber Gérôme Pouvreau, seen here at the end of the fifth pitch on the eight-pitch, nearly thousand-foot Ali Baba route in Aiglun, southern France. “The colors are beautiful and only the song of birds breaks the silence. You’re going from discovery to discovery very high above the ground. It’s like an exploration.”
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Remembering Steve… Apple posts tribute video.
A year ago today, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs died. Describing the time as “sad and difficult,” Apple CEO Tim Cook posted a fitting video tribute and message on the company’s homepage today. “One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple,” says Cook. “Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”
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This image of fruit is just a figment
of my imagination…
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I needed this back in 1974! (Aside from that… it’s a great idea.)
Katie Hatz | http://katiehatz.com
“Get A Damn Job is a kit designed for people who are looking for a damn job. It includes a book of job interview advice, cards with questions interviewers commonly ask, breath mints, and a pouch full of other useful items (tiny notebook, dental floss, nail file, comb, lint brush, etc.) to help you look and feel your best for this important and often stressful occasion.”
Katie Hatz is a designer and illustrator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As she has always loved books most of all, she is thrilled to be working at Quirk Books, designing the kinds of things she’d probably want to make anyway if she didn’t have a job sucking up all her time. When she’s not making awesome books, Katie designs and writes for CMYK Magazine, an excellent quarterly publication that showcases emerging creative talent in the fields of design, illustration, photography, and advertising.
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Abstract by Alexander Calder, 1961.
I’ve seen a few of Calder’s “mobiles” since art college days in the early ’60s - including one in a village where he had his studio in France not far from here… and although this artwork is two-dimensional, it still creates a visually “slow motion experience” for me like his 3-D mobiles do.
Black… Red… White…
Alexander Calder
