While working on the lens chipping process, my father showed me this article about the amazing work of Pascal Dangin. Retouching not being quite the right word for it, Dangin’s services are kept on-call by various A-list celebrities, whose photos will not go into a publication without Dangin’s subtle touch. An interesting intersection of creativity, [...]
I now officially have an RIK-built “chipped” macro lens on my digital camera and my ttv experiment is progressing. Except for the burlap beach bag fragments that added a little extra weather to these shots, I am pretty excited at the results in bright sunshine. Next step is to build the box (which should help [...]
one day I happened upon my friend johna’s flickr photosteam and noticed these incredible images. beautifully situated inside a curved frame, with some interesting artifacts and weathering, some soft focus around the edges: what are these images? turns out, it is a brilliant method: through the viewfinder photography! take an old press camera (mine is [...]
we had a lovely time in chicago. there was pie, quimby’s, a new bookmark, lots of neutra (or almost neutra), and naps in the park! the ferris wheel wasn’t quite terrifying enough for me, but I was pretty excited to see some nifty things in the basement of the art institute of chicago, and have [...]
I adore ideation tools. Whether or not they help me define a color palette or find synonyms, I appreciate how they help ideas pop out of the ether or consolidate wandering thoughts, inspiring bigger and broader concepts.
I have a couple of tools that I will someday build, which includes: the odd word generator (much like [...]
I am looking forward to see other GOOD lunchbag projects (hint, hint…). Here’s mine on the GOOD site (don’t forget to vote for it! which you do by clicking on the top right hand “it’s good!” little green box)! And a quote that I quite like: “Ann Karash’s lunch in jars for Project 009 proved to be [...]
The gastronomic capital of South America is Lima! The navel of the world is Cusco! We spent two weeks (primarily above 10,000 feet) and have lots of photographs to show for it… Viewer beware: our digital camera finked out before we reached Macchu Picchu, so our digital inventory does not feature the lost city of [...]
As World War I rages across Europe, Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas took an interesting approach to helping the war effort and boosting the morale of soldiers. Incredible as it may seem, their art form was one of “living photographs”: assembling amorphous masses of men (10,000 and beyond) at army bases into patriotic [...]