Be pop, grunge, or funky

March 1, 2010 at 10:09 am
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Befunky is a fun and simple way to render your pics in styles titled cartoonizer, scribbler, holga art, pinhole, cyanotype and more. — A.M.

Sign out

February 2, 2010 at 1:06 pm
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Polish born, Dusseldorf-based photographer Josef Schulz, known for his seductively uniform photographs of industrial buildings and warehouses, as turned his lens on another symbol of American commerce: the roadway sign. His latest series, called simply “Sign Out,” is on exhibition at the Galerie Heinz-Martin Wiegand in Ettlingen, Germany. — P.M.K.

Shakespear photographs the sixties

January 21, 2010 at 12:28 pm
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If you’ve followed this blog, you know we love us some Ronald Shakespear.  Turns out he spent some time in the sixties photographing famous types like  writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, film great Orson Welles, jazz player Enrique “Monkey” Villegas, and many more.

The photographs were published in Argentina under the title “Caras y Caritas.”  Some copies might be floating around the Internet.

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) on his desk as director of the old National Library.Ronald met Orson Welles one afternoon at Madrid’s bullring. — A.M.

70 ideas

January 14, 2010 at 10:09 am
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“70 ideas is a careful selection of the 70 most creative videos produced during 2009.  What kind of videos?  Traditional 2D and 3D animated pieces, advertisements, live-action short films, visual experiments and personal projects of people around the world.”  Just click on a light bulb to select a video.  Pretty cool. — A.M.

NYC Grid

August 8, 2009 at 10:56 am
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Google Me dvdrip download The Savages dvd  is a photo blog dedicated to exploring and discovering The City of New York block by block and corner by corner. Updated every weekday, each post covers a new block with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral.” — A.M.

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Richard Avedon's letter to his father

July 30, 2009 at 9:01 am
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SEGD Fellow Ronald Shakespear led us to this poignant letter, which originally appeared in “Borrowed Dogs” from “Richard Avedon Portraits, 2002″. – A.M.

Flashbacks of a Fool ipod Dear Dad,
I’m putting this in a letter because phone calls have a way of disappearing in the whatever it is. I’m trying to put into words what I feel most deeply, not just about you, but about my work and the years of undefinable father and son between us. I’ve never understood why I’ve saved the best that’s in me for strangers like Stravinsky and not for my own father.
There was a picture of you on the piano that I saw every day when I was growing up. It was by the Bachrach studio and heavily retouched and we all used to call it “Smilin’ Jack Avedon”-it was a family joke, because it was a photograph of a man we never saw, and of a man I never knew. Years later, Bachrach did an advertisement with me-Richard Avedon, Photographer-as a subject. Their photograph of me was the same as the photograph of you. We were up on the same piano, where neither of us had ever lived.
I am trying to do something else. When you pose for a photograph, it’s behind a smile that isn’t yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people. I want your intensity to pass into me, go through the camera and become a recognition to a stranger. I love your ambition and your capacity for disappointment, and that’s still as alive in you as it has ever been.
Do you remember you tried to show me how to ride a bicycle, when I was nine years old? You had come up to New Hampshire for the weekend, I think, in the summer when we were there on vacation, and you were wearing your business suit. You were showing me how to ride a bike, and you fell and I saw your face then. I remember the expression on your face when you fell. I had my box Brownie with me, and I took the picture.
I’m not making myself clear. Do you understand?

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July 21, 2009 at 9:24 am
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…like a Polaroid.  And check out “Instant Karma,” a Newsweek article on why “you’d almost think Polaroid is the new black.”  – A.M.

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July 17, 2009 at 8:11 am
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“British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile.” — A.M.

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July 14, 2009 at 11:06 am
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July 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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