As long as something creates a reaction it’s alive says Maurizio Anzeri, the Italian born artist from the city of Loano. He refers to his latest work as a series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures. go here to read more about this artist.
Splitscreen Love Story
Splitscreen Love Story is a little film created by James Griffiths, winner of the Nokia Shorts Competition 2011. Griffiths won the $10,000 grand prize and his movie will be showcased at the 2011 Edinburgh Film Festival. This movie was all shot on the Nokia N8 mobile phone.
Director: JW Griffiths
Producer: Kurban Kassam
Director of Photography: Christopher Moon
Editor: Marianne Kuopanportti
Sound Design: Mauricio d’Orey
Music composed by: Lennert Busch
Let’s go play with the paper crane.
Beautiful photos by Emma Neely. Love the fantasy world she creates. Wish I could just jump into one of these photos and play with the crane, ostrich and fish.
Making of…
On my morning internet surfing and stumbling, I came across this little gem. Being a Coca-Cola fanatic (some might say addict), I just had to post it. It is the making of the first Neon sign for the Piccadilly Circus, in 1954.
via Creative Review
The Dikke van Dale is the Dutch dictionary
And according to the Dikkie van Dale, ‘Dress guard’ means: oilcloth or plastic lining partially surrounding the rear wheel of a bicycle to prevent a jacket or skirt from coming into contact with the wheel.
This is exactly what Simeli does. They design beautiful bicycle ornaments: hand crocheted dress guards and matching keyrings, which you can buy here
Oh so QooQoo -ute
QooQoo is a fashion brand led by a graphic designer. They design and produce their own fabrics prints. Each garment is also made on demand and takes about 5-10 working days.
I want this all!
Mmm… websites
Some cool websites to check out
Scanwiches - because that makes life oh so much more interesting.
Here is looking at Hue Click on a colour it and generates heaps of interesting imagines in that color.
Angie Wang
Angie Wang is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Portland, Oregon. She has done work for The New Yorker, First Second (Macmillan), The New York Times, Nylon Magazine, Seattle Metropolitan, Time Out: Singapore, Dark Horse Comics, Koyama Press, Image Comics, Nucleus Gallery, Floating World Comics.
Check out her other illustrations here and her fashion illustrations here
Love this one
Dear Photograph
Dear Photograph is a blog that invites you to take your old photographs and kind of replace them in the places it was taken to form a kind of past/present photograph. huh? Am I making any sense? Well check out the photos and maybe you will get a better picture. I did.
Packing in the photos like sardines!
The new La Sardina 35mm Lomography camera is here! An entirely fresh analogue wide-angle camera that is designed to look like the humble sardine can. Designed by Lomographers for Lomographers and super-easy to use, it’s all about maximum creativity and capturing great shots quickly. La Sardina comes complete with:
* An Awesome 22mm Wide-Angle Plastic Lens
* MX Switch and Rewind Knob – Multiple exposures have never been so easy!
* Totally Unique, Fresh and Fantastic Designs
* 2 Simple-to-use Focusing Settings
* Bulb Setting for Long Exposures
Buy it here
Portraits for a Pup
Limited Edition is a great project by The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home. 21 Top Australian photographers were asked to photograph 3 of the animals at the Home and bring out the unique character of the animal. The result is 63 unique and original prints of the animal, all signed 1 of 1 by the artist. These photos are now being displayed all over Sydney and you can either buy the prints on ebay or adopt the animal in the photo.
It is nice to see that most of the critters have already been adopted.
Here is a video of the making of the project
THE MAKING OF LIMITED EDITION from Sydney Dogs & Cats Home on Vimeo.
Pendorings
Here is the teaser for the Pendorings 2011 awards done by my friends! Enjoy the visuals, those who don’t understand Afrikaans - they are beautiful! It was shot in an old french house in Stellenbosch.
New Music
Hooray For Earth is based in New York City, started in Boston MA. Formed in 2006 (or 2005 possibly). This is all I could find out about them at the moment with limited web access, but take a listen to their music.
Behind the Scenes photo.
Found these photos that was taken behind the scenes of old movies. Makes you look twice. Check the rest out here
Happy Birthday Les Paul
The Web-search giant Google once again came up with a interactive doodle that turns users to musicians! The latest Google Doodle was made to honor the late jazz guitarist, songwriter and inventor Les Paul. The Google Doodle is a digital version of the famous guitar, the Gibson Les Paul. Head over to Google and try it out! It is addictive.
The Postelles
The Postelles are perky and big-hearted band from Manhattan. “123 Stop,” a highlight from their their debut self-titled full-length album was produced by Strokes member Albert Hammond, Jr. and showcases the band at their sunny best.
Download their single “123 Stop” here.
I am a Recovering Lazyholic
Wednesday Feature/ Recovering Lazyholic
“Recovering Lazyholic is something I do for myself to keep me from not doing.”
12 Steps to recovery.
I want some luck and so and so
Jessi is an interesting little lady, who love clothes, outfits and colours. And best of all, she never buys anything new. All her clothes are second hand and from thrift stores. Check out the video and then go over to her sweet blog.
{Sorry for the lack of posts}
Sorry for the lack of posts. Have been super busy under crazy work. But just want to share this list that I think is quite awesome. Don’t know who the author is, anyone?
New from The Blackheart Gang
The Blackheart Gang just returned from their latest expedition, The Bog, carrying with them many notes and images of what they saw. Amongst these were 5 paintings of some of the wildlife seen there. These paintings have been made into copperplate etchings in collaboration with Warren Editions.
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