Olympic portraits create controversy
Posted by Fabio 10 July 2012
AFP photographer Joe Klamar’s portraits of Olympic athletes have been called everything from “shoddy,” “appalling,” and “amaturish,” to an embarrassment to the United States Olympic team. The way Joe tells the story on the official AFP website there’s also a dose of serendipity in the way the photos came out. read more
Grizzly Bear confirm first album in three years
Posted by Fabio 9 July 2012
Grizzly Bear will release their first album in three years on September 18th via Warp Records. Recorded over the better part of a year, the album represents the band’s most charged and concise collection of music to date and follows 2009’s critical and commercial breakthrough, ‘Veckatimest.’ read more
The Apollo Dress Shirt
Posted by Fabio 9 July 2012
The Apollo dress shirt by Ministry of Supply pulls heat from the body as the person’s temperature increases, and releases the heat back to the body when the person cools down. The shirts are also odor and wrinkle free; an anti-microbial coating keeps odor-causing bacteria at bay while the synthetic fibers in the shirts keep them from wrinkling- and always tucked in.
Christoffer Relander – Multiple Exposure Portraits
Posted by Fabio 9 July 2012
A series of photographs by graphic designer and self-taught photographer from Finland, Christoffer Relander. All images are done “in-camera” while shooting with a Nikon D700. Afterwards, the files were contrast adjusted, black & white toned and more or less dodged and burned.
Isabel Martinez – Quantum Blink
Posted by Fabio 9 July 2012
The photographs in Quantum Blink by artist Isabel M. Martínez are composed of two exposures taken instants apart. The striped pattern is the result of masks placed in-camera, this feature allows her to blend two images together and at the same time keep them from fully fusing onto one another. read more
Sigur Rós – Rembihnútur
Posted by Fabio 6 July 2012
Rembihnútur is the fourth video in Sigur Rós’s ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment. Directed by Arni & Kinski.
Thomas Demand
Posted by Fabio 6 July 2012
Thomas Demand studied with the sculptor Fritz Schwegler, who encouraged him to explore the expressive possibilities of architectural models at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where Bernd and Hilla Becher had recently taught photographers such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Candida Höfer. read more
Christoph Sillem – A World Around Disney
Posted by Fabio 6 July 2012
Christoph Sillem’s photographic series A World Around Disney features a town called Val d’Europe just outside of Disneyland Paris. Val d’Europe is a near-perfect replica of a French village and is owned by The Walt Disney Company. read more