Early 1900s Postcards Show Off Primitive 'Photoshopping' Skills | Raw File
'Bringing in the Sheaves., A Common Scene On An Okla Farm.' Kansas City, Missouri. William H. Martin. 1908. 'Early Morning in the Poultry Yard' Photo Art Shop, 1909. 'Grown in Augusta, Wis.' 'Bringing in the Sheaves., A Common Scene On An Okla Farm.' Before Photoshop, cruder photo manipulation techniques were used to bend viewers’ realities, like multiple exposure, forced perspective, combination printing, overpainting, and retouching negatives and prints. For over 150 years, industrious manipulators have tampered with photos and their meaning, like the Abe Lincoln composite at right which places the president’s head on Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. “I think of them as a gag, and I think everyone else did too,” says Jim Linderman, a writer, popular culture historian and collector who edits the printed ephemera blogs Dull Tool Dim Bulb and Vintage Sleaze. Tall-tale postcards are also known as “Exaggerations” in collecting circles.
100,000 Stars: An Interactive Exploration of the Milky Way Galaxy
100,000 Stars is a new experiment for Chrome web browsers (or any other WebGL browser like Firefox or Safari) that lets you interactively explore the Milky Way galaxy with your mouse and scroll wheel. I found it to be a bit more cumbersome on my laptop trackpad so if you’re in the same position click the ‘Take a Tour’ button for a pretty lovely demo. (via the awesomer)
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Michael Grab - Meditation, Balance, Art
Michael Grab, the land artist from Canada, found his great joy and peace of mind in using the power of gravity. The process of creating his art of balance is not that easy as it might seam. It involves not only Grab’s physical but psychological abilities along with learning his inner self and nature around him. Micheal says about his work: “Stone balance teaches the practitioner lessons through silence. Grab’s art won’t stay timeless in galleries and private collections, it won’t be sold on auctions, yet it will remain in photos and videos of the lucky ones who got to see his life performance of peace.
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Flickr Finds No. 24
Marie Granelli Kenneth Verburg Peter Chinnock, scupture by Jilly Sutton Marco Volpe Kata Batic Adrian Schiegl Anka Zhuravleva Kevin Meredith Collette Whittaker, installation by Olivier Grossetete At last!
« Doux-amer » de Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt : photos d’animaux pas neuneus | On est là pour voir
Turquie, 2011 (Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt/Vu) Il y a beaucoup de livres de photos neuneu sur les animaux, tantôt présentés en situation des plus anthropomorphiquement niaises, tantôt transformés en bébêtes de peluches. Ce doit être une bonne niche. Inde, 2008 (Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt/Vu) Les chiens de Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt n’y rentrent pas. France, 2009 (Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt/Vu) Jean-Cristophe Bailly écrit dans la préface : « C’est tout autre chose qu’un simple constat ou une simple dénonciation. » Le Caire, 1996 (Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt/Vu) D’abord, c’est une photographie. Belgique, 2001, couverture du livre « Doux-Amer » (Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt/Vu) Ses images sortent ainsi du bestiaire éditorial commun par des photos en noir et blanc extrêmement grises, des cadrages qui essaient de trouver dans l’animal ce qui lui reste d’autonomie ou d’histoire « d’avant ». « Doux-Amer » ?
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Par QRieuZ, Mardi 16 octobre 2012 à 12:10 :: Photo :: #15427 :: rss Alberto Seveso est de retour avec de nouvelles expérimentations photographiques. «Il Mattino ha l’oro in bocca» reprend le même processus que ses précédentes séries mais l’artiste utilise cette fois-ci des encres métalliques accentuant ainsi les volumes et les courbes des encres diluées dans l’eau.
A New Stop Motion Short Made Completely with Moleskine Notebooks by Rogier Wieland
Netherlands based designer Rogier Wieland (previously) has just completed another one of his impressive stop motion ads for Moleskin that relies almost entirely on notebooks to create nearly every aspect of the animation including the precisely cut typography. The making-of video is pretty great too and I’ve included it here as well.
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Water Wigs on the Behance Network
We just finished shooting a new project we call Water Wigs. The concept is simple and it is another visual exploration of something new and totally different. We found a bunch of awesome bald men and hurled water balloons at their heads, to capture the explosion of water at various intervals. The result a new head of of water hair! We used a laser and sound trigger to capture the right moments for each subject to create just the head of hair that fit best with the face. We chose to work with triads of colors to create images that are arresting and amusing at the same time. Our favorites are "The Don King," "The Conquistador," "The Jesus" and "The Friar."
The Flawed Symmetry of Prediction: A Time-Lapse of Optical Illusions in the American West
Flawed Symmetry of Prediction is an outstanding short film by filmmaker Jeff Frost that defies categorization as it ventures into time lapse, street art, and even optical illusion. Via email Jeff tells me: I roam the deserts of California and Utah looking for abandoned structures. The visuals are absolutely brilliant and the sound design is top notch as well.
