Weekly Picture 124
Diamond, Burnet Road, Austin, TX, 6.5.2008
This picture is featured in The Fifth of July, at Okay Mountain Gallery in Austin, TX until August 9th.
Tim Davis, pictures of My Audience
Amy
after the garden of the finzi-continis, found photo
Portraits of Librarians
(via kottke)
Weekly Picture 123
Upside Down, Austin, TX, 4.30.2008
Boo
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”
Via the Flickr group pool Tell a story in 5 frames (or fewer), this sequence from Kazzie.
Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
This is a detail of Shipping Containers, a print that depicts 38,000 shipping containers, the number of containers processed through American ports every twelve hours.
Fire Jumpers
You’ll find this image at enigma janitor, one of the sites belonging to Balkan ‘flocker Alek Lindus. I just had to post it here, not only because it is mesmerizing but because it sets one to thinking about the ’safety culture’ that so many people in the US have adopted over the past decades.
some time at the end of June, they collect all the bunches of flowers that have decorated the doors since May Day and make a bonfire in the street of them, the children then jump over the fire. Intentional double exposure.
FujiPro160S
YashicaD
Camera Obscura
Mike D. turned his room into a camera.
They asked me what I would do once I was unemployed. “I dunno,” was my response. I was being honest: that was kinda the point.
Yesterday I turned my bedroom into a camera obscura.
What’s so cool, is that everything moves in real time. A bird suddenly flying upside down across my wall gave me a start.
serendipity
I was out shooting some night shots last night and took the NikonD80 to use as a light meter for the Yashica, the time was so slow i had to take the digital pic to count the seconds the shutter was open for. I haven’t got a clue if it will work on film until i get it developed. I liked the accident of this; zoom on, camera held out at arms length more than if i’d had it on a tripod.
Photos of Migrating Sting Rays
Proving once again that nature designs the most beautiful patterns.
(via Kirtsy)
Weekly Picture 122
Fireball, Highway 71, Austin, TX, 6.3.2008
city of shadows
Alexey Titarenko uses simple long exposures to create slightly creepy, blurred human masses, using the movements of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg. See his City of Shadows project for more.
Houston
Mr. Red
Image Fulgurator
Julius von Bismarck has created a machine — the Image Fulgurator — that is activated by another camera’s flash. At that point, the fulgurator takes over and imposes a projected image over the area the other person is trying to photograph, invisible to the eye, visible only to the other camera’s sensor.
Depending on whom you ask, it’s either a clever hack or an obnoxious intrusion.
Sounds like our kind of guy.
At its simplest, the Fulgurator is a very easy hack. A hole has been cut in the back of the camera and a piece of clear, roughened acrylic put in its place. A rear tube allows the flashgun to slide in. Everything else remains intact. The slides themselves are just rolls of processed film (the pictures are snapped from Julius’ computer monitor) returned to their canisters and then loaded up as if a normal film. Any image on the reel can be selected by turning the rewind crank. When you hold the Fulgurator up, you can see the subject on the acrylic screen and line it with the image on the slide. You can also focus, to ensure the final projection ends up sharp.
Men’s room mural
iPhone Snap: Amy in Dressing Room
Richard Prince and Copyright
Some thoughts on Richard Prince from Rob Haggart get to the core of our copyright discussion.
found photographs of people sleeping
(via cynical-c)
Denis Darzacq, Hyper
(via swissmiss)
The Fifth of July
Diamond, Burnet Road, Austin, TX, 6.5.2008
Anna Krachey and I are having a show at OK Mountain in Austin which opens July 5th.
In the project room, there will be a new photographs by Elizabeth Chiles, Jessica Mallios, Andy Mattern,
Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schrieber, and Laura Turner.
It is photo-bonanza..I am very excited about it!
Weekly Picture 121
Weekly Picture 121: Putt-Putt Palm Tree, Burnet Road, Austin, TX, 6.5.2008