swimming with the polar bears 01/23/2012
On New Year's Day I went down to English Bay with thousands of other people to check out the 92nd Annual Polar Bear Swim. I set up my camera to shoot a timelapse of everyone coming and going. This is the result. Add Comment installing picnurbia 08/30/2011
I had fun making a little time-lapse video of the installation process of PICNURBIA on August 9th, 2011 in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. From the Loose Affiliates website: PICNURBIA. The Yellow Picnic Wave. In the summer, Vancouverites leave their neighbourhoods and head to the beach, thereby inhabiting the edge of the city. PICNURBIA suggests an alternative to this exodus, creating an inland zone for people to gather and picnic in the heart of downtown. At PICNURBIA, the summer act of picnicking is heightened by an über–picnic-blanket. This undulating landscape provides spaces for people to hang out and play in alternative formations, providing a new experience of urban picnicking. PICNURBIA offers space for people to come together, relax and watch. Inserted into the urban downtown neighbourhood, a community where people already live, work and visit, the site is intended to become an easily inhabited summer zone, where people may gather to enjoy the long summer days. PICNURBIA is designed to offer an ‘on-the-block’ amenity where people can drop by on purpose or stumble upon more informally as they walk or bike home. This will establish PICNURBIA as a summer node, carried on mouth-to-mouth, “Let’s meet at PICNURBIA” Picnurbia is realised in collaboration with Viva Vancouver and is supported by SYNLawn, suppliers of PICNURBIA's vibrant yellow turf. Loose Affiliates | looseaffiliates.com Viva Vancouver | vancouver.ca/viva SYNLawn | synlawn.com/ music: This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) - The Talking Heads filmed/edited by:krista jahnke kristajahnke.com tilty shifty 08/03/2011
I love these tilt-shift time lapse videos. The Village from Pedro Sousa | visuals on Vimeo. The Village Image: Daniel Espírito Santo Camera Assistant: João Botas Editing: Pedro Sousa boldcreativestudio.com onvisuals.com vivian maier 06/26/2011
By now, I hope you've heard the name Vivian Maier and have seen some of her recently uncovered, beautiful street photography of Chicago and NYC from the 1950s on. I'm happy to hear that a new documentary about her is being produced. I can't wait to find out who Vivian Maier was in more detail. go to www.vivianmaier.com to learn about her story and see her work. space love 06/07/2011
This just exploded my heart. I love time lapse, especially when it's pointed at the sky. Watch full screen. Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo. During the month of May, I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota, when I had the time, and the weather cooperated. The biggest challenge was cloudy nights and the wind. There were very few nights, when I could shoot, that were perfectly clear, and often the wind was blowing 25mph +. That made it hard to get the shots I wanted. I kept most of the shots low to the ground, so the wind wouldn't catch the setup and cause camera shake, or blow it over. I used a Stage Zero Dolly on the dolly shots and a "Milapse" mount on the panning ones. Canon 60D and T2i Tokina 11-16 Sigma 20mm F1.8 Tamron 17-50 Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly dynamicperception.com Shot in RAW format, the Milky Way shots were 30 seconds exposure F2.8 or F1.8 with 2 second interval between shots, for 3-4 hours run time. ISO 1600 Ten seconds of the video is about 2 hours 20 minutes in real time. Simon Wilkinson from thebluemask.comcreated the soundtrack "Exodus" for the video Wired.com article wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/milky-way-video/ Bad Astronomer article blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/03/gorgeous-milky-way-time-lapse/ For licensing contact dakotalapse.com Follow twitter.com/dakotalapse facebook.com/pages/DakotaLapse/111818295557281 say clichés 05/23/2011
I thoroughly enjoyed this post by Magnum Photographer, Martin Parr, called Photographic Clichés. I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't guilty of at least one of these. I don't really know many people who aren't. As with all creative pursuits, there are trends. Some just last longer than others. °°° "The Fine Art and Documentary photographers take great pride in thinking themselves superior to the other main genres of photography, such as the family snap shooter or the amateur photographer, as personified by camera club imagery. However, after 30/40 years of viewing our work, I have come to the conclusion that we too are fairly predictable in what we photograph. I include myself in this, and have been very careful to try and think of new territories to explore, but recognize that very often I also indulge in the list outlined below. I am aware of the basic rules, which dominate our work, and want to now attempt to group some of the more dominant strands of contemporary practice. This core subject matter and approach is also constantly shifting and changing as new photographers arrive and have an impact on our accumulative photographic culture and language. I have a rapacious desire to look at new work and do this through books, magazines, and of course exhibitions. Most of the work I see is generic; in so far I can read the influences. It is when the inspiration and lineage is not clear that my attention is alerted. I used this as a guiding principal for the recent curating of the Brighton Photo Biennial, and made freshness of approach to the subject matter a major criteria for selection. Let me try and outline the basic genres that can be found. [links added] 1. The above ground landscape with people. This is a relatively recent development with the major influence of Gursky, being the starting point. You take a high vantage and place people within the frame setting them in a larger urban or even rural landscape. 2. The bent lamppost. You see this a lot in the USA, where they are blessed with many bent lampposts. The scene is urban and generally quite run down. This can be traced back to Stephen Shore amongst others. 3. The personal diary. Nan Goldin gave this genre a major boost with the famous “ Ballad of Sexual Dependency ” project, but there are predecessors with the likes Larry Clark and Ed van der Elsken. 4. The Nostalgic gaze. Photographers love to shoot a factory, a shop, a club or some institution that is about to close. We, of course, welcome and praise the sense of community that is threatened. 5. The quirky and visually strong setting. In terms of documentary we are much more likely to see a project done on a circus than say, a petrol station. The simple reason is that photographers love shooting situations where there is an inherent visual quirk. So we see plenty of this type of subject such as mental hospitals and animal clinics. 6. The Street. Street photography has evolved in recent years, with many more humourous scenarios now making the edit, and of course the shift to colour. In Britain we also have the great tradition of shooting on the beach, but this has declined in recent years because it is tricky to do this now, without being accused of being paedophile. 7. The black and white grainy photo. Daido Moriyama is, if you like the Godfather of this school of photography, and he combined the imagery of Andy Warhol and William Klein to arrive at this groundbreaking photographic language. The subject is combination of cityscape and personal.” 8. The New Rich. Think Tina Barney and of course all those rich kids who attend Yale who turn their cameras on their own families. Nearly always shot in large format, and often involve taking clothes off too. 9. I am a poet. This is the riskiest school of photography of all as it takes real panache to pull this one off. Many of the images can find their roots in the likes of Bill Eggleston and Rinko Kawauchi. 10. The Modern Typology. The Bechers and the Dusseldorf school have had a major impact on our photographic landscape and naturally the success of these students has also had a major impact. Many of the B division Becher students shoot typologies and run down buildings, beach huts, whatever can be found frequently. 11. The Staged photo. With the increasing difficulty of shooting on the street and the desire to control the photo and the people in them, staging has found a new wave of popularity. Gregory Crewdson has given this genre a major boost with his Hollywood style, staged scenarios. 12. The Formal portrait. One of the great traditions in photography and recently revived by the likes of Rineke Dijkstra and Thomas Ruff. Smiling is banned and this genre often needs the structure of repetition. A tripod is also a prerequisite for this method of shooting. 13. The long landscape. Panoramic cameras are the latest fad for shooting landscapes, and a good view of icebergs and, or, fjords are a perfect subject for this treatment. I could go on, but I think you will get the gist of what I am saying. I know many of you will now be thinking, "What a cynic", but firstly there is much work that falls into these categories that I really respond to, indeed nearly all the work I like could have a groupling that feature in my list. I thinking the point I am making is that we need to consider our subject matter more carefully. When I am looking through student folios I often say these things, and usually people look at me as if to say "how dare you question what I am shooting." But if we thinkin of what is going on in our world, there seems to be many subjects which are avoided, because we all need that echo of familiarity to help us have the confidence to make a body of work. We want to emulate the impact that these images had on us, and this can be as restricting as is can be liberating." Martin Parr November 2010 mega format camera 05/20/2011
 Umm, anyone wanna build a giant camera with me? And then take it all over the world. Darren's Great Big Camera from SULTAN on Vimeo. This short documentary follows Darren Samuelson as he ventures out to San Francisco's Lands End to try his giant homemade camera out. It shoots on 14×36-inch negatives! This is the ultimate application of a DIY mind. learn more about the process on his blog... darrensgreatbigcamera.com brutal russia 05/20/2011
French photographer Frédéric Chaubin's book CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed is a collection of photographs highlighting ninety buildings constructed twenty years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over several years he visited fourteen former republics photographing these futuristic and mammoth structures that look as if they're out of a sci-fi movie. What's interesting about this construction period is that there wasn't one style of architecture, demonstrating a surprising freedom in design after Stalin's strict controls in 1920s Constructivism which moved into Khrushchev's Modernism of the 1950-60s. "These extraordinary structures represented the dreams and hopes of a few innovators looking toward the future, a space-age era with endless possibilities while their country was collapsing around them." -- Liesl Bradner Frédéric Chaubin has been, for the last fifteen years, editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. Since 2000 he has regularly featured works combining text and photography. The CCCP collection research was carried out from 2003 to 2010, through an intuitive and creative travel process. This project has been shown throughout the world, from Japan to the United States. --TASCHEN polaroid perfect 05/18/2011
"If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; if you just think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.” - Edwin Land to Polaroid employees (1942) Christopher Payne - revisted 05/05/2011
I wrote a post last year about the work of Christopher Payne and today found out about this presentation he made at the University of Florida's College of Medicine about his work. links: http://www.chrispaynephoto.com/asylum.html http://psychiatry.ufl.edu/education/residency-and-training/video/Payne.shtml | krista + blog = klog
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