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…and hardly anyone here

…photography is great at representing the hardware of the war machine,” he told his good friend and writer Stephen Mayes, a month before he died. “But the truth is that the war machine is the software, as much as the hardware. The software runs it, and the software is young men. I’m not so young anymore. But I get it. That’s really what my work is about…

the very last twelve, poignant pictures shot by british war photographer ‘tim hetherington’ just before he was killed whilst working in libya last april, have been published by newsweek this week…

m / 26-07-2011 13:50 - tags: ,  

volume 5

we are currently putting the finishing touches to the fifth and last volume of the ‘top 100’ project by artist davide bertocchi, the posters/CD covers arrived back from the printers today, more news soon…

m / 26-07-2011 13:47 - tags: ,  

a short history of production

…a book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history…

great little project just in time from french artist ‘xavier antin’ using a stencil duplicator, spirit duplicator, laser printer and an inkjet printer to create a custom ‘cmyk’ printing device (via ‘jarr’)

m / 25-07-2011 08:43 - tags: , , ,  

exploding paint

a fascinating typeface experiment made with ‘virtual’ paint that appears to be frozen in mid-air

m / 25-07-2011 08:42 - tags: ,  

crowd control

…commissioned as a crowd study during the Celebration of Light Fireworks show in Vancouver to illustrate how the crowd forms and disperses over the course of the day… (via ‘thijs van exel’)

m / 25-07-2011 08:42 - tags: , , ,