the amsterdam photo academy are hosting a third-year ‘portfolio bash’ in the ‘mini bar’ tomorrow evening at ?, all you have to do is look & drink, sounds easy…
me news
out of nothing comes…
some colourful ‘street art’ with a lot of seemingly covert camera work going on, even though i must admit it doesn’t look very ‘covert’ to me with pretty large cherry pickers plus video cameras and ladders in use… (this tip via my mate ‘uwe’)
turn your eyes to jelly
if you have photosensitive epilepsy, you really should know better it works for me… (tip via my mate ‘ian’)
tipografia sicilia #3
visiting foreign countries is a good opportunity to catch up on unusual type combinations & letters that we don’t use much, italy for example, is a great place for the letter z (even zz’s..)
large exposures
…close’s self-portrait – monumental in size, sculpturally severe in expression – shows off the capacity of Polaroid’s largest camera. Warhol uses a smaller camera to reduce his face to a fuzzy, leering, acne-pocked mask. Close poses for eternity; the vampirish Warhol looks as if he were remembering, with a shudder, what he looked like when alive…
a series of very expensive and very unique polaroids which are up for sale at sotheby’s in the coming weeks, including, warhol, chuck close & ansel adams… (tip via the ‘move your teeth’ blog)