two inspiring little experimental films (via bart oomes)
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dioramas
what started out as a hobby several weeks back has now ended up with my wife having an exhibition in an art gallery here in amsterdam… femke has devised a series of custom brooches in a ‘diorama’ miniature form… with all kinds of scenes form the everyday to the bizarre, each piece is custom-made and unique, they can be ordered via her new femkus dioramas blog
if you would like to see them in person or buy one, the exhibition is open from tomorrow afternoon at the BMB gallery (kerkstraat 127-129) in amsterdam… running till late april, she makes me proud :)
six f plus
three final-year design students from the art school in constance, germany: ‘marco mauber’, ‘tobias suppan’ and my good mate mate/ex-intern ‘uwe steffen’ have just completed this fascinating project entitled sechs ‘f’ plus, the site is in german only but the comprehensive colelction images are enough to give you an idea what it’s all about…
they have basically deconstructed the medium photography, choosing to disassemble and then rebuild a whole series of cameras using various techniques such as panoramic, stereo, single lens reflex, the mysterious sounding ‘schwarze otto’ and solargraphy, the gaffer tape style cameras which resulted from their experiment were all functional and used to shoot a series of images, later compiled into a neat book and even an exhibition to collect the whole process into a coherent story, worth a look, nice work ‘uwe’… makes me proud :)
when i see an elephant (fly)
this is great, a balancing elephant from artist daniel firman (via ‘vormplatform’)
juxtapose
i just came across these beautiful manipulated images by john stezaker, whose work (according to the saatchi gallery blurb):
…re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings…
