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pictures taken with a detached lens

i’d not heard of this technique before: free lensing

…take your DSLR in one hand. Unscrew the lens with the other. Tilt the lens away from the camera body-maybe even flip the optics backwards. And take photos that you never imagined you could without expensive upgrades…

m / 15-11-2010 15:17 - tags: ,  

stamps by typographers

i’ve blogged this unusual database before, a few years back… but it seems to have been updated and worth a new look

m / 15-11-2010 15:13 - tags: , , ,  

the procrastinators

…postponing, fleeing, twisting and turning… The procrastinators is a series of eleven short, minimalist ‘animated’ documentaries of people who talk associatively about their creative process and the role that postponing plays in it. All these artists are successful and productive, but they suffer from different neuro ion…

the series of short films made by ‘lernert & sander’ called the procrastinators are being exhibited at the ‘netherlands institute for media art’ (NIMK) in the following weeks…

m / 15-11-2010 15:08 - tags: , ,  

2009 – 309

the sort of grafitti i generally get to see in amsterdam doesn’t generally make me stop and look, but this would have…
(via ‘maurice ciapponi’ on FB)

m / 15-11-2010 14:59 - tags: , ,  

curiosities, relics art & propaganda

i’m still nursing a mean hangover due to over-enthusiastic consumption of ‘bushmills irish whisky’, last night whist joining the stone twins for their eightieth birthday bash… they also released an amusing little book called the ‘catalogue of crap’ collecting various events and design classics that have defined their career, even ‘mind the gap #1’ gets a mention, yay! thanks guys… here’s to another fourty (er eighty) years of inspiration and whisky

m / 13-11-2010 23:09 - tags: , ,