‘astonishing’ is perhaps, a bit of an overstatement but then again, internet seems to be the medium of choice these days to use terms like amazing, genius and yep astonishing…. all the same they are quite interesting: a collection of ’tilt shift’ videos made with regular (digital) SLR cameras and painstaking stop-motion
(link via my mate, tip-meister ‘ian’ back in the UK
i just spotted this unusual and meticulous work from amsterdam-based collage artist, photographer & more: hanneke treffers a.k.a. ‘handiedan… very nice, have a ‘zoom’ look; there are all sorts of little smurfs and weird details hidden in there, one to watch…
…a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights…
i regularly visit the CR blog but missed this fabulous-looking project, thanks to my mate ‘ian’ for paying attention…
many thanks to my mate ‘dominic davies’ for pointing this one out: the BBC documentary on sixties icon & bad-boy ‘brian duffy’ has been put online, a very enjoyable hours’ worth of soundbites & urban legend tales….
update: oops i forgot the link, enjoy…
here are some memorable ones i noted:
…the photographers were the stars; not the models…
…i really enjoyed the war, no i really mean it i enjoyed the war…
…easier than drawing, so i thought "i know what i’ll do… i’ll take up photography"…
…look what was happening a year before in editorial photography and then a year later; it was a new era…
…all of the pictures were dodgy birds with their teeth showing…
…bring the goblin round & i’ll shoot him…
…a bit of a bastard, but one you enjoyed inviting round for dinner…
…(photography) is the only thing any numb-skull can do…
…i’m an innocent bystander, helping culture & art…
…he said "can you make it expensive?"
i said "no problem lovey!"…
…advertising: that was 99% of my work? crap…
…that morning i decided to burn… my negatives…
…art photography is a very very modern idea…
duffy on himself: he wasn’t as steady as a tripod…
…out of the 30-40,000 negatives I have in the collection, about 10-15,000 negatives were still in rolls, undeveloped from the 1960’s-1970’s. I have been successfully developing these rolls. I still have about 600 rolls yet to develop. I must say, it’s very exciting for me. Most of her negatives that were developed in sleeves have the date and location penciled in French (she had poor penmanship)…
this a great story i picked up from ‘design observer’: an american fella ‘john maloof’ who acquired a set of negatives in an auction that turned out to be the complete oeuvre of an unknown chicago street photographer vivian maier, there are some really beautiful images in there and a stunning visual history of a city too… he tried to find her when it became obvious what he had bought but she sadly passed away just before he got the chance to meet her…
