we spent a long day in the studio yesterday with ‘erwin olaf’ shooting a whole series of images for the 2011-2012 campaign for the dutch national ballet, in fact we made four different images, involving a large number of the top dancers… including one of my favourites ‘anu’ from finland
as i’ve mentioned before ‘erwin’ runs a tight ship and despite the complicated logistics and set changes, the whole thing was finished by 6pm, more news and images soon…
photographer lukas göbel sent me this unusual image, as he said ‘it’s not quite what you think you’re seeing’: in fact it is a jilted bride who is attempting to commit suicide and being restrained by someone, see more bizarre details here
this image really is worth seeing at a larger size, at first sight i (like most people) was convinced it was an illustration or a heavily retouched fantasy image… in fact it is a plain (un-photoshopped) image of camel trees against a sun-tinted orange sand dune in the early morning, amazing…
(image by frans lanting, link via ‘nrc next’ on twitter)
these amazing little critters (with a plughole for a face) are known as tardigrades or ‘water bears’ and they are the first living organism known to man that is able to withstand “sub-zero temperatures, unrelenting solar winds and an oxygen-deprived space vacuum” or put simply: walking in space without a big suit and helmet on
well ok not bad, but i bet he doesn’t do very well trying to pick up women in bars with a face like that…
talking of arab spring…. very strange this one: the annual ‘world press’ exhibition poster features a gruesomely disfigured young arab woman this year, designer ‘franklin de bekker’ discovered that one of the posters hanging in amsterdam had actually been hand-retouched by somebody using paint to replace her missing nose… wow
(image cortesy of eric wie & franklin himself via facebook)