nicely made birthday celebration photo-mosaic of the (overly hero-worshipped) ‘god of apple’ mister steve jobs for the ‘LA times’ (via the CR twitter feed)
me news
various dingen
the website for the dutch best book design award has been updated, as i said in a post last week: two of our books from the ‘dingen’ childrens’ photo book series have been selected this year (amsterdam & transport things) odd that they’ve upgraded the site but still have very poor low-res images, come on guys…
on a separate note: we are currently busy working on the next few books in the ‘dingen’ series, including a very unusual one in terms of book materials if it all works out, more news soon…
also see several related posts here, and here, plus last years’ award-winning one here
early days…
for the man now called the prez, now that’s what i call ‘change’
zine
i came across this rather obscure fanzine/project entitled ‘zine’ by local ronald de boer which in his own words, was
…started in 1996 and was photocopied and distributed amongst friends in a circulation that started with 20 and grew to 40. It appeared irregularly. A special edition of all Zines was exhibited at Art Bookshop Shashin, Amsterdam in 2006 and at Galerie De School, Groede in 2009. Zine 39 was the first issue to be published on the internet….
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…
