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gold leaf, push pins & string

i was back in the photostudio yesterday with my good friend ‘ruud baan’ shooting two new images (in one day) for the dutch national ballet, a busy day, too warm too little time but plenty of fun…

the two new productions are ‘sleeping beauty’ and a triple bill ‘strong voices’, the sleeping beauty one we decided to translate into an over-the-top almost kitsch, abstract gold sun to depict the moment she awakes and for strong voices the idea was to create a sound wave pattern (inspired by the image below) but then in real life

i created a maze pattern out string in the studio limbo and painted the top & bottom sections on the string black to create a graphic wave form with the remaining white string sections, a very ambitious plan which required a lot more time than was available yesterday, the dancer we worked with ‘matthew golding’ was great and we are very pleased with the result, more news soon…

m / 25-06-2010 14:26 - tags: ,  

yellow pictures might be by either

this fascinating geo-tagging project looks a lot better than the one mentioned earlier today… shown here are amsterdam, tokyo and london…

…blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).

Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken by locals….

(link via ‘information is beautiful’)

m / 23-06-2010 12:38 - tags: , ,  

double fringe

my friend ‘andrĂ© thijssen’ is finally releasing his fringe phenomenon as a double edition book (designed by the talented ‘sabine verschueren’) which will be released during the opening of his show at the nederlands fotomuseum on july the 10th, looking forward to that…

m / 23-06-2010 12:30 - tags: , ,  

eye phone

if you’re interested in things that are slightly blurry & pixellated visit iphoneography

m / 17-06-2010 16:58 - tags: ,  

double take

the latest album cover for the chemical brothers reminds me quite a bit of the image ‘ruud baan’ and i made for the dutch national ballet several years back, great minds think alike? see the poster we finally made (upside down) here

m / 17-06-2010 11:05 - tags: ,