24.1.12

...Record Player that plays the rings of trees...Fantastic


...Fair Play Mr. Traubeck, this is truly a masterpiece. I bet you didn't think it would turn out this well...





Cinemagraph...Fad..or..Future?




...Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg..a new fad or here for the perceivable future? I think there's definitely going to be a lot more of this to come. Overall they look great, even if they're a little robotic at times, kinks I'm sure can ironed out in time..hats off...

23.1.12

...Rafa..Zubiría..


...Rafa Zubiría..No Way Home...

...Read more at afterimage... 

...Photo..Books...



...'but what percentage of the books being made are sold for less than their retail price 6 months after they have been published? Go and spend $100,000 on photobooks today and then try to sell them in 2 or 3 years time. Let me know how that goes for you.'...Eyecurious...

...Cai Guo-Qiang..Head On...


20.1.12

...Jacob..Riis...



...Jacob Riis - 1887, a group of men loiter in an alley known as 'Bandit's Roost' off Mulberry Street...More Here...

9.1.12

...Arecibo Makes...Front Page of Conscientious...


It is not a new thing; indeed at the present it seems a positively over-done thing. Appropriation of Internet photography -specifically from Google street-view or Google maps- is acutely prevalent in current photographic and art practice. It may be said that there is far too much imagery littering both our virtual and actual environments already, and to react to this by producing yet more images only adds to the glut of imagery that is being critiqued in the first place. However this seeming contradiction of agendas can be beneficial to the work of a few. In order to make work that critiques the very thing that it eventually embellishes, the work must conceal its agenda behind deliberate layers of intersecting imagery and absolute conceptual rigour. The work must have entire conviction that it is not just another Google project.

You can read more at ... Conscientious : A winner of LIFE.com's 2011 Photo Blog Awards and one of Source Magazine's 10 Photography Related Blogs You Should Read.