Month: November 2012

  • Luxad: Einzigartige Rahmen für einzigartige Fotos

    In Berlin und online gibt es den kleinen, feinen Rahmenladen namens „Luxad“, in dem jeder Rahmen ein Unikat aus recyceltem Holz mit Gebrauchsspuren ist. Mit Fotostudio. Und Druckservice für Bilder. Und einer Galerie. – Es folgt die Geschichte einer Selbstständigkeit mit Herz und Leidenschaft für die Fotografie.

    Angefangen hat alles 2009, als Andreas David zusammen mit dem Polaroidkünstler Marcus Vogel und seiner Frau Alexandra für das Projekt Imagetransfer Berlin-Kapstadt in den Townships von Kapstadt unterwegs war. Die drei verteilten gebrauchte Kameras an die Mitarbeiter der Luna Design Company, die handgefertigte Bilderrahmen aus recyceltem Holz herstellt.

    Viele der Mitarbeiter fotografierten im Rahmen dieses Projektes überhaupt zum ersten Mal und hielten einen Tag in ihrem Leben in Bildern fest. Entstanden sind 800 Fotos, die zum Teil sehr private Einblicke in die Leben der Menschen gewähren. Marcus Vogel hat einige der Bilder mit der Polaroidtechnik weiterverarbeitet, beispielsweise auch in Polaroidlifts übertragen und so die Wirkung der Bilder künstlerisch verstärkt.

    Die Teilnehmer am Projekt wurden auch selbst mit Portraitfotos festhalten und in Interviews zu ihren Träumen und Lebenszielen befragt. So verschmelzen in Bild und Text die Eindrücke der Rahmenbauer aus Kapstadt mit denen der Besucher und inspirieren sich gegenseitig künstlerisch sowie dokumentarisch.

    Die Ergebnisse sind in Form eines Interview-Buches mit Portraits der Manufaktur-Mitarbeiter, Polaroid-Fotokunst und Dokumentationsfotos des Projektes als Ausstellung unterwegs. Als die drei anschließend Räumlichkeiten für die Ausstellung der Polaroids suchten, stellten sie fest, dass das bei Galerien, die monate- oder sogar jahrelang im Voraus ausgesucht sind, fast unmöglich ist.

    Am Ende konnten sie 2010 bei befreundeten Rechtsanwälten doch noch ausstellen: Die von Marcus Vogel zu Poloraidkunst verarbeiteten Bilder der Manufaktur-Mitarbeiter und Andreas Davids Portraits der Teilnehmer, präsentiert in den von ihnen selbst hergestellten Holzrahmen.

    Unter den Eindrücken dieses künstlerisch-journalistischen Projektes und der schwierigen Suche nach Ausstellungsraum hatte Andreas David inzwischen beschlossen, die wunderschönen Holzrahmen in einem eigenen Laden zu verkaufen, dort auch ein Portraitstudio einzurichten und Raum für Ausstellungen zu bieten.

    So entstand das Luxad in der Mommsenstraße 42 in Berlin-Charlottenburg: Ein gemütlicher, kleiner, ruhiger Laden, der inzwischen sein zweijähriges Jubiläum feiert, viele Ideen clever umgesetzt unter einem Dach vereint und auch online ein dem Laden nachempfundenes Einkaufserlebnis bietet.

    Seit mehr als einem Jahr ist mit FoundRe: aus Chicago (USA) ein zweiter Hersteller von Bilderrahmen aus Holz mit Spuren seiner Geschichte hinzugekommen. Andreas empfiehlt auch gern passende Rahmen oder gestaltet Rahmenarrangements gezielt für eine bestimmte Wand.

    Auf der Webseite des Luxad kann man im aktuellen Bestand der Unikate stöbern und sie direkt bestellen, jeder Rahmen wird dafür einzeln fotografiert. So kann man online selbst testen, wie eigene Bilder in diesem oder jenem Rahmen wirken oder sich durch die Rahmenwahl klicken, die einem nach und nach jeweils zwei Rahmen zum Vergleich präsentiert, bis man den Rahmen gefunden hat.

    Wer mag, kann optional sein für den ausgewählten Rahmen bestimmtes Bild direkt mitschicken, sodass es für den Rahmen passgenau gedruckt und eingefügt wird. So kommt das Gesamtwerk schon fix und fertig zuhause an – nur noch an die Wand hängen muss man es selbst. Alle Rahmen sind Wechselrahmen, sodass die Bilder auch ausgetauscht werden können.

    Diese Entwicklungen, besondere Meilensteine, die kleinen Anekdoten im Alltag und was so alles hinter den Kulissen abläuft, kann man auch im Blog verfolgen. Von diesem musste ich mich nach einiger Zeit schweren Herzens loseisen, denn in der Entstehung des Projektes mit seinen verschiedenen Ablegern zu versinken, ist für mich, der selbst manchmal Tagträume von einem Atelier-Laden-Galerie-Café durch den Kopf schwirren, besonders spannend.

    Apropos Galerie. Auch eine solche ist Teil des Luxad. Alle paar Wochen hängen hier neue Werke eines Fotografen – präsentiert natürlich in eigens für die Bilder ausgesuchten Holzrahmen. Nach der Vernissage sind die Bilder mitsamt Rahmen dann auch online erhältlich. Wer in Berlin lebt und fotografiert, kann sich für eine eigene Ausstellung bewerben.

    Morgen schon, am Freitag, den 23. November findet um 19 Uhr die Vernissage zur neuen Ausstellung „… welt anschauung …“ mit Fotografien von Claudia Leverentz statt. Zu sehen sein werden Momentaufnahmen von alltäglichen Situationen, fremden Kulturen und eindrucksvollen Landschaften, die sie auf ihren Reisen gesammelt hat.

    Dann gibt es im Luxad auch noch Spiegel in gewohnter Gebrauchtholz-Optik und ungewöhnlich schmalem Hochkantformat. Und Gitarren, die aus recycelten Ölkanistern hergestellt werden… und das sind noch nicht einmal alle der kuriosen und schönen Details rund um ein wunderbares Projekt, die es noch ein Stückchen liebenswerter machen.

    Wir schlagen vor: Lasst Euch einfach selbst beim Stöbern im vielfältigen Angebot von Luxad überraschen.


    kwerfeldein – Fotografie Magazin

  • Installation (Fly-Through) FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML

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    Installation (Fly-Through) FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML
    visual art
    Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
    This installation by Ellen Driscoll is so gigantic that I thought that only a video fly-through can really help experience the piece.

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    Two Solo Exhibitions
    Exhibition dates: September 26 – November 8, 2009
    Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm

    Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto’s photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work.

    Ellen Driscoll
    FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2

    “This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold.

    The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.”

    Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.

    Smack Mellon
    92 Plymouth Street @ Washington
    Brooklyn, NY 11201

    Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.

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    (almost) all of the completed dissertations in Visual Studies at UC Irvine up to 2008
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    Image by G A R N E T
    Homemade modern : MoMA, women and the transformation of European modernism into American style / by Amy L Marver, 2001.

    About turns : minimalism to excess in the films of Yvonne Rainer / by Patricia Lynne Levin, 2001.

    Lurking and looking : media technologies and cultural convergences of spectatorship, voyeurism… / by Sheila Colleen Murphy, 2002.

    Fantastic observations : images of insects in early modern Europe / by Janice L Neri, 2003. [not pictured]

    The gravity of memory : recollection and forgetting at the Bibliothèque Impériale of Napo / by Francesca M Bavuso, 2004.

    The animated and the actual : toward a theory of animation, live-action, and everyday life / by Joanna Rose Bouldin, 2004.

    "The child lost in the garden of time" : childhood and the fourth dimension in the works of Joseph Co… / by Analisa Pauline Leppanen-Guerra, 2004.

    Her apparent admiration and the intensity of her gaze : race, class, and gender and the stereoscopic / by Beth Rayfield, 2004.

    The "camera" as camera : new subjectivities in 3D virtual worlds / by Tobey Crockett, 2006.

    The art of disappearance : duration, instantaneity, and the conception of cinema / by René Thoreau Bruckner, 2007.

    Equivocal subjects : the representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film / by Shelleen Maisha Greene, 2007.

    Walking after midnight : violence, femininity, and possibility / by Jennifer Arlene Rogers, 2007.

    The ambiguous I : photography, gender, self / by Jordy Jones, 2008.

    Monstrous play in negative spaces : the cultural production of biometric bodies / by
    Heather Michelle Murray, 2008.

    Actual treatments: Performative realism in American independent cinema, 1949-70 / by Edward A Barron, 2009. [electronic resource – not pictured]

    Methodologies of Reuse in the Media Arts: Exploring Black Boxes, Tactics, and Archaeologies / by Garnet D Hertz, 2009. [not yet bound by library as of April 2010]

    The Barber Institute of Fine Arts – main entrance doors
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    Image by ell brown
    This is the The Barber Institute of Fine Arts building on the University of Birmingham main campus.

    It is listed currently as being on University Road, and no longer Edgbaston Park Road (I would assume that University Road is the road that goes from Edgbaston Park Road into the University grounds proper).

    It is a Grade II listed building built between 1935 and 1939, designed by architect Robert Atkinson.

    It is an art gallery and concert hall, and is an Art Deco building. It was opened by Queen Mary.

    1935 completed 1939, architect Robert Atkinson. Sophisticated design marrying
    elements of traditional institutional classicism with Dudok inspired stone
    dressed brick modern. A 2 storey compact block with shallow full height portal
    wing to right hand of front. Ashlar faced ground floor and blind lst floor of
    brick with flat coped roofline. The horizontal emphasis of the strip
    fenestration of the ground floor is suavely combined with the vertical accent of
    the slightly battered portal. The latter is complemented in small scale by
    ashlar panels carved with symbols of the Arts on the first floor and reflected
    by the visual stop of the larger panel at the end of return east elevation.
    The banding and strip fenestration of the front follows round on to the side and
    rear elevations giving a crisp linear definition to the design.

    The Barber Institute of Fine Arts – Heritage Gateway

  • Dutch Civil Defense Bunker

    A tour through the Cold War era Civil Defense Bunker “Overvoorde” in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, restored and completely redecorated in style by the Foundation NCBB. For more information, see: www.ncbb.nl The threat of a third World War mobilizes the Dutch government. A Civil Defense organization is founded to govern the country in case of a calamity The Civil Defense Organization is part of this new structure. The fear of an imminent nuclear attack during the cold war, changed the requirements for the defense of the Dutch citizens. New Command Centers were built throughout the country, to face up to the most extreme situations, including Atomic Radiation, Bacteriological – and Chemical warfare. In light of these developments, a new Command Center was built in 1969 annex a former German bunker complex. Shot with Pana AF101, GoPro Hero, Nikon D3x and Nikon D3.

  • Watsky & Mody- Mrs. Robinson ft. Danny McClain

    DOWNLOAD Watsky & Mody FREE at: gwatsky.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com Danny McClain www.facebook.com Producer- Jack Waz Director- Jackson Adams www.jacksonhadams.com Director of Photography- Jess Dunlap www.jessdunlap.com Editor- Joseph Shahood Production Designer/Wardrobe- Natalie Groce 1st AD- Alex Keller 2nd AD- Tim Pelletier Production Assistant- Michael Bruno Craft Services- Nikki Baida 1st AC- Mike Dempsey Playback- Greg Goodness G&E- Mike Lippi G&E- Zach Salsman Additional photography- Grady Shon & Corbett Jones Cougar- Evelyn Brinson Cougar- Angela Stephens Cougar- Mucci Young woman- Melanie McComb Bartender- Dan Perrault Sound guy- Brooks Morrison Album art by Philip Lumbang Special thanks to BLVD Hotels www.BLVDHotels.com MUSIC CREDITS Arranged by Kush Mody Engineered by Nils Montan, Steve Valenzuela, Andrew Oedel, & Robbie Rowland Mixed by Andrew Oedel Mastered by Ricardo Gutierrez for Stadium Red Drums Danny Morledge Bass: Charlie Domingo Guitar: Ryan Hommel Banjo: Matt Bruer Piano/Organ: Kush Mody Horns: Max Miller-Loran Vocals: Daniel “SkyHigh” McLain Vocal samples: Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman Based on “Mrs. Robinson” written by Paul Simon, as performed by Simon & Garfunkel Compulsory license pending from Paul Simon Music (please don’t remove our little video!)

  • The Golden Hour: Ep 203: Digital Photography 1 on 1: Adorama Photography TV

    AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this week’s episode Mark answers a viewer’s question regarding the “magical” hour around sunset and sunrise, also known as the golden hour. Join Mark in the beautiful Sonoran desert as he explains how to best capture the golden hour light. Products featured in this episode: Nikon 14mm – 24mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide-Angle Zoom www.adorama.com Nikon D3S Digital SLR Camera Body, www.adorama.com Benro A2691TB1 Transfunctional Travel Angel www.adorama.com For related videos and articles, go here: www.adorama.com Visit adorama.com/?learn for more photography videos! Products used in this episode: Nikon D3S: www.adorama.com Nikon 17-24mm f/2.8G: www.adorama.com Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    I have recently bought some Yongnuo speedlights i allready own some SB900’s but a up and coing job means i need some more speedlights, as i mainly use studio strobes ments i needed to buy some more, the Yongnuo YN560 II are manul only flashes but supports camander mode from Nikon camera via built in flash on D90,D700,D700,D800,D3,D3s etc etc. @ £52 each there a bargain not in same league as my SB900’s but as secondary flashes im extremely impressed with features and build quality.
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Photographing Crowds at Concerts

    The Maine (Explored #104)

    It’s not just the band on stage that make for interesting subjects at concerts; the crowd can lend itself for painting a vivid picture of the event too. However the trouble with concerts is the lack of available light, so here are a few suggestions to make the best out of the situation to help you capture the throng of revellers.

    N*E*R*D 8

    Push the ISO

    Concerts are typically shrouded in darkness with intermittent lighting, but because of their busy nature they are no place for a tripod, so you’ll have little choice but to ramp up the ISO.  Before you attend the concert take a series of shots of the same low-light scene at different ISOs, you’ll then be able to gauge at what point noise becomes too distracting. Then when you attend the concert be sure not to go too far above this sensitivity. For the best results, team your camera with a fast lens to capture the action at a wider aperture.

    Underoath @ Koko, London 2010

    Forget the Flash

    Although the crowd’s attention will probably be focused on the stage, it’s best not to use a flash otherwise you could give away your intention of capturing candids of the audience which will affect the results achieved, but you may also temporary blind someone stood in close proximity. Instead use the stage’s lighting for illumination and ambience. You can even achieve some striking silhouette shots in this way, particularly if coloured lights are being used. Simply use spot metering, reading from the stage to throw the audience into darkness, shoot towards the stage, catching revellers with their hands stretched high in celebration.

    Do You Realize?

    Use what’s Available

    Pay attention to the lighting choreography and use your knowledge of the band’s music to judge when the crowd will be illuminated. It may take a few verses to notice a pattern emerging between the lighting and music, so expose when your subjects are well lit, de-press to focus on the burst of light and fire at the next opportunity. If the beams of light are short-lived or your camera has a noticeable shutter lag pre-empt the opportunity by firing a second or so before the light falls on the crowd.

    Parkpop 2009 - The girls in the crowd

    If all else fails…

    If after the concert you feel you pushed the ISO too high to get sharp shots and returned home to find your frames riddled with noise, then run it through a noise reduction program like Noise Ninja or even try getting creative by converting it to black and white for film-inspired feel.

    Skrillex, Rialto Theater, Tucson AZ

    Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

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    Photographing Crowds at Concerts



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  • Sigma 70-200 2.8 EX APO DG II vs. Tamron 70-200 2.8 Di Ld (Review)

    im revewing these two lenses, sorry for the cut off. i will be getting either the Sigma or Nikon 80-200 2.8 and will be reviewon on

  • Musical Explosion (3D option)

    Share on Facebook: j.mp and Twitter: j.mp 3 months to figure out how to do this in 3D, so check it out: bit.ly Don’t forget to watch more of my videos and enter to win one of these 3D Bloggie’s from my friends at Howdini: youtube.com Graphic designs by Adhemas Batista: www.adhemas.com Check out my other videos youtube.com My second channel: www.youtube.com Shirts: districtlines.com Send me things: Mystery Guitar Man PO Box 691067 Hollywood, CA 90069 Song is Hungarian Dances Number 5

  • Tether Tools Wallee Connect Mounts iPad on Photography Tripod

    The Tether Tools Connect and the Wallee Modular Accessory Case seamlessly integrate the iPad and iPad 2 into the photography and film workflow (and just about everywhere else). The Wallee iPad System, with its variety of interchangeable versatile accessory options is ideal for every iPad owner and the ultimate solution for photographers
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    Mark Cruz from Nikon Canada shows us the new Nikon D7000 DSLR at the Henry’s Photographic, Video and Digital Imaging Fall 2010 Show. For more information, and all the latest photography related news, tips, tricks and events, visit Full Frame on the Perpetual Radio Networks. perpetualradio.com

  • Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow

    Some cool visual art images:

    Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
    visual art
    Image by nerosunero
    VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland

    MAY 29 – AUGUST 29
    Éigse 30 Year Retrospective, : Various Artists
    Curated by Paddy McGovern

    website
    www.visualcarlow.ie

    pictures by www.nerosunero.org
    1 Aug 2010

    Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
    visual art
    Image by nerosunero
    VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland

    MAY 29 – AUGUST 29
    Éigse 30 Year Retrospective, : Various Artists
    Curated by Paddy McGovern

    website
    www.visualcarlow.ie

    pictures by www.nerosunero.org
    1 Aug 2010

    Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
    visual art
    Image by nerosunero
    VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland

    MAY 29 – AUGUST 29
    Éigse 30 Year Retrospective, : Various Artists
    Curated by Paddy McGovern

    website
    www.visualcarlow.ie

    pictures by www.nerosunero.org
    1 Aug 2010