Cellphone Tower Trees
Vor rund einem Jahr bloggte ich über Robert Voigts Fotografie von als Bäumen getarnten Mobilfunkmasten, hier das gleiche aus Südafrika von Dillon Marsh:
An important chapter in the history of tree-shaped cellphone towers was written in South Africa. In the mid-’90s, Ivo Branislav Lazic (who worked for a telecommunications service company called Brolaz Projects) and his colleague Aubrey Trevor Thomas were commissioned by Vodacom to solve the visual pollution problem cellphones presented. Lazic and Thomas came up with the world’s first palm tree cellphone tower. The Palm Pole Tower, made from non-toxic plastics, was installed in Cape Town in 1996.
“There were already a wide variety of designs by the time I started photographing,” says Marsh, who completed the project over six months in 2009. “The designs loosely mimic trees that are found in the local environment.”
Cellphone Towers Disguised as Trees
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
New Trees: Camo-Cell Towers
Shannon Taggarts Paranormal-Photography
Shannon Taggart fotografiert Geister, Medien, Seancen, Hypno-Kram, Geisterjäger und Voodoo, der ganze Quatsch aus dem Venn-Diagram of Irrational Nonsense neulich. Für’s Midnight Archive erklärt sie ihre Einflüsse, der Geister-Fotografie aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
Photographer Shannon Taggart explores the Victorian born art of ‘Spirit Photography’, a practive in which, the spirit of a loved one or guide would appear in one’s photograph. Shannon takes a heartfelt and uncontroversial look at a topic that had been plagued with scandal.
Slitscan-Webcam in your Browser
Tolle Webcam-Spielerei von Cameron Adams: Slitscan-Video im Browser.
This experiment allows you to explore 4-dimensional space using your webcam. Once you’ve given this page permission to access your webcam try slowly waving your arm before undertaking more radical experimentation in the 4th dimension.
Ich hab’ mit dem Ding ein paar alberne GIFs gemacht, die gibt’s auf meinem Tumblelog und nach dem Klick, more to come: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Content Aware Family-Portraits
Antonia Basler wendet das Photoshop Content Aware-Tool auf die Gesichter ihrer Familie an, das Ergebnis sind creepy Familienfotos von einem semi-AI-Tool aus einem Bildbearbeitungsprogramm.
Content Aware (2011-Present) is an ongoing project constructed from applying the “content aware” tool in photoshop to my family photographs. The images are constructed from the program reassigning the selected area, or the faces in each image, with information gathered from around the selection.
The resulting pairs of images are of the selection of the face and the inverse of this selection with the content aware tool applied to both.
Content Aware (via AnimalNY)
Mike „Polaroid Kidd“ Brodies Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Mike Brodie aka „The Polaroid Kidd“ ging im Jahr 2003 mit 17 Jahren auf eine Reise quer durch die USA und zwar per Train-Hopping. Dabei fotografierte er haufenweise New School Hippies, Punks, Obdachlose und Abenteurer, seine Arbeiten hängen in tausend Galerien und im März kommt der erste Bildband mit seinen Fotografien. Über Brodie hab’ ich zum ersten mal vor vier Jahren gebloggt und habe jede Menge ähnlicher Punk-Fotografie gesehen, Brodies bleiben bis heute die rohesten und kraftvollsten.
Hier gab’s mal jede Menge Prints zu kaufen: The Boys and Girls of
Modern Days Railways, hier eine weitere Galerie seiner Bilder, jede Menge mehr Fotos gibt’s auf der Website von M+B. Das Buch kommt am 22. März 2013 (Das Datum auf Amazon.de ist falsch, auf der Website des Verlags und bei Amazon.com wird das Buch auf 2013 datiert).
At 17 Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, FL thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, AL. Instead the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, FL. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked something and Brodie began to wander across the U.S. by any means that were free – walking, hitchhiking and train hopping. Shortly after, Brodie found a Polaroid camera stuffed behind a carseat.
With no training in photography and coke-bottle glasses, the instant camera was an opening for Brodie to document his experiences. As a way of staying in touch with his transient community,Brodie shared his pictures on various websites gaining the moniker The Polaroid Kidd [sic]. When the Polaroid film he used was discontinued, Brodie switched to 35mm film and a sturdy 1980s camera. Brodie spent years crisscrossing the U.S. amassing a collection, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of American travel photography. When asked about his approach to travel and photography Brodie has said: sometimes I take a train the wrong way or…whatever happens a photo will come out of it, so it doesn’t really matter where I end up.
Amazon-Partnerlink: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Crossword Puzzle Tournament-Photography
Tolle Fotos vom 2013er American Crossword Puzzle Tournament von Rufus Mangrove.
Every year since 1978, crossword puzzlers from all walks of life have come together to compete in the world’s largest crossword puzzle tournament, the ACPT, founded and directed by the one and only Will Shortz. This year, nearly 600 contestants squeezed themselves into a banquet hall at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott and over the course of three days, lived, breathed, worshipped, and on occasion, swore at the mighty crossword.
Origami Surgery
Alma Haser fotografiert Leute, druckt die Portraits aus und verfremdet die Gesichter mit Origami, gefaltet Drucken eben jener Portraits.
The series has three distinct stages. Firstly Alma photographs her sitter, then prints multiple images of the subjects face and folds them into a complicated origami modular construction, which then gets placed back onto the original face of the portrait. Finally the whole thing is re-photographed. […]
There is something quite alien about the manipulated faces, as if they belong to some futuristic next generation. In these portraits the children become uncanny, while their parents are seen in a more familiar moment.
Happy Birthday, Martha Cooper!
Martha Cooper (Subway Art, Graffiti-Legende, Wikipedia) feiert heute runden Geburtstag und befreundete Writer wollen das mit einer Überraschung per Instagram feiern. Just schreibt mir: „Martha Cooper feuert heute einen grossen runden Geburtstag und da sie seit Wochen total auf Instagram abfährt, hatten wir uns gedacht ihr Geburtstagswuensche und Sketche auf Instagram zu laden und per Hashtag #happybdaysnapz zu sammeln.“ Haut rein!
Oben ein Piece von Shiro One aus Japan, mein digital zusammengefummelter Geburtstagsgruß gibt’s unten, Snip von der Facebook-Eventseite:
Our friend Marty has a big B-Day coming up! We will not tell you which one, cuz a Lady’s gotta have her secrets, but we wanna do something special for her. The plan is an Instagram Bombing for Marty’s B-Day!
You paint/draw/photograph a picture that has something to do with Marty and/or her B-Day. On March 9, you Instagram your sketch with @marthacoopergram and #happybdaysnapz! We are thinking of having the pictures made into a hand-bound book for Marty, and maybe make an online gallery with all the pictures up later on.
Photographs of Bureaucracy
Über Jan Bannings – Anarchist, Soziologe und Fotograf – brillante Fotoserie Bureaucratics habe ich schonmal vor vier Jahren gebloggt, die geht aber grade mal wieder rum und ich finde die immer noch superfantastisch, also was solls. Banning hat von 2003 bis 2008 Bürokraten auf der ganzen Welt abgelichtet, dazu ist er einfach unangemeldet auf’s Amt gelatscht und hat geknippst. Heraus kam eine soziologische Studie von einem Anarchisten über den Typus Bürokrat. Ganz, ganz groß!
Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of polical, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen.
In each country, I visited up to hundreds of offices of members of the executive in different services and at different levels. The visits were unannounced and the accompanying writer, Will Tinnemans, by interviewing kept the employees from tidying up or clearing the office. That way, the photos show what a local citizen would be confronted with when entering.
Bureaucratics (via Laughing Squid)
Versions of the Past
Schöne Retrotech-Variante dieser „Looking Into The Past“-Bilder, die seit ein paar Jahren in allen möglichen Variationen immer wieder durchs Netz gehen. Hier guckt sich Max Wohlleber olle Mac-Versionen an.
My Project “Versions Of The Past”, based on “looking into the past” pictures, leads the viewer through the digital past. Instead of black and white architecture and old street lamps, there are the monochromatic beginnings of the Mac OS.
Cecilia Paredes Camo-Bodypainting
Tolle Bodypaintings von Cecilia Paredes. Erinnert natürlich an die Arbeiten von Liu Bolin. (via The Fox Is Black)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Camo-Artist Liu Bolin hides in 9/11-Artifacts
Camo-Artist Liu Bolins Creative Process
Steve Schapiros Taxi Driver-Photography is a Book
Steve Schapiros Fotobuch mit Behind-The-Scenes-Fotos aus Taxi Driver gab’s bislang nur in limitierten Auflagen ab 1000€ aufwärts, im April erscheint das Teil jetzt in einer erschwinglichen Version für ‘nen Fuffi:
Steve Schapiro – dessen Aufnahmen bereits in TASCHENs Godfather Family Album zu sehen waren – begleitete damals die Dreharbeiten von Taxi Driver im Auftrag amerikanischer Zeitschriften und hat die intensivsten und brutalsten Momente des Films aus seiner privilegierten Perspektive hinter den Kulissen festgehalten. Dieses Buch präsentiert viele bislang unbekannte Fotos aus Schapiros Privatarchiv und zeichnet so das packende Porträt eines sozial vereinsamten Revolverhelden im zornigen Klima der Nach-Vietnam-Ära.
Mit einem Vorwort von Martin Scorsese und zahlreichen historischen Texten und Interviews mit Scorsese, Drehbuchautor Paul Schrader und Robert De Niro.
Amazon-Partnerlink: Steve Schapiro. Taxi Driver
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
1000€-Buch über Taxi Driver
Das 1750€-Buch über „Der Pate“
Photos from the good Communists 60s Chinese Operas
Slate hat tolle Bilder von Zhang Yaxin, dem Hoffotografen von Mao Zedongs Frau und den von ihr entwickelten Opern. Mehr der Bilder findet man hier.
Photographer Zhang Yaxin was one of the only people in China with access to color film during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Zhang was a photographer for Xinhua News Agency when he was chosen by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, to photograph the performances of the model operas she developed after the Communist Party leaders banned traditional Peking opera for being too bourgeois.
North Korea on Instagram
Nord Korea hat vor ein paar Tagen sein mobiles Internet für Besucher angeschaltet, seitdem tröpfeln Tweets und Instagrams aus NK ins Netz, im Bild oben erklärt der TV-Ansager den Plot von „Madagaskar“:
My first tweet using #Koryolink‘s new mobile #Internet service. Hello world from comms center in #Pyongyang.
— Jean H. Lee (@newsjean) 25. Februar 2013
North Korea’s 3G mobile network is a joint venture between state-owned Koryolink and Egypt-based Orascom. It has offered cellular calling for a while but didn’t previously allow data connections. The move to open up the network follows a visit by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, who observed last month, “It would be very easy for them to turn the internet on for this 3G network. Estimates are that are about a million and a half phones in [North Korea] with some growth planned in the near future.” For now, however, the internet is only available to the much smaller cohort of phones owned by foreigners.
Am spannendsten ist wahrscheinlich der Instagram-Feed von AP-Fotograf David Guttenfelder, hier sein Blog: „It’s a powerful way to connect directly with the outside world from one of the most isolated countries on earth. The window on to North Korea has been opened a small crack.“ Hier ein paar mehr seiner Bilder bei Associated Press: A LOOK AT DAILY LIFE INSIDE NORTH KOREA.
Polaroid Mosaic Portraits
Hübsche Portraits in Form von Polaroid Mosaiken von Maurizio Galimberti, ein paar mehr gibt’s hier. Bild oben: Dario Argento. (via MyModernMet)
