Happy Anniversary, Baby, I've got you on my mi-ind!

Last Thursday (8.5.10) Luke and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. I love you, babe! 

Brooklyn Industries: Storytelling Campaign

I found this a while back and forgot about it. I just love the photocollage that Brooklyn Industries did as part of a recent campaign. Love the idea of telling a story, showing a history, crossing boundaries of time.

Cool New Artist: Carl Van de Roer

I like this series by Carl Van de Roer. It was featured on 20x200, which is one my my faves.

Here's a bit about the series:
The term "orb" is typically used to describe circular artifacts in photographs—artifacts which have been interpreted by some as spirits. Despite being debunked and explained (most commonly as backscatter from precipitation or dust), there's a surprisingly widespread belief that orb photographs document the supernatural. There are organizations, conferences, hunts, field experts, detectors and websites dedicated to spiritualist orb photography.

This photographic search for something larger than ourselves was the starting point for this project. I photographed people in landscapes that are partly obscured by precipitation. The subjects are seen searching for or interacting with orbs, which are represented as dots covering parts of the scene.

Read more here.

1930s-40s in Color

This wonderful set of photos on Flickr was posted on facebook by a co-worker of Roy and Holly and Jeff. I've loved looking through them tonight.
Here's a little about it:

These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.

The FSA/OWI pictures depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with a focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period.

The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division preserves
the original photographs and offers the digital copies to ensure their wide availability.

Cool New Artist: Erik Johannson

Love these nonsensical photo manipulations by Erik Johannson featured on daily mail. Thanks to Jeff for featuring them first!

See more of Erik's work here.

FFFFound! things

Some cool stuff from FFFFound! Especially like this first poster.

Cool New Artist: Jan von Holleben

Saw the work of Jan von Holleben on FFFFOUND! this morning. Love how he uses a static two-dimensionality to suggest motion and three dimensions.

Balloons

I love these two photos together, put side by side by the artist. The comparison forces the viewer to break down the objects into purely the elements of design: in this case, shape, color, size, value. As seen on my polaroid blog.




It reminds me a lot of this photo by Tiara Mia, as seen today on oh joy!

from my polaroid blog

These images were from a post long ago on my polaroid blog, but I've loved them since I saw them last year. Love the color, the exposure, the composition. Also, I've been wanting to do an abstracted beach landscape like the one I'm doing of Scotland, and this second image reminds me of some that mom and I took last year when the whole fam went to the beach.

FFFFound!

Ryan Brown, a friend and fellow classmate, told me about this website: FFFFound!
Today I saw this image there. Love the tension! It reminds me of a print piece with bad margins.

Love this one, too, and all the related ones at the bottom. Sometimes there are so many wonderful things to look at, they hurt my eyes.