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This photograph by @cobbing has made my day today. It is a breathtaking shot, as are many of his, but it wasn’t until he pointed out the hidden text beneath the image to me that it hit home just how special this photograph really is.
Go to Nick Cobbing’s site and click through the Surface Tension story until the end. When you arrive at the image shown above ‘The Town of Narsaq viewed through a hole in the iceberg in the bay’, click on the i for information below it.
Read the story. You will gasp. Just like I did.
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Mickey Smith has an amazing poetic economy with words. So I am not going to say much about this, except please watch and listen.
Thanks to Mickey for blowing us all away with honest passion in the Do Lectures tent last week.
Interestingly, Mickey’s film sits beautifully alongside one by American surf photographer Chris Burkard that I posted recently.
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Oh now really, how lovely is this Manual Photography Cheat Sheet from @Yatcher on Zazzle. I just wish I’d had it with me at The Do Lectures last week when I was playing with my new camera (Canon 600D for you geeks out there, no I couldn’t lift the 5D). As it turns out, through trial and error, I did just about ok without it.
At least Wired.co.uk thought so today when they used one of my pics to illustrate a beautifully crafted feature on the Do Lectures 2011 by the talented Ella Saltmarshe (@saltsea). It’s been a not so secret ambition of mine, for some time, to get my foot through the WIRED door.
I figured it’d be the words that would work their way in first. But hey, thanks to Ella, it turned out to be a photo of the wonderful Mickey Smith instead. As this young wise man likes to say, I’m armed with a smile.
Thanks to my gorgeous sis for this cheat sheet top tip.
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“I’m just trying to understand how to get back to being patient.”
Lovely words and a beautiful video on Chris Burkard’s work in photography. Thanks to @kirstinbutler for sharing his site on Twitter today.
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This is a gorgeous, sumptuous and, dare I say it, rather majestic animated film on photography and architecture. Revel in these extraordinary colours, spaces, structures and the amazing light. It blew my tiny mind and then made me a bit weepy. Thanks to @alexhaw for sharing.
You are under strict instructions to full screen it when watching - nothing less will do.
The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman
Here’s an interview with Roman on Motionographer from 2009 about his film.
“I think architecture is sculpting with light most of the time. There’s neither volume nor colors and materials without light and shadow.
Like Kahn said once: ‘In the old buildings, the columns were an expression of light. Light, no light, light, no light, light, you see…’”
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Thx to Scott Thrift @mssngpeces for reminding me of something I miss daily.
Jonathan Harris’s Today project.
This compilation film of all his photos taken over one year serves as a reminder of the sparkling gems that use to await me in my inbox each morning. How I miss that brief daily moment of visual joy.
I’m sorry Jonathan stopped this project, but it’s good to hear why he did, what it meant to him and that he misses it too.
“I miss it now, too. I miss having this archive of memories. I feel my memory atrophying already, getting weaker than it was.”
“I use stories as a technique to organise the past. And I think there is a real lack of storytelling now, among all of us. We’re all living lives that are so fragmented, so moment to moment… there’s not that time to create stories and make sense of your experience.”
“That’s one big thing that I learned doing this project, you really need privacy. I think you need space in order to contemplate and grow.”
Jonathan’s need for space and privacy is our daily loss, but it will surely result in him producing ever more inspiring projects for us to enjoy in the future.
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Here’s a photo collage I made after visiting my friend’s amazing Soho art studio last week.
The enormously talented Annabel Emson is working in the recently opened Space studios. Annabel told me she’s currently making paintings made up of fragmented points of view on small individual canvases. I thought it only appropriate to make a fragmented photo collage of memories in her work space.
The studio has a wall of enormous windows which let in an almost blinding light while looking out onto a vast construction site on Oxford Street. I love the idea of Annabel and the builders working side by side constructing entirely different creations. The real solidity and earthiness of a building site next to the vibrant ephemeral abstract beauty of Annabel’s painting.
What a contrast.
(click on the photo to see larger version)
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Beautiful ceramics? Nope. Butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant, of course!
Oh man, these electron microscope images, featured in the Telegraph recently, are just mind blowing. Nature’s structures are nothing less than awesome, as is the technology that enables us to study them this closely.
Wait till you check out the fallopian tube - could it be anymore feminine?
And how radical is the bacteria on the tongue - looks just like delicious sugary hundreds and thousands.
There’s a few impressive man made structures in there too - particularly love the intricate weave of this nylon stocking.
Thanks again to @flavorpill for continually highlighting brilliant gems such as these.
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Here’s the full Winter’s Children shoot by Jim Mangan that I found via @flavorpill today.
What an amazing idea!
I love the free spirited joyous nature of these images, mixed with derring do and graphic power. Those brightly patterned blankets just light up the bleak winter landscape like beacons, alternately protecting and revealing those vulnerable yet strong snowboarding bodies.
I like to imagine that these images turned out way better than the photographer could’ve dreamed of.
The series feels totally incongruous, spontaneous, bold and beautiful. It’s extraordinary how the idea of naked snowboarding is just cheesy, reminding me of those naffly titillating 80s skiing postcards, but somehow with the addition of the blankets it becomes graphic, poetic and dreamlike.
I have a regularly recurring skiing dream, which slightly haunts me, where I am always in a resort trying to find skis and boots to get on the slopes before the sun goes down and the lifts shut. I always fail. It’s unbelievably frustrating.
I had this dream driving me to distraction again last night, which makes these images even more powerful to see today. Making me yearn for the freedom of flying down the slopes.
Must get back to the mountains. Might keep my clothes on though ;-)
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On a more positive note - this day in the life of The Sartorialist was the best, most inspiring thing I saw last week. Scott Schuman we salute you and your beautiful Visual Life.
My favourite quotes:
“Let yourself be seduced a little everyday”
“I feel very lucky to spend part of my day leading a visual life”
“The way I do it, is just the way I do it”
“The internet is the world shrinking. Are we becoming too homogenized? Milan hasn’t changed, Paris hasn’t changed, New York hasn’t changed. So I don’t think it’s really homogenized anything, but I do think it has given us, what I like to call, a digital park bench.”
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