Prague series. Photographed with Hasselblad 503 CM. January 2010.
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Of the very little I know, I know that I as soon as I finish my master degree I will take my camera with me and fly to Madagascar.
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Recently created London Design Consultancy KIWI & POM electrified a crazy specter of luminance to these chairs. ”
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January 1st, 2010; Binary date followed with slide play.
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In between it all, it´s really something of it´s own seeing it the way the Coen brother´s do.
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I could keep on scanning all night. A lot to catch up with. Although my brother is landing in half an hour, and it´s time for a brotherly weekend.
New York does not reply. But I still hope.
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Exploring Prague with misses mariposa. We were both fascinated about being in a new culture, and making the best of the little time we had there. Scanning more as I speak.
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A delicate compilation of visualizations by Kunal Anand. A great example of how gradients may enhance a visual landscape, and not the least what potential is in code.
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on my way to work today :) she did not even notice me.
today´s learning: whenever you write about somebody, they are the first person you meet next day. you happen to be late because you were up very late. odd.
don´t talk to chinese people about chinese noodles being thick, they won´t pronounce it right. auch
whenever you do not bring your film camera wherever, you most likely will see something of a very particular nature. regrets. kid over 2.20 meters. with semi midgety friends.
so this afternoon i finally found the time to deliver some of my films to a lab; they should be ready by wednesday. the whole waiting thing does something to your body.
very well then, it´s time to read a book :)
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A crazy long and content-rich day today. Supporting on photography for videomaking and stills. The unexpected things happen. I stress. There´s wine. It helps. I´m overwhelmed. Meeting people who have 1 million followers on twitter. Well, maybe that says enough. (it need not implicate so by default, but in this case i do believe so) Persons that have an impact. And little me comes in and gears up for some interviews. I get a bit intimidated. But the videos turned out pretty good in the end.
Got to greet the CEO of IDEO which is a very big thing for me. I am honored to have this chance (despite that they did not give me a seat for the dinner, but that´s ok). Short entry for now.
by the way, i don´t despise the 5dm2, it´s just that it´s not discreet in sound or size. have a video of this, want to play with that one day.
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She and her heart. That was such a good walk. Place and time were of no significance. There was barely another soul crossing our paths.
Northern Sweden / summer of 2009
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If you do not know me personally, well I can tell you that I am a student of interaction design; this means I am interested in the realms of the future and how we deal with digital technology. Naturally there will be some posts in here that concern this field of interaction design, but only because it is interesting, and we may benefit in learning from it. There is too much going on, if I don´t keep a track of any of it I will become a dinosaur.
Light Blue Optics have publicized a teaser of sorts of a technology worth becoming familiar with. Now that the transportation industry is implementing head up display systems on glass, prone to restrictiveness of information abundance, here is a version of the same technology applied to domestic surfaces. The difference is, well the mobility it seems. Considering the context in this exhibition display it is not as mobile as they´d like to show in their glossy/photoshopped renders, although this is fresh new so who of us knows, where the next step is.
“Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.
Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and interact with applications simply by touching the image.”
They illustrate the concept of HLP further on their website.
I found this via itsnicethat, a good blog source for covering the creative industry. It´s not flashy and it´s quick and simple. I like that.
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Finding music on the web is like going to a zoo as a kid – and wandering this universe by yourself. You want to hear/see every different kind of touch. Unguided you might end up with looking at the same animals for too long. I am doing this though for discovery. I have long wanted to share my taste, because you might as well discover something with me. What interests me as much as the music is usually how the visual language of the albums and material accompanied with it perform/act/speak. For this occasion though I might drop that and allow that more for single features. This time a variety of music that not necessarily is the freshest, but which simply is my discovery for the month of January. And if succesfully it fits the mood of this time. So let´s kick this off:
1. Bon Iver – Stacks (Thomas Barfod Remix)
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2. Lindstrøm and Christabelle – Baby Can´t Stop (Aeorplane Remix 128)
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3a.Lusine – twodots
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3b.Lusine – Still Frame remix 128
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3c. Lisine – Twilight
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4. Apparat- Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix 128)
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5. Vibrasphere- tierra azul
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6. The xx – Basic Space 128
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7. Casino Versus Japan – Blue Vacation Part 1
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8. Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones
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Further ado on this tracks
1. According to his myspace Thomas Barfod looks to be somewhat of a figure in Danish festivals and electro labels. The whole thing of posting music online is propelled/driven by the fact that people are remixing originals. Sometimes I think it goes overboard and there is a fine line between credit theft, but inasmuch as I cannot claim a big bite of knowledge on music production I will leave my hat off and appreciate the fact that music is being promoted, it should be credited and the more it gets appreciated this should aggregate the salesforce supporting the artist.
In this case the remix is of Bon Iver, a name that swims much around the music sea, some name I´d have connoted with traditional without having been an eager listener of him, but in this remix comination of danish ´pump refining´it falls of as pretty good stuff.
2. Oslo fronting Lindstrom (short bio) twinkled with some Belgic Aeroplane culminates into this energetic track. Looks like Aeroplane is touring all over Australia the next months, it´s that summer hipster wave going on. This tracks has got attitude, swirling vocals, synth : a crossover between kid´s computer game world and fearless feminity fronting it.
via betterPropaganda
3.An impressive sound portfolio made this producer stand out. Lusine has played in Fabric London, and is currently working on the soundtrack for some feature film from what I read. If you are curious there is a short bio on the ghostly website, which is his label. Very pleasant!
4. Berlin based Apparat opens up for a downtempo vocal infused track. I recognize his music from some GU labels, there is something about the vocals that is so desperate, yet so unworrying. I have a hard time to describe it, what I do know is that it is not cliche.
For the geeks, he works with his own tool created in MAX/MSP framework. Effects are controlled by midicontroller.
5. Uppsala duo vibrasphere deliver some trancy but interesting tune here.6. I could not find much info on these guys, but they seem to have a crazy world tour in front of them.
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Fuji Provia 400. January 2009. Photoshoot with my friend Lars. A prolonged entry with his album and the work soon. . .
Last week Matt Brown aka co-op Henderson was in Munich for a few days to present his work to IDEO. It was very well received and entertaining. I´m glad he had the chance to share his work with the office. Later, together with misses A.H we went out for some beers, joked of the hofbrauhaus orchestra overgrandiosity, scared some neighbours with too many cameras, wacthed the town get very waster, as we slowly also forgot about the passing of time. It was a very funny coincidence how my neighbour ended up at Atomic Cafe just as we came in and happened to talk about him, and sms him. At that moment we were a regathered umeå crowd.
Matt has collected his work under one house now, and it was fun to see swissmiss (a design blog pretty many of us visit) posted two consecutive posts on his work. If it helps anything for me to help exposure his work here we go. (compared to swissmis- a kind of mouse and elephant comparison). Anyways, a very varied and distinct portfolio. I am keen to scan the images we made out in town that night. Matt worked on the future of food for his interaction design thesis; to the school more of an unchartered front, and so it did not go unseen, and it was rather very much attention around it. Seeing Matt develop his style has been good; there is something very original and technically right about his work.
You may find Matt´s website here: skrov
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2 days,7 ilford delta 120´s, 3 neopan 1600 and some regular ilford delta. What am I trying to do? well, the Madame and I have been reflecting on that on the trip back.
so last week we were planning a trip to Berlin, but it did seem a bit far fetched to buy train tickets there for the price of a trip where you could cross the atlantic. I don´t think so. Vienna was still an option but just for curiosity of possibility we checked Prague, and found a very good deal on a train/bus journey from Munich via Nurnberg. Took us 5 hours. We did some useful research on where to stay, and although none of us have been there we recognize that the older parts of Easter cities can pull of charm and offer something authentic. In the case of Prague that meant proximity to the castle itself, which we loved. It was very cold, I partly lost my voice (as I know it) on saturday, and it was tricky for misses Mariposa to not get caught by the motion of the cough and sore throat. This meant we had plenty of tea and took it generall easy. Even some shoes hopping was not a bad idea, given summer shoes won´t last much this winter. A little late to figure, but shopping is not a top priority.
We had a very awkward day today, very different from yesterday, twofolded though, a great morning with the slowest snow dive and beautiful light. we were listening to classical music in the hotel room in the morning, opened our windows towards the river and it was something i will always remember. i´ve never been so eager with my hasselblad.
there is little hesitating the statement, Prague is a work of Art! Now art is not about beauty only. It is a ground for communication, what is reality. It may be an escape, but with the tools at hand it is working towards truth, at least attempt wise.
In only these two days we had many encounters, those which were the regular meetings, for food or drinks, accommodation were of course mixed. i dare say we were lucky with the hotel but we have mix feelings for the attitude among some people we met. whenever that is the case you have to zoom into the landscape of tourism, and look at the fact that you are part of this conglomerate, and Prague does pull great force and god knows what crowds overall look like going in and out of this place all year long. anyhows, we are small dectectives who strive to find beauty but today we found ourselves in a complete discomfort on the return trip.
I am reminded by Obama´s speech at the nobel conerence, not of which originality should be claimed, but of who a big crowd will listen more carefully at, and that is which is the dark side of our existence, which cannot be denied.
my brave lady made a small clip with her new ipod on the train, while we were sitting next to what we believed was explicit anti semitism. her ipod is pink flash and we were sitting opposite isle of these very obnoxious people. we acted in with as if we were listening to music, but right now we would just be happy we are safe home and have what we recorded translated. I dare say it was not any good. maybe we will find a way of posting it. the only thing we know is that ( although we don´t understand german) we know when you hear a muslim prayer on a ringtone disrupt into the sound of a bullet, you are not surrounded by people of any good intentions.
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Today I finished a 10 week project; it has been very much to complete the last days and its been a number too many late nights the last week tweaking timelines.
No room for failures of any sort.
After a certain point (such as the middle of the night) the focusing sharpness has simply a dubious efficiency, but writing this now, is only happening because I managed through it. Now I can finally find some time for all the other interesting things outside work ( work has also been interesting lately, although I sometimes wonder how incredibly strong pressure it must be when you are hired, when just being an intern can pull out a lot of your energy; as in: where is this path going to?). My lady is in town and since we now have seen Munich it would be interesting to see Berlin or go back to Vienna. Both are new for her. Philip, who studied in Umeå with me, is in Vienna and it would be great to see him again. Anyways we need to figure that out the next days. Or better, tonight. One very strong reason for going to Berlin is to go to “All Saints”, both of which we dig as fashion.
We are both a funny sight, cause we are both walking around the streets of Bavaria with our small olympus analogue cameras, just a model apart, and we now exchange lenses and all. We photograph the same people at different times without knowing of it.
For the time she is her, I don´t find myself doing any scanning of any sort. I do have plenty of film though, and really wish for an adventure to another city.
So for now, here are some frames I scanned from oktoberfest; they were frames that for me talked to you.
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A monumental tribute to the art of architecture and the art of photography. This is by far the most exhaustive and well done feature of its kind I’ve ever seen.
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
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Do you believe that imagination can be one the most valuable features of existence and conscience? The author of ´Where the Wild Things Are´has made a beautiful narrative which surely has alivened in many minds. Had the chance to watch this film tonight with my dear and it was enchanting and interesting beyond. The kid is such an admirable actor, it makes you wonder how many more kids out there have talent unscouted.
December and January are great movie months. It will be a root of this blog to bring to light good cinema.
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There is a seat for me in a flight in 8 hours, so this is going to be short. I´ve wanted to make a restrospective of this year, and I´ve been scanning all afternoon, some that I had scanned before (with a lame scanner) and some new ones. The waiting is a good moment. But I don´t think it´s right to post them now, and kill the night hours.
Anyways, it has been an unorthodox year. It started in a nightclub in London with Anna, where over three fourths of the individuals were on drugs. We were appalled, shocked and really not comfortable. The half year in Sweden was intensive with design work, and trying to find an internship. I had good support, and even a push to do it. I do think Umeå is a good place to be, but I was honestly quite drained and needed some change. Still hard to believe, I did find a design internship where I wanted it most, and I am still on it. It has introduced new challenges for the life I had in Sweden, but we have managed mostly pretty well. It was not always easy, and it also feels odd now, to have to choose between family or girlfriend.I am very happy that she will come to Munich in two weeks though, may it be snowy and adventurous.
From last year, a time very magical when we were by ourselves.
So I´m off to “Africa” tomorrow and I will write and post as soon as I can next year. Arrivederci!
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Second trip to Neuschwanstein. I don´t remember his name but he made beautiful polaroids.
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Velvia slide – one of the better films out there. The 100F is the less saturated version, and looking at the slide itself feels like a micro replication of the real thing. It´s so incredbly vivid. I made this frame in late August I think, quite the stretch down the isar. Scanned with epson v500.
note: I do not know if this refers to the limitations of a flatbed scanner or the slight compression to jpg, but the original image is much greener, so was the sight at view too. I have to try out some more slides, and get comfortable with color vocabulary, it seems intricate.
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So I have to admit that although film is king, there is something interesting going on with on the front-end of videomaking with digital slr´s. There is definetily two sides to this development, but it is actually possible to appreciate it´s temporal elevation of still images, when you can add personal piano sounds like the one that really makes this film. I wonder if any of my readers has played with a nikon 7d; it looks very promising.
This film has nothing to do with enlightening, but about feeling a mood, and such it goes under your skin. Beyond that though it unfolds a certain desire for the camera brand that usually makes an effort into UI and good mechanics.
Perhaps you just fall in love with the music (which sort of reminds of some theatrical piece, maybe “finding neverland”?), but it is the overall experience that is just nice for a december feel.
The First Snow, Canon 7D from Reid Carrescia on Vimeo.
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Quite the surreal take on motion imagery. This is yet another short gaining worlwide recognition, but with more of an abstract approach to ideas.
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Daniel Askill – WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE from Cgunit on Vimeo.
“We Have Decided Not To Die is an unusual short film. A modern day allegorical triptych, three figures under go transformation through three rituals. Though not a story in any conventional sense, We Have Decided Not To Die succeeds in taking audience on an emotional journey. Aurally intriguing, often stunning and always beautiful, Danielís short film has been winning fans from around the festival circuit.“
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Visual artist Scott Hansen is balancing his talent out on his soundscapes; this track is just beautiful and good for your soul.
Coastal Brake by Scott Hansen
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There is not that much time for blogging this week; and maybe not next but I do hope to share small bits and pieces of inspiration and scans that I can get done as soon as possible.
Now if you haven´t heard of Scott Hansen / Tycho jump on over to his blog. I go there for inspiration or just finding good soundtracks to drive my day through. I´m late again for making this entry :p
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The first scans from the epson v500. I´ve waited for this moment for so long; will see if I can make next weekend a scanning intensive. Now out.
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December 12: I woke up to snow and then I found this short striking film.
Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Bertie on Vimeo.
It´s inspiring to see what individuals alone can achieve through storytelling in animations. I have to say the work around it is very consistent and well done. This is the official website.
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Photographs by Hance McElroy worth examining. This strings a recollection the the very well told animation film ´up ´where imagination would escape matters of cynicism. But imagination alone cannot exclude that this is totally messed up. Why is architecture becoming a beast?
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Street photography series coming soon. I´m waiting to get an epson 500 this week.
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Have not touched the software ´processing´since a project this summer, but started playing a few days ago; it´s almost like you forget which powerful tool it is. Last Christmas was a fun experiment time with this with little poet. I hope you don´t let go of this interest too ;) Openprocessing acceses you to a lot of free code that people share, which makes it a very good place to start playing with this code and what it may visualize. This is an example. Sure there´s a bug, but it´s good code.
A very mystic piece of a timeline. Mystic worth your time though. Even just for the sound design. As such it really stages how sounds define interpretation of form. I´m sure the responsible person for the camera was not bored. It would be nice to see the process behind this.
The Interpretation from YouWorkForThem on Vimeo.
“A work of art that explores the relationship between nature, motion and sound, The Interpretation takes us on a languid journey through a slowly flourishing forest. Hinting at vague memories of microbiology and rotating through a cool organic spectrum of greens, blues, browns, blacks and whites; this motion-based work will entrance its viewer as the forest evolves. The Interpretation is set to a minimal score filled with authentic sounds of nature, complimenting the environmental essence of the visuals.”
via changethought
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It might be a good thing to make Sunday mornings excursions a routine. It is already for many people, as well to go early in the morning is for many the transition from their night happenings to going home. It might not be a story of happiness, but it might be a decisive moment in that persons life. My lady and I both witnessed some moments today that made us quite curious of the sequence of events before that. As it is a challenge to capture the person you don´t know, in the right composition, the right setting (contextually) and technically correct. If you can plan or preview these factors in the speed of light and move quickly you have an advantage. There was a youth who really caught my attention on my morning walk, he was dressed all in black, oversized clothes, had shoes double the size of his feet and was as I perceived it in some kind of universe that I could not see. I was walking the same way, but made it so I would really bump into him. I did so because I thought it was so particular, a curiosity of his mindset. You realize sometimes that despite language barriers this might really be also an advantage, because they see you as someone they perhaps will never see again. Anyhows, I sort of asked him if I could photograph him, and he did not object so I needed to be quick, and nail it there and then. It was special. I don´t know if I was able to do it right, but I felt I only had one chance. It´s all about seeing it before “you see it”, or what would be as “we would see it later”.
Later I have been asking myself it would have been more right to just get on a proper conversation with him, and perhaps one should really be brave and say, hey, i´m going to propose something unusual, let me spend half an hour with you and let me follow you and make three frames of you, i would not intervene, just be an observer. couldn´t i just hang around and only talk with him? maybe i could but then there is never the factor of perpetuation, of being able to go back and look at it. perhaps more important is that selecting moments forces you to look at those, and that´s why timing is such a crucial thing. we don´t have the eyes of a camera, this also make a grand difference.
There´s gotta be a comfort level in the dialogue and your intentions. I do this all because I want to understand life better. I am curious yet frightened.
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So it is no secret that I invest heavily too much in films. Enough to actually build (or at least the attempt) a new medium format. It really is mostly dark wherever in Europe now, so either it´s pushing 400 film or genuinely neopan 1600, a very great film. Now it really is time to get a proper scanner; looks like this might be able to become reality soon. Now off to the streets.
Music for a saturday: Honey Trap (Le Matos remix)
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I used to play with filters for my digital camera several years ago, and as I was digging through my archive I refound a series that I´ve never posted before. The interesting thing with these infrared images, is that they cross over to the feel of film; at the very least the aspect of digital photography submerges of significance. I sense this images with suggestive tones, and I think that is something that can make photography so interesting. What you see existed. The pieces between are connected by the observer.
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Elegant graphic layouts by typographic adventurer Aron Jansco. He has design a typeface named Ogaki, of which applied in the second poster here. I find it inspiring to discover so much great poster design lately. Besides his balanced graphical layouts I think what make his work his is his feel to colors as well; going through his portfolio you see a great development. I think we can expect to see more from Aron.
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as they would say in the paix-bas/netherlands. Although this might well not be dutch, it´s in dutch territory; still i´d like to think it´s dutch ;)
So this domestic innovation concept was presented at the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, in Eindhoven. Wouldn´t you sit there, at the very least as a guest. Although the soft side could have pulled its aesthetics, it is still quite cool that the designer blended these together.
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This Monday my team and I took off to Switzerland for project matters, and stayed in lugano 2 nights. We were met with a mild snowstorm on the roads of switzerland, just as we crossed from Austria all the way through San Bernandino, until the tranformation became the less favourable rain. The whole snowfield slowed us down, but it was adventurous nonetheless. The weather did get much better though and specially this morning was perfect. I woke up at 7ish, to go out for a morning jog by the lake, and figured I might as well do a little recording of the moment the sun was rising behind the massive mountains that really are the border to Italy.
Ulrich Schnauss playing subtly from the mac. This is Switzerland, probably the country with the highest standards globally, and also such captivating sceneries. I felt very lucky waking up to this. Might be sorta lengthy, i might make a speeded up version. And sorry about the stupid alarm clock :/
Lugano Dawn from Joachim on Vimeo.
For a case of few, electronica is presented with nature (only), and I find that very interesting. I think, that to feel the relation you should listen to the song (below artwork). So I don´t know if this song is part of this album, but I found some belongers here: Oder der letze grun and aurora. Ironically these still feel very industrial, whereas I will put my faith in the other tracks that have a ´broader specter of happenings´. Hot Chip is quite good, thanks to the vocals and lucid touches.
From what is possible to find on Dominik, he grew up by the Rhine in southern Germany, and is supposedly a park ranger in his spare time. He looks strikingly similar to Bruno, or shall I say it´s the other way around?
Hot Chip – Dominic Eulberg
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Southern hemisphere, by th Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 10,5mm.
Northern hemisphere, Oslo, Norway. 10,5.mm.
The History of the Internet as you haven´t seen before. It was more comprehensive than I expected. The creator force behind it is Melih Bilgil works out of Mainz, Germany, and telling from the view population this had he must be pretty busy these days. Good skills! It takes a lot of effort and dedication to deliver this.
History of the Internet is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
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Smashing Magazine has a small article about 60 brilliant typefaces for corporate design, of which these are a selection I thought stood particularily out. I think some of them have solid editorial strengths, and Beorcana specifically is a very interesting font, being a calligraphic sans meant for extended reading.
From left to right, top to down: 1. Costa PTF 2. Agile Typeface 3. Beorcana 4. Haptic 5. Prelo 6. Affair 7. Celeste Sans OT 8. Gloriola
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United Visual Artists are pioneers of sorts. These British experimentalists bring a lot of technicality on board projects, doing a lot of installation sets on very grand scales, and with cutting edge results. Seems like a very cool place to work! This project took place by Como lake. Stefano and I went there the other weekend, it´s quite nice. Would be fantastic to see a show like this!
“Using advanced 3-D cameras to capture the physicality of the dancers movement, this was then translated in real time to a monumental backdrop creating a simultaneous performance.”
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i do love this moment. it is a smile so charming, that forces me to tilt and mirror back the playful look.
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Could you say the world is not designed? If you could only film under water at such a far strethc I think you might find similar beautiful universes. Must watch in HD.
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This is another curious case of great visual work by a British designer with a background in applied mathematics. I read from Simon Page´s blog that he has made a fastpaced entry into the design world, and appears to come out of frustration with Microsoft : “I first got in to design only a couple of year ago in 2007 – my first designs stem from creating corporate presentations in Microsoft Powerpoint and realising that it didn’t really offer enough flexibility. From this I soon went on to use Illustrator and InDesign to create much more impressive presentations – which is part of my full time job today which I love to do.”
I found two minimal but evocative, balanced posters that striked me as delightful clean design.
And by the way, this is by far the sound of the week: Crocketts_Theme_FPU Original
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A retrospective into some night photography I was doing in Auckland, New Zealand back in 2006. This was the beginning of my love for film. I had attained a 12 mm lense acquired by londonxpress, which seduced me to try architectural and urban photography. I borrowed a variety of nikon analogue bodies to use it with via the university camera hub. It was interesting do go so wide for a while, particularily downtown Auckland, but there seems to always be more to get where the people are. That mindset pulled a little bit led me to K road, a very particular kiwi street and just try to photograph people.
(1st image)Street names are very classical British in the core of the city. The maori (native) names are much more interesting I think.
(2nd image) Used to live right to the right of this tower in the city core of Auckland. It displayed vivid colors interchangably through the year, adding diversity and character to the city. The view from there was quite the sight too. Every night I´d walk under someone jumping down from it.
(4th image) I Came to their attention too early to get a candid frame, but it was an interesting motif anyways, they were whispering something and later I had a chat with the guy with the hood. He knew the photography teacher of the third years, Deborah. She was a hero of mine, so that always made me curious of wheter they had collaborated on projects. Karangahape road, Auckland.
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Marcos just posted this lovely snippet of his post master/forget the stress of the world trip. It´s so fucking beautiful!
Northeast Coast 2009 from umcosta on Vimeo.
Sailing trip along the northeast coast of Brazil. Origin: Rio de Janeiro. Destination: Fernando de Noronha.
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Recently found an interesting case on The Global Water Footprint of Humanity. This was an MA project in Information Design by Angela Morelli who recently spoke in Norway for Grafilledit (reason why I found her), which is surfacing to some worthy attention. I think what is interesting when you look at the work is learning of the designer´s background which is engineering and math (at least a passion I read). You could say that all design really is mathematics, but in her case I think it is a key tool for a powerful visual vocabulary. She based her project upon data by Unesco and the Universitety of Twente in The Netherlands, of which she says “The starting point of my statistical analysis was a long list of numbers and tables, but before plotting any data it was necessary to understand where those numbers came from. My background in engineering helped me to understand the figures, the formulas, and the mathematical structure of the subject.”
“Everything I have designed has a format based on the geometry of the water molecule, where the bonding angle of the two hydrogens is 104,45 degrees. The water footprint concept is a practical tool to analyze how much water is used for producing our goods and services, showing how countries can externalize their water footprint in order to reduce the pressure on the domestic water resources, and how other countries can profit from their relative abundance of water by exporting water rich commodities.”
Among the 900 page book, she also made models, and maps. You can tell that many countries are missing in there but the accessibility of such data is a topic by itself !
I love her quote on the frontpage of her website: the same design that overfuels massconsumption also holds the power to repair the world.
What impressed me overall with Angella was the overall body of work. She covers very big fields of information and delivers them in a format that will entitle them to be looked at.
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These fabulous photographs were taken by a French photographer who was alive no less than a year ago. Did anybody know her work before that? It seems doubtful. Vivian Maier spent the 1950´s to 1970´s in Chicago with getting very close to her subjects, and like a ghost, so few noticed. The collection of her street work was bought at a furniture and antique auction, the buyer not knowing the source of the work by then. Whoever bought them, has fortunately been of a spirit of wanting to share them with the world, and made a blog with several scans and shared information of what he knew of her. The buyer states that there were between 30-40,000 mostly medium format negatives, that is quite amazing! Don´t you think there is more to this discoveries?
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It is honestly quite exciting to be able to share sounds via this space other than a little bit bulky soundcloud, and a much narrower library. I´ve found discodust and big stereo to be nice sources for browsing some quality sounds. So for a Friday being, treat your ears :)
This track reminds me very much of Spring 2008, when Anna and I were fascinated with air and it´s mood for just mindtravelling. Light and pure.
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By Au revoir simone, these girls have some very nice vocals, and it is an all round pleasant experience. Something for the courtyard on a hammock. Or a winterday in umeå ;)
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Another Likely Story (Social Disco Club Version) (Take 3)
Sweet transitions from dark to light moods; funny how this makes me think much of Pepe from ixd, i think he would like this progressive house quite a lot. The piano sounds brings it more to the surface I think.
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James Murphy from LCD Soudnsystem brings out a teaser for their upcoming album in March 2010. The track is a cover of an Alan Vega song from his 1981 debut album. I feel like it´s music with attitude, street style with the renaissance of ray-ban flavour.
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Even having not been in Berlin at night, I can feel what this could do there.
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This projection mapping was brought to life at Ingravid Festival in Figueres, Girona. It´s simply quite fantastically executed. The shift at 17:48 is quite cool. How they really do this is still somewhat beyond my comprehension, it would seem they have projected a rebuilt 3d full scale model of a building on a flat space, otheriwse I cannot see how they would get it so smoothly aligned.
Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 [FULL] from Telenoika on Vimeo.
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“Always People. The stranger the better too.” Marie Claire says about her inspiration in Ilovethatphoto. She has worked across Canada and the US bringing extreme social conditions and the pure eccentric to light with her hasselblad.
She also says “when I photograph I am interested in Social Justice and Cultural differences.” It looks like she has plenty of awards, among them a nomination for Deeper Perspective Photographer of the year. She seems to really be there and these are all images that should be seen to understand these people´s lives. A lot of her work on her websites illuminates narcotics and from what it seems, prostitution. Sometimes when seeing work like this I do no know how they can make most change. Would anyone step in and give these people social care after exhibiting their spaces? Or is the change mostly on a preventative level, have the photographs meeting these people´s “mirror images” in the next generation before it happens? It´s complicated.
I have deep respect for this kind of work, but if I were to give these the full credibility they should entitle I´d go away from having a “matrixlike flash site” to share the work. Just a thought. I think laura pannack is a good example.
