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Skins and Punks by Gavin Watson
Pic courtesy of @Rojo
This is one of those cliche books you’d expect to find in Urban Outfitters (and yes I did see it in there), but it really is amazing. Another must have for the collection.
Just like The Americans, there are some excellent examples of mono work in this book. I’m thinking of [...]
Posted in Digital Photography and Art Tagged mono, monochrome, photography, retro, urban photography Leave a comment
BBC moves to embrace remix culture
I discovered today that the BBC are behind a project called Masher. Masher essentially enables people to splice and mash their own video’s with content from the BBC Motion gallery.
This is the second move the BBC have made to recognise how people want to view and use content.
The launch of the iPlayer was monumental because [...]
Also posted in Social Media, Video Content Tagged bbc masher, masher, pirate culture, remix culture, Video Content, VJ Leave a comment
Night Photography
Smashing today produced a nice post with 60 examples of really good night time photography, a couple of weeks ago I did a little experiment of my own.
My recent investment, I mean bankruptcy, sorry investment into a new DSLR body has got me experimenting again.
Heres how I took that shot:
- Wide angle lens, [...]
Posted in Digital Photography and Art Tagged Digital photo, low light photography, night photo Leave a comment
Hieronymus Bosch
The piece above was inspired by his work, and it was compiled with a wait for it…a 3.2ghz quad core intel Power Mac with 32gigs of RAM! Yes that’s 32 large slabs of random accessing.
Reminds me of the beast machines air traffic controllers use, madness!
What’s even more insane is that the artists Simmons and Burke [...]
Also posted in Apple, Art Tagged digital collage, Hieronymus Bosch, knight gallery, remix culture, Simmons and Burke 1 Comment
The power of tagging
A seasonal post from me today…
People often ask me why the hell they should bother tagging content? Lot’s of reasons for this and I could sit here and yammer on about tagging, taxonomies and folksonomies etc etc.
Instead of me giving you guys a drawn out explanation I’ll let you do the reading into the [...]
Also posted in Social Media Tagged collaboration, diwali, flickr, folksonomies, now public, photography, social media, tagging, taxonomies, UGC 1 Comment
35mm over Digital
I recently took pictures at a friends birthday using a 35mm lomo fish-eye camera, it cost about £40 off the lomo website and it gave some quite quirky results...
Posted in Digital Photography and Art Tagged 35mm, Christmas, EOS 3000V, Fish Eye, GBP, Lomo Leave a comment
Street and Studio exhibition
It’s been a while since I picked up my SLR, and put it to worthy use. The Tate Modern has the Street and Studio exhibition on at moment and I cannot wait to go and see it.
I hope it will drum up some inspiration and motivation.
Go go check it out!
Posted in Digital Photography and Art Tagged photography, tate modern, urban photography Leave a comment
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