My brother is having a show!

20Twenty

5208 Ballard

Seattle, WA

Saturday

12, February 2011

7-10PM

Imri is his name btw. You'll like it.

Guten morgen! I'm back at this.

Design Sponge

 Who is Mr. Zygote? I don't know exactly, but I think I get him.

Alice Anderson's old work is fantastic in its creepiness. She works with old fairy tales from a feminist perspective, but I think there is also a darker undercurrent to it.

Astronomy picture of the day. 

Carbon Fotografagentur - Ceen Wahren

This is my new favorite fashion photography, and I really want to wear feathers & braids in my hair. Fabu.

The Swedes are keepin' it real.

Guy Farrow is another fun photagrapher. Neon lights are everywhere now.

Callie Shell is a photojournalist who has been following the Obama campaign since the beginning. Lots of beautiful shots in here.

Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, "I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road." Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since.

I am so excited that we will be having an inspiring/glamorous couple in the white house next year! 

Michael Kenna

haunting, inspiring, cold

I wonder if my photography professor would let me use a wash like this.

(Forcing your creative energy)

(Letting it flow)

I'm working towards the latter.

I went to 'Art in the Park' and BAM today.

The Catherine Chalmers cockroach exhibit was definitely the highlight of my Saturday. I loved the 'Execution Room' where she photographed cockroaches being tortured to death through electrocution, burning, and exposure to poisonous gas. 

Does that make me an awful person? 

At first I thought it just appealed to the curious seven year old in me that used to put jars of ants in the freezer and tear the legs off of spiders, but how far off is that from kids that graduate to torturing mammals? Where should the respect for life begin/end? 

I doubt the exhibit was meant to be profound, but it actually made me look at insects differently.

Have you seen these Dustin Humphrey photos for a "fashion lead" surf label yet? Most of them are underwater scenes with a surfer riding a wave above it. Maybe I'm just a fan because I've always been partial to surfing (not that I can do it myself)... I dunno. 

I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to catch these.

Bodies in Urban Spaces

Jason Lazarus

Just go enjoy everything on this blog though. for serious.

Lissa Rivera is using photography to explore higher education.

Is it still the framework for social mobility though? Or has it become a tool to keep the powerful in power? Lately, I've been leaning towards the latter.

Nick Veasey 

X-ray photography. His work actually shows up all over the place.

Conspiracy theory photography

It seems like I end up talking to alot of conspiracy theorists, so when I came across this guy I was interested.

His photography includes:

secret spy satellites

classified government code names

CIA black sites

Trevor Paglen

via the Bellwether Gallery

Catherine's animals

Catherine's Animals via swissmiss

I want

Whale Hunt

This is taken from an infographic blog: infosthetics.com (I am loving it right now).


"from Jonathan Harris: a visual interface for telling the story of a traditional whale hunt by a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska.

Jonathan documented the entire experience with a sequence of 3,214 photographs, taken at 5-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant “photographic heartbeat”. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in 5 minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of his own heartbeat.

All the pictures can be displayed as a mosaic (all photos simultaneously), a timeline (a medical heartbeat graph whose magnitude at each point corresponds to the photographic frequency) or as a pinwheel (circular timeline). Each photo is coded by date, time, cadence (level of excitement), context (where it was taken), concepts (which ideas are represented) & cast (who is pictured)."

Impressive.

Unexpected photography - File magazine

This is the greatest collection of photography ever.


Some of my favorites:



Check out their links for DIY photography promotion and publication. There are probably a bunch of great resources.