Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
1920s Selfie
Photographers of the Byron Company took a picture of themselves on the roof of their studio. Joseph Byron, Ben Falk are holding the camera, Pirie MacDonald, Colonel Marceau and Pop Core are in the middle.
It is one of 23,000 images digitized by the Museum of the City of New York from the studio.
Photos From The Ukrainian Police Interrogating People by Donald Weber
Photographer Donald Weber spent 6 years capturing life in Russia and Ukraine. In that time, he was able to convince the Ukrainian police to give him access to their interrogations. The photos that became his book, Interrogations, are bleak, terrifying, intimate and disturbing, especially in light of current Ukrainian events.
“All we see are the artifacts of Power in its most intimate insinuations. We are those artifacts.”
Guest Post - Devereau Chumrau - Silent: Animation from Dolby and Moonbot Studios
This guest post is from actor Devereau Chumrau.
Devereau may be a native of Los Angeles, but it is also the time she spent in Ghana, in Europe and the UK, and largely as a student of the Asolo Conservatory in Florida, that has shaped her vision as an actor and as an artist. She has, all along the way, worked to develop her interest and experience in acting for the stage and for the screen.
Catch her show LOVECRAFT: Nightmare Suite closing March 2 at the Visceral Company in Hollywood.
Devereau:
Dolby in collaboration with Academy Award® winning Moonbot Studios created this short animation highlighting the wonder of cinema.
The story follows two street performers who dream of bringing their "Picture and Sound Show" to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark on a cinematic adventure of sight and sound to find the audience they always wanted. The sound was created by Oscar® nominated sound designer Steve Boeddeker. "Silent" debuted at the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards on February 15, 2014.
Staggeringly Beautiful Night Sky Photos by Nicholas Buer
I am speechlessly in love with these night sky photos from landscape and astro photographer Nicholas Buer.
Buer:
"Gazing up at the night sky has always filled me with a sense of wonder. Since advancements in DSLR technology I have been able to capture the night sky in a way I previously thought impossible and ever since my first successful capture of the milky way, I have been hooked."
Skateboard Deck Sculptures
Japanese skateboarder and self-taught sculptor Haroshi uses recycled Skateboard decks as the raw material for his sculptures.
Pop Culture Icons Made in Assemblage of Toys and Computer Bits by Elisa Insua
Argentinian-based artist Elisa Insua creates this awesome pop culture images by assembling toys and coins and other bits of computers and electronics.
See also A Room of Stuff Arranged to Create this Anamorphic Portrait
Flower Mandalas by Kathy Klein
Arizona-based artist Kathy Klein uses the petals of carnations, daisies, mums and other wildflowers to construct these ephemeral mandalas. She has a 2014 calendar of her best works.
Paintings Mashed Up With Photos in London
Redditer shystone placed some old paintings of London in context in London's modern cityscape.
Mars Desert Research Station - Photos by Jim Urquhart
Photojournalist Jim Urquhart has this great set of photos from the Mars Desert Research Station, which conducts dry runs for future Mars missions in the Utah desert.
From the Project Page:
"Mars is the great challenge of our time.
In order to help develop key knowledge needed to prepare for human Mars exploration, and to inspire the public by making sensuous the vision of human exploration of Mars, the Mars Society has initiated the Mars Analog Research Station (MARS) project. A global program of Mars exploration operations research, the MARS project will include four Mars base-like habitats located in deserts in the Canadian Arctic, the American southwest, the Australian outback, and Iceland. In these Mars-like environments, we will launch a program of extensive long-duration geology and biology field exploration operations conducted in the same style and under many of the same constraints as they would on the Red Planet. By doing so, we will start the process of learning how to explore on Mars."
Spring and Autumn - Younger and Older Relations Swapping Outfits
Photographer Qozop came up with the idea of having children (or grandchildren) swap clothes with their parents (or grandparents) for his “Spring-Autumn” photo series. So cute.
TED TALK - Iwan Baan - Homes Made in Disused and Misused Buildings
Torre David in the center of Caracas is a 45-story unfinished office tower. When the developer died in 1993, and then the crash of the Venezuelan economy 1994, it lay empty for a number of years. People started moving into the abandoned shell about 8 years ago. It is now an enormously tall slum.
Photographer Iwan Baan gave a TED Talk (watch it below) last year showing unusual uses of buildings around the world. Here are some of his amazing photos of Torre David in Venezuela. There are also photos of a city on the water in Nigeria, a trash town in Cairo and carved caves in China.
In his TED TALK Photographer Iwan Baan captures the many ways people shape their shared built environment -- from glossy starchitecture to handmade homes
Fairytales and Nightingales - Uncanny Urban Scenes from Photographer Markus Lehr
In this series of photos from his book, Fairytales and Nightingales, German photographer Markus Lehr manages to capture eerily lit scenes that seem snatched out of some narrative or movie.
From the book's introduction, we learn that Lehr uses google maps to scout location with standout figures in and around Berlin.
Balancing Barn in the English Countryside
Near Thorington in Suffolk, MVRDV built this Balancing Barn, cantilevering over a quick slope.
Citylights - the view from space
Citylights: Photos by Karin Apollonia
Citylights increases the focal distance of my previous work, documenting in found images human habitation on a global scale using the reflected light of population as seen from Earth's orbit, a graph-like portrait of human activity—desire—and its geographic distribution across the surface of our planet. Inversion of this image questions the arbitrary nature of man's sense of his own orientation in the physical realm on earth and in space, also suggesting fireflies seeking a mate against the blackness of night.
Northern Lights by Arild Heitmann
Photographer Arild Heitmann has taken these stunning northern lights images.
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5 Favorite Photography Posts - Feb 2014
Slow-speed Ski Jumper Images
Taking slow-shutter-speed photos can create some great images too. Like these from the Sochi Olympics of ski jumpers.
Film Strips Woven Together to Form Images by Seung Hoon Park
Seung Hoon Park uses 8mm or 16mm film strips and two images in a large format 8×10″ camera weave together a final print.
Desert Breath - Land Art in Egypt
To put this land art into perspective, the central pool is about 100 ft across. Created in 1997 by Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, Desert Breath, near the shore of the Red Sea, covers 100,000 square meters.
