4×5-inch field camera and a 100+-year-old Petzval lens.
“Each black-and-white portrait was exposed onto black-and-white photographic paper, processed in a darkroom and scanned into a computer.”
Behind the Scenes with LA Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin during his portrait shoot with 5 time Olympian, shooter Kim Rhode Produced for the Los Angeles Times, Shared copyright | Margaret Cheatham Williams and the LA Times 2012
Here are the sports you'll see at this summer's big sporting event, in a glorious 8-bit montage. Produced by Flikli (http://flikli.com) Sports represented: Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Beach Volleyball Boxing Canoe (Slalom) Canoe (Sprint) Cycling (BMX) Cycling (Mountain Bike) Cycling (Road) Cycling (Track) Diving Equestrian Fencing Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Handball Field Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized Swimming Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Trampoline Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo
Now if I could get this as a game for my SNES, I'd be really happy.
The Art of War, the classic Chinese text from Sun-tze (孫子) has a graphic novel reboot with some truly stunning visuals in The Art of War: A Graphic Novel.
http://www.theartofwargraphicnovel.com/ THE ART OF WAR: A GRAPHIC NOVEL will be published by Harper Perennial, the literary fiction imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on July 31, 2012. Written and storyboarded by Kelly Roman and illustrated by Michael DeWeese, the book adapts Sun Tzu's iconic text into a story set in the near-future when financial markets are militarized and China is the dominant economy.
"An animated reconstruction of highlights of the USA's first match of the tournament, in which the favourites beat France 98-71. The American team of multimillionaires includes Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and (with his trademark white headband) LeBron James, while the French side features fellow NBA stars Kevin Seraphin, Nicolas Batum, Boris Diaw and the goggles-wearing Tony Parker"
Brick-by-brick men's basketball: USA v France - video An animated reconstruction of highlights of the USA's first match of the tournament, in which the favourites beat France 98-71.
Vivid and bright illustrations from Athens-based visual designer Charis Tsevis.
A fleet of robotic underwater cameras are catching some of the best shots of the Olympics.
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Truly stunning, vibrant, dynamic timelapse video of Paris.
Paris In Motion - Timelapse and Stop-motion Photography. by Mayeul Akpovi Areas: Paris, France Canon 5D Mark III Canon 5D Mark II Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L USM Sigma 15mm f2.8 EX DG Fisheye Samyang 14mm f2.8 Tamron70-300mm f4-5,6 Di VC USD Filters: ND2 to ND400 Soundtrack: Angel - Massive Attack (Mezzanine) http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/mezzanine/id17641181 Thanks to: - Kessler Crane® - LRTimelapse - Jean-Philippe et Anna Boudy - Sabine Lannoy - Tour Maine Montparnasse, ICADE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Tour Eiffel © SETE - Illuminations Pierre Bideau Pyramide du Louvre © Pyramide du Louvre - PCF & P La Grande Arche © 2012 Johan Otto Von Spreckelsen Mayeul Akpovi Photographies - https://www.facebook.com/mayeul.akpovi © July 2012
You'd think that those folks in charge of handling dissidents and artists would learn early on that tactics meant to silence actually just amplify. Ai Wei Wei for example has reached a height as an international art figure not just on his work, but on what his work is opposed by. His complaints (even after being jailed for a couple of months) are available in English on https://twitter.com/aiwwenglish/
Here, American Alison Klayman, a first-time filmmaker living in China decided to follow Ai on film. It is a tale as much about his art as his way of being handled by the National government.
First-time American filmmaker Alison Klayman decided to follow Ai.
AI WEIWEI NEVER SORRY: http://thefreestylelife.com/ai-weiwei-never-sorry-documentary.html Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic.
1. These high school kids reciting Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry" (and his awesome explanation about sound and meaning after their recitation) do a super fantastic job with it http://bit.ly/8XaHzh 2. An incredible project, How I explain it to my parents, wherein abstract artists try to explain to their parents what it is that they do http://bit.ly/baKgsc 3.
1. These high school kids reciting Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry" (and his awesome explanation about sound and meaning after their recitation) do a super fantastic job with it
2. An incredible project, How I explain it to my parents, wherein abstract artists try to explain to their parents what it is that they do
3. Young Me, Now Me is a great project
4. Process videos are fascinating to me, and this one, of a reverse glass sign gilder is no exception
5. Why you should shut down your computer at the end of a day of work
With the Opening Ceremonies just minutes away, this interactive map of the Olympic Venues in London should come in handy.
There is also a great gallery of photos and images of the venues.
CGI IMAGE OF THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC STADIUM AT SUNSET
AERIAL VIEW OVER THE OLYMPIC PARK
VIEW OF THE EXCEL CENTRE AND THE NORTH GREENWICH ARENA
Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue.
Putting stunning sequences near each other creates a visual narrative, an essay that uses vision, motion, color and light as its sentences, nouns, verbs and phrases. The trailer (below) has be pretty excited for the theatrical release.
Samsara is the Sanskrit word for "continuous flow" but often refers to the never ending cycle of life-death-rebirth, physical and figurative, so often thought through in Hinduism and Buddhism.
SAMSARA will be in theaters across the USA August 24th. For full theater and international release dates visit http://www.barakasamsara.com/theaters ABOUT SAMSARA: Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. SAMSARA reunites director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson, whose award-winning films BARAKA and CHRONOS were acclaimed for combining visual and musical artistry. SAMSARA is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead encouraging our own inner interpretations inspired by images and music that infuses the ancient with the modern. Expanding on the themes they developed in BARAKA (1992) and CHRONOS (1985), SAMSARA explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man’s spirituality and the human experience. Neither a traditional documentary nor a travelogue, SAMSARA takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation. Through powerful images, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.
LA-based photographer Gray Malin has this perfect for summer series of the world's beautiful beaches seen from above.
California beach
Photo credit: Gray Malin
July 26th saw a battery of amazing storms roll into NYC. Here are some of the best videos of the day.
Lightning of 2nd Avenue
View from our roof of the New York storm on 7/26/12. Crazy.
Great lightning strike over manhattan filmed from 2nd Avenue in the East Village.
Not for network broadcast but feel free to share and embed*- Severe storms erupted early in the afternoon in western PA/NY and quickly made their way east towards the NYC Metro. Wind damage reports were common in upstate NY and in Pennsylvania but the storms weakened a bit by the time they got to me here in the city.
Great lightning strike over manhattan filmed from Alphabet City in the East Village.
Lightning and thunder over the Hudson River + George Washington Bridge throughout the evening of July 26th as seen from my balcony on Hudson Terrace in Fort Lee, NJ.
NY storm clouds (07-26-2012)
A graphic designer named Dinah Fried has decided to recreate famous meals from famous works of Lit.
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Robbie is a short film, made up entirely of NASA archival footage.
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With the Olympic Torch Relay coming to an end, someone else needs to pick up where it left off and carry the torch, so to speak. Here is a great short animation showing a different torch relay.
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With the easy and afforable GoPro HD Hero 2 we get to see things we may never have seen before. Here, this flatwater kayaker shows us what it's like to roll underwater and pop back up.
Read MorePop culture worlds tear at on another in José Rodolfo Loaiza's Disasterland show at La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles.
The reimagining of Frida Kahlo's iconic painting is perhaps my favorite. But really quite an astounding range here.
Reencuentro –The Two Snow Whites
The Two Fridas, 1939, Oil on canvas, 67" x 67", Collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
