Paul Octavious
Jan 11, 2011 Art, Inspiration, Photography
I’m so glad that Tina Roth Eisenberg, aka Swiss Miss, featured Paul Octavious’s photo in her newsletter recently. I loved his interpretations on everyday objects and scenes. Below are a few of my favorites. One other series, not represented below, called “Same Hill, Different Day” is worth checking out.
from the series “The Black Stuff”
from the series “The Black Stuff”
from the series “The Book Collection”
from the series “Lines“
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A new way of advertising: 120 Bikes on a Wall
Oct 1, 2010 Advertising, Bikes, Laughs, Photography
A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 bikes mounted on the building’s exterior in lieu of a sign. via Flavorwire
Aquazanies
Aug 6, 2010 Back in the Day, NYC, Photography
I love this photograph.
The Aquazanies were a troupe of boys who performed comedy and diving acts in the early 1940s at city pools, including East 54th Street in Manhattan and the Aquacade at Flushing Meadows.
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Transparency
Jan 20, 2010 Art, Design, Inspiration, Photography
These are from Khristian Mendoza’s Transparency project and it’s brilliant.
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Jonah Samson
May 12, 2009 Art, Inspiration, Photography
Seeing Jonah Samson’s photographs was the highlight of my day (hugs to Jonathan). For some reason, I have an affinity for miniature dioramas and I fell in love these…especially ’cause they have a dark twist.
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Jeff Wall
May 10, 2009 Art, Photography
“A Sudden Gust of Wind”
“The Storyteller”
“Flooded Grave”
I had the pleasure of seeing a retrospective of his work at the SFMOMA two years ago and was totally blown away. Digital interpretations of his work don’t do them any justice – they lack the sense of scale, cinematic quality, and the rich colors that can only come through in it’s true form…as a back-lit cibachrome photograph. Regardless, I wanted to share it in case you weren’t familiar with his work.
“Canadian artist Jeff Wall is widely recognized as an innovative picture-maker whose dynamic photographs, both color and black-and-white, have affinities with painting and cinema. Their sense of scale comes from Wall’s interest in the tradition of painting, and their methods of production from his fascination with cinematography. A number of the pictures are photomontages — combinations of different negatives digitally interwoven to create engaging narratives — often illuminated on light boxes.”
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/266
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