One Shot.
Pittsburgh’s Charles “Teenie” Harris loved taking photographs, and did so with such ease he was given the nickname “One Shot.”
Opening last October, the renowned Carnegie Museum of Art is presenting a groundbreaking retrospective of the hometown artist’s work ” in “Teenie” Harris, Photographer: An American Story. Open through April 7, 2012, the exhibition features 987 of Harris’s most beautiful, appealing, and historically significant images. Beginning this month, a smaller-scale version of the exhibit will go on national tour.
View the amazing collection on the museums’s “Teenie” Harris Exhibition microsite.
Break Down.
For his series Disassembly, Todd McLellan photographs old items that are no longer used by the masses and often found on the street curbs heading for disposal.
Wide Angle.
I discovered Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao‘s work while doing research for a project. Utilizing multiple exposures his large-scale, panoramic photos beautifully capture the details of the urban life in New York City. View his work at the Julie Saul Gallery.
Found Here.
Collector Mark Payne has made his repository of vintage slides–mostly European locations post 1960– available for viewing and download at A Second-Hand Life.
Version.
Version, a Dub inspired set to celebrate the warm weather “weh soon come”. The image of Ochi courtesy of photographer Konstantin Sergeyev, from his energetic and colorful Flickr collections.
Ink Dropper.
These images by graphic designer and illustrator Alberto Seveso are created by taking high-speed photographs of ink mixing with water. These images are also available for download as desktop wallpapers.
Surreal Estate.
In Filip Dujardin‘s Fictions series, he has taken photographs of nondescript buildings and remixes them using Photoshop to create surrealist structures.
Upon Chance.
I love to work with found imagery and I really like what Sebastiaan Bremer is doing with these found photographs. By drawing and layering things on top of it you get the sense of looking through it. Especially when you look at a picture that has many details.
Pachyderm.
Picked up Issue #3 of the art and visual magazine, Elephant. My favorite feature of this issue is To Live And Die Trying In LA, by Katya Tylevich which includes interviews and work by: Kozyndan, Ed Fella, Eddo Stern, Michael Worthington, Edgar Arceneaux, Rene Daalder and Folkert Gorter.
The Book Collection.
We’re big fans of Photographer Paul Octavious and love his balanced Book Collection.
Colour of Music.
Photographer GW Benson’s series of photographs exploring and titled the Colour of Music. The series purely looks at the color of the record sleeves grouping music by color alone, creating a rhythm of color, light and shade that resonates with its musical content.
Keith Loutit.
Photographer Keith Loutit creates these amazing time-lapse short films using the process of tilt-shift miniature faking. You can see more of his films on Vimeo.
Michelle Vitiello.
Today we launched a website for photographer Michelle Vitiello. The website features both her portfolio and personal work.
Relaunch.
Don’t call it a come back! Ever since Muxtape went down in August we’ve been searching for a way to broadcast our mixes. We found Opentape, an open-source package inspired by the Muxtape interface. Our web mixtape movement continues with a pilot test, Relaunch – an eclectic mix of rhythm & blues, electronica and downtempo.
Search Life.
LIFE and Google have made ninety-seven percent of the Life Magazine’s photo collection, which stretches from 1860 to today, available online.
Albert Neal.
This week, thanks to Facebook, I was able to reconnect with my college friend, photographer Albert Neal. Al’s beautiful black & white photographs can be found in many private, corporate and public collections, such as the Neuberger Museum at Purchase College and The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture.
His Harlem Series and Vernacular Visions are created traditionally, with film negatives printed in a darkroom in limited editions, number and signed.
Problem Solved.
I have been told that whenever the planet Mercury goes retrograde so do the tools of communication like phones and computers. When it comes to astrology, I’ve always been a little skeptical. I’ll be the first to admit I only believe in the zodiac when it works to my benefit, which I suppose, is very Capricorn of me. After my latest rash of technical problems with email, texts and phones, I’m starting think there may be something to it.
Whether you believe in the Mercury in retro thing or not you take this Capricorn’s practical advice and back it up. When it comes to important files get in the habit of backing up to an external hard drive, burning them to DVD or syncing them to an online service. For online I use Dropbox, also check out Backblaze. Those of you on a Mac who’d like keep track of Mercury can add this widget to your Dashboard.
As for the planet Mercury itself, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft most recent flyby yielded these amazing photographs.
Traverse.
This weekend is the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival.
Art will be everywhere: the streets, sidewalks, storefronts, elevators, lobbies, the water, the waterfront, and the parks. Along with the 65 plus new public art projects, over 100 local artists will open their studios to the public and at the new Galapagos Art Space, video_dumbo will feature a non-stop program of video art.
Last year we spent most of our time in the studios on Jay Street, viewing art, meeting artists, running into friends and at the end of the day relaxing with a good brew at ReBar. If you’ve never been to DUMBO, this would be a great time to visit.
Sign Up.
Inspired by the proliferation of very tall signs in the American Mid-West, Matt Sibert’s Floating Logos seeks to draw attention to this often overlooked form of advertising. References can be drawn to religious iconography, the supernatural, or science fiction.
The project consists of two series. Series 1 is a set of images that do not include the ground below the sign and Series 2 is more in the spirit of traditional landscape photography and shows the signage floating in context.
Naked Eye.
The amazing retouch work of Electric Art.