Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Video on Jun 27th, 2011 1 Comment »
Tom Sachs, A Selby Film from the selby on Vimeo. The Selby has done a nice bio piece on the American sculptor Tom Sachs. Worth watching full screen. Tom Sachs (official web site) Tom Sachs (wikipedia) Ten Bullets is currently running on the front page of the Tom Sachs site. It’s a parody (I hope) [...]
Posted in Objects, Photographers on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
vivian.chang has a nice collection of images including this still life with camera and vintage rubber stamps. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Process, Video on May 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Beauty Through Bamboo from Turnstyle Video on Vimeo. John Cho Moore grew tired of the limitations of the industrial design process and is now trying to capture the essence of design with his beautifully handmade bamboo and canvas bags. This is a wonderful narrative over many industrial design processes done at a more manageable scale [...]
Posted in Objects, Photographers on May 21st, 2011 3 Comments »
My flickr contact minato has this wonderful shot of a cup with bokeh all around. I have no idea how she does it, there is no point of focus on the table the cup is on, it’s like the cup if floating in bokeh. Amazing image.
Posted in Collections, Objects, Photographers on Apr 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
flickr user sarcoptiform has a wonderful collection of everyday objects. The above set of take out beverage lids is one example, here’s the whole set: Tea Tags, Etc. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Food, iPhone Photography, Objects on Jan 5th, 2011 No Comments »
The sun was quite strong through the kitchen window this morning and lit up my orange juice even more than normal. The main camera in the iPhone continues to impress. If I take my time and work out a shot it comes close to my S90 in terms of snapshot picture quality. I still don’t [...]
Posted in Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM, Canon EF Extender 1.4x II, Canon EOS 5D, Objects, Our Place on Dec 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The snow is almost over but the wind continues to howl outside. These days people make a huge deal out of storms like the one that just hit the East Coast (the Weather Channel effect) but in fact, this storm has lived up to the hype: we have about 20″ of snow on [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPhone Photography, Objects, Photographers on Dec 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
My good friend Gary Sharp is doing great things with his iPhone and the Hipstamatic app. He’s always been interested in alternative photo processes like Polaroid photo transfers and now he has a digital tool to keep the fun going.
Posted in Objects, Photographers on Nov 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
Irving Penn: Archaeology The Pace/Macgill Gallery has a show of Irving Penn’s latest work.
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Objects on Oct 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Things Organized Neatly Wonderful photography, design, web design. The index grows as you scroll. Click on an image to see it bigger. Reminds me of A Collection a Day. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Objects, Photographers, Places on Sep 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Branislav Kropilak’s Billboards. Viewing billboards from the ground gives them a totemic quality. Wonderful series. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Collections, Objects, Photographers on Sep 15th, 2010 4 Comments »
Flotsam and Jetsam Peter Tonningsen’s collection of everyday objects washed up on the shore in and around San Francisco, California. The collection is beautifully photographed scanned and displayed in nine panel grids.
Posted in Collections, Ideas, Objects, People, Photographers on Aug 16th, 2010 9 Comments »
Flickr member Jason Travis has photographed a variety of people in and around Atlanta, Georgia and an inventory of what they carry and created a great collection of these diptychs: Persona. Here’s Jason’s Persona self-portrait: Great stuff, beautifully executed.
Posted in iPhone, Objects on Jul 18th, 2010 11 Comments »
Let me preface this by saying I love my iPhone4 and no doubt Apple is going to give me a credit for the bumper I bought for it. The Apple USB charging cable on the left is the older one although still sold by Apple to work with iPhone4 (see blow), the Apple USB charging [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Creativity, Ideas, Objects on May 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Between blogs like Peter Nencini’s and Lisa Congdon’s A Collection a Day I’m finally seeing a focus for my ongoing interest in both collecting and attempting to document my collections. There is also a connection to scrapbooking here. In a way, this work pulls me back to my interest in the work of Joseph Cornell, [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, iPad, Objects, Reading on May 8th, 2010 14 Comments »
I knew it was just a matter of time before I bought an iPad although I thought it would be a bit more time, like maybe a year so I could get version two. At the same time that I’ve learned about the technical intricacies of computers I’ve gotten the most out of them when [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, Objects on Apr 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I used to collect these things but then when I lost one to TSA just after 9/11 I stopped. No hard feelings, just can’t always remember to leave these things at home. Note the various one handed knives, the thin French fruit testing knife and the black Kershaw with the Damascus (folded steel) [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, Objects, Organization, Tools on Apr 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was inspired by Carlo so decided to do a "pocket dump" of things I carry daily. For every "thing" you see here there are numerous others that I bought and tried and put in a drawer because I don’t like them. I have a bunch of watches, a bunch of wallets, numerous [...]
Posted in Food, Objects, Photography on Apr 6th, 2010 No Comments »
First Camera, Then Fork Wow, there are lots of people photographing food, less as fine art, more as keeping a photographic record of food they eat. Browsing around some of the sites linked to in the piece is actually quite amazing. While the photography is less than spectacular the variety of food is amazing.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Mar 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Misplaced Manhole Covers Fantastic collection of images. Talk about great patterns. I thought the manhole covers themselves were interesting but in this case it’s all about how they’re placed and misplaced. Great. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
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