Light Fixture
Tag: art
Old LOMO Wall, 2009
I started putting my LOMOs into a patchwork using double-sided tape on an old piece of foamcore tape a few years ago, and got to the point where I needed something a little more usable. After a while, the prints would fall down, overlapping prints meant tearing the print when I rearranged them, etc.
I salvaged the ones I could, and replaced it with some hanger wire and stand-offs from Ikea. I mounted the prints on 5×7 index cards, and hang them using bulldog clips. I’ll post a pic when Lomowall Mk. II is complete!
Chopsticks @ 50mm, Oakland, CA
Old print, new scanner. This was taken in Oakland’s chinatown back in 2002 or so. I love the shallow depth of field you get with a slow film, an old mechanical SLR and a 50mm Prime lens.
Big Brother
Waves
Just so you know, it’s not all city shots and toy cameras around here.
Barbed wire
BENT-28
I don’t know what this means. But I liked it.
Seven Eighty
More Random LOMOs…
…Gathered on recent walks through the Tenderknob, SOMA and parts elsewhere, San Francisco.
Gettin’ artsy with my LOMO in low light
I’m always amazed at the LOMO LC-A’s ability to capture vivid colors in low light. Every other camera I’ve tried has given me washed out colors when I extend the shutter speed out in low light.
With my LOMO, I load up the slowest film I can find (Lucky 100 when I can find it, Fuji SuperHQ 100 when I can’t) and shoot away.
Walkabout, Part 76
Miru Kim Naked City Spleen Photo Series
Miru Kim is known as the “naked urban photographer,” a fearless artist who walks around naked in abandoned urban locales in cities such as New York, Paris and Berlin. She has photographed various familiar urban settings, such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, aqueducts, factories, hospitals and shipyards. Her series, Naked City Spleen, is a dissection of places built and forgotten and somehow exposed by the naked body of the artist. She also founded Naked City Arts, a not-for-profit art concern in downtown Manhattan, helping young artists to further establish their careers.
[via coolhunting.com ]
Bulletin board – Point Reyes, CA
Looking Down
I LEGO NY
“During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.”
Christoph Niemann’s illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. His work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club and American Illustration. He is the author of two children’s books, “The Pet Dragon,” which teaches Chinese characters to young readers, and “The Police Cloud.” After 11 years in New York, he moved to Berlin with his wife, Lisa, and their sons, Arthur, Gustav and Fritz. His Web site is christophniemann.com.
[ www.christophniemann.com, via nytimes.com ]
Miroslav Tichy
Am so enthralled with the photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, who made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other similar things, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. He developed the negatives in a bucket at night, because he didn’t have a darkroom. Later, he said that the defects and ugliness were where the true art happened.
Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.
[via This Is That ]
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