Love someone’s sense of humour!

I have always thought I was pretty good at eyeballing shapes and lines - but I scored quite badly on this. Maybe I rushed?

The Eyeballing Game

Test your Colour IQ

Scored quite badly on the colour one too - will have to sort out a way of cheating..

Saw these on laughingsquid and was amazed! Give them a watch - honestly.

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

This morning I got playing with a borrowed 35-105mm lens and my 28-80 sigma lens, and attemped to replicate this trick which I heard about a few weeks ago (The video is embedded after the (more) tag in this post).

My results were pretty sketchy, it seems like there’s some sort of distortion and an amazingly thin depth of field. It also seemed impossible to get everything focussed correctly; I guess it’s going through about 20 lenses!

Click more to see the video how-to and some more photos I ended up with (not edited at all, and sorry about the size). (more…)

Just found this article on 10000words.net - 30 Amazing photoblogs (and a few tips for creating one). For those not in the know, photoblogs are like normal blogs but with photos instead of words, OK?

Look at the comments on that article too, because there links to more photoblogs.

Via Digg.com

SmashingMagazine has this list of 60 Concert Posters from 10 Amazing Artists. The spectrum of art featured seems to be pretty narrow; still can’t say I really enjoy 90s graphic design!

For $15 (60 x 25c), you could get these all printed on a 7×4 digital photo processor and make a big canvas of the things (5 high, 6 across?)

Edit : OK, this is a bit sneaky. I’ve been hunting around and found NO easily available high quality images that you could really print. This site sells actual posters (here’s a link to a pink floyd poster for $815) but you cannot save the image that is displayed in the preview box. However, if you ‘view source’ (Command-U on a mac in Safari) and scroll down you’ll see this line :

And, of course, “http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/images/catalog/detail/TSY680816-PO.jpg” is the location of the actual image used for previewing. This one is only 480 pixels high, which means can be printed about 2.5 inches high at reasonable quality (200dpi). 4 inches wouldn’t be much of a stretch.

If you open the JPG above in a new window/tab, you can just replace the ‘TSY680816-PO‘ part with the name of another poster you are looking at (found in the address of the page).

You could also simply do a directory listing of all the images in the detail folder on the webserver, but this crashed firefox for me - maybe there’s too many. There is also a lame watermark in the corner of all the images :(

It’s pretty late, but this is so deserving of posting. The old Arcane Bookshop has been taken over by The Intercollective, who aim to reinvigorate empty, unused (wasted) urban spaces throughout the city. Their first project is SITE FICTION in the Old Arcane Bookshop until 3rd Oct (opp Brass Monkey on William St).
There are performances on every other night and changing temporary installations which greet me each time my inner-city bus crawls past there in the morning. How refreshing to get a fresh dose of public art every morn!
Basically their aim is to get passerby’s interested and interacting with these empty spaces. It’s all very topical for this period of land shortage! How cute is the photo of Claire above interacting with a common face in Northbridge! No amount of colour/light correction will do it justice!

The blog is great, and documents how hard it is to get your hand on land in the inner-city, even disused, empty space.
Here is a small smatter of some of the cool stuff they’ve already done. They are a dedicated bunch, a stroll down William St on any given evening might uncover some surprises… head down! Check out the Blog for more updates.

Playing with light and space.

An installation involving cut hands and salvaged bus shelter glass has an ethereal effect.

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It’s ARTRAGE festival time again and this year ARTRAGE celebrates its 25th birthday!  In celebration, the aptly named and freakin’ HUGE SILVER Festival (link!) will be taking place from the 16th Oct- 9th Nov. Seriously kids, it’s just going to be an awesome few weeks. I love how this festival kicks away arcahic traditions, with not one ounce of ‘Silver’ in its design theme. Instead replaced by the colourful works of Rose Skinner’s (of previous post fame).

Check out the website for the complete programme. Better still, get your hands on the real thing, a beautiful full colour pamphlet to hold in your hands and to cuddle at night. When it’s all over, show the bitterness in your heart by pulling it apart and cutting it up.

Here is a selection of the banners used in the website. Nice… real nice….

There is no more… because the websites are so fresh, they speak for themselves. Navigate and fill your diary! Call me if we want to get a crew going.

This’ll be great - FLEXHAUX is doing a Windows on Williams piece, too - so keep your eyes peeled. - Jeremy

I finally got my camera in the same place and time dimension as this cat-themed art.
This stuff has been popping up all over the place (3 at the back of the Bakery alone!). I have no idea who it is, but it’s super rad. Best paste-ups I’ve seen for a while in Perth. I mean, Cat Copy? KILLS ME!

Anymore sightings, please post away! I want to find them,… and talk to them about cats.

Look on! For close-ups… Yeah you know you like it.
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I just read this article - Color Photos From the World War I Era, written by Alan Bellows From DamnInteresting.com. (The site has been hammered by Digg which is why, I think, the stylesheet doesn’t load - but you can still read the content fine)

Here’s an excerpt :

“Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images.

He accomplished this with a clever camera of his own design, which took three black and white photos of a scene in rapid sequence, each though a differently colored filter. His photographic plates were long and slender, capturing all three images onto the same plate, resulting in three monochrome images which each had certain color information filtered out.

Sergei was then able to use a special image projector to project the three images onto a screen, each directly overlapping the others, and each through the appropriately colored filter.”

Damn those ruskies! How clever of Sergei. There’s a page here (Library of Congress) with a few more images, which I assume have been digitally restored back to perfection. Really amazing - have a look.

Somone called Jay attached a disposable camera to a public bench to just see what the hell happened.

From the site :

“I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read:

Good afternoon,
I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.
Love, Jay / The Plug

When I retrieved the camera that night, I was happy to find that the entire roll of film had been shot. Below are the photos that were taken.”

There’s something beautifully poetic in all of this. I’d like to try it - I wonder what sorts of pictures Australians would take..?

Via Digg

When I bought my LCD monitor, it came with a sticker stuck to the side of the screen advertising it’s specs and features.
I think I have found a better use for it :

(Click to enbiggen)

Flickr user Zollo has some really amazing portraits. I’m not usually into portraits so much, but these have a really gritty sort of earthiness to them. He’s got a little story with them (it’s more like a poem) that tells you about the subject, which really sells the photos.They’re all really spontanous and atmospheric. Clicky clicky..

He seems to live in L.A and lots of his photos are of circus people or homeless people..

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most concise and succinct.

Via Lewis.

Edit : Would have loved to have used this in that horrible ‘The Medium is the Message’/Marshall McLuhan essay back in uni..

Aviary - Creation on the fly / blog / How to draw anything in 1 step

Extremely useful. The thing that I can’t - sorry, couldnt - draw, by the way, is noses.

LOVER®

Lovely concept cars - and boats!

I found this fantastic list of photoshop tutorials.. some of them are nice, some are pretty natty.
There’s a link on the site for another 40 tutorials, but I think these are the better ones.

Via Digg.

Don’t watch this :

Justin just linked me to his friend’s, er, photostream? - on pxcream, a new super-duper photography sharing site for semi-pro and pro photographers (but tough luck for YOU - it’s in beta/invite only stage). Flufftreacle’s been touring South America since April, his photos are really stunning. Amazing colours and subjects - by which i am specifically referring to Monkeyman.

dPS has a pretty good lowdown on how to shoot light trails. Light trails shots are those time exposures where points of light make a pretty pattern thus :

Click to see one i tried out of my bedroom window a few weeks ago : (more…)

When I see Rose Skinner’s art, I feel like I’m walking through a toy factory in over drive, bubbling under a soup of neon pigments, and I’m looking for my inner child, who I can hear giggling in the distance, but not above the sound of sherbert popping in my ear and an army of small plastic men running over bubblewrap.

She makes really exciting sculptural installation art that makes me very happy to be in Perth.

I wish I could find more stuff on the net about her art, but ripping off her myspace will do for now.

From her time as artist in residence at the Breadbox Gallery.

An installation in the middle of Forest Chase. It drew small children.. like... well... a giant sculpture made of fluro plastics and candy.

One of her pieces was in Hatched, the national grad show. It was like a dome of candy... a DOME people…

Rose recently did a crazyarsehuge installation using popular foods (cheezels, mee goreng) and a whole lot of coloured sugar at the Breadbox Gallery. It smelt like a lolley store. The clean up was icky, but it means we’ll be seeing a lot more of her stuff, and for that, I am glad to haul bins of dubious gook.

Perth illustrator Sean Morris has a knack for wielding a fine tip ink pen and appreciating metal heads with no necks. His first solo show is on now at Behind the Monkey, Beaufort St.

I like this guys stuff, I want to be his friend.

See more at his own website and his blog ‘Paper Shields’.

And a small smattering of more brutal pen driven boganic dreamscapes… by the man (more…)

hehe! I was just admiring some of twocreate’s work and had a laugh at the russian space pen they made for Worldwide Co, under their two dimensional design category…

two create™.

(I can’t find the pencil - link please quinton? I do really like the site though… the content and the site itself! helvetica..! - Jeremy) Oh - Here it is!

If hadn’t spent the whole day designing graphics I’d spend all night trying webdesign after catching some sick-as inspiration at web creme.

Web Creme | Web design inspiration

There’s some lovely concept cars here, similar to the lot I last posted. Inhabitat » RCA Unveils Sleek Sustainable Concept Cars

Via Notcot

Confusing? Certainly. Entertaining..? Well - yes.

There’s a blog and a link to some lovely photos of transistor radios on The Cosmonaut blog - The Cosmonaut: Transistor Radios

Everyone loves these oldschool slash moderne aesthetics, particularly me.

Thanks Quin..

We never wear pink for the dead. on Flickr - Photo Sharing.

Its nots just the photos in Hillary the mammal’s photostream I like but their curiousness when in context with their titles :-)

“Batman throughout History - A Gallery of Batman Images from the 1930s to Current”

expanding on Jeremy’s previous post heres another gallery of super nice half-frame photography: drvmmmer’s flickr stream

Recently been meandering through Lina’s photostream. It’s got some real gorgeous lo-fi portraits.

Came across this brilliant page - But haven’t looked into it properly yet. I really should - my vector skills are not so..well.. skilful..
(It’s OK - I have Photoshop..!)

Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials, Tips and Best Practice

The video I’ve been waiting for since I heard about it two days ago :

It’s filmed with lasers - specifically, LIDAR - a laser scanning system that captures the 3D point data of everything it ’sees’ (including Thom Yorke). This means there are no cameras involved (just a laser, really) and so it’s not actually filmed. It’s all just 3D data. Which means you can do this crazy shit and manipulate the video in real time, moving the camera around and zooming in and out. Like this :

(Click this image!)

(Click to enlarge)

Gizmodo also posted this video which shows the (sort-of more boring) making of :

Flash blow-outs suck, DPS has this short guide to avoiding them…!

Integrated flashes suck so hard that it’s hard to avoid it when you’re taking night shots and there’s something close up, and something far away. I got a bigger flash to experiment with (er.. above) but it doesn’t have P-TTL - so it’s very much trial-and-error (or just experience, I suppose)