I’m sure we have all seen this video but it is still brilliant…show how such a simple idea and technique can make a familiar landscape a weird alien looking pattern.

3:00 pm  •  26 February 2011

Really cool photo called Spatial Angle…just broadening my mind on different photo techniques and ways to see things from a different angle, literally in this case.

2:57 pm  •  26 February 2011

I stumbled across this fantastic blog called Planetary Folklore which I will be exploring (ripping off) for a while.

Stunning images of ice that the author, Douglas Capron, has kindly explained:

I am inspired by transformations and transitions that occur within nature, people and music. 

My photographic opportunities often arrive unexpectedly and I am always fascinated by how our perception of time alternates with various life experiences. I hope my work travels beyond graphic emotional impact and that it will provoke and sustain a subtle dialogue with the viewer.

With my current series, Hydrology: Visions in Ice, my goal was to share with viewers the ephemeral mystery that occurs when water transforms into ice in a natural setting. The resulting formations are surprisingly dynamic, organically expressive and complex, and pose more questions than are revealed beyond an aesthetic perspective in our relationship with the most basic element that sustains us all. 

I was fascinated by the elaborate, unpredictable and beautiful shapes. These formed and morphed on a small lake in a city park over a few days as winter temperatures started to descend and the crystallization process began and then further, gradually evolving into mysterious patterns of solid ice announcing the arrival of winter.

I photographed this project through the use of long exposure times at night to eliminate glare during the day which allowed me to retain detail and texture.

Need I say more?

2:49 pm  •  26 February 2011

Nicolai Howalt has a couple of photographic series in a similar vein to Daniel Freytag in that they make quite everyday things seem surreal and ephemeral.

A lot of amazing photographs in this series called Car Crash Studies. Extreme closeups and odd perspectives on the ruins of car wrecks has a pretty dark side to it but none-the-less these images are beautifully strange and again, pretty surreal.

First image in a series called Rusland which again just seem to have this slightly different perspective on something we see photographed constantly. Interesting stuff.

2:39 pm  •  26 February 2011

A series called Tree Skins which is a nice look at patterned tree roots and bark, some really interesting shapes though it does feel slightly obvious with these ones, doesn’t quite capture the mystery or charm of those amazing Tempest shots.

Awesome photos of skin called Surface that use a slight negative effect to get some really surreal contrast which makes it look almost metallic. Getting closer to the magical Tempest shots now.

Something pretty special about this series called Monolith. A mixture of grays, lack of background, sharp focus and floating rocks give them a really ephemeral, slightly unreal look even though they are just that, rocks. Amazing photography and goes somewhere to show how objects as banal as a rock can look so unreal by viewing it from a different perspective.

In both his personal and commercial work, Daniel remains committed to capturing those ‘in-between’ moments, giving depth to the unexpected beauty of the everyday. And with this comes an intimacy in its realness: No artifice, no set-up, purely the ability to re-engage the viewer with the ‘newness’ of the normal, and perhaps, at times, render it almost surreal.

A quote from his profile that sums it up pretty well…more on his site.

2:26 pm  •  26 February 2011

Tempest

Limited edition pack of prints to promote the Tempest series of still-life photographic images.

Some genuinely beautiful images from Daniel Freytag of what I assume are cloud formations set into these circles. An amazing abstract piece that feels real and recognisable but is abstract and symbolic in it’s imagery.

1:38 pm  •  26 February 2011

Macro Kingdom III

1:20 pm  •  24 February 2011

Macro Kingdom I

1:19 pm  •  24 February 2011

I would like to explore the relationship between the real and kind of hyper-real that can be seen in a lot of videos on my blog. Things like Macro Kingdom show real world objects in a seemingly extraordinary video using macro and time lapse as well as intriguing sound design. Other videos mix real world elements with hyper real abstract 3d forms.

I’m also interested in the interaction with these visual landscapes whether it be through sound design, projection, physical interaction or generative.

12:54 pm  •  24 February 2011

Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom directed by Edouard Salier

10:40 pm  •  21 February 2011