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Editions

 

 

GF Smith are selling limited edition prints of photography they've used for their promotional material. John Ross's inky blobs are lovely. And I really like Lee Furnell's Flowers. Not sure about Rankin's stuff though. (If I was Tweeting this I might have added a #whataloadofshite hash tag to that last bit. But I'm not. So I won't.)

Light Work

 

Via today and tomorrow, Picasso's light drawings from Life Magazine.

Cibachrome photograms

   

By Lisa Oppenheim.

Via today and tomorrow.

Wide Boy

This is my favourite bit of Simon Høgsberg's new project. I reckon it's just about 4.5 metres of it. The whole thing is 100 metres wide.

Broken daffodils and an old man's pants

  

I've only just started reading The School of Life's blog, after them getting in touch about the Daily Aphorism thing. Scrolling back in blog-time there's this really lovely thing; a book from photographer KayLynn Deveney.

Inappropriately (although you might understand if you find the right image) it reminded me of Harry Hill's joke about Cancer Research Shops, "...they'll never find a cure in a pair of old man's pants".

Tilt & Shift

An old colleague of mine got in touch recently. Mat's a fellow design. He's really good. 

Anyway, he showed me some of the stuff he's been doing and amongst it was a job that embraced the Tilt & Shift photographic technique. It's amazing.

If you're not familiar with it (you probably are, but I wasn't) it's the magical, in-camera technique of making big things seem small. Kind of the opposite to what Gerry Anderson did with his Supermarionation work (apparently, there's a Photoshop cheat technique but there's no substitute for the real thing).

Mat worked with Andy Pendlebury in Nottingham but not surprisingly, there's lots of it on Flickr, like the brilliant work of Guillaume Payen (shown here) and numerous Pools.

Mat pointed me at this really interesting thing from the New York Times and this from Metropolis, both of which fuelled his idea.

 

Funnell Vision

I suppose there's an obvious irony to such a weighty mailer being sent out to promote environmental papers but, when it come to materials, there really is no substitute to touching and feeling. I guess it could have at least been half the size.

But don't get me wrong, my point isn't to knock GF Smith's new brochure, it's beautiful; with Lee Funnell's stunning photography and SEA's admirable design restraint.

My prediction is that as such productions become even more rare (and we don't get so many nowadays) future-vintage paper promo pieces will be greatly prized (by hoarders like me) – which is why I'm stashing them all away, time-capsule style, in the loft.

 
 
 

The Unconscious Art Of Demolition

Just in case you didn't see Hugo's comment on that last post, and to quote Ben, "That's an amazing Flickr Group".

Jaypeg's Adventures in Lomography

Jay left a very nice comment on my all new Penguin Poets Flickr set.

She's, amongst other things, a Lomographer; perhaps you know all about Lomography; perhaps it's just me that's completely missed it; but it looks like loads of fun and the results are often beautiful. See her brilliant Flickr sets here.

Lumps of metal with twiddly bits

Yes I know, "give him a Flickr Pro account and he thinks he's a Flickr Pro". Well whatever, you're probably going to see a whole lot of Flickr stuff from now on. And me such a cynic only a handful of months ago.

Dazza', for example, has this remarkable set of photos taken in and around Inverkip Power Station (found via I Like, so thanks Anne!). And he's just joined Stephen's fantastic Control Panel Group.