Now accepting submissions through 1 April 2014, social media (and more) service Google+ renews their Saatchi Gallery partnership with a competition embracing moving photography. Google+ just unveiled Motion, a…
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1. Todd McLellan’s 50 Disassembled Objects Skilled lensman Todd McLellan likes to take things apart. What began as a meticulous photo project dubbed “Disassembly Series” has now expanded into a new book for Thames & Hudson, called “); return…
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To accompany their just-released SS13 accessories collection, Brooklyn-based design outlet The Hill-Side created a dynamic lookbook of 10 cheeky gifs animating exploding neckties, swirling scarves and peeping pocket squares as…
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GIFs are fun, shareable, and now they’re the ultimate party trick. Our friends at software company HYPERHYPER originally created PHHHOTO—a social photo booth that creates looped-motion images—to record a blowout event they were throwing last December. Engaging and endlessly entertaining, PHHHOTO was such a huge hit that they decided…
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Brooklyn’s new 3D photo booth brings the party to life
Riding the wave of photo booth fun, Brooklyn-based company, The Bosco, takes the frenzy a step further with the first 3-D and automatic GIF picture-takers. The Bosco is the brainchild of co-founders Nick Fehr and Aaron Fisher-Cohen, who met through a mutual friend.
“We want to capture stories and bring self-made art to events and installations,” says Fisher-Cohen. The filmmaker and New York native first started developing the idea of a video booth post-college. “I always thought about ways one could capture honesty on film, and I kept going back to eliminating the camera person,” he says.
A backend developer hailing from the Bay Area, Fehr became interested in photo booths at UCLA where he and a friend used to run a DIY photo booth company. He joined forces with Fisher-Cohen in the summer of 2011, and in February 2012, they set up shop in their Bushwick, Brooklyn space.
In rethinking the photo booth in the context of the digital age, The Bosco’s exclusive line of rentable photo booths and video confessionals embraces the intersection of emerging technology and art. Equipped with an iPad-based interface, the maching allows users to print their photos as they are simultaneously uploaded to the Internet, enabling instant social media sharing. The capabilities of the Bosco’s booths include GIFs, 3D and HD images, and videos—all of which can be tailored to the user’s specifications. “The idea is to create a self-portrait experience that looks and feels high-end,” says Fehr.
To learn more about the social photo booth or to book The Bosco and for pricing, go to their website.
Photography duo capture fashion’s poetic moments with animated GIFs
Whether showing how to drop your pants or adding creepy slow-lidded blinks, animated GIFs perhaps come the closest to capturing the true essence of a moment—what photographic technology has often struggled to achieve since the first recorded image. NYC-based innovators Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg poetically attempt just that with their forward-thinking fashion photography that they’ve dubbed “cinemagraphs.”
Teaming up with high-fashion names such as Tiffany’s and Christian Louboutin, Jamie and Kevin have created a whole new style of art for digital ads. The images sometimes lean towards the slightly fantastical—the shimmer on a pair of glitter-covered heels or the shadowy flicker of a film. Theirs is a perfect world that somehow collided with ours, creating sensations like the idealized ripple of a silk skirt that may not exist in reality but ought to.
The beauty of their vision lies in its simplicity. Movements are so subtle (a model’s hair blows in the wind, the gentle jostle of the subway, the flash of a passing car) as to not always be apparent at first glance, but closer scrutiny rewards you with these isolate moments of delight.
“There’s something magical about a still photograph,” Jamie explains, calling them “a captured moment in time—that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.” To see more cinemagraphs, check out Jamie’s Tumblr.
Photographer Tim Barber introduces animated GIFs to an exclusive menswear line
Like the brands they represent, lookbooks run the gamut from those shot on Brooklyn rooftops to full-scale studio productions with renowned fashion photographers. In what may be an industry first, Freeman’s Sporting Club recently enlisted photographer Tim Barber to take a different route, creating a series of animated GIFs to show their Spring/Summer 2011 line. Whether juggling in a Tropical Gossamer Machinist Shirt or dropping trou in Summer Weight Grey Jeans, the lighthearted concept has a practical side too, giving a sense of how the clothes move when worn.
Also seen in the work of photographers Reed + Rader, using GIFs for fashion spreads breathes life into clothing that still photograph just can’t do. This effect, combined with Barber’s clean and simple aesthetic, makes for an incredibly effective campaign.
The project follows Barber’s lookbook for FSC last season (their first-ever) when the photographer poked fun at male stereotypes with a catalog of tongue-in-cheek scenarios. With lightweight, casual fabrics at the forefront of this collection, again Barber perfectly sums up the season.
The current FSC collection, which includes their new Limited Edition Black on Black Summer Tuxedo ($2,300), is available now online as well as at their NYC and San Francisco locations.
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