La série « The Ice Typography » de Nicole Dextras, une artiste environnementale canadienne, regroupe un éventail de mots 3D en glace que l’artiste a faits à l’aide d’attelles en bois. De la ville de Toronto à la rivière Yukon, ces installations poétiques montrent les mots comme étant éphémères et en constante évolution.
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Photographing the kids’ artwork is a great way to keep from having to save everything junior creates in a physical form. Photographs save the memories without sacrificing storage space. Digital images are easy to organize, but getting decent shots of the kids’ work can be difficult. Creating a DIY lightbox can be a cheap, inexpensive solution for getting great, memorable shots.
A couple of years ago, I suggested a few strategies for organizing your kids’ artwork. Once you’ve picked out your favorites, it’s nice to frame them for a home gallery or to create an album, like those from Shutterfly or Apple.
But like I mentioned earlier, taking a good photo of Jr.’s art project isn’t always easy. Lighting and a “noisy” background can be troublesome. Fortunately, the solution is simple, effective, and inexpensive. The following instructions are how I made a simple light box out of materials I (mostly) already had at home.
A light box, as I’m describing it, is a box that’s open on one end and has light-diffusing material on the sides and top, that lets you take nearly shadow-free photographs of objects. Professional photographers use them to get gorgeous product shots. You can use them for a variety of items. Here’s what you’ll need:
To get started, cut the flaps off of the box’s top and then place it on its side. Next, use a ruler to mark one inch from the edge on the side of the box. Then use a strait edge to mark off lines one inch away from the edge. Use the box cutter to cut out that inner square section of cardboard. (You’re making the sides look like three cardboard picture frames attached to the bottom and one side of the box. See the image above.) Repeat that process on two other sides, leaving the bottom intact.
Next, add your light-diffusing material: tissue paper. Cut a sheet of plain white tissue paper so that it’ll cover the three sides of the box that you cut. Tape it into place. Now for the poster board.
This part is a little bit tricky. Cut a piece of poster board that’s as wide as the opening to your box but twice as long. Slide it into the box and up the back so that it’s touching the top. Make sure not to crease the poster board. If you do, that crease will really show up in your photos. The idea is to make an “infinite” background of white.
That’s it! The box has been constructed. Now you need two light sources. I’m using two tabletop gooseneck lamps. Position one on each side, aimed directly at the tissue paper. Finally, put your camera on a tripod, stack of books, table, or whatever will keep it still. Finally, position your subject and shoot.
You’ll have to play around a bit to see if you need more tissue paper, to re-position the camera and so on. But really, you’ll see great results right away. When you’re done, upload the photos to your favorite service, do what you want with the digital image, and enjoy your great-looking archive of the kids’ beautiful art.
Additional tips: Above, I photographed a little clay sculpture. If you’re doing something flat like a painting, carefully remove the top piece of tissue paper and shoot down. Also, you can add more light buy putting another source pointing into the box from the top.
This whole project cost me less than twenty dollars (I bought two lamps) and I’m thrilled with the results. Also, if you’re not the DIY type, you can buy a premade lightbox for around $40.
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Le photographe Egor N a fait une série de photos amusante « Anti Gravity Coffee Time » qui joue avec des tasses de café, du lait et des soucoupes en apesanteur, où tous les liquides sont figés dans les airs formant de très jolis mouvements. Sa série est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
A group of Kingston students led by Joshua Lake are launching an online exhibition space to bring together work from degree shows across the creative disciplines
With so many degree shows taking place each year, not all of them get the attention those participating might like. Lake’s idea is to create an online exhibition space to aggregate work from degree shows in one place.
Hand launches in May and is “an online art and design gallery catering for students, individuals and groups across all art disciplines, creating space for inspiration, collaboration and discovery,” the organisers say.
At present, the site is displaying a ‘trailer’ version but this does give some sense of how the fully-functional site will work. It will focus initially on degree shows but “in addition to student exhibitions, non-student shows will be featured on the site throughout the year,” the organisers say.
Graduating students will be allowed to create an account and upload work from their exhibition to the site. More details on how to get involved at hand.gallery
Concept: Joshua Lake
Art direction: Oliver Long, Frederik Mahler-Anderson and FRancis North
Built by Frederik Mahler-Anderson
Copy: Jodie Edwards
Avec « Playing », Alex Mac Lean capture tous types de terrains en plongée. Que ce soit au beau milieu désert, dans une piscine ou la mer, sur l’herbe, un terrain de parc d’attraction, un terrain de jeux sportifs, aquatiques ou terrestres : il veut montrer avec hauteur le divertissement à travers une Amérique ensoleillée.
Elke Vogelsang prend comme modèle ses trois chiens, Noodles, Scout & Loli pour nous proposer des clichés surprenants de ceux-ci. A la fois drôles et visuellement réussis, la photographe parvient à capturer des expressions incroyables de ses animaux, dont une sélection de clichés est à découvrir dans la suite.
Graphic designer Abram Games is one of 10 Britons celebrated in Remarkable Lives, a new set of Royal Mail stamps designed by Purpose
The Remarkable Lives series features individuals from the fields of sport, design, economics, heroism and the arts who were born in 1914. Games is featured in his studio with a framed poster behind him.
“The main challenge was to tell a story about the individuals’ lives within such a small environment. The solution was to source original portrait photographs that would tell a narrative about their subject through the backdrop, clothing or pose,” Royal Mail say.
Images were sourced from archives, estates and, in some cases, families. All were treated to give them a consistent ‘silver bromide’ feel.
Others featured include former Manchester City and Engand manager Joe Mercer
And theatre director Joan Littlewood
“The pack and first day cover insert are designed to resemble an Edwardian display cabinet and curated to showcase a rich collection of objects from the Britons’ lives, Royal Mail say. “A green felt background, archive pins for numbering and navigating the ‘objects’, and brass label holders for the headlines evoke the feeling of an historical collection on display.”
The stamps go on sale on March 25
The facades of well-known buildings in Paris, New York and Brisbane have been reduced to a series of patterned surfaces and silhouettes in this series of images by French photographer Alexander Jacques (+ slideshow).
Jacques’ Architectural Pattern series captures the exteriors of buildings without any surrounding context, transforming them into abstract surfaces that the author says can offer new perspectives on what many perceive as ordinary.
“We spend all day walking past these buildings without raising our heads to glance at them,” explained Jacques. “They are part of our daily lives, but we do not pay attention to them or we just think they’re plain ugly.”
The collection of 25 images is documented on Jacques’s website and includes buildings by celebrated architects and firms such as Renzo Piano, SOM, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen and Kisho Kurokawa.
The photographer came up with the idea during a visit to New York, after taking a picture of a brick building in Soho. “When I returned to NYC for the second time, at the end of my studies, I had a higher sensitivity to graphics.”
“I was more interested in the buildings than the rest of New York folklore. I saw lines and patterns everywhere. It was amazing. I spent whole days looking to the sky,” he explained.
Other images from this city include a close-up of the Mc-Graw Hill Building at the Rockefeller Centre, which looks more like a piece of woven fabric than an office building.
“Sometimes I am surprised how a facade that I see with my eyes can make a picture. First we forget that it is a building, then the lines and perspective transform everything. In the end we only see the pattern,” said Jacques.
In Paris, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen’s Grande Arche becomes a series of gold and blue diamond-shaped boxes, while the pod-like rooms of the Tour Novotel are transformed into a series of neatly arranged poppies, broken up by lines of silver.
The gentle flowing lines of Jean-Paul Viguier‘s Coeur Defense, Europe’s biggest building by floor space, are shown as squares and rectangles changing from shades of royal and sky blue, to white and teal.
Jacques hopes to continue the series by visiting more cities, including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Dubai. Prints of the photographs are available to buy via the website.
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Le photographe américain Ben Marcin, basé aux Etats-Unis, prend des photos de maisons dans les coins désertés de l’Amérique avec sa série « Last House Standing ». Baltimore, Philadelphia, Camden, tant de villes qui recèlent de maisons aux façades délabrées et qui donnent une atmosphère post-apocalyptique.
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