art & design – Page 2

cold war classic

Cold War style + Machine Age craftsmanship + Digital Age technology = one amazing miniature camera.

Saw this Minox on photojojo.com and thought it be something of the small and good-looking’ to own 🙂

Here is this lil’ cutie’s specs:

Comes with: a removable viewfinder, USB cord for charging/uploading, and a wall charger
Minoctar 9.0mm glass lens with 4x digital zoom (equivalent to a 42mm lens on a 35mm camera)
0.5m, 1m and infinity distance settings
128MB internal memory (plus a slot for a SDHC memory card up to 16GB)
Takes video at 320 x 240 pixels for up to 60 seconds per clip
Takes stills up to 2,608 x 1,956 pixels
Internal lithium-ion battery recharges via USB or wall outlet
USB connector for battery charging and reading images
Removable optical viewfinder plus 2″ digital viewfinder/display screen

Featured | Grace Sakong video

This was featured on SMP’s site and we absolutely fell in love with it when we saw it! Just wanted to share the good stuff with everyone else!

View the full story here!

A possible guilty pleasure for constant-phone-in-hand photographers and photography lovers…

The Wood iPhone Case from photojojo.com

“They say you should dress for the job you want–and your iPhone? It really wants to be your camera.
With the new Wood Camera iPhone Case, your phone can look just like a classic camera. It’s a sleek cover that combines the natural charm of wood with the style of a classic camera to be the most unique iPhone case out there. Because it’s made from natural materials (bamboo or walnut), it offers an environmentally sustainable option for protecting your phone all while making it look old-school camera cool.”

recycled hearts

Check out these cool recycled paper heart garlands from Bookity! How cool would these look at a wedding ceremony or reception 😉

F/U: Newsworthy

Consider DIY “Project: Newsworthy” complete. Thanks to the local coffee shop for saving several days worth of newspaper for me 🙂 I have succeeded in making recycling appear so good-looking. I used the “Newsworthy” theme for one of my upcoming fashion spreads. Took some time to set up and no glue necessary. And the finished product:

Also makes for the perfect backdrop for my next ad campaign. Sweet!

Newsworthy

Newspaper wallpaper. Found this while doing some inspiration research for my next spread. It makes me think that my room is in need of a makeover modification. Things to go on the weekend warrior project list. 😉

“HOW TO FAB YOUR WALLS
It’s all about experimenting with what you’ve got. Look around your space, or a friend’s. You can use almost anything:

Pages from an old book: I couldn’t sell back my outdated Norton Anthologies, so I’m prepping those wafer thin pages to cover a column in 17th century poetry. There’s like, 2000 pages in all.

Postcards from the edge: If you’re someone whose friends and family travel to ooh-la-la places and send good pics, use them.

Greeting cards: Sort them by dominant color, (cut them up if you’re not sentimental) and create your own David Hockney-esque masterpiece

CDs/DVDs: You don’t really need that outdated Windows Install CD do you? Declutter as you design by taking those cast-off CDs from home and the office and paint them to create a geometric border or wall treatment. It will look like, totally groovy.

Sheet music: So lyrical and artsy

Office swag: If you’re the type to bring work home, why not do something cathartic with those oh-so-colorful TPS reports? Or try business cards

– Adopted from fabgreen

Away We Stay

This has to be one of my favorite short films that I’ve seen recently, featuring two of my all-time favorite models, Helena Christensen and David Gandy. If only it were turned into a television series…

This short film (“Away We Stay”) was beautifully written and directed by Edoardo Ponti. It was shot on location in Leicester Square. It is ” a romantic tale of love, life and the choices we make in the middle…”
Helena and David have the perfect chemistry on set and they are extremely gorgeous people. It leaves you wanting to see more of what’s to come. It’s perfect.

100 Years Older

Some post-processing horse play with my older photos…

Nagi Noda

A true visionary and a personal inspiration. Her works transcend boundaries and really embellishes the meaning of outside the box.

Dancing eyeballs, fitness-video-exercising poodles, half pandas/half other animals, and singing merchandise in a boutique store are only a few of the vivid, perplexing imaginings of Nagi Noda, the talented, eccentric and boundary-pushing artist, art director and fashion designer from Tokyo. Unfettered from any discipline or industry limits, Noda’s work extends from book design and music packaging, to short films, to music videos and commercials — including a hypnotic ad for Coca-Cola, with music by the White Stripes’ Jack White, commissioned by London agency Mother — and even to clothing design. Noda is signed with Partizan, a leading agency that represents cutting-edge directors, photographers and artists.
-Excerpt from “Women of Design”

The Surreal Works of Eric Weston

Tonight is the public reception for “The Surreal Works of Eric Weston” and I am anxious to see the great artwork in store at the exhibit. Eric Weston “called himself a iconoclastic surrealist. He rarely showed any of his work in his lifetime, but wound up doing dozens of amazing pieces. He created art for art’s sake throughout his entire life in between construction jobs.” His talents and skill from his construction jobs can be seen in his work – his attention to detail and precision relative to scale is quite impressive. It is also an honor to have been chosen to do the postcard invite design for this exhibit (seen above), collaborating with Eric’s cousin Jon Weston on the design.

Below is a preview of some of the art showcasing tonight:

“Eric’s father’s toy bear. Eric was shot in the stomach by a burglar years back –at the hospital and during a long, touch-and-go recovery, it never left his hand. He built these tools for his father’s bear, which itself is less than six inches tall — some of the tools are only a few millimeters long.”

“Eric’s collection of Japanese figures, worn from the robes of ceremonial clothing. He made each wooden display stand.”

“A french horn disassembled and fit inside an antique cabinet. It seems so simple at first, but as you look around the fine cuts made to the horn, you realize that every piece was removed with clinical precision, making an exact fit in each moving drawer that perfectly retains the horn’s original dimensions.”

“A ray gun he made for a Space Cowboy Halloween costume back when “space cowboy” had a double entendre. The trigger works, makes noise — still fun to play with!”

“A gigantic oak tree had fallen in Walnut Creek. It’s branches used to stretch over one of the city’s main streets. After the loss, the city sent enormous sections of it to various artists. This was Eric’s contribution, standing roughly four feet tall, the flying anvil was one of his signature conceptualizations.”