Kuriositäten in Kunst und Fotografie

Time-Mags Person of the Year: The Protestor



http://www.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2011/
http://timemagazine.tumblr.com/post/14214199000/shepard-fairey-talks-about-creating-times-person-of

Das Time Magazine hat gestern ihre Person des Jahres vorgestellt: Der Protester. Schöne Geste in Richtung des arabischen Frühlings und dem Occupy-Movement. Das erste Mal, dass das Time Magazine übrigens sowas wie eine anonyme Masse zur Person des Jahres wählte, war 1950 „The american Fighter“ wegen des Kriegs in Korea, zuletzt war es 2006 „You“. Hier die Seite des Time-Mags zur Masse des Jahres, hier ein kleines Interview mit Shepard Fairey, der das Cover gestaltete.

The Protester, Fairey says his cover image is based on a composite of 26 different photographs of real protests from around the world. “These organic protest movements have arisen around the globe and a lot of it was fueled by social media, but it was a pervasive phenomenon,” he said. “It wasn’t one specific movement but general unrest. I wanted to look for ideas to represent that.”

Interessant mal eine ganze Bewegung und eine anonyme "Person" zur Person des Jahres zu machen, das ist so 2011! Und hier in Schland zirpen nur die Grillen, na ja immerhin Castor und S21 hatten wir

Abandoned Nuclear Exclusion Zone in Japan



http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/japans_nuclear_exclusion_zone.html

The Big Picture hat eine Bilderstrecke von David Guttenfelder, der für National Geographic in die Evakuierungszone um Fukushima gefahren ist.
(via Nerdcore)


Photos from unsecured russian Rocket Plant



http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html#cutid1

Ein paar russische Blogger sind nachts einfach mal so in eine unbewachte Raketenproduktion gelatscht, deren Wachpersonal irgendwo anders war und Sicherheitskameras auch grade Pause machten, und haben dort tonnenweise Bilder geschossen.
(via Nerdcore)


Abandoned London after Christmas



http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/12/25/photos-of-an-empty-london-on-christmas-morning/

Vor drei Jahren bloggte ich über Ian Visits Fotos vom menschenverlassenen London, die er morgens an Weihnachten geknippst hatte. 2011 hat er’s wieder getan. Aus seinem Blogeintrag:

London is never silent, not even at 3am, but on Xmas morning, it is almost silent. The background drone of aircraft approaching Heathrow has gone, and away from main roads, the streets lack the sound of car tyres rolling over tarmac. Heading home, also a sound you never really hear now – the pealing of church bells. Not just coming from a single church you are nearby, but from all over the city as the sound carries far further than usual and surrounds you from all sides. Magical.
(via Nerdcore)

Einfach ein paar beeindruckende Sammlungen. Tragisch und irgendwie schön.

Beindruckende Fotos. Wäre auch mal interessant um diese Uhrzeit in dieser Stadt unterwex zu sein. In Magdeburg kann es einem zwar morgens auch passieren, dass man keine Menschenseele mehr antrifft, aber im Fall Magdeburg wundert das immer niemanden. Warum weiß ich auch nich. xD

Toronto News schrieb:

Year-long exposure of Toronto skyline produces 'dreamy' image

A year ago, Michael Chrisman placed a pinhole camera in Toronto’s Port Lands and aimed it — as best one can aim such a camera — at the city skyline.

For 365 straight days and nights, light has crept through the pinhole, slowly building an exposure on a piece of photosensitive paper.

Ponder that.

A typical exposure with a digital SLR on a bright sunny day, depending on aperture and ISO, might last between 1/250th and 1/1000th of a second.

In Chrisman’s pinhole experiment, the “shutter” — there really isn’t one on a pinhole camera, just a piece of electrical tape or a removable cap, perhaps — has been open for 31,536,000 seconds, give or take a few.

On New Year’s Eve day, Chrisman trudged out to retrieve the camera and exposed paper inside.

“I’m thrilled with it,” Chrisman said Sunday. “It’s a very dreamy photo. This one has a soft and kind of foggy feel.”

Think of it as a time-lapse painting. The physical progress of the sun leaves a streak that shifts minutely each day. The daily on and off of building lights leaves only light, not dark. Once exposed, there is no way to undo it.

The camera, a simple black box, was mounted to the side of a rusty metal box next to a shipping beacon near the shipping canal. Chrisman used tape and a few bricks to “secure and position the camera for its long wait,” he said in an email exchange with the Star.

Chrisman, a 31-year-old freelance editorial and art photographer, put it there on Jan. 1, 2011, knowing a lot could go wrong. Mishaps could include the camera being stolen, which has happened in some of his earlier time-exposure experiments.

“The biggest difficulty,” he explained, “is trying to ensure the camera will be there when you return.

“As I’ve become more brazen with regard to installing them in more public or more populated areas, more and more cameras have gone missing. I mark down the dates to retrieve the cameras on a calendar; it is such a slow process that the best thing I can do is forget about the cameras so I don’t obsess about them.”

The nature of the exposure will likely result in a muddy look. There will be no shadows, no sun flares off windows. The cumulative effect of a moving light — that would be the sun and moon — will flatten the image.

The most intriguing aspect of the photo, said Chrisman, may be the “trails left by the sun as it moves through the sky both throughout the day and as the seasons change.”

Chrisman uses photosensitive paper in his cameras, as opposed to film, because it is less sensitive to light. A typical daylight exposure with a pinhole camera loaded with film is several seconds long, or less.

Even so, with the length of Chrisman’s exposures, the paper is extremely overexposed. There is no need to use chemicals to bring up the image. After so long, it is there on its own and visible to the naked eye.

“If I were to try to develop the paper in a traditional darkroom, the image would be lost,” said Chrisman.

Instead, he uses a scanner to capture the image from the paper, and in doing so, destroys the paper image itself. “The bright light of the scanner slowly erases the image, inch by inch, as it captures it.”

What took a year to make is gone in moments, but lives on in a digital form.

“Time is always a major component in photography, but is usually dealt with in fractions of a second,” writes Chrisman, explaining his interest in lengthy exposures. “Exploring the limits of the medium is part of what drew me to attempting this photograph.

“These photos are a constant experiment, and with each test taking months or years, it is a very slow experiment.”

One that involves a bit of luck, as well.

Trotonto News: Year-long exposure of Toronto skyline produces 'dreamy' image

Victorian Astronomy Drawings



Die New York Public Library hat ein paar Space-Zeichnungen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert digitalisiert und online gestellt. Die Bilder stammen von Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, der aus Frankreich nach Amerika geflohen war, nachdem sich Napoleon III. zum Kaiser der Franzosen ausrufen lies. In den USA landete er schließlich am Harvard College Observatory, für das er hunderte Zeichnungen anfertigte.
(via digitalgallery.nypl & Nerdcore)

Das ist wirklich klasse, schon damals gab es so gute Teleskope und der Künstler hat seine Eindrücke perfekt nachgemalt.


Gravity Chairs made with Magnetism





Jólan van der Wiel macht „Gravity Chairs“, in dem er Plastik mit Eisenstaub vermengt und die Stuhlbeine mit Magneten hochzieht. The Gravity Stool thanks its unique shape to the cooperation between magnetic fields and the power of gravity. Departing from the idea that everything is influenced by gravitation, a force that has a strongly shaping effect, Jólan intended to manipulate this natural phenomenon by exploiting its own power: magnetism. The positioning of the magnetic fields in the machine, opposing each other, has largely determined the final shape of the Gravity Stool. It is the combination of the magnet machine with the plastic material, developed especially for this purpose, that enabled Jólan to start a small but efficient chain of production. The forms and products are characterized by the freakisch and organic shapes that are so typical of nature itself.
(via Nerdcore)

Wieder verschmelzen hier Kunst und Wissenschaft, herrlich magnetische Kunst


G̸̡͉̙̫̻̺̝͉̣̩͕͍̓͑̈̒̆̀ͅlitchr – Unicode-Art thru broken Website-Layouts



https://www.facebook.com/glitchr
http://glitchr.tumblr.com/
http://textozor.com/zalgo-text/

Laimonas Zakas macht Kunst, indem er Facebook, Tumblr und Google, per Unicode das Layout zerstört. Sehr schön! Sowas kann man mit dem Zalgo-Textgenerator übrigens relativ leicht selber machen, so zum Beispiel: Ïͣ͐̎ͥ ̊̓ͭ̎d͂̋ͣͨo̔̎̓ͪn͌ͥ’̀̊͂̅ṫ̽̎ͣ ͛wͨ̂̐̋a͋̊ͪ̇̊̓̚n̓n̅͂ͭ̅͌a͐ͩ͒ͨ ta͗̊̈ͫͩ͛lͭ͗̿kͯ̀̉̍ͥ ͦ̾̍t̒͂ͪ͐̿͒ȯ̀ͪ ͯ͂̍y̒͒ͤͮoͣ͊̂ǔ̂ͯ̇̓̆ ͑͐nͤ͑͆oͧ̌ͧ͂̽ͣ m̍̏ͧ̑ͨo͌̈́̍͑̓̏̂rͩ͊ȅ̃,ͤͭ ̈͌̅y̽ȍ̉̾͌ͩu͒̎̑̃ͪ̒ ͨ̆ͤ͑e͗m̂̑ͥͨ̓pͩ͆ͯtͧͦͪͬ̈͒y͐ͩ͗̓͗ͤ͗ ͨͦ̑ͦheͩ̏ͥ̆̀a̾de̓̽d̓̋̄ͨ a̓͒̅̆͗n͒ïͤ̎͗m͑̒ͧa̔̾ͤlͮͧͯ ̄ͯ̑f̓ͬͧ͗̄ͤoͯ͐od͊̌ͤͭ ̂̃͐́ͣͮtͨ͑̆̒ͯͥr̔ͣ̋̍͐o͆͌ͨ̿̊̂u̒̂̈́́͒g͒h̃͛̓ͧ́̑̔ ̒̋ͯͥwͯ̈́́i̔ͥp͊ͯ̏ͧ̉é̃͆r͛ͯ̉̏̃͊!̍̓͆͆̐͛ ͨͩ̄́ͬÌ͒͗͗ͨ ̊͗̽f̿å̎͗̈́͐r̄̉̍ͬͭ̊̾t iͣ͑̂̓̉n͆͆̌̿ ̏̾͗yo͌̓̐̽ͪͦu̐̏͗̃̒̏̂rͭ́̓̃̾̚ ̃g͑̆ͨ̑ë́ne͌r̈̎ͩ̚a͆͐̍ͥ̍̃̅lͩͭͧͩͯ͐ͩ ͛͌͑͂̃̏d͂̅̍ͮ̆̀i͑̌̐rēͮͣc͂̊̄t̽͋͌̋ͧ͂̑i̿͋̐͂öͥnͣͧ̾̍̐! ͣYͬ̂ͨ̍͗̏͗o̒ͧ͗ͫ̎̓û̃́ ̃͒̎̊̆̿̌m̎̈́ȍ̄̒̏̄͊tͥ̑ͫͩ̿̅h̋̈́̈́eͪ̆͊̏̾ͪ̚r̓̍ͣ ̍̍w̆̀a͒̔̍͐ͤ̑sͬ̏ aͫ͌͂̃̓ͣ ͂ͨ͐̈ͤ̓̅h͋͗a͂ͨm̿s̒͂ͪ͑̔̽t͗͗ͭͬ̾eͧr̈̃ ̓̒aͣ̓nd̈ ŷͣ̿̾͗ōͥͫͮ̂u͗r̋͂ͥ̔ͮ́͊ ͧͪ̂ͮ̇̚̚f̏ͯ͂̆̚̚aͩͯt̃̎hͭ̓͐e̿̽̊̀̈̇ͥȓ̅͐ͦͯ ś̀ͪ̓̅ͨ̒mͫ͂͆el͋t̎ ͥ͂͌̌͗ͫͬo͆ͩfͯͥ ̓ĕ̇ͩͯ̍̍ͧl̅̎̐̄ͯͦd̋ͫ͒ͨ̔̊̒e̋̆̐̋ř̈ͯͤ̋̚beͭ̿ṙͪ̏̾ͣͣri̇̑́ͥ̔eͧs͊̾ͣ!ͧ̀͊̿̚
(via Nerdcore)

E̸̟͈̭͇̼̳̯͛̔̎̕ï̠͙̤̪̭̫̹̫ͩ̓̈̒̃ͅn̙̰͓͓̞̣͗͋̾̔́f̷̶͚̪̲͚͈̻̓̌͋̌̉ͦȧ͙͓̍ͮ͛ͣ͘͝ĉ̝̼̖̘͓̖̒ͪͣ́̚h̶̷̲͚͈̰ͨͯ̏̀ ̇͆̈̀҉̷̸͚̤̤͈̝̜̗k̈́͛͂ͨ͏̛̗͇̗̬ͅl̸̰͓̯̳̲̽̉̅̑̌̚̚͢a̵̟͈͕ͤ͌̈͛̊̎ͥ͢ş͉̜͓̤̰͛̅͛sͣ̾͐͂̋̿͏̼̪̣̝̟͚̮̤͙́ḙ̠̥͚̈́̊͗͋̎,̨͔̭͖̱̓̋̑ͦ ̷͕̱̫̦̝̪͒̀̚ḅ̻̬̘̪ͣ̇̊͘ͅị̶̖̰̯̼̲̩͚̄̈͐̄̐́̕͟n̡͊̐̊͐ͫ̎͂ͥͅ ̸̴̖̘̙̣̝̦̦̲̂ͧͥ̈́s̥̹͙ͫ̂ͅc̜̖̩͉̪̤̞̏͒͂̓̿̒̅̆ͅh̸͍̺̟̫͌̒̆́͞ō̧͇͇̪̦̲ͧ̉ͤ͝n̢̪̙̪̓̑͑͒ ̛͓̦̲ͥ̒͌ͨͭ̀n̶͎̲̹̿ͩe̶̠̣̫̣̟̫ͤͣ͒͐͌̏͗̽̚ṅ̢̧̧̯̩͇̉ͤ͂̈̐͐̉ ̸̴̨̩̜͖ͩ̎̉p̝̼̣̄ͧ͑̋â̢͕̞ͬȃ̵͍̞̟r̹͕̤̘̫̞͍̦͖̔͊ ̴͇̱̟͙͙̼̃́ͥ́ͦ̚͝m̱̹̦̼̻̔̓͑a͉͖̹̤͍̟̭͍̅͗ͦ͗̎ͩͤ͑ͅļ̵̖̼̳̝̲̞̹̆̑̋̊ͦ ̨͔̤͕̹ͯ̍̊̊̐̋̆ü͊̓ͦ̔̽͘҉͕̬̯b̸̡̯̘͎̺͇̳͕͍ͤ̑ͣͨͥ̾̂ͦ̍ë́̔͐̈͛̇̽͊̈̕͏̥̺̦̮͇͕r͉͈̥͈ͥ̊͗ ͕̭̺ͧͫ͐̆̇ͬͪͥs̪̖̘͖̲͍͐ͥ͂͂͆́͐̊̔o͚͕̺̣͇̦͙̗̓͠l̆͂ͥ̓̄̔̓ͨ҉҉̬̠́c̥̥̈ḧ̹͊́͘e̶̱̐̒̈̌͂̀ ̨͖̖̠̠͕̼̊ͥ̈ͪ̾ͭ̀̓ͬ̕͠T̵̵̢̼̤̱̺̬͕͍̼͂̈̚e̡͈͉̫̬̜̓͒͘x̧̜̼̘̟̖̰̑̽̌t̨͉̩̜̪̘̭̘͐̑̾͌̑ͥẽ͈͙̽ ̶̗̋̚͡g̹̘̅͒̄̏̒̑̀e̸͇̞̦͆ͨ̿͛̏́s̻̻̤̱̼͎̱̐̄̊̌̒͌͠t̥͚̗̝̳̣́͛ͨ͛ͯ̉̇o̸ͦ̉͆͗҉̱̗l̼̭͚̮̊̃ͨ̓̒ͬͅp̨̹̹̲̣͚̺̄̓̃̌͛̚ͅë̷͚̳̹́͆̏ͩͪͬ́r͙͕ͧ̂̽̑ͪ̀̔͌̀t̨̼̹̤̲̬̋ͩ̄͂͊ͨ̉̂̕ͅ ̸͉̝̮͕̦͓̤̪̒̔͘͝x̴̸̡͈͈͙̙̐̋ͧ͋̌ͥͪ̄D̦̥̪͒̔ͤ


@Bwana Honolulu, dieses Bild ist über 1 Jahr belichtet worden? Das ist auch mal eine geniale Idee

Hihi, GUI-Art kennt man als Windows-User ja. Und schön, daß du Zalgo-Text verwendest, cRA!

Rainbow Gathering





















http://www.behance.net/gallery/Rainbow-Gathering/1193675

Benoit Paillé hat New School Hippies auf Rainbow Gatherings fotografiert: „Rainbow Gatherings are temporary intentional communities, typically held in outdoor settings, and espousing and practicing ideals of peace, love, harmony, freedom and community, as a consciously expressed alternative to mainstream popular culture, consumerism, capitalism and mass media.
(via Nerdcore)

Schöne Bilder, diese Treffen finden immer in sehr entlegenen Gegenden satt, so nen bissel wie "The Beach" ohne Massenauflauf, sehen wie sympathische Hippies aus, ein Begriff der heute leider nur negativ bei einigen nachklingt obwohl das durchaus ne positive Lebenseinstellung ist.


Painted abandoned Planes: The Boneyard Project



Für die Ausstellung „The Boneyard Project: Return Trip“ haben mehr als 30 Künstler alte, auf einem Flugzeugfriedhof vergammelnde Flugzeuge angemalt. Bilder davon gibt’s bei der Eric Firestone Gallery und bei The Flop Box.
(via Nerdcore)

The Lively Morgue: New York Times Photography-Archive on Tumblr



http://livelymorgue.tumblr.com/

Die New York Times bloggt seit neuestem ihr viele Millionen Bilder umfassendes Fotoarchiv „The Morgue“ auf Tumblr. Morgue heisst übersetzt Leichenhalle und der Ursprung des Namens liegt in der Zusammenlegung des Archivs mit dem Newsroom, wo das Fotoarchiv oft für Nachrufe gebraucht wurde.

How many? We don’t know. Our best guess is five million to six million prints and contact sheets (each sheet, of course, representing many discrete images) and 300,000 sacks of negatives, ranging in format size from 35 millimeter to 5 by 7 inches — at least 10 million frames in all. The picture archive also includes 13,500 DVDs, each storing about 4.7 gigabytes worth of imagery. When the Museum of Modern Art set out to exhibit the highlights of the Times archive in 1996, it dispatched four curators. They spent nine months poring over 3,000 subjects, working with two Times editors, one of whom spent a year on the project. In the end, they estimated that they’d seen only one-quarter of the total.

If we posted 10 new archival pictures every weekday on Tumblr, just from our print collection, we wouldn’t have the whole thing online until the year 3935.
(via Nerdcore)

Ha! und ich dachte ich hätte schon ein umfangreiches Bildarchiv xD
Aber ich bin auf das Wachstum dieser Sammlung gespannt, sind einige historische Aufnahmen dabei, die jedoch nie groß in der New York Times veröffentlicht wurden.


The Half-Graffiti Hotel-Room







http://cargocollective.com/bigaddict/Panic-Room

Einmal im Jahr lässt das Hotel Au Vieux Panier fünf Räume von Künstlern gestalten. Dieses Jahr haben Tilt, Grizz und Don Cho einen der Räume zur Hälfte knallbunt zugebombt und die andere Hälfte komplett weiß angestrichen. Fantastische Idee! Fotos gibt’s bei Roudet „Big Addict“ Benjamin.
(via Nerdcore)

Halbe Sachen in Sachen Anstrich in einem Hotel? Die Idee ist wieder klasse!