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New Photography / What Stormtroopers Do On Their Day Off
February 8, 2010 | New Photography | by Kira Heuer |
I guess having Darth Vader as your boss would compel you to spend your days off reflecting, making friends with Gizmo, having a jam session, and, of course, continuing your battle against the Jedi Council by sending hate mail to Mr. Skywalker himself. In another universe, I can’t help but wonder if the inspiration behind Jackass and Johny Knoxville’s deviant ways were inspired by these Stormtroopers’ antics. The hot dog with ketchup is a dead giveaway. Read more
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New Photography / Jeremy Edwards’ iPhone photography
February 6, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak 
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It’s incredible the vintage looks Jeremy Edwards can get using an iPhone and various photo apps. I wonder if they retain their convincing look when they’re blown up.
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New Photography / James Reynolds documents last meal requests
February 5, 2010 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
James Reynolds currently lives and works in London. He recently graduated from Kingston University studying Graphic Design. This series, Last Suppers, documents former Death Row prisoners’ requests for their last meal before execution. [see more photos at Feature Shoot] Read more
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New Photography / Thomas Straub
February 3, 2010 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
Paris-based Thomas Straub has worked as a photographer in advertising for the past fifteen years, with client including Piaget, De Beers, Yves Saint Laurent and Hennessy. Read more
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New Photography / Dido Fontana
February 2, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Sometimes composed, sometimes candid, Dido Fontana’s flash-heavy photographs seem on the surface to be a pastiche of the quasi-naturalistic style many photographers seem to be working in these days, but the humorous, gritty, and surreal way in which she portrays her subtly deviant subjects has more in common with John Waters’ celebration of trash than Dash Snow’s and Terry Richardson’s smarmy, self-congratulatory hipsterdom. Read more
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New Photography / Michael Paul Smith’s model car photography
February 1, 2010 | New Photography | by Zolton |
Look very closely, because what you’re seeing isn’t what you think it is. No. These photos are actually of miniature settings, all carefully constructed and photographed in all its exacting detail by Michael Paul Smith, as part of tiny snowy world he calls Elgin Park. Read more
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New Photography / Hipsters Have To Pee
January 29, 2010 | New Photography | by Andy |
We’ve noticed an overwhelming number of hipster kids being photographed in need of the bathroom. The usual traits are legs crossed, feet turned in, desperation in the eye and holding on tight. It looks like we’re not the only ones. Hipsters Have To Pee is a photo-blog documenting the hilarity. Read more
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New Photography / Discarded Dog Do Bags
January 27, 2010 | New Photography | by Zolton |
This series by photographer John Darwell ‘reflects on the nature of function and style and confronts the viewer with the (often unseen) contents of the bags, leading to a mixture of amusement, bemusement, curiosity and revulsion’. Indeed! Read more
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New Photography / Waldemar and Max
January 27, 2010 | New Photography | by Michelle Wilding |
I’m mesmerised by the work of Swedish photography duo Waldemar and Max. Nostalgic colour, thoughtful compositions and frozen subjects via timely slow shutter speeds are all wonderful techniques that shape their fashion photography. Waldemar and Max just shot the series Love in Vain for Fault Magazine this month. Read more
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New Photography / Irwin Barbe
January 21, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Is it just me, or are kids getting more sophisticated these days? 17-year-old photographer Irwin Barbe shoots stylish, moody photos of candid moments with his friends that while reminiscent of early work by Ryan McGinley and other Vice Magazine darlings, are impressive given Barbe’s age. Read more
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New Photography / Ansen Seale’s slit-scan photography
January 20, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Texas-based photographer Ansen Seale uses slit-scan photography, a process by which a panel with a slit is placed between the camera and the subject, to create his beautifully warped and abstracted images. No computers are involved. Read more
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New Photography / Nirrimi, 17 year-old Australian photographer
January 20, 2010 | New Photography | by Zolton |
Aussie wunderkid photographer, Nirrimi, is now represented by Look Management and is well on the way to becoming a true superstar in the field. I particularly love the muted colours in her work and the subtle sense of repressed energy which permeates her portrait photography. Read more
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New Photography / Alina Rudya
January 19, 2010 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
Alina Rudya is a photographer living and working in Kiev, Ukraine. Of this series, Soviet Women Dreaming of Future, she says, ‘The full name of this series of self-portraits is Soviet Peasant Woman Dreaming of her Bright Capitalistic Future. I was born in the era of Perestroika and didn’t live during Soviet era that much. Nevertheless, my image abroad, no mater how hard I try, is always impacted by my Soviet background. People are either joking or seriously think, that I’m different because I came from Ukraine. Even my foreign friends jokingly call me red or soviet. I love traveling and I feel myself very cosmopolitan. But every time I’m applying for a visa to travel to EU I feel myself as a Soviet peasant woman who wants to benefit from Western capitalistic wealth. So I created this series, because I wanted to show the stereotypical exaggerated view of me in the West’. Read more
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New Photography / Marton Schoeller’s female bodybuilders
January 15, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Some more shots from Marton Schoeller’s book of portraits, which aims to highlight the contrast between the extreme physiques of female bodybuilders and the vulnerability expressed through their eyes and nuanced facial expressions. Read more
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New Photography / Barry Underwood
January 13, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Barry Underwood bases his photographs on fleeting, site-specific, light-based installations he creates in the woods. The resulting images are spooky yet soothing. Read more
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The Nobody Was Thirsty project is a collaboration between Ivan Kane’s Café W as charity — water — and Australia’s own denim label, Nobody. The campaign aims to sell a signature, not-for-profit T-shirt, with all donations helping to fund the world’s water crisis. The sale of one T-shirt alone can provide two people in Africa with clean drinking water for twenty years, something the majority of us take for granted.
Greg Brotherton creates his sculptures by transforming such common-place objects as vacuum cleaners, mixers and cars, into fantastic interpretations of myth and imagination. With an innate sense of structure and balance, Brotherton crafts surprisingly organic shapes using steel, glass and wood. The strength and fluidity that dominates both his figurative and abstract work is dictated by the process and evolves from a subconscious mechanistic state. Read more
This odd, atmospheric animation by web artists Aaron Russ Clinger and Miltos Manetas is simple but effective, a finely rendered piece of interactive art. There are some pretty crazy things you can make the floating man do if you play around with this long enough.
Hailing from upstate New York, Phantogram were signed by the uber-hip Ghostly label on the recommendation of School of Seven Bells. Hardly surprising given Phantogram’s dark, beats-and-samples pop sound.
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French design dynamo Jean-Marie Massaud has created a Manned Cloud. A cruise airship with a hotel for 40 passengers and 15 staff, Massaud worked with the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherche Aérospatiale in this proposal. Read more
Films involving characters faced with an impossible choice never make easy viewing, an example being the Nick Cave Australian gem, The Proposition. A nightclub manager, played with understated power by Joaquin Phoenix, is the victim here, and you actually feel truly uncomfortable as his predicament unfolds. Set in the 1980s, We Own The Night shows a real nostalgia for that period — particularly in the costumes. Read more
Quiksilver, the surfing apparel company, has just released what is being considered the world’s first eco-friendly watch. Made of sustainable ebony wood and running on automatic movement instead of batteries, this limited-edition watch is green down to the shipping of the raw materials. Every raw material used in making this watch is recyclable (the aluminum, the steel, and the mineral crystal are all 100% recyclable), and it also includes solvent free links and is shipped by sea rather than by air. The Ray has a five-year warranty, meaning that it has a longer life than normal watches.
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Scanners’ new single Salvation
I love this track by London based rock group, Scanners, which is off their latest album, Submarine. Having toured with acts such as The Horrors, The Wedding Present, The Charlatans, Electric Six, and Juliette & The Licks, Scanners could well blow up in 2010. Figuratively speaking, not literally. No, that wouldn’t be fun.
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Check out Mike Stimpson’s Lego reinterpretations of classic photographs. Stimpson’s version of Malcolm Browne’s iconic 1963 photograph of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc is particularly twisted. Read more
Oslo artist Gry E.Pedersen blends digital artwork and photos, but her generally experimental artwork also includes more traditional forms of paintings. Read more
Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
These Prosperity earrings by Australian designer Karina Jean are cast in sterling silver, finished by hand and swing on hand-formed silver ear hooks. They are available for purchase through the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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