Paul Kenny

I 'stole' the below text (if anything can be stolen on the internet) from 500 photographers. Paul Kenny's work is highly interesting to me on varying levels, including but not excluded to the similarities of what I was doing (and how he did it better) when I was working with dyeing and abusing sheets of film:

Paul Kenny, Great-Britain, 1951, makes photographs that are bright in color and mysterious. One has to look twice before noticing what the viewer is looking at. Kenny gathers materials from the beach and takes them to his studio. He arranges the "insignificant things" like dried seawater, plastic fragments, seaweed and beer can bottoms to get his final result. The following images come from the series Mull Works,Seaworks 3 and Seaworks 1.

frankenlens

102 year old lens on a 5DmkII

Kendall Messick and Gordon Brinckle, a kind of collaboration.

Beautiful photograph by Kendall Messick of the late, Gordon Brinckle, who built this home theatre, the Shalimar Theatre, in his basement after years of working as a projectionist in movie theaters and in the army. 

The artists Kendall Messick has put together both a book and a documentary (titled The Projectionist) about Brinckle, over the course of many years. Both are just now starting to get attention. 

The story Brinckle has to tell is incredibly fascinating and as far as I can see, Kendall Messick seems to have captured it well. The photographs alone are light hearted and corky as well as visually pleasing.  I've ordered the book and dvd for an assignment at school and can't wait to dig in! 

Hope these bring a smile to some of you too!

The Projectionist Website

A New York Times Article

Great Article From Feature Shoot

Article about Kendall Messick's work touring with Brinckle's theatre as an installation.

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Taryn Simon

Guinea pigs, Ecuador (prohibited)

One of my favorite photographers, Taryn Simon, has some new work out. Some of you might remember her for her work (and book) An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar in which she explored sites in the United States that usually are hidden behind closed doors and accessible only to those with either rank or privilege.

Her new work, Contraband, deals with items seized at the U.S. border, and it's pretty fascinating seeing what people have attempted to bring over. FeatureShoot did a really nice write-up on the new series, with images, you all should check out.


Taryn Simon - FeatureShoot

Zbrush Flashlight

Over the last two weeks I been working on trying to recreating a flashlight by using Zbrush. Most of the shape was made out of a cylinder that I just extracted. My goal for this little project was to recreate a real life object and make it as realistic was passable.

I am hope if I master this skill then I can place these object into photo were it is hard to figure out what is real and what is fake.

I think this flashlight need a little more work but it is very close to the original flashlight. To me it seems a little to shiny, and the paint job needs to be more dull in color or a little less reflective.

Please leave comments on what you think.

iPad Light Painting

This is a pretty cool use of technology and light to make a stop motion animation:

http://vimeo.com/14958082