The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read. These essays form the bulk of what has … Read More →
Category Archives: Other Artists
AltF
File this one under “Things I never thought I’d see done with wedding photography: AltF, scroll to the bottom for some fantastic photos set aboard mechanical monstrosities.
Frieke Janssens
Frieke Janssens is another photographer who produces amazing, slightly surreal, work that is well worth looking at. Add this to the list of my inspirations. Check out her personal work, as well as the pre-production materials she shows. She has managed to create a career, … Read More →
Wear a (trendy) low-cut blouse
I’ve become a podcast fanatic. In Episode 12 of Focus Ring, there is a really interesting conversation about the McNugget-style layout of image sharing sites like Flickr and Deviant Art: namely, every image is presented to you as a thumbnail before you can find the … Read More →
Thoughts on Photography
Episode 18 of Paul Giguere’s excellent podcast, Thoughts on Photography, does a great job of summarizing the primary points to consider when writing an Artist Statement or a Project Statement. Even better, he concisely explains the difference between the two. I’ve been listening to Paul’s … Read More →
Dave Nitsche Conceptual | Fine Art Photography
I discovered the truly breathing-taking work of Dave Nitsche through the course he is offering at The Picture Perfect School of Photography, which is titled Conceptual Photography. The course Dave is offering is precisely the sort of subject matter which I feel does not get … Read More →
Painted Alive – The Fine Art Body Painting of Craig Tracy
Painted Alive – The Fine Art Body Painting of Craig Tracy My friends, Dawn and Joel of Moonhowler Productions stumbled across an exhibition led by Craig Tracy on their way back from Hong Kong. D&J landed in Florida with the rest of the American staff … Read More →
Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda Book
I recently had the good fortune of catching a talk by Doug Menuez, a photojournalist currently touring to promote his new book, Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda. I was already familiar with two of his previous works. Heaven, Earth, Tequila documents his quest to … Read More →
Vue Tutorials from Geekatplay(tm) Studio
In my quest to teach myself 3D Rendering, I discovered the Vue Tutorials from Geekatplaytm Studio, totally free video tutorials. They do charge a (very reasonable, in my experience) fee to purchase the content used in the tutorials. Since they are primarily creating these tutorials … Read More →
Liquid Sculpture – Water Drops
Liquid Sculpture – Water Drops by photographer Martin Waugh (Martin actually describes himself as “Father, engineer, artist”) Discovered while trying to figure out how Chili’s menus get those amazing splash effects in their drink menus. Much thanks to Jeff Callen for giving me the 411. … Read More →
Kim Kamens
Three-D artist Kim Kamens reproduces photographs using nails and thread. It’s pretty amazing stuff, and online images hardly do her work justice.