C215 has a new piece up in Paris, photos here… I think I may add a few of these street art locations to my itinerary the next time I’m in Paris.
How to deconstruct an image
Great article on deconstructing the photography of Alfred Eisenstaedt (you probably know The Ballerinas and the VJ Kiss). The author does a great job listing the elements of composition and the basics of “reading” the narrative of an image using famous photographs by Eisenstaedt. Click here for a great article! Read the article and then deconstruct the photography of people like Cartier-Bresson or artists like Degas.
Not much to say…
A friend sent me this image from The Illuminator, a group that rose from the Occupy movement.
Very inspiring in light of the events at the Boston Marathon yesterday.
Peace.
GeoFlow
A very interesting story about Microsoft’s new Excel integrated geomapping technology here. This software will allow Excel users to visualize geographic and chronological data in 3D. Data visualization is about to become much easier to do!
da Vinci’s Demons
I just finished watching episode 1 of the Starz series da Vinci’s Demons. It is a drama set in Renaissance Florence. It’s got Medici intrigue and some (potentially) good characters. The young Leonardo is presented as a revolutionary, always prepared to challenge the powers that be. It has some very interesting (again, potentially, since I have only watched the one episode) story lines of a subterranean Hermetic culture that could challenge the power base of the corrupt Vatican and its Pope.
I am, however, pissed that I cannot get the accompanying iPad app since it is only available in the United States. I sure wish that someone would invent some technology that would allow for instant access of data across the world. They could call it, oh, I don’t know, the Internet? You’re welcome.
and finally, some sculpture
Some ceramics
My first digital image with my Olympus 4/3
From 2007 in the Market. And this was done with my Olympus E-410. I am still tracking down images from my 2.1 megapixel camera so technically not my first photo taken with a digital camera.
My first tilt-shift photos
I was at the airport leaving for Vancouver (2007, I think) and I had seen the technique done with a tilt-shift lens and I tried to emulate the effect in Photoshop.
Going through old photos
