"Revolution of our Times" is a photo exhibition containing images "tragic, and beautiful" of the Hong Kong protests which had the world's attention in the Fall of 2019. For months there were protests, shutdowns, marches, violence, chanting, infiltrations. And lots of video and photo journalism. Here is an article about the exhibition visiting Vancouver, and here is the link to the project.
Only 3 colours, but it's not Red, Yellow, Blue. It's Cyan, Magenta, Yellow (and Black). Original source video on instagram here. Fantasy Author Jim C. Hines writes this on his website: (which has more examples):
"In January of 2012, I decided that I wanted to talk about science fiction and fantasy cover art, particularly the ways women were portrayed. At first, I thought about writing a long blog post, talking about how saturated we were with imagery that emphasized women as sexual objects at the expense of power, agency, realism, and so on.Then I decided there might be a more effective way to encourage discussion. With assistance and surprisingly little eye-rolling or laughter from my wife, I contorted myself into the poses of women on various SF/F covers. Things snowballed from there. I did several follow-up photoshoots, ran a cover-posing fundraiser, and was even honored with a Hugo award that year." UK street artist Slinkachu has been photographing tiny figurines he remodels, paints, and sets up in big cities around the world. Close up shots of tiny objects like these are called "macro" shots (the flower setting on the camera dial is optimized for these). His blog with more of his work is here. In his own words: "The 'Little People Project' started in 2006. It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place, photograph and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project. The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works. How excited am I for The Hobbit movie that's being made? As about excited as those mustaches are awesome. The makeup and costumes look incredible. More released promotional photos here.
The Hobbit was one of my favourite books as a kid, a few years ago I tracked down the exact version I read in my elementary school library, because those pictures were the best. I'm curious what Smaug the dragon will look like if the dwarves look this good. Because yearbook became an actual class this year, it was possible to get more organized. The editors focused on having some design themes that run through the whole book, unifying it. (In the past this was more difficult as every staff member was working on their own spread on their own time.) The design choices included: - a picture 'bar' running along the bottom of every page. - every page background clean white. - 1 large 2-page photo spread for section title pages. - same font choice and size for all headlines and paragraphs. - not putting names on all the photos, using an index instead. Those of you taking the class next year, start thinking in the back of your head about design and layouts ideas. If you're not in the class but still want to work on it, we'll still take you. We'll be having a weekly meeting time one day at lunch next year. And we'll always take good pictures. And I'll steal them from the Media Arts class. And if you're good with photoshop, maybe you can make the cover. This artist showed her drawings and how they evolved from age 13-20. Click link to see the whole progression. This reminds me of the book "Outliers" by Martin Gladwell, which suggests that becoming a master of anything depends only on 10 000 hours of time working on it, and there are no shortcuts. Whether it's a hockey player, a musician, a computer programmer, anything. Really interesting book. I love books. I have a collection of really old books picked up in Europe, etc. Nothing captures the vibe of why I like books more than a beautiful bookstore. It's about a feeling. Serenity, noble, adventurous, and mint-filled. Anyway, these are neatly designed. A list of "The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores" from Flavorwire.
I'm not a fan of mindless tagging or destructive graffiti. However, this stuff seems different, like art. I'm not going to try to explain the difference, because as I try I feel I'm coming up short. My favourite of the ones below is probably the statue, because at first you don't get it and then there's an AHA moment. I love those moments when understanding slides into place.
The most famous graffiti artist in the world is Banksy, in England. I have a book of his in the classroom, ask me if you want to see it. The photographer and the kids below look like his kind of stuff. 2 French photographers have used photographs to document ruins in Detroit, which has been hit very hard during the recession. Theatres, hotels, houses, schools, police stations, etc. They've got a website to showcase their work. They've also come out with a book. Here's the blurb: 'The Ruins of Detroit - by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre Over the past generation Detroit has suffered economically worse than any other of the major American cities and its rampant urban decay is now glaringly apparent during this current recession. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre documented this disintegration, showcasing structures that were formerly a source of civic pride, and which now stand as monuments to the city’s fall from grace. “Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension. The state of ruin is temporary by nature, the volatile result of the end of an era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time: being dismayed, or admiring, wondering about the permanence of things. Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.”' |
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