Lomography Notebook

Posted on February 22, 2007 Under Books

Lomography is a photography term: it's the casual, snap-shot method of taking photos used to document daily life. The Lomographic Society International has just released a Lomography Notebook that serves as a great companion to your camera. Even if you…

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Denis Darzacq: La Chute

Posted on February 19, 2007 Under Art

French artist Denis Darzacq's La Chute work is unnerving, unique and fascinating. My French is rusty so the only translation I could find explains his work as somewhere between the take off and the fall-- where the social elevator is…

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Sleepyurbanite: Sleepy Subway Art

Posted on February 12, 2007 Under Art

Feeling a little drowsy myself on this overcast Monday morning, I felt compelled to share with you the impromptu art of Yvonne Doll. Yvonne is an indie musician and artist from Chicago, who has found a unique art niche-- inspired…

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MemoryMiner: Web 2.0 Wizardry

Posted on February 7, 2007 Under Life

MemoryMiner won the Macworld 2006 Best of Show Award-- that fact alone should tell you something about its Web 2.0 prowess. Without going into too much detail (chuckle chuckle), MemoryMiner is a Digital Storytelling application used to discover the threads…

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Christoph Schmidberger on pHytonics

Posted on February 6, 2007 Under Art

"pHy"¢ton"¢ics 'fi-tä-niks n [NE, fr. pH] 1 : the presentation of the smallest portion of a body of work that when excised may grow into an entity of its own 2 : an online forum for images, ideas, and a…

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Humble Voice: Artist to Artist Community

Posted on February 1, 2007 Under Life

"Awww yeah. You found Humble Voice." This is the message that greets you when you visit Humble Voice, a new kind of peer to peer network -- or shall I say, artist to artist network -- that really gets who…

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D+G Fashion Album

Posted on February 1, 2007 Under Books

In the fashion world, photography is everything. Photos convey the arty and sometimes blurry language of fashion into something seductive and clear to the average eye. The Dolce & Gabbana Fashion Album is a large format (heavy) book that documents…

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Red Bull Illume: Aspen

Posted on January 29, 2007 Under Art

From January 25th to February 4th, the Little Nell run on Aspen Mountain is the place to go to see the creme de la creme of action sports photography. Red Bull Illume is a photography contest that puts the top…

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Jose Parla Cityscapes: The Book

Posted on January 17, 2007 Under Books

I'm still buzzing about my recent art purchase-- a gorgeous Jose Parla watercolor I fell in love with at the Cityscapes exhibit we covered during Art Basel in Miami (recap here). I almost forgot to mention I picked up a…

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Reykjavik Map Books

Posted on January 10, 2007 Under Art

Reykjavik is a new book concept from Scintilla Limited, created by artist, photographer and dreamer Ami Sioux. The concept for the book was originally born in East Berlin where Ami had been living-- she noticed that on a number of…

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