Phillip Toledano: Days With My Father

Posted on July 23, 2008 Under Art

Photographers can sometimes try to hard to imbue their photos meaning. Not Phillip Toledano. Though he has previously produced series on a number of different subjects -- phone sex, video gamers, the Arctic -- his latest is a very personal…

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The World Clock Project

Posted on July 22, 2008 Under Life

It isn't exactly clock day at JoshSpear.com (see the review of San Francisco's Clock Bar from earlier), but we need to update you about The World Clock Project. Launched earlier this year by the guys at Iridesco, this fun project…

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Liz Wolfe Relaunch

Posted on July 17, 2008 Under Art

Anytime photographer Liz Wolfe releases new work, you know it's going to be a good day. But when she revamps her website and launches a new online store, that's even better. We've had our eye on Wolfe for a while.…

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Light Photography x Alan Jaras

Posted on July 10, 2008 Under Art

We've all had these moments -- you're a little tired or jetlagged, and a trance of light reflecting through a plastic container captures your attention for 10 minutes at a café. Most of us snap out of it and realize…

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Lina Scheynius

Posted on July 3, 2008 Under Art

Lina Scheynius has the second simplest website I've seen this week (the first being here). But the design's simplicity puts her beautiful series of photographs front and center. Aside from the technical aspects of using fuzzy images that interlace light…

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Alexandre Orion Book and Hand Cut Art

Posted on June 24, 2008 Under Books

We've talked about Alexandre Orion when he released his first book about his concept of Metabiotics "” interaction between his street paintings and the photographs taken of them. A year and a half later the Wooster Special Edition project is…

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Staple Design x LOMO

Posted on June 19, 2008 Under Art

We've talked about the lomography; the ultra low-tech return to photography, but the great thing about lomography is the community of users. People come together and make amazingly creative projects with these little plastic cameras. The Staple Design group has…

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PUMA x Atmos x Mitsuaki Iwago

Posted on June 18, 2008 Under Fashion

Disclaimer: no polar bears or snow leopards were harmed during the creation of these shoes... National Geographic imagery meets sneaker design in this collaboration between PUMA, Atmos NYC, and Japanese photographer Mitsuaki Iwago. Through two releases-- the Polar Pack and…

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Blaize Simon on Calvert Avenue

Posted on June 17, 2008 Under Art

At the end of their careers, Musicians usually get a best-of record; artists get some wall space in a museum. Well Blaize Simon isn't going out like that-- he has organized an entire section of street in London to display…

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Topshop + Newton Machine

Posted on June 16, 2008 Under Fashion

The international women's fashion retailer Topshop has tapped the legacy of famed fashion photog Helmut Newton to recreate the camera for which Newton became known in the 70's. The Newton Machine is basically Newton's self-timed camera with a mirror next…

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