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Now imagine having this in Photoshop!
UPDATE: Adobe Hires Co-Inventer of Image Resizer Technology
ANOTHER UPDATE: Some Patrick Swieskowski builds his own prototype of this scaling technology that you can try with your own picures.
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Julia Fullerton-Batten is a photographer who creates compelling images from the seemingly mundane. The old woman in the washroom. The school girls in a playground. The house of cards on a table. They all take on an unreal quality that just sucked me in. They’re sophisticated paintings of light and quite beautiful to sit and look at. The visual depth she puts into her images make them seem like stolen moments. Julia has shown her work in The National Portrait Gallery in London and the work must be quite something to see in person.
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Michael Wolf takes 100 room portraits of Hong Kong residents living in 103 boxes. Some of them live sparsely, others (god help them) are pack rats.
Thanks to Cool Hunting for the link.
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In advertising you sometimes get briefs that say things like: “it’s for everyone, it’s made up of all of us”, “there is tremendous range (and we want it all in one print ad)”, “we want to express diversity and cohesion”. For literal clients who want the strategy as the ad and lazy creatives the traditional fall back is the mosiac. “You see,” say I to the client, “this execution shows the COLLECTIVE of INDIVIDUALS who embody the SPIRIT of your brand and product and they all UNIFY to show your MARK 3 PHOTOCOPIER.”
Client buys it. I feel dirty.
No longer.
The mosaic option is now so easy for anybody to make that it has become a standard web tool. This makes me very happy, the mosaic as mediocre solution to stupid brief is officially DEAD.
Go here, make mosaics of puppies, kittens and your naked self until the end times.
ps. I never noticed until now how Maoist most company strategies are.
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Daniela Edburg has created a stunningly detailed series of photographs she calls Drop Dead Gorgeous. View a selection at The Morning News, and read the interview below the pics. Any traditional advertiser would shy away from depicting their consumers binging and dying from their products, but in truth, this shot makes me want to buy a bag of Oreos…
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The last sign before the impending apocalypse is upon us. I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER has become the most popular blog on Wordpress. Described as “lolcats tagged for your convenience (also for your lol*’s)”, this sight delivers user submitted pictures of their pets (usually cats) with ludicrous captions that are a mash-up of leetspeak, SMS, and bad english. They are supposed to be funny.
Here is the picture that started it all, followed by a few fan favourites (you can vote via cheezburger on each individual pic).
Not to be outdone, I snapped a few pix of my favourite LolCat, Sabine. Using the crazy and ridiculous online application LolCats Buildr I easily uploaded, captioned, and submitted my entry in less time than it takes to say “CHEEZ”. See my fat cat below. I’ll let you know if she makes the cut…
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I remember the scene in Forest Gump where Forest meets the President of the USA. He shakes hands, moves around the room and has his picture taken. It was probably one of the most technically difficult shots in the film. American Idol have done that, live, in 3D, in front of an audience, BETTER. I looked at this film twice and I’m still very impressed. It’s a tech masterpiece.
Now that’s entertainment.
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Thanks to Robyn for this awesome find.
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Advertising is dead. Long live advertising.
The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold. In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two.
The ad generator was created by Alexis Lloyd as a component of an MFA thesis project in the Design and Technology department at Parsons The New School for Design.
Here are 4 ads I made in about 4 seconds. The ads become hypnotic after a while, and you begin to feel giddy and lightheaded. I had to turn it off after about 85 minutes…
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cold_elf wants you to share pretty things you’ve made at The Bruise.
the bruise is a magazine.
the bruise = sound + image + word.
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the bruise seeks your input.
the bruise will never hurt.
the bruise believes in art as a powerful and unifying tool for mutual support.The Bruise is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research and production environment that will explore the intersections between art, sound, interactivity, intermedia and virtual space. The Bruise is your friendly contusion, your fibrous abundant quota. We go 50-50 with you. We seek to share, support and exchange ideas, images, sounds in the spirit of the FREE CULTURE - The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a top-down, closed, proprietary structure. A good example is the current “open source” development. What is posted on The Bruise will never be for sale or valued monetarily within the planned economy. The Bruise wants your to participate and help establish in a different paradigm - New World Economy, one that supports the nurturing of a sustainable ecology, human rights, and a culture not rooted in domination, egotism, and competition.
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Go view Jill Greenberg’s photographs now.
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