John Baldessari Sings Sol Lewit

John Baldessari's show "Pure Beauty" is at the Met in New York right now. Here he is in 1975 singing Sol Lewitt's "sentences."

Peter Garfield's Moblie Homes

No photoshop involved, but interesting images nonetheless.

http://www.bertmonroy.com/

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli is a painter who collages together magazine images, pills, leaves and other found objects to create stunning geometric images. His work is concerned with mystical experience, rock music, natural history and personal experience, among other things.

His gallery has some images to see.

He currently has a show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Here's an interview he did with Philip Taffe.

His reworkings of New York Times covers are particular favorites of mine.

Sol Lewitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art

Read them here.

Pastor to church leaders: Get off Facebook or step down

Story from APP.com. Read it here.

Noah Kalina

Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day since 2000.

Peter Freitag

He's not the only one to artfully remove nudes from photographs, but the collages in Peter Freitag's Private Stages playfully reveal the process and the hand of the artist in these interesting and beautiful pictures.

Ansen Seale's slit-scan camera pictures

Ansen Seale uses a slit-scan camera to capture these strange images. These are not manipulated digitally or on a scanner, but rather his camera repeatedly captures a single column of pixels displays them side-by-side. What you end up with is a record of what moves through the vertical slice of the camera. Interestingly, non-moving parts of the image are rendered as static horizontal bars. Only the moving objects make any discernible image, the opposite of how we normally think of photography.  

From his statement on the Temporal series:

Mark Hosler of Negativland

If you're interested, here's Mark Hosler of Negativland talking about some of his experiences with the band over the last thirty years. 

Ashes in the Night Sky

Bill McDowell's Ashes in the Night Sky uses the scanner as camera to create beautiful and ethereal images.

from his statement:

Derek Brueckner

Derek Brueckner manipulates bits of digital images to create expansive repeating cell-like structures. Take a look at his images.

From his statement:

Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain

Next week's reading can be downloaded from here as a pdf.

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is a Brazilian-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Much of his work is done by drawing with various (non-paint) materials such as chocolate syrup, caviar, diamonds, junk, earthworks and beans (seen above) and exhibiting photographs of the results.

Says Wikipedia: "His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved visual puns and jokes."

Here are his website, Wikipedia page and Ted Talk.

Sebastiaan Bremer

Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer creates his works by drawing and painting on photographic images. 

From Wikipedia:

"Bremer turns photographs, found or snapped, of himself and his family into trippy, dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of an eye. He invents a poetic braille made up of text, personal symbols and ghostly shapes that, when integrated with their complex grounds, disappear again, buried in a sea of suspended dots. By slowly and laboriously painting on top of quickly taken snapshots, Bremer slows down time to render a hauntingly beautiful interior landscape."

eBoy uses isometric projection, just like in old 8-bit video games

For those of you interested in the peculiar geometry of the isometric projections used in eBoy's pictures, here are a couple pages from Wikipedia that discuss the various types of perspective that allow them to move around modular buildings to any place in their pictures.

Graphical Projection
Isometric Projection

Sovietskya Photoshop circa 1987

Of course it's not actually Photoshop, but this Russian computer program did some of the same things that Photoshop does.

Found on Boing Boing:

Lola Dupre

Like a post-post-modern woman, Lola Dupre is doing it the hard way. Check out her non-digital photomontages here.

eboy

eboy is a pixel art group founded by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital in 1997.
"eboy" (meaning- "godfather of pixels")

They show expressions of their childhood. pop culture. shopping. TV. toycomercials.

They have a famous london poster....CHECK IT OUT


http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/

Create a "red filter" effect in Photoshop.

Original Photo. 

Photo converted to Grayscale, using Mode.

Simulated "red filter" using Channel Mixer, values: Red +150, Blue -25, Green -25.

Class Flickr Page

Now we have a class Flickr page, here. 

Check your email for login information.

Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell's pictures deal with issues of gender roles and identity by using a single model to portray different characters set in various domestic situations. She uses Photoshop layer masking techniques to make these simple but often lovely scenes.

From her statement: 

These images were created from scanning and manipulating two or more negatives in Adobe Photoshop.  Using the computer as a tool to create a “believable” situation is not that different from accepting any photograph as an object of truth, or by creating a story about two people seen laughing, making-out, or quarreling in a restaurant. These photographs reconstruct the private relationships that I have experienced personally, witnessed in public, or watched on television.  The events portrayed in these photographs look believable, yet have never occurred.  By digitally creating a photograph that is a composite of multiple negatives of the same model in one setting, the self is exposed as not a solidified being in reality, but as a representation of social and interior investigations that happen within the mind.

This work represents an autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of  the self in intimate relationships. Polarities of identity such as the masculine and feminine psyche, the irrational and rational self, the exterior and interior self, the motivated and resigned self are portrayed.  By combining multiple photographic negatives of the same model in each image, the dualities of the self are defined by body language and clothing worn. This work is an honest representation of the duality or multiplicity of the self in regards to decisions about intimate relationships, family, belief systems and lifestyle options.

The importance of these images lies in the representation of interior dilemmas portrayed as an external object - a photograph.  Through these images the audience is presented with “constructed realities”.  I am interested in not only what the subject matter says about myself, but also what the viewers response to these images says about their own identities and social constructs.

- Kelli Connell

Photoshopping Beauty

Along the lines of Pascal's work... check out this video!

Air Sculpture!

San Francisco born artist Tim Hawkinson created this amazing installation known as the Überorgan. In a nutshell, it is a stadium sized fully operating bagpipe with a light-sensitive keyboard/decoder and a 250-foot long scroll that plays various pop songs, traditional hymns and improvisational tunes. Listen to this incredible instrument here!

Miranda Lichtenstein

In her Danbury Road series, Miranda Lichtenstein looks at suburban Connecticut houses, shot at night. The  pictures have a luminous beauty, and often evoke a sense of spooky discomfort. Many series of her work can be seen at her site, as well as some additional work here.

Pascal Dangin Article

Here is a link to an article about photoretoucher Pascal Dangin, from the New Yorker Magazine.

The Power of Photoshop

"...Al-Ahram! Egypt's state-run and largest newspaper, whose editors weren't happy to see their Big Boss—President Hosni Mubarak—in the last place of this photo at the White House. Thankfully, Photoshop made him win the race, even beating President Obama."


Story from Gizmodo.

Bill McDowell

Bill McDowell's photographs have a quiet poignancy and humor.

Jonathan Harris at Firehouse Gallery

Johnathan Harris is an artist who blurs the lines between anthropology, software development, complex systems analysis and Storytelling.

He is showing right now at the Firehouse Gallery, downtown Burlington.

Here is the talk he gave at the TED Conference:

Jason Salavon

Jason Salavon is a conceptual artist currently living and working in Chicago. He often uses an "averaging" technique to present an image made of many similar images. His work is involved with "...working around art, information technology and daily life."

Here is the link for Class of 1988 Men, seen above.

Takashi Murakami at the Palace of Versailles

Takashi Murakami has mounted an exhibition of his works at Versailles. Here is the story from the Guardian. 

The show seems to have been fairly well received, although there has been some controversy.

Murakami uses the flattened imagery of Manga and other graphic works to critique the shallowness of Japanese culture in a style he calls Superflat. 

Matt Siber

Matt Siber is a conceptual artist who uses photography and Photoshop to do his work, among other things. Two series of his pictures, featuring floating logos can be found here and here. 


From the artist's statement:

Inspired by the proliferation of very tall signs in the American Mid-West, Floating Logos seeks to draw attention to this often overlooked form of advertising.  Perched atop very tall poles or stanchions, these corporate beacons emit their message by looming over us in their glowing, plastic perfection.  Elimination of the support structure in the photographs allows the signs to literally float above the earth.

Making the signs appear to float not only draws attention to this type of signage but also gives them, and the companies that put them there, an otherworldly quality.  References can be drawn to religious iconography, the supernatural, popular notions of extraterrestrials, or science fiction films such as Blade Runner.  Each of these references refer to something that can profoundly affect our lives yet is just beyond our control and comprehension.

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Someone named Trevor Morris has compiled a list of Photoshop Keyboard shortcuts for you to download here.

University Declares A Week Without Social Media

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology has banned all social media sites this week.

Self-Portraits in 576 Pixels

Reply to All Project: Second Proof

The Making of a Macworld Cover

Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.

Sea Nymph, a nautically-themed event at Machine Project

Sea Nymph

Live stream from the Mast Cam

Reply to All project: First Proof

Henry Peach Robinson

WIkipedia entry for Henry Peach Robinson
Another short biography of HPR.

The Machine That Changed the World, part I

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Video here and here.

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