Thursday, October 29, 2009
source book seven: blog lifting
>>archidose.blogspot.com<<
Watch out for robots who build brick walls:
>>safety sticker on side of robot/ photo by archidose
The wall the robot was building -- an aggregate brick wall for a pedestrian area called the Pike Loop.
An MIT Project tracking the movement of post-consumer waste. We all know where trash usually goes -- the dumpster. But do you usually think of how far that trash travels from the trash can?
Patterson Beckwith's "Portrait Studio." I thought this was interesting because at least in Monterey Park,CA there has been a phenomena with silly photo booth stores like Cue! where you can take photos with different digital backgrounds and mess with them.
From Bettina Pousttchi's, Takeoff series, taken at airports
Marjolijn Dijkman's The Free World, 2009.
Excerpt from the blog:
"Marjolijn dijkman's project 'the free world' explores "the so called ‘ghosthotel’ in the vrijbroekspark in mechelen, belgium. originally intended as a grand urban vision for the provincial city of mechelen, this ruin has become fossilized, a failed utopia in the middle of a nature reserve. due to too high speculation and constructive problems (literally built upon mud) the construction has never been completed. besides a kind of virtual archeologic reconstruction of a never completed building, this work is also a speculation on the current broader issue of abandoned building projects around the world and possible future scenarios to come."
Monika-Sziladi, from The Aquarium series. "On the effort but inability of people to connect."
Sunday, October 25, 2009
source book six: photos emulating paintings
Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away
Richard Stites, Lone Commuter
Selden I. Davis, Pittsburghesque
George Seeley, Black Bowl
Robert Demachy, Speed
Laure Albin-Guillot, Versailles
Leonard Missone, Sortie de Gare
John Staples, Dawn
Doris Ulmann, Nets and Boats
Alfred Stieglitz, Miss S.R.
source book five: emulation artists
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Coburn used a soft focus lens and liked to shoot from high vantage points. The soft focus lens allowed him to blur edges in his pictures. This soft, romantic effect in his architectural photographs led the way to Pictorialism in photography, an attempt to mimic Impressionist paintings of the time.
Werner Mantz
Mantz was a relatively unknown in the sphere of artistic photography, finding his niche shooting photographs for architectural firms. He is noted for his dramatic use of shadows in his works.
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