Lou Mora

San Diego-based photographer Lou Mora is "a firm believer that less is more", runs a worth seeing Blog and is winner of the 'GO INDIE photo contest' award.
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Photograph: © Lou Mora

Colgate dental ad

Don't forget to brush your teeth after enjoying ice cream!
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Jonathan Leder

Photographer Jonathan Leder was born and raised in New York City during the 1970s. On his website he presents breathtaking 35mm photography and polaroids.
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Photographs: © Jonathan Leder

Rony Alwin

Rony Alwin, born and raised in Los Angeles, is a 23-year old photographer who shot numerous celebs for magazines and advertising. The pictures above are from a fashion shooting and from Rony’s Polaroids. San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery will host the exhibition 'Rony’s Photoshow' this Saturday, February 28th, 2009.
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Photographs: © Rony Alwin

Martin Parr: 'everybody dance now'

"UK photographer Martin Parr has been photographing people dancing for decades, from places around the globe including brazil, china and dubai to name a few. In his travels he's documented dances from lively new year's eve parties to formal weddings capturing people from every age. In a new book 'everybody dance now' for '2wice' Parr has compiled a collection of his dance photos that he has taken over the past 35 years." (Text: designboom)
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Things I have learned in my life so far

Sagmeister Inc. is a graphic design company in New York City. Stefan Sagmeister started a project based on a list in his diary where he wrote down things he has learned in his life so far. For example, after running a charity project for homeless in NYC for three years, Sagmeister learned "Starting a charity is surprisingly easy, running a charity is surprisingly hard". There is also a book published, consisting of 15 unbound signatures in a laser-cut slipcase. For this project, Sagmeister won the Leadaward 2008.

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Thobias Fäldt

I love the strange photography of Sweden-based Thobias Fäldt. These two photos are from a series for the 2008 fashion issue of Vice Magazine. Brave jump...



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Photographs: © Thobias Fäldt

Huaxi City Centre

MAD is a Beijing-based architectural design studio dedicated to creating innovative projects. MAD recently organised a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. 11 young international architects were invited to carry out an urban experiment: to design the city centre of Huaxi. The architects invited by MAD included: Atelier Manferdini, BIG, Dieguez Fridman, Emergent/Tom Wiscombe, Houliang Architecture, JDS, MAD, Mass Studies, Rojkind Arquitectos, Serie, Sou Fujimoto architects. The masterplan was developed by Shanghai Tongji urban planning and design institute, Studio 6, together with MAD. The following visualisation of one of the proposed buildings is a design of argentinian architect Dieguez Fridman.



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Sam Bassett

A conceptual artist, filmmaker and photographer, Sam Bassett lives and works on the rooftop of The Chelsea Hotel in New York. Sam has filmed and photographed dozens of well-known personalities from sports and culture, the picture shows Daryl Crittenden, an actor with fire breathing as one of his special skills.
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Photograph: © Sam Bassett, Daryl Crittenden

Berlin Haushoch

Photos, illustrations, graphics and editorial articles are the means of the magazine Berlin Haushoch to deal in a lively way with one of Berlin’s districts at a time. The result is a subtle district portrait that skilfully embraces social and cultural aspects. The magazine, which started in 2005 as a free and independent not-for-profit project, has a circulation of 10,000. (Text: red dot)
Berlin Haushoch was awarded with the red dot design award, the Canon ProFashional Photo Award and the Art Directors Club Award. Edition #3 Charlottenburg will be available from Feb 20th.



The project Berlin Haushoch is created by the three young & talented Berlin designers Alexandra Bald, Ana Lessing and Esra Rotthoff, who studied Visual Communication at the UdK (Universität der Künste Berlin).

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Animalania

New York curator and photographer Aliya Naumoff has brought together a group of artists working in a range of disciplines from photography to sculpture with one common bond – a love of animals. 100% of the proceeds will go to benefit the ASPCA to help treat and care for animals in need. (Text: digitalheroine)
Andy Kehoe, Ricky Powell (work shown above), Dennis Mcnett, Nick Zinner, Kenzo Minami, Danielle Levitt, Tim Barber, Adam Wallacavage, Jeaneen Lund, Gordon Hull, AJ Fosik, Kenneth Cappello, Spike Jonze, Meryl Smith, Kristen Schaal, Hisham Bharoocha, Benjamin Bertocci, Scott Campbell, Derek Watson, Karen O, Robin Schwartz, and Ryan McGinley will all have works in 'Animalania' in New York’s Fuse Gallery.
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Photograph: © Ricky Powell, »Living Large in the Catskills«, Digital C-Print, 16" x 20"

Kibera photo graffiti project

JR is a 25-year-old Parisian (from Tunisian and Eastern European parents), living in a middle-class background. He describes himself as a graffiti artist, but started taking photographs when he found a camera on the Paris metro as a 17-year-old. He is now, in his own words, a hybrid 'photograffeur', who pastes enormous black-and-white photographic canvases of eyes and noses and mouths in various urban environments.
JR has just returned from Kenya, where he and his 10 unpaid assistants transformed Kibera, one of Africa’s biggest slums, into a vast exhibition space. They plastered the people's portraits on train carriages and on the roofs of their houses. (Text: designboom)
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Photograph: © JR, from the project '28 millimètres'

Tape Cassette Inserts

Inspiring collection of Tape Cassette Inserts from Flickr User Jubru.
Quite recently I've found my good old 1980s Fisher Walkman portable Stereo Cassette Player:



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Photographs: © Jubru / shotspot

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Found at Le Love, a wonderful blog "DEDICATED TO ROMANTIC, SWEET, LOVEY DOVEY, SEXY AND HEART FLUTTERING IMAGES."

Dripbook

Dripbook offers its worldwide community of professional visual artists an easy way to display, promote and distribute their portfolios online.
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Photograph: © Kevin Tachman, Behind the scenes at The Blonds Spring 09 Fashion Show

Siggi Eggertsson

Siggi Eggertsson, born 1984, is an illustrator from Iceland who studied at Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík and Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. After working in New York and London, he now lives and works in Berlin. His work is so amazing, that I agree with So-Me (a blogging Ed Banger dude) you won't find one work that isn’t good on his website. Just check out his Illustrations for the 2nd album of Gnarls Barkley, "The Odd Couple".
The above illustration "Plein Air was an idea that I got last year when I was living in Berlin. I wanted to modernize the working methods of the Impressionists, who took their canvases outside and painted what was in front of them. My idea was to take my computer outside, and draw what i saw. This image was drawn on top of a 12 floor building in Friedrichshain. The battery in my computer does not last for ever, so I had to do it in several turns. This is an ongoing project." (Siggi Eggertsson)
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Illustration: © Siggi Eggertsson, »Berlin, En Plein Air«, 2005

Taiji Matsue

"Taiji Matsue takes large format photos which he then studies and isolates particular scenes of people that interest him, scenes which he may not even have noticed at the time of taking the photo and only discovered upon examining the negative. Cell is a collection of these details cut out from the bigger picture." (cibone.com)
More photographs from the series 'Cell' at Cohen Amador Gallery.
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Photograph: © Taiji Matsue, »34OSA 2008«

Wall of Sound

Moses Nornberg from St. Louis, Missouri, creates large artworks by recycling turntables and other hi-fi components. 'The Audiophile Series' gained significant local and international press.
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TCHO chocolate

"How do you make a chocolate company? Be obsessed. Be very, very obsessed." TCHO is a new chocolate company from San Francisco with a focus on "obsessively good dark chocolate" and a Fair Trade background, founded by the experienced chocolatier Timothy Childs and the co-founder of Wired magazine, Louis Rossetto.
The Corporate Design was created by Susanna Dulkinys, Partner at Edenspiekermann in Berlin.

Valentine's day specials /// Related article from The New York Times

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Photograph: © TCHO

Tilt-Shift-Maker

"Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium format cameras. Miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model." (Wikipedia)
You can fake this with photoshop - or more easily with tiltshiftmaker.com. The above photograph of Zurich was processed on this website within a few seconds.
Photograph: © shotspot

Martin Parr: Luxury

Zurich gallery Nicola von Senger will host a Martin Parr exhibition from 07.02.09 to 21.03.09. A selection from his decadent series 'Luxury' will be shown, for more informations and pictures click here. UK-based Martin Parr is one of the most influential contemporary photographers and member of Magnum Photos.
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Photograph: © Martin Parr, Luxury England, Cambridge, C-Print 50.8 x 76.2 cm, 2005

Editor's Pic(k)s

Swiss picture agency Sodapix shows the collections from nine Photo Editors and Art Buyers, who picked their favourite pictures from the Sodapix picture pool. Have a look at these most interesting Editor's Pic(k)s:
- Nicole Aeby (Maz Department Head)
- Tres Camenzind (President vfg)
- Sonia Favre (Freelance Photo Editor)
- Gabriella Flury (Owner Gabriella Flury Advertising)
- Tom Kees (Art Director McCann Erickson)
- Nenad Kovačić (Designer and Co-Owner Raffinerie)
- Cara Anne Specker (Photo Media)
- Donovan Szypura (Creative and Producing at Heads)
- Andreas Wilhelm (Chief Photo Editor Das Magazin)

L.A. in Lausanne

This most comprehensive exhibition of photographs of Los Angeles 'This Side of Paradise: Los Angeles (1865-2008)' ('Le paradis, ou presque'), hosted by the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, shows the works from more than hundred photographers. Among well known pictures from Richard Avedon oder Edward Weston every generation of photographers is represented. Above image is from LeRoy Frank Grannis, a photographer specialised in surfing photography and founder of one of the most famous surfing magazines, 'The Surfer'.
The exhibition takes place from 31.01.09 to 19.04.09, click here for more informations.
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Photograph: © LeRoy Frank Grannis, Hermosa Beach Strand, 1967

Office 2000

"Office 2000 provides the stuff of an archeological dig: remnants of the inhabitants are evident through personal effects, humanizing the otherwise generic and mundane office environment." (Larry Glawson, photo artist from Winnipeg, Canada)
More photos of the inspiring C-prints series 'Office 2000' from Swiss photographer Thomas Kneubuhler, who lives and workes in Montréal, Canada, can be found here.
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Photograph: © Thomas Kneubuhler, »untitled#8«, 108 x 152 cm, 2004

Sasha Nikitin

Sasha Nikitin is a Russian photographer who takes beautiful pictures with soft lighting. Have a look at Sashas photos on his website or on flickr.
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Photograph: © Sasha Nikitin