Photographer Vic Blue made this documentary on a man preparing himself for the outside life after having been in prison for over ten long years. The short film is exquisitely shot and prisoner Doug Starcher provides us with a raw insight on what life is like for some. Check out the written essay and photo series as well at 2011.soulofathens.com/our-dreams-are-different/almost-out-1.html
"Everybody is felons. From my grandpa and grandma, mom and dad, all my uncles, all my brothers have penitentiary numbers. (...) I guess that's what was normal. I thought that it was part of growing up. You had to go to prison too, it was what everybody else did."
via FecalFace
Recently I came across the image above. I found it very fascinating, and saved it in my personal 'source of inspiration' folder. Not knowing what to do with it, but these things always turn up quite usefull. Such as now, when someone (forgot who did...) posted this on facebook. A time lapse video made by VLT, Very Large Telescopes. Magnificent and beautiful! Have a look at the video. (I don't like the music, so you can turn that off)
Robert Overweg is a photographer in the virtual world. He sees the worlds of (first and third person shooter) games as the new public space of contemporary society and as a direct extension of the physical world.
His various projects give a marvellous view of a photographer in a virtual world, unlike the real one. For example, he searches for different ends of the virtual world, shows the people he has met in an uncomfortable series of photographs (literary; screenshots of videogames) or looks for places which give a new view on the game. This makes you start thinking about which role videogame-makers have in the contemporary art world, don't you?
New experiment by Bart Hess: the slime research, exploring limits of the gaga goo. Images found via his facebook page, not yet on his website. He creates imagery that captures future human shapes and new body form’s.
A few weeks ago I visited a lecture by mr. van den Hoed about his work and specifically his latest project, in which he set out on a quest to reproduce certain stills from the film Lost in Translation, sans characters. Yet van den Hoed never makes a traditional photo (if there is indeed such a thing as the traditional photo); one work is a composition of hundreds if not thousands of tiny photos from different times of day and different lighting situations, edited into an essentially timeless piece. The final image represents a moment that was never really there, a kind of vacuum in time and space in which the heart of the city of Tokyo resides. The story of his quest is almost as interesting as the work itself, but is too long to be told here - and he tells it better anyway. If you can, I highly recommend you check out his current exhibition.
There's another guy roaming the internets with his pinhole cameras, but this one is a lot more innocent and a lot less macabre. Artist Francisco Capponi devised this egg camera that is its photograph at the same time, a concept which I love. It's kind of like an artsy Kinder Surprise Egg!
Check out his website for more of his cameras and photographs.
This is a classic!
I was sure that it was already posted on the blog, but I can seem to find it anymore. So here it is, the www.9-eyes.com project. Last weekend I was on the Amsterdam Art Book Fair and saw the publication Jon Rafman made about it. It shows images found on Google Maps. But they are quite bizarre. Cars off the road in a creek. An alien ;). Houses on fire. People lying in the trunk of a car. People walking with guns. Check out the website and be amazed.
(check the similar "images found on Google Maps, the Bridges project on this blog here)
Consume Consume is a blog (tumblr to be specific), with loads of interesting, inspiring or just plain stupid photographs.
Posted by Test
12-11-2011
