Mimu

Cat Yoga: it's the next logical step after 'Dancing With Cats'.

If Drawings Were Photographs

These are not drawings from photographs. No, no, no. These are way cooler than that. These are Rob Matthews attempts to take Tom Edwards illustrations and create photographs. Hahaha. I lol. Rob and Tom are the people behind It's Nice That. Apparently there is a zine coming out that will be full of these. I think they should extend this idea further and take over the world. Maybe they could start with a flickr pool?




Found via My Love For You. I mean, seriously, it's the coolest blog in the world.

Microscopic Photography

The 2009 Olympus Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition finalists are pretty impressive. Jan Michels image of a water flea was the overall winner.

These three by Heiti Paves, David Domozych and Chung-Ju Rachael Wang are my personal favourites:




Found via The Daily Mail. Science is so pretty.

No Photography Allowed

My little rant on Sunday got me googling and look what I found:

Hehe. Nils Jorgensen is a street photographer who makes me giggle. I love the sense of humour that comes through in his photos. I found these ones on his flickr stream called 'Gallery and Museum Visits... (No Photography Allowed)'. He also has an interesting blog of street shots which is worth taking a look at.

I've just started becoming brave enough to take photos of strangers and this has given me some serious inspiration. The way some of his subjects interact with their environments is genius. This is some next level shit for me.

Narcissistic Overload

I made it to the Kusama exhibit that I posted about before. The work completely overwhelmed me, it felt like I was in some kind of alternate dream world. It also reminded me of the scene in Willy Wonka where the kids get let loose in the chocolate factory/sweet garden paradise.




One thing I don't understand is the gallery's insistence that you don't take photos. I can understand that flash photography can ruin other people's enjoyment of the exhibit. But for an exhibit that is dominated by mirrors and invites narcissism why is that it's not allowed? More broadly, why is it that it is often prohibited to take photos in galleries? Is it some sort of copyright issue? The art that really moves me usually works to involve viewers as participants. Good art, for me, asks for some sort of response and I personally feel that the 'no photography' rule is one way to exclude the viewer from participating. But this is turning into a huge rant. I will stop now. Exhibit = amazing.

Fuzzy

I finished all my assignments, planted some veges and then typed 'dog' and 'wig' into flickr. I'm a bad person:

Images of Fuzzy via Mintymix

Early Color Photography

The Library of Congress (LOC) website have an online exhibit showing the work of an early twentieth century Russian photographer, Sergei Mikhail Prokudin-Gorskii. He experimented with his own version of color photography, shooting three black and white frames in quick succession, each with a different color filter (red, blue and green). When he presented them he layered all three on top of each other to create a color slide of sorts. The whole process is available here.

All of the images are of Russian life between 1907-1912 when Prokudin-Gorskii was supported by Tsar Nicholas II to survey the country. Here are a few digital versions that I found on the LOC website: