Archive for October, 2007

From Airtight Interactive, the folks who brought us the awesome Simple Viewer photo gallery flash app., comes Tilt Viewer. It may not be better, but it’s more fun.

St. Vincent walks around a Parisian apartment hitting shite with sticks. And casting a spell. See more at Take Away Shows.

New York photographer Chris Buck does some pretty amazing editorial work.

Last Night’s Garbage is a photoblog documenting garbage on the streets of NYC. And more.

The AIA San Francisco has an interesting conversation with Thom Mayne of Morphosis and the writer Andrew Blum talking about the new Federal Building. And it comes with lots of great images of the building, inside and out.

Contributing at least their color palette, The White Stripes have teamed with Lomographische AG to produce limited edition Holgas. The Jack model will be a Holga with a fisheye lens and the Meg will come with a ringflash. They come in red and white and are $180 per kit.

Finnish photographer Jyrki Parantainen of the Helsinki school makes some interesting images using strings and pushpins attached to his subjects.

Wow, Jottit is simple. Right on.

German digital media artist Markus Kison has come up with a VanityRing that displays the number of Google hits your name returns. Each night you can place it in a docking station to refresh your hits.

New York photographer Noah Kalina is probably best known for his Noah K. Everyday project where he’s taken a self-portrait everyday since 2000. But I also really like Kalina’s other photos in his portfolios. Great portraits and night shots. And, weirdly a portrait taken on a doorstep five doors down from me (I see that dude all the time). His self-portraits in Las Vegas are great, and funnier the more you see.

Here’s an animation from PikaPika, the Japanese light doodlers. Read PikaPika’s blog for more.

Michael Townsend and seven other artists built a 750-square-foot apartment in the parking garage of a Providence, RI shopping mall four years ago and had lived there for up to three weeks at a time while documenting mall life. Their home sweet mall was only recently discovered and Townsend was sentenced with probation. See the website documenting the experience and a few photos of the place.

Free graph paper .pdfs. I don’t know, it might be useful to you.