Observe this image. My dear friend Kat, shot in 2007, at a company event.
Nothing groundbreaking, as photographs go, but I think this image illustrates something that I think I’ve lost as I’ve become more technically proficient as a photographer: the ability to play.
Here I was, beer in hand, shooting a full-band karaoke jam on a Friday night. Just played around with long shutter speeds for the hell of it.
I’m just starting to learn to play again, and it’s tough going… but I’m enjoying it.
Image: Kat Kinnie in Motion on Flickr.
Cristina Otero’s Fruity Self-portraits
With just two and a half years of experience, 16-year-old Spanish photographer Cristina Otero captivates us with these zoomed-in self-portraits. Using fruit as her inspiration in this series entitled Tutti Frutti, Otero disrupts the conventional notions of feminine beauty and interacts with different fruits in a seductive performance for the camera. She draws the viewer in with her wide, innocent eyes while the bold, striking colors of her make-up complement each fruit.
Wow. This is wonderful and haunting and weird. From BoingBoing:
This music — which sounds like a moody piano soundtrack for a existentialist movie about a rainy day — is made by slicing a tree in cross-section, sticking it on a turntable, and dropping a tone-arm with a PlayStation Eye Camera in the head, and processing its output through Ableton Live. It’s called Years, and it was created byBartholomäus Traubeck.
Artist Julien Berthier created a boat that looks like it’s sinking, but actually has a motor that allows it to be driven around, fully afloat.
via Julien Berthier
Awesome.
Via Pharyngula.
