Every Chair at the Visual Studies Workshop

Luke Strosnider has photographed every chair at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Fantastic! There *was* a print up at 20x200, but we are too late!

re:vision

Here is something I should have thought of long ago: really nice jewelry from old camera parts by re:vision.

Rollei-Flex MiniDigi

The new Rollei-Flex Mini Twin-Lens Digital Camera. Tiny? Twin-Lens? Ease of digital? I'll take two!

Photographs by Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee creates some fantastically simple in concept/difficult in execution photographs.

Design Commission

Design Commission, based is Seattle, has a very nice gallery of works by various artists. One of the best is Overlooked. Also, they had a a recent benefit show where different artists decorated or redesigned umbrellas called Chance of Showers.

Xiu Xiu Polaroids

I am forever a sucker for Polaroids. 1000 Polaroids were shot by David Horvitz to be used for the cover of a Xiu Xiu/High Places split seven-inch. Each record will have a real polaroid on the cover.

Photographer Denis Darzacq

Denis Darzacq creates some really interesting photographs. His new series Hyper & La Chute are great.

Loft and Found

AceJet170 (a great design/type/found blog) has posted images called "Loft and Found" - discarded photographs found in his new loft - and they are amazing! You can read more at his website and see more on his Flickr page.

Library of Congress on Flickr!

Thanks to Frank Chimero, (who has just started a great blog called "By So And So") I have learned that the United States Library of Congress is now on Flickr!

They have a fantastic collection of Farm Security Administration photos in color (which normally you only see the famous black & white photos) as well as many other photographs from their collection. I can only hope that this is just the beginning of their collection coming online! The Library of Congress also has a blog - who knew?

Grant Hamilton

Somehow, I have never posted about the amazing work of Grant Hamilton - but I am now! I especially love his Geometries set.

Also, a huge thanks to Frank for getting this blog to integrate nicely into my website!

Nina Katchadourian

Artist Nina Katchadourian creates some amazingly creative and really interesting work.

Visit Ampersandland!

Oh how I love the ampersand!

World Clock Project

It's simple. People submit photos of clocks displaying every minute of the day. Nice.

Running From Camera

I don't know exactly why, but this is really fascinating.

"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can." - Running From Camera

Seen on a bridge in Amsterdam

No comment really needed.

Vintage Signage Polaroids

Here is a great Flickr set of 1960's Polaroids of signs in Washington state.

Stray Shopping Carts

Oh the cruel world and its abandoning of shopping carts!

Oblivion by David Maisel

Artist David Maisel has a great series of aerial photographs of the Los Angeles area entitled "Oblivion" - and if you have ever flown over LA, you will understand completely.

Ignite.

I like this image.

Affiches means "posters" in French...

Oh Paris - what an enchanting city. Actually, when I visited, I was really surprised how HUGE Paris is and how much graffiti is everywhere. This is a nice little photo set of Paris walls and old posters that are still hanging on.

Photographs of Airplanes in Flight

Jeffrey Milstein has a great series of photographs of airplanes in flight.

Hand Dryers (or is it driers?)

I had almost forgotten about this, but this Italian Designer blog reminded me that I should link up to my Hand Dryers on Polar Inertia. In 2006, when my wife and I were traveling overseas, I took photographs of hand dryers all over the world. Enjoy!

The Way of All Flesh

The Boat Lullabies has an amazing series of old photographs that were found together in a flea market showing the progression of one woman's life. Simply fascinating!

No title needed.

Simple and beautiful photographs by Marshall Sokoloff.

SX-70

Here is the super-nice Polaroid Portfolio site of Grant Hamilton. He makes us SX-70 users proud.

Old guys are great.

I have no idea who these guys are. I found the photo on Wikipedia. And I just really like the photo. That's it.

Two great new things

A few wonderful collages found on Flickr.


Great old family images with certain people or things removed.

The beauty of digital corruption...

This happened to one of the photos I was editing today. What I love about it is the fact that there is NO WAY I could ever come up with this color pattern on my own, but it simply amazes me.

no title needed.

Oh boy.

Historical Photos are always fascinating to me.

Amazing photos of the flood of 1910 in Paris.

Everything old is new again.

A great series of the Walls of China. Where was this series found? Polar Inertia, of course.

Posted without comment.

Shots fired at the United Nations.

The Look Book

A great little feature on New York Magazine - The Look Book. Every week a simple portrait, a short interview, and, for a midwestern boy like myself, a fascinating view of people that I will probably never meet.

Color photos before color photos were invented!

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented a clever camera that shot three black and white negatives through red, green, and blue filters in rapid succession. While there was no way to create a color photographic print at the time, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii developed a triple projector that would project the three transparent plates through red, green, and blue filters to reconstruct the color view. The images show a fascinating view of Russia at the dawn of the 20th century.

Here is another link to a ton of his images. Amazing.

Art Links from Design Observer...

Two beautiful pieces by English artist Antony Gormley. Here and here. Allison and I saw the piece with the massive wings driving somewhere in England - we didn't know what it was, so it is neat to finally place it in context.

Also, someone just paid $72.8 MILLION for a Rothko painting - amazing.

And, whether or not Andreas Gursky is out of ideas really doesn't matter to me - his work still impresses me.

hand dryers and the internet - together at last...

Thanks to my good friend Frank Chimero I have been made aware of a bit of "blog activity" (I still think blogs are quite silly) about my Hand Dryers.

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And Frank also directed me to this.

The histories of people I've never met...

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Originally uploaded by onpaperwings.

I have been collecting old slides from estate auctions and flea markets for years and finally, this past weekend, I amassed them all into a collection. Some of the best are on my Flickr account.

These images are so fascinating to me. They are from another life - a life that has all but been forgotten and the memories purchased by me for a few dollars. I find it strange that photographs are so easily disgarded. I would like to think that someone cares about these people and they want to remember them. But, it also makes me think about how cyclical life is - and maybe one day someone will find photos of me and think "I wonder what kind of life this person had?"

In 24 hours...

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Originally uploaded by onpaperwings.

I have always been amazed at the fact that 24 hours from now I could be walking the streets of Tokyo. Or sitting in the Sydney Opera House watching a performance. Or viewing works of art at the Louvre.

International travel is much easier than most people think. I used to think that Tokyo was beyond my reach - but it certainly is not. Yes, this takes money, but not as much as people think.

Save your money and I hope to see you in Tokyo some day soon.