Okay, okay the last one I have seen yesterday.
Faces in Places
A few Faces in Places that I collected during the last few days. Some cool little fellas me thinks.
REAL Street Art
Sorry I have no idea who created this photo or the street art – I just found it on the web and HAD to post it, cause I think it’s genius.
“The Only Limit is your Imagination”
This is how photography manipulation genius Erik Johansson ends his TED talk in which he explains how his fascinating images are created. I am sure some of them you might have come across already.
I have today however discovered the below video in which he explains that all the tools are out there to create realistic looking fantasy-worlds like on his images – all you need is to have imagionation. I wholeheartedly agree. With the technology already available everything in image manipulation is possible. You can be God – or however you want to call it – of your own visual universe.
But especially after watching this video I would definitely also like to add that you not only need a lot of fantasy but also the willingness and persistence to turn your ideas into reality.
And this – as we probably all know with some form of guilt – is the point where most of us could do with a kick up our backsides.
Erik spends sometimes months from the moment the creative spark hits him until the visualisations of his concepts are finished. His aim is to make everything look as if an actual photograph could have been taken – despite it being sometimes totally un-realistic scenarios.
And that’s for me what makes them so striking.
Check out his website for all of his other projects: http://alltelleringet.com
World’s Longest Photograph: 1km
London will soon have the longest photograph in history on display just in time for the 2012 Olympics. It was created by the artist and designer Clare Newton who spent 21 months photographing more than 109.000 people jumping in the air and then seemlessly stitching their portraits to one 1000 m long image.
The photographs were taken across London in shopping malls, parks and other open spaces inviting people from all walks of life to take part.
It will be first exhibited at ExCel Exhibition and conference centre in London Docklands from 1-9 June.
Another great example for a simple idea but executed on such a scale and with so much passion that it becomes something incredibly powerful.
I will defnit check it out.
Official website. www.jump4london.co.uk
Clothes Make People
Clothes Make People is the direct translation of the German saying “Kleider machen Leute”. And it’s also the title of Herlinde Koebl‘s photography book.
I really like her idea to show people what they look like without their uniforms on illustrating how clothes define the perception of humans.
It however reminds me of old photographs of American natives in their beautiful traditional clothes and then showing them in their Western suits after they have been “civilised”. Something that always made me sad.
Replace Face = Ace!
Just discovered this blog called Replace Face, where this guy post these hilarious Photoshop artworks. He says he uses potraits of Russian Generals of the English painter George Dawe and combines them with images of his friends, family and celebrities.
Check it out here: http://replaceface.tumblr.com/
Not perfectly done – but pretty good. Most importantly it made me laugh.
From the Bus
And here a few more photos taken from my current busrides through London.
Tabloid Revelations
I saw these brilliant stickers by artist imbue the the other day near Brick Lane, East London. He altered the name of two aweful British papers The Sun and Hello! Magazine. l I actually didnt know him until now. He is BRILLIANT! Check out his many other works on imbueUK.com
The Past was not Black and White
Believe it or not there are people who believe that the past actually looked black and white – and I mean not just on photographs but the actual world at the olden days itself. A fact that shows how strong the perception of our past is made from looking at old black and white photos and films.
I have just discovered these stunning colorisations of iconic photographs. Whoever did these well crafted manipulations here has done such a great job that I find it very easy to believe that they could have been the real deal.
However the idea of turning black and white photos into coloured ones is not new and started way before the magic of Photoshop was discovered. Infact I remember an old coloured-in portrait from the 1920s hanging on my grandma’s wall showing a beautiful blonde woman that had slightly amateurish yellow painted hair and hand drawn red lips.
For quite some time I wondered if there would ever be a software “clever” enough to automatically turn a black and white image into a coloured one – just by analysing the grey-values of the photos. Or would it be impossible because there would be way too much room for interpretation and guessing and it would probably always require the artistic and historic interpretaion of a human manipulator?
ITCHY EYE 