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Moving to eyecurious.com

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:08:55 +0200

Over the last few weeks I have been trying to juggle a tumblelog and a weblog, which I started writing recently. My juggling skills just aren’t good enough, so I have decided to suspend posting on Shashin-etc and to focus on blogging over at www.eyecurious.com. Hope that some of you followers will come check out eyecurious.com

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:25:23 +0200

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Architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen have created a...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:12:11 +0200

Architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen have created a platform over the Aurland fjord in Norway. Does sort of make you want to take a running jump, no?

Awesome, lengthy interview with Mad Men's creator

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:10:54 +0200

Awesome, lengthy interview with Mad Men's creator:

spaceships:

Matthew Weiner, a thoughtful man:

When you hit 40 you realize you’ve met every kind of person that there is […]

The big intellectual skirmish going on was “Is it great that we’re so different, men and women, or is there no difference at all?” No difference at all is where is started. Let’s have equality and legislate it like that… What’s sexist in the office is fuel in the bedroom. We’re wired that way to some extent. Women become more aggressive and it becomes strange for men […]

I’m a human being and I’ve been poured into this body, so who am I?

The show is pitch-perfect. I am in love.

Weirdly we have planned to go to a karaoke club tonight (the...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:08:50 +0200

Weirdly we have planned to go to a karaoke club tonight (the only one in Paris). It seems oddly appropriate. I know I will definitely be singing a few Jacko numbers. R.I.P.

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:54:47 +0200

jennilee:

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Demotix

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:07:05 +0200

Demotix:

Demotix is a “citizen-journalism website and photo agency. It takes user-generated content (UGC) and photographs from freelance journalists and amateurs, and markets them to the mainstream media.” Interesting to see this kind of agency starting to pop up, hopefulyl will really widen the spectrum of the news, but it does seriously concern me that this might be what replaces journalism. What are your thoughts?

And here’s a little bonus extra. This is a time lapse...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:43:11 +0200

And here’s a little bonus extra. This is a time lapse video of the 300,00-hour renovation by Ando. Turn the volume way up for this one: the soundtrack is Pachelbel’s Canon on an electric guitar straight out of the 1980s… only in Italy is this kind of thing still possible without a single hint of irony.

Tadao Ando’s (François Pinault-sponsored) hollow cube...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:39:45 +0200

Tadao Ando’s (François Pinault-sponsored) hollow cube inside Venice’s Punta Della Dogana.

Monsieur Tilt-Shift aka Naoki Honjo was recently commissioned by...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:18:00 +0200

Monsieur Tilt-Shift aka Naoki Honjo was recently commissioned by the New York Times to photograph Paris as part of their feature on Nicolas Sarkozy’s (megalomaniacal?) invitation to architects from around the world to rethink the future of the city.

Edition #21 of lensculture out now

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:49:00 +0200

Edition #21 of lensculture out now

Journalism appears to have been now pretty much entirely...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:36:59 +0200

Journalism appears to have been now pretty much entirely replaced by social networking.

Photographs by the French artist JR that took over parts of Rio...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:14:00 +0200

Photographs by the French artist JR that took over parts of Rio de Janeiro last year. As he says himself, he is less of a photographer than a wallpaper guy, but I think these installations look brilliant.

For more, BBC news have this photo-video slideshow.

Jan Scheeren, Mother Nature From the latest issue of Foam...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:16:44 +0200

Jan Scheeren, Mother Nature

From the latest issue of Foam Magazine.

claytoncubitt: George E. Marsh, ‘Dust storm approaching...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:20:00 +0200

claytoncubitt:

George E. Marsh, ‘Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas’, April 1935

This image sums up the way this Monday morning feels.

Jinyoung Yoon

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:15:05 +0200

Jinyoung Yoon

Basel Envy Part III Mark Dion, “Collector in Repose”...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:15:24 +0200

Basel Envy Part III

Mark Dion, “Collector in Repose” (2009). Mixed media. 6 x 5 x 9 in. Available at the Georg Kargl Fine Arts booth.

Basel Envy Part II William Eggleston, “Untitled (Morton,...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:13:56 +0200

Basel Envy Part II

William Eggleston, “Untitled (Morton, Mississippi)” (1972). Dye transfer print. Edition of 11. 25 x 18½ in. Available at the Cheim & Read booth.

One of Eggleston’s extraordinary dye-transfer prints. Yours for a mere US$150,000 (and it is an edition of 11!).

Basel Envy Part I Pignon-Ernest, “Mort de la Vierge Napoli...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:11:49 +0200

Basel Envy Part I

Pignon-Ernest, “Mort de la Vierge Napoli 90” (2009). Digital print. Edition of 50. 31½ x 23½ in. Available at the Galerie Lelong booth.

Afghan Hearts and Minds on a 5D Mark II

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:07:15 +0200

There has been a lot of excitement in the blogosphere about Canon’s 5D Mark II video capacity. I am not a big fan of these online frothings about technology, but I was curious to see how this technology might start working in photographers’ hands. This is the first time I have seen it used by a photo-journalist, Danfung Dennis, who thankfully seems equally as concerned by the subject as how much bokeh he can get. The footage (of the US military counter-insurgency in Afghanistan) is fantastic even though I’m not allowed to embed it here because I don’t have a superhyperproextraplus Vimeo account. So here is a link to it.

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