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Visual Bits #411 > Feeling Distorted?
Double Take: Identical Twin Photography
If you’re not an identical twin, then you’ve undoubtedly wondered what it must be like to have one- especially imagining the tricks you could pull off. Unless you’re related or close friends with a set of identical twins, it can be very hard to tell them apart, but celebrity photographer Martin Schoeller gives you the opportunity to get up close and personal with 40 sets in his book Identical: Portraits of Twins. The pictures were taken at an annual 3 day festival for multiples in Twinsburg, Ohio called Twins Days. Aside from noticing the physical differences when you are given this opportunity to stare without being creepy in the book, National Geographic writer Peter Miller dug deeper into the psychological differences and similarities that each set shares. [Read more...]
Visual Bits #409 > Freedom To Paint: Murals & Graffiti
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A Peek Into the Control Room of Space Shuttles
Although many of us have fantasized about becoming an astronaut when we “grow up”, making rocket ships out of cardboard refrigerator boxes, very few people actually went through with it. But lucky for us common folk, photographer Ben Cooper gives us all a chance to relive our space fantasies. Cooper brings us an insider look at the Flight Decks of the Endeavour, Discovery, and Atlantis space shuttles. The fact that there are people who actually know how to operate all of these switches is pretty phenomenal. With this set, I see many photoshop opportunities for all of the digital artists out there. Larger versions of each picture are available for viewing or for sale on launchphotography.com. A poster size print would be the perfect addition to that refrigerator box space shuttle your nephew is building. [Read more...]
Rooms of Objects Explode Around Their Owners
What if all the inanimate objects that surround you one day took flight? France based photographer Cerise Doucede had that idea and has now brought it to life with style. Her series, titled Égarements and Quotidien, sees her subjects looking like they are a bit lost and disconnected from their physical environments. The trick behind these images isn’t Photoshop, she individually suspends objects on string and captures the image as it appears in real life. [Read more...]
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We Love Friday!- Swan Love
With the belief that swans mate for life, they are a symbol of love and fidelity. So much so that in love studies, scientists dub those cute couples who have been married for decades and still seem crazy about one another “swans” to support their claims that true love does exist. I have always been fascinated with swans ever since reading The Ugly Duckling as a child, which I misinterpreted thinking that a swan was still in the duck species, but only the lucky ducks become swans. [Read more...]
The Extraterrestrial World of Whiskey Art
American photographer Ernie Button has a unique way of looking at the dishes. One night when he was putting the dishes into the dishwasher, he noticed there was a film on the bottom of a whiskey glass that caused, “fine, lacy lines” to cover it with intricate detail. These lines also created a vast array of different extraterrestrial landscapes. Each with its own cosmic makeup. This discovery led him to start a unique project entitled Vanishing Spirits, which entails Ernie drinking different types of whiskey, and then photographing the bottom of the glass once the whiskey has evaporated – to create the extraterrestrial world of whiskey art.
Serene Photos of Paris in Reflection
Using her iPhone 4s, Fujifilm x10 or a Nikon Coolpix, Joanna Lemanska captures the beauty of a city in reflection. It doesn’t matter if she is in Berlin, London or New York, her eye looks for the reflection in the image and when she sees it, she captures it. Currently Joanna is living in Paris, and through her time there she has created a pleasant series documenting the life in the vibrant city… as seen reflected in its pools and puddles of water. [Read more...]
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Horizontal Rows of Film Reconstruct Landmarks
Landmarks are what makes a city recognizable, thus have become one of the most photographed structures out there. Seen in just about every person’s travel pics, postcards, and travel blogs they start to lose their excitement, but German artist Thomas Kellner has remixed landmarks in a unique photomontage style. He takes hundreds of pictures, scanning the entire structure one tiny portion at a time, then horizontally places the film strips of the individual pictures to reconstruct the landmark, thus creating an entirely new picture. The process is as complicated as it sounds, yet the final result makes it all worth the painstaking hours to get a new twist on something so familiar.
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Zoo Animals Get Fashionable
Dog and cat owners already know this, but dressing your pet up in fashionable clothes is perhaps the best entertainment you’ll have. Yago Partal takes a cue from these pet owners and transfers it to something a little more exotic, the zoo. His recent series Zoo Portraits, sees creatures from giraffes to wolves getting spiffed up in trendy clothes; from suits to Hawaiian shirts. It’s one ridiculously fashionable menagerie. [Read more...]
