How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

Sparkles and Wine - Teaser 

Lighting can easily be taken for granted, yet it is one of the most important things when it comes to any kind of visual art, whether that be photography, instillation or film. What makes this interesting is the effects that the light has on the face and the features, it allows us to see just what different light positions do to effect the face, the mood and the emotion of the image. However this video also uses colours to evoke more emotion on top of the lighting, this being something to bare in mind if you were trying out some of the lighting positions that have been used in this video. 

Colours will also change the mood, cold colours (such as blues, purples) making for a more vulnerable image while warmer colours (such as red, yellows, pinks oranges) making for a more aggressive or sexual appearance.  

Dinah Fried - Famous Meals from Literature

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 

Alice in Wonderland 

The Catcher in the Rye 

Oliver Twist 

Eszter Burghardt

After being uninspired for a while I began looking for new and exciting art, insulation or photography, this is when I discovered the work of Eszter Burghardt, her work is different to anything else that I have seen through the use of macro. The way that she makes you believe that these spaces and landscapes are real, with the use of tilt shifts and high use of macro lens and filters. 

The images have both come from different bodies of work, the first comes from the series Wooly Sagas, while the second comes from the series Edible Vistas. All her work can be found here.

A WOOLY SAGA OF CREEK 

WOOLY MAGMA

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Mehmet Ozgur Smoke Art

While looking for inspiration for some of my own work I came across the work of Mehmet Ozgur and his work. As you might know his work is some what like the smoke art that I created in Photoshop some time ago. 
His work is magic, creating a serial and dream like state with in his images. What drew me to the work was the second image, this was the first that I ever saw. From here I looked into more of his work only to find that each image become more and more complex with new and exciting ways of capturing smoke in different forms. 
You can find more of his work here

Jules Ober Textured Landscape

While taking in part in an Adobe on-line course I have been able to read and take part in the weekly forums. While looking through I came across these images by Jules Ober. 

His images are cut into long rectangles are the area of the detail in the image. What makes these images is the way that you focus on one area of the image, the bamboo or the grass. The work really is more aesthetic then meaningful, but the way that your attention is captured works for the images very well. 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

A persons memories and mind it web, a tangle of good and bad, but what would happen if you could remove the pain and the sorrow from your thoughts, only keeping the things that made you smile or laugh. 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film full of twists and turns that you would have never seen coming, tangling the idea of memory in it non chronological order confusing the viewer into falling into traps where they believe that they know what is going on. 
The film stars Jim Carrey as the main character Jole Barish, an man with little going for him self, and not much too say. However his whole life changes when for no reason he skips work and finds him self on a beach in Montauk, New York where he meets Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet) From here on the film begins to twist and turn through out Jole and Clementine's relationship. After a while their relationship breaks down, and Clementine finds her self going to Lacuna, Inc. a New York company that will remove the bad memoires from your mind leaving you with no recollection of what you once knew of a place, person or a dead family member. Jole then finds this out and has the same procedure from this point on the film then is set inside Joles mind and memoires. As we walk through them in reverse we see Jole fighting to hold on to the very last few good day that Clementine and Jole spent together. In the last few moments of his first memory of Clementine she whispers 'Meet me in Montauk'  
Jole awakes in his bed the night after the procedure to find his car damaged but no recollection of how, we then see Jole at the train station (where we see him at the opening of the film). On impulse Jole leaves his platform and runs for the train to Montauk - 
'Random thoughts on Valentines day 2004, today is a holiday created by greetings card companies to make people feel like crap. I ditched work today took a train out Montauk, I don't know why I'm not an impulsive person'  

This film honestly left be with out any words, was a breath of fresh air to watch. I would honestly recommend it. Just stunning!! 

Ikea's Digital Camera

Ikea have just realised their own Digital Camera. The Kanappa as it has been called is almost entirely made form cardboard and has no digital back, thus bring back this idea of not knowing what you have taken till you upload the images onto your computer. The camera is powered by two standard batteries, has a memory of up to 40 images and a USB port for easy upload to your computer. 
The idea behind this whole project is the climet that we live in, Ikea are really looking into ways of sustainability as well as reusing all the card packing that they use for all their flat packed goods.  

The camera its self is really a point and shoot, but has brought back the days when film was widely used, however this does not mean that the waiting is long once the 40 shots are taken you just go to your own computer and see them straight away, so it could be argued that this camera brings back nothing that film once gave to us. 

Here is a video of the camera in action.

I would love to know what others think of this idea? Is photography becoming less and less of an art? Or do you feel that the idea of photogrpahy be accessible to every one is a good thing, alowing people to express them selves easier them before?