The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read.
These essays form the bulk of what has been keeping me too busy to produce my own blog material, [...]
File this one under “Things I never thought I’d see done with wedding photography: AltF, scroll to the bottom for some fantastic photos set aboard mechanical monstrosities.
Frieke Janssens is another photographer who produces amazing, slightly surreal, work that is well worth looking at. Add this to the list of my inspirations.
Check out her personal work, as well as the pre-production materials she shows. She has managed to create a career, not just using the tools she loves, but creating the sort [...]
I’ve become a podcast fanatic.
In Episode 12 of Focus Ring, there is a really interesting conversation about the McNugget-style layout of image sharing sites like Flickr and Deviant Art: namely, every image is presented to you as a thumbnail before you can find the larger version.
On a site which hosts thousands, if not millions [...]
Episode 18 of Paul Giguere’s excellent podcast, Thoughts on Photography, does a great job of summarizing the primary points to consider when writing an Artist Statement or a Project Statement. Even better, he concisely explains the difference between the two.
I’ve been listening to Paul’s podcasts practically since the first episode, having discovered him through the [...]
I discovered the truly breathing-taking work of Dave Nitsche through the course he is offering at The Picture Perfect School of Photography, which is titled Conceptual Photography.
The course Dave is offering is precisely the sort of subject matter which I feel does not get taught in traditional art colleges. While most courses focus on “nuts [...]
Painted Alive - The Fine Art Body Painting of Craig Tracy
My friends, Dawn and Joel of Moonhowler Productions stumbled across an exhibition led by Craig Tracy on their way back from Hong Kong. D&J landed in Florida with the rest of the American staff for Ocean Park’s Halloween Bash, and decided to take the long [...]
In my quest to teach myself 3D Rendering, I discovered the Vue Tutorials from Geekatplaytm Studio, totally free video tutorials. They do charge a (very reasonable, in my experience) fee to purchase the content used in the tutorials. Since they are primarily creating these tutorials as a form of marketing for their services (which include [...]
Liquid Sculpture - Water Drops by photographer Martin Waugh (Martin actually describes himself as “Father, engineer, artist”)
Discovered while trying to figure out how Chili’s menus get those amazing splash effects in their drink menus. Much thanks to Jeff Callen for giving me the 411.
I am a particular fan of Martin’s “Elephant Toes” photo.
Enjoy.
Brian Ulrich, of NotIfButWhen.com is teaching Digital Studio this semester, with a focus on developing projects which address social concerns. It’s often surprising to me how art education frequently focuses on the nuts and bolts, the methodology of making art, while rarely teaching how to think about art, how to judge what is worth making [...]