Tilt Shift

Just received some lenses from Borrowlenses.com - a 100mm Macro, and a 24mm TS-E II.  I'm excited for both because they create much different looks than other lenses.  Also, I want to try some video with each of them - slow-motion closeups of bugs or turtles or something with the macro, and try the miniaturizing effect with the tilt-shift in Boston.

Anyway here are some images I just took with the tilt-shift.  It's also great for correcting lines in architecture, so more to come from this.  AJ, you would love this lens.

Issuu - Publishing Site

I mentioned this site in my post on publishing and creativity. Just testing it out for myself now, by uploading a brochure - student work from Hallmark.

The site operates like a bookshelf. You can search or browse the library of uploaded content (that users make public), and can then bookmark the content - anything from presentations, to catalogs, to newsletters. This adds it to your 'shelf,' where you can organize things into folders (like most email programs), or share, or download.

The makers of Issuu pretty much hold your hand through the whole process with little videos, which is nice. Plus, the website interface is simple and easy to use anyway. One of the coolest things, though, is that you can implement their slick document presentation on your own site. Haven't come across any sites using this feature yet, but I'm testing it out offline.

Open publication - Free publishing - More ben and bills

Publishing

Just finished watching Chase Jarvis' talk : Consequences of Creativity. He spoke to ADCD (Art Director's Club of Denver) and ASMP, a photographer's organization.

One point that stuck me, and anyone who reads anything these days, is that creative people can now also be the ones who publish / share their work. It doesn't have to be "validated" by an ad agency or magazine editor, you create stuff and throw it on the web and instantly people can watch your latest cat-themed-youtube video.

The cool thing about this, is that there's and abundance of stuff to find, created by people with no other motive than just to create. For instance my friend Eric Millard - a great musician - just put up some of his songs on facebook and myspace. The 'goal': simply to meet people with similar interests. With social network and publishing sources like TubeMogul and Issuu, the 'why' of publishing is more of a 'why not' - it's so easy.

I started thinking of all this while I was searching my bookmarks and came Motionographer, and this strange video by Terry Timely: Synesthesia. For some reason, it seems less outlandish after returning from Beijing last night. (And yes, there are cats).

Macro video to Radiohead song

I found this video on my friend Sydney's blog - she's a west coast artist.

I love the slow-motion combined with macro scenes. And insects make for great subjects with the lyrics.

Polaroid resurrection attempts

This is a link to a New York Times photo gallery - a collection of polaroids sent to the paper in response to a story about resurrecting a polaroid factory.

There are ton of cool adaptations with the film, mixing funky lighting and development, with illustrative things as well. 

For sure the film was cool, but I'm scanning old 35mm film right now, and it's awful.  Digital polaroids, anyone?  I guess that's why there's Photoshop

iPhone photos

My friend Andy Bardon showed me some cool iPhone photo applications.
This photo uses 'polarize' and 'toy camera.' Photo is from Shelburne
Falls- not looking forward to the hills on the bikeride back