Category Archives: Photography

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Photographer Nelson Kaso’s excellent tilt-shift video of 10 months of festivals, construction and other happenings in the life of the Australian city.

It may make you forget you’ve already seen too many tilt-shift videos.

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-1jandsavon Jeremy Irons (with Sinead Cusack) speaking at the ‘Walk in the Woods’ event at Avondale House (Charles Stewart Parnell’s birthplace) near Rathdrum in Wicklow, this afternoon.

Organised by the Woodland League and the Natural Resourses Protection Alliance in protest at the government’s plan to sell off harvesting rights to Ireland’s 1.2 million acres of public forests for the next 80 years to Bertie Ahern’s mates private interests as an especially soulless part of the Troika programme.

(Thanks marsupial)

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A series of ‘vertical horizons’ of the Hong Kong sky shot from street level and framed by the city’s skyscrapers from a book by French photographer and graphic artist Romain Jacquet-Lagreze.

By eliminating people from his images, Jacquet-Lagreze has taken away the human qualities that normally define such a largely populated city and turned it into an abstract visual reality. The artist’s bio explains that he uses his camera to illustrate his feelings about Hong Kong, inspired mainly by “the geometry of the urban environment and the vivid lives it shelters.

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100_Glasses 100_ice 100_iphone 100_lomo1 100_mouse2 100_mouse3 100_nokia1100 Years Later: an ‘aged technology’ project by artist and childrens’ book illustrator Maico Akiba who applies fake rust and moss to simulate the aging of apparently excavated relics.

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