Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 24, McGinley was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo Magazine. In 2007 McGinley was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography.
At an early age he learned how to skateboard and began making trips into the East Village and the Lower East Side to hang out and skate with friends. His peers and mentors were skateboarders, graffiti writers, musicians, and artists considered to be on the fringes of society. He moved to the East Village in 1998 and at one point his apartment walls were covered with hundreds of Polaroid pictures of everyone who visited him there.
His first book of photos, The Kids Are Alright (2002), was handmade and distributed to people he respected in the art world and sold at the exhibition. One of these books ended up in the hands of Sylvia Wolf who ushered his work onto the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Since 2004, Ryan McGinley’s style has evolved from documenting his friends in various real-life situations towards creating fantastical settings where the situations he envisions can be documented. For McGinley, it is important that variables remain in the photographic equation where the unexpected can occur. McGinley shoots 35mm film and makes his photographs using an arsenal of Yashica T4s and Leica R8s.
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Tags: new york, Photography, skateboard, street photography, The Kids Are Alright, Whitney Museum of American Art, Young Photographer Infinity Award
Hoberman
Hoberman Associates is a multidisciplinary practice that specializes in transformable design — the development of products, structures, and environments that change their size and shape. They believe that a world undergoing accelerating change needs an adaptive, interactive approach to design. Whether that means inventing a rapidly deployable shelter, collaborating with architects to develop next-generation adaptive buildings, or re-defining portability for children’s products, their clients seek them out to shape change — and inspire it.
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IMAKETHINGS
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Tags: Andrew Groves, Illustration, illustrations, imakethings
Kastrup Sea Bath
Reaching out into the Øresund from Kastrup Strandpark in Kastrup, Kastrup Sea Bath forms a living and integral part of the new sea front.
A wooden pier leads the visitor round to a circular construction, gradually elevating above the sea surface, and ending in a 5m diving platform. The building material is Azobé wood, chosen for it’s durability in sea water.
The Sea Bath stands on slender legs about a meter above the water and the load baring constructions are exposed in its exterior.
The Bath is conceived as a sculptural dynamic form, which can be seen from the beach, the sea and the air. It’s silhouette gradually changes as the beholder moves around it.
http://www.archdaily.com/2899/kastrup-sea-bath-white-arkitekter-ab/
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Tags: beach, Denmark, sea, wood
In 2001 Simon Høgsberg got a BA in photography from School of Media in London.
Today he works as a freelance photographer in Copenhagen.
His latest project is an image 100m long (100 m x 78 cm).
There are 178 people, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007.
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Tags: Berlin, Copenhagen, freelance photographer, Simon Høgsberg
Bryan Derballa
Bryan Derballa is a freelance photographer living in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English in 2004. These days, he lives for the vignettes of others’ lives that bring us a greater understanding of our own.
Bryan’s has contributed work to Vice Magazine, Wired.com, Financial Times, LOOP, Document, EXPN, VBS.tv, Hamburger Eyes, SOMA Magazine and Emerica Footwear. He has a regular photo column on the art website FecalFaceDotCom and is the founder and curator of Lovebryan.
http://www.bryanderballa.com/
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Tags: Brooklyn, Documentary photography, Israel, North Carolina, NY, Photography, Robstock, street photography
The Dieline
Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field. The Dieline has quickly grown into the most visited website on package design in the world, and has become the voice of the industry. It is an active sponsor of the Pentawards, the first and only professional design competition devoted exclusively to the art of brand packaging, further promoting the field.
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Tags: Design, package, package design, packaging, Pentawards
God Went Surfing With the Devil
Since the year 2000, over 4,300 Palestinian and 1,000 Israeli lives have been claimed by the escalating conflict in the region. The situation grew markedly worse in 2006, when Israel responded to the election of Hamas by sealing off the borders, ending the free-flow of people and goods. Palestinian militants reacted to the siege by targeting Israel’s civilian population with deadly rocket strikes; the Israeli Army countered with air strikes, targeting militants but often claiming the lives of innocent residents.
In 2007 it emerged that a small group of young men were surfing in Gaza, sharing battered surfboards they had attained prior to the siege. Word traveled north to Israel, and that same year, a mixed group of Israelis and Americans delivered a dozen boards to their Palestinian counterparts.
In the spring of 2008, they would attempt to deliver another 23 surfboards into Gaza. By this time the situation in Gaza had deteriorated further, the border still sealed, with military activity a near daily occurrence.
“God Went Surfing With the Devil” charts the difficulties and dangers encountered by surfers in the region. Along the way it speaks to Israelis, Arab-Israelis, and Palestinians affected by the violence, charting their daily struggle to supersede the conflict through the joys of surfing.
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Tags: Alex Klein, Israel, israeli, movie, palestinian, surf, surfing
EPIC
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Tags: Amazon, Google grid, Googlezone, Microsoft, Tivo, WWW
Denis Darzacq
Inspired by the French riots of 2005, Denis Darzacq asked dancers and athletes to perform jumps against backgrounds that he had found and prepared for his series La chute. He wanted to capture an entire generation in freefall and with no one to catch them, a society in which youth is ignored, feared and left to crash.
Everything had been prepared in advance. Everything was ready. The models launched themselves into space. There is nothing false in these scenes. There is no fiction, no retouching or special effects. Photographed in the courtyards of buildings or in streets in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, in Nanterre and in Biarritz, these young people were just being themselves, simply performing jumps in a modern urban setting. And the photographer shot the images, intervening only to give a few guidelines as to their movements. However, at the moment of the leap, chance and gravity also intervened.
Darzacq won a World Press Award in 2007 for his series La Chute, in 2008 he used the same technique to shoot the series Hyper, which is set in hypermarkets.
http://denis.darzacq.revue.com/
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Tags: athletes, dancers, hyper, hypermarkets, la chute, Paris, Photography, street photography
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