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STA Travel Australia sent 3 mates, Rick Mereki, Andrew Lees and Tim White on an amazing journey around the world.
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage. All to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food into 3 beautiful and compelling short films. See a six-week journey of a lifetime crammed into one epic minute. (movies after the jump).

Rick Mereki’s videostream on Vimeo
Tim White’s photostream on Flickr

Infinite Space, a new documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.

Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner’s dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Other voices join him: comments from Frank Gehry and his peers who were influenced by Lautner, the emotional memories of original clients, owners and builders, the remarks of Frank Escher, the architect who restored the Chemosphere house, and Julius Shulman who famously photographed all the great modernists.

http://www.infinitespacethemovie.com/
John Lautner books

Ben Stockley is an English photographer who has earned acclaim as a contemporary artist, editorial & advertising image-maker. Spanning landscape and portraiture, making the ordinary extraordinary. His work takes him anywhere from the United Arab Emirates to Hackney Central in London’s East End.

Editorial’s include AnOther, Big, Vogue, Wallpaper and i-D.  He recently exhibited at National Portrait Gallery (London) and at Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (France).

http://www.benstockley.com

Jason Nocito, 1973, USA, is a rock, lifestyle and fashion photographer living and working from New York. At a young age he started taking pictures of bands and his friends hanging out at concerts. He studied photography at the Parsons School of Design and graduated in 1996. Nowadays Jason shoots campaigns for big clients as Apple, Nike and MTV. He has seen various celebrities and musicians in front of his camera as Emile Hirsch and Mary Kate Olsen. His photography is full of vibrance, youth and a sense of freedom.

http://jasonnocito.com/
Jason Nocito: Loads (Tiny Vices 3)

Jonnie Craig (born July 13, 1988) is a British photographer based in London who began taking photographs aged 16. In 2007, following a recommendation from American photographer Ryan McGinley, Craig began working with Vice Magazine, where he continues to contribute regularly. In February 2009, Craig had his first book published with Mörel books. He recently exhibited a new body of work at the Steinsland Berliner Gallery with fellow artists Ed Templeton, Jerry Hsu and Kevin Long. Craig is currently Photo Editor of HUH.Magazine, a UK based arts and culture magazine. In August 2010, Craig curated an exhibition at the Scion Gallery in Los Angeles including artists like, Peter Sutherland, Jerry Hsu and Patrick O’Dell.

http://www.jonniecraig.com/

Buy Jonnie Craig Untitled

Magdalena Pardo was born in 1982. She lives in Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city of Argentina.
She studied audiovisual arts, but actually works as a graphic/web designer.

http://www.magdalenapardo.com.ar/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magsexploringherworld/

Live fast, love hard, die happy. That is the purpose of Théo’s photography work. He lives in Amiens, France and wants to use photography to show the reality of life through the eyes of a normal young man, his own eyes, without set-ups. His work is mostly composed of portraits introducing the people that are important to him, in places that have special or familiar atmospheres. He also likes to capture the image of people with a very particular style, or ordinary ones. His favorite lights are sunrise and sunset because it gives his vision of the world a more exotic and colorful perspective. I couldn’t agree more.

http://theo-gosselin.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46799990@N04/

In 1975, when Hugh Holland first began photographing the skateboarders in southern California, he had already been living in Los Angeles for nine years. His interest in photography had developed in the mid-sixties as a 20-year-old living in his native state of Oklahoma. Except for a college job working in a photo lab, Holland had no formal art education. He spent years training his eye by shooting photographs and working with the images.

It wasn’t until after returning from a trip to Spain in 1968 and settling into what would become a career in West Hollywood as an antique finisher, that he began to seriously pursue photography. He made a dark room and began shooting everything that came into sight, especially people.

In 1975, driving up Laurel Canyon Boulevard one afternoon, Holland encountered his first skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. He knew he had found his subject. Although not a skateboarder himself, Holland for the next three years never tired of capturing on film the burgeoning culture he was witnessing. However, by 1978, the scene had become more commercial, and Holland’s documentation of the skateboarders came to its natural end.

Hugh Holland’s “Angels” series was first shown at M+B in Los Angeles in early 2006. Following the success of the show, the work was shown in Paris and New York City. Additionally, American Apparel has used Holland’s skateboarding photographs for their publicity campaign and a new monograph of the artist’s work is currently being published by Grey Bull Press. It is due out in late 2008. Hugh Holland currently resides in San Francisco and continues to photograph.

http://www.hughholland.com

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Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul By Orlando von Einsiedel

Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.

The Boys From Ponta Preta By Thierry Albert and Marcus Werner Hed

Set on the Cape Verde islands off the western coast of Africa, this short film shows how three young men struggling with the country’s limited opportunities took the tourists’ sport of kitesurfing and made it their own – with one even becoming world champion. Titik, Mitu and Djo explain how they spent their early days skipping school at the beach and learning from the global surf community any way that they could. Now they have set up a surf school that teaches the tourists, and offers hope to others who are stuck in the island’s slums.

Cult Youth By Coco Wang and Mi You

This is an insider’s view of Beijing’s underground comic art scene and follows five members of the comic group “Cult Youth”. Combining film with animation, the documentary depicts the lives, works and personalities of these struggling and engaging artists. Set against the background of the oppressive publishing industry in China, Cult Youth celebrates the benefits of shared creativity.