Proof that photographer and director are not one in the same. Mute this video less you want to hear something not unlike a Goo Goo Dolls song. If this is all what “living” covers are about, then save for the glorious resolution of the Red Camera, there’s not much beyond some weird borderline territory of shitty music video and softcore porn. To top it all off, the actual cover of “the sexiest woman alive” just plain.. sucks. Color me disappointed.

Rogers took the images on the anniversary of the deaths, at the exact moment they occurred, and in the precise position the car was before impact. Whereas some of the final photographs are rendered atmospheric by darkness, many reveal the rather banal landscape witnessed by the subjects in the final seconds before their deaths.


The series includes the deathplaces of artists and writers including Jackson Pollock, Albert Camus and Helmut Newton, and musicians such as Marc Bolan and Eddie Cochrane. It also features perhaps the world’s most famous car crash victim, Princess Diana.

Some of these shots really give the viewer a sense of the final glimpse these cultural figureheads had at the specific moment of death. I’m curious to see if the light for the photographs correspond to the time of impact.
[via CR]

Really enjoying the retro minimalist scheme here. Like new-wave biker chic’ meets Marble Madness. It’s funny how when talking about fashion, you can just hob-cobble a bunch of terms like that and it works.
[Rizon via WhiteZine]

Really shocking images captured in Australia of the dust storms sweeping across the country. These come courtesy of Tom Hide who braved the outdoors to capture the surreal surroundings. Suddenly I have an inkling to put on Total Recall.

Found out about Oliver Stahlmans via BT and really enjoyed this young photographer’s work. There’s this wonderfully unsettling feeling that sort lingers throughout these images.

Graphic designer Jonathan Puckey uses a plugin in Adobe Illustrator to create vectorized portaits based on the Delaunay Triangulation.Puckey is able to create these illustrations using the help of Scriptographer and Color Averaging by Jürg Lehni both plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator.

[Jonathan Puckey via 360]

Ken Murphy is capturing a year’s worth of timelapse sequences from atop San Francisco’s exploratorium – seen above is the first 42 days of his project -


“The earliest day is in the upper left, and consecutive days follow left to right, then down, with the most recent day in the lower right. It starts a little before sunrise, so it’s dark for the first few seconds:


Keep in mind that all of the days are synchronized, so at any given moment, you’re looking at the sky at the exact same time of day for each of the panels. The cascading effect at sunrise and sunset is caused by the variations in day length.”

[Make]

A project that took place over the course of several months and many many many shots, each taken at 6-minute exposures.

Working in the dark, dry highlands of Chile with a Nikon D3 digital camera (50 mm lens open at f5.6), Serge Brunier and Frédéric Tapissier patched together 1,200 photos of the night sky into the composite that you see above.


While many of the most stunning space images come from huge telescopes or Hubble, Brunier wanted to create photographs of space that were closer to the commonplace human experience of just going outside and looking at the sky.


“I wanted to show a sky that everyone can relate to — with its constellations, its thousands of stars, with names familiar since childhood, its myths shared by all civilizations since Homo became Sapiens,” Brunier said in a release. “The image was therefore made as man sees it, with a regular digital camera under the dark skies in the Atacama Desert and on La Palma.”

[Wired]

This past June, Esquire magazine did a “photoshoot” with Megan Fox via the Red One camera. Instead of a traditional still-camera, they opted to shoot motion video in incredible hi-res and pull their cover image from the footage. Well some months later, they’re upping the ante’ using Red’s newest baby –

The photographer-director grabbed the photos for our June issue — at four times the resolution of high-def — from that mouth-watering video a couple million people happened to notice. The camera folks from Red noticed, too.


“I had a feeling since the Megan Fox experience turned out to be so incredible, that the combination of Greg Williams and Esquire would be the perfect platform to reveal our next-generation equipment for the first time,” says Jarred Land, who holds the enviable title of Fire Chief at Red.


Having finished a prototype just two days before this summer’s scheduled shoot with Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive 2009, Land hand-delivered to Williams the first-ever RedOne camera outfitted with the Epic 5K Mysterium-X Sensor. You know, just a couple of tens of thousands of dollars worth of the world’s most advanced photographic equipment in your carry-on.

Is it wrong that what gets me all hot-and-bothered isn’t Megan Fox but the thoughts of this imminent evolution in video technology? Don’t answer that.
[Esquire]

The word electricity is thought to derive from the ancient Greek elektron, meaning “amber.” When subject to friction, materials such as amber and fur produce an effect that we now know as static electricity. Related phenomena were studied in the eighteenth century, most notably by Benjamin Franklin. To test his theory that lightning is electricity, in 1752 Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm. He conducted the experiment at great danger to himself; in fact, other researchers were electrocuted while conducting similar experiments. He not only proved his hypothesis, but also that electricity has positive and negative charges. In 1831, Michael Faraday’s formulation of the law of electromagnetic induction led to the invention of electric generators and transformers, which dramatically changed the quality of human life. Far less well-known is that Faraday’s colleague,William Fox Talbot, was the father of calotype photography. Fox Talbot’s momentous discovery of the photosensitive propertiesof silver alloys led to the development of positive-negative photographic imaging.


The idea of observing the effects of electrical discharges on photographic dry plates reflects my desire to re-create the major discoveries of these scientific pioneers in the darkroom and verify them with my own eyes.

Science + tech collide in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Lightning Fields series as he uses a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to directly apply electrical charge onto film.

[PotD]