Once again, McFarlane simply rotates a capture ninety degrees clockwise and catapults the viewer into a different universe.
28 December 2006
19 December 2006
No time like the past, by IrenaS
I love doing this kind of manipulation, and obviously a lot of other people do, too. But why? What is it about making an image look like a fifty-year-old photo that's been kicking around in somebody's dresser drawer for all that time? Part of the answer is that artists have always loved creating windows to new worlds. Personally, an image like this allows me to escape to a different time and place. I feel an emotional nostalgia for a place that never was, yet it feels as real as anything in my waking life. And that's it! Artists like IrenaS are dream makers. And to me, dreams are as essential as the air I breath.
13 December 2006
Safe-Harbor2, by Telzey
Photomanipulation collaboration by Telzey. Based on a photo by kunstkammer (Ray Fujioka).
12 December 2006
Ava and Andy, by Tom McFarlane
I'm not a fan of baby pics, but Tom has transcended the ordinary cute-baby photo. Those extraordinary eyes and the Mona Lisa smile convey a feeling of precocious intelligence, a knowing glance that says "I know that you know what I know."
11 December 2006
Between 2 jokes, by Tous les noms...
Tous les noms... is a very talented Parisian photographer who specializes in street portraiture. I appreciate his democratic approach to finding models: "Everyone is welcome. Everybody is interesting. Don't be shy."
fire bokeh, by marc_l'esperance
Strange creatures with twisted limbs of charred bark. Lots of beautiful nature photos today.
Natural Twist - Chantilly, by Marianne Le Carrour
Another common pattern in nature, reminds me of the shape of a hurricane on a weather satellite photo.
ice-crystals, by Nettan75
I used to think I wanted to be a scientist, and it always fascinated me how nature repeats the same patterns in completely different contexts. How feather-like these are.
"I'm afraid to say...", by Sandytrail
I'm surprised I don't see more shadows on flickr. This one seems especially poignant; the body language is wonderful.
07 December 2006
29 November 2006
The end is the beginning is the end, by IrenaS
Reminds me of Popeye with his huge forearms after eating spinach, but infinitely more strange and beautiful.
Dragonfly poetica, by cattycamehome
It's a rare species of bird
that refuses to be categorized.
Its song is barely audible.
It is like a dragonfly in a dream--
here, then there, then here again,
low-flying amber-wing darting upward
then out of sight.
And the dream has a pain in its heart
the wonders of which are manifold,
or so the story is told.
excerpt from "Dream On" by James Tate
that refuses to be categorized.
Its song is barely audible.
It is like a dragonfly in a dream--
here, then there, then here again,
low-flying amber-wing darting upward
then out of sight.
And the dream has a pain in its heart
the wonders of which are manifold,
or so the story is told.
excerpt from "Dream On" by James Tate
Lea13M, by Sylvestre001
This is whom I imagine Type O Negative was talking about in "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend."
27 November 2006
., by akiruna
There's been a long-running debate on the Flickr blog about whether artists should be allowed to upload photos of their work. Personally, I think it's an absurd argument - images are images and pixels are pixels. To try to distinguish between what is a "real" photo and what is not in the digital world is imho a futile exercise. For example, because akiruna painted this image, it would not qualify. But if this had been a weird puddle on a sidewalk and she snapped a photo, it would be kosher. Thus - my lack of concern for the origins of a particular work. The image in itself is what matters most.
26 November 2006
THOUGHTS OF YOUR FUTURE, by kwerfeldein
As long as I'm dwelling on my mortality... Something bothered me about it until I realized that it was the perfect symmetry - the bridge is a composite of the same image flipped. Very nice photomanipulation.
Grandpa 6, by EvilxElf
Expressive, heartwrenching candid portrait. Hard to look at this and not think that this might be me someday.
Bound for Distant Lands, by Telzey
Wonderfully textured manipulation that could easily be on the cover of an enya CD. Be sure to take a look at the original photo.
24 November 2006
. Dreaming Of The Winter Ships - Hibernation ., by 3amfromkyoto
One of the most beautiful self-portraits I've ever seen online (male or female), by Cambridge photographer Stuart Lee.
20 November 2006
Grand Ma, by Matsuo
A vintage photo captured by mistubako's grandfather. The entire set, Grand Pa Matsuo his Utopia, is worth the time to look at, as are mistubako's own photos.
winter, by gaubitsa
A wonderfully moody image that feels like it's 150 years old. Captured with a Holga toy camera.
15 November 2006
where's my (mind) ?, by POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
Erotic noir image. The focus on a lone glass on an empty table gives this composition a wonderful poignancy.
Vertical, by A. N.
Great color, composition, and bokeh. The emotional power of this image grows the longer I look at it.
life and death, by Fack to Bront
I've seen a lot of photos like this (all of which evoke the archetypal power of the tree), but this is one of the most beautiful.
Another Hannah Portrait, by Tom McFarlane
Tom is a superb photographer. As I said in a note to him, all I can say about this portrait is that it is simply stunning.
09 November 2006
Pearly dew drop drops, by IrenaS
Another beautiful image from IrenaS. Please take a look at the huge original to truly appreciate this.
05 November 2006
untitled, by peta
My eye was caught by her back muscles, and then by the necklace tail leading down the spine to the corset (with its extraordinary reflections). The hair and the bent elbow give the image a feeling of movement.
04 November 2006
31 October 2006
Spookylicious, by IrenaS
It's Halloween eve, the trick or treaters are just starting to knock, and I'm downstairs waiting & wandering around in flickrland. Just happened across this one by IrenaS, and it seems appropriate for tonight. Her photostream is superb and worth taking a look. She posts high res originals, so you can really appreciate the beauty of her work in detail.
30 October 2006
marikina 8 1006 copy, by myklmabalay
My favorite of the 500 Flickr Interestingness images for 28 October 2006. I don't have anything else to say about this that the image doesn't say already.
29 October 2006
untitled, by a_v_anna
Another favorite - a powerful image also worth looking at large. Captured by a young Russian photographer from Moscow.
086, by AvaScripts
I was going through my Flickr favorites from the past few weeks, and found this one. It's worth looking at large.
The Observatory (aka: The Dialogue), by panic-embryo
This is the kind of alchemy that renews my faith in photomanipulation. The bell jar, goldfish, moth, rusty pipes, scratches, watermarks, sepia-toning - all these elements combine to create a strange and wonderfully emotional image. (The only thing I would have done different is remove or mute the dust specks on the fish, a very minor complaint.)
28 October 2006
The Narcissist, by Tom McFarlane
I love the contrasts between soft and hard textures, the girl and her dress and the cracks in the wall and the dried flowers. Her expression is somewhere between these two opposites, between fantasy and reality.
26 October 2006
20 October 2006
The Dying BIases Against Photomanipulation and Digital Tools
I see so many teenage artists producing astonishing photomanipulations such as this. And it gives me hope that the digital cameras, scanners, and inkjet printers they use (with such seeming ease) will inevitably be accepted as legitimate tools of artistic creation. My suspicion is that this has already happened, despite the howlings of the old guard. (Throughout history, artists have taken advantage of the latest technology, and I don't see why digital tools should be an exception. I also suspect there are a lot of traditional artists out there who are closet Photoshop users.) I believe that someday, hopefully within my lifetime, people will not think it unusual at all to walk into a studio and see a paint-splattered optical mouse sitting right next to a jar of paintbrushes.
18 October 2006
women and self-portraits
I've noticed a large number of self-portraits by women on flickr.com, and I am amazed at their beauty and authenticity. They're human and real and display a wide range of complex emotions, not the empty stares of models with flawlessly Photoshopped skin. Maybe these self-portraits are partly a reaction to the way women are portrayed and objectified in a sex & porn-obsessed, male-dominated world; a way of saying "hey, look, this is me! This is who I really am." I would truly appreciate a female perspective on this topic....
The Narcissist, by Tom McFarlane
I laughed and almost inhaled my breakfast taco when I saw this one. I tend to gravitate to the dark and moody; but, once in a while an image like this pops me right out of my "Type O Negative" interior soundtrack.
17 October 2006
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