Archive for January, 2008

The Human Clock / The Human Calendar

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I wish I’d stumbled upon this earlier, but now I finally have and can share it with you all. It’s a photo project/website/application called the Human Calendar. With photos of various people holding pieces of paper pronouncing the month, day of the week, and numerical day, they face different directions when the date changes so that they are all looking at the person holding the current day. You can even get a smaller version to put on your MySpace if you’d like. Click on the image to check out the website to read about how it came to be, who the people in the photos are, and see the calendar in action every day.

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project is a collaborative work by 96 artists. Together, they created 118 prints, each one pertaining to a specific element on the periodic chart, via any medium – woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or a combination. Together, the piece was meant to promote both science and art, and I for one think it’s genius. Individually, I don’t love every single one, or at least I wouldn’t pick them out to hang on my wall, but together, it’s quite the unique collaborative work.

Self-Taught Photographer Feature

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Came across this artist’s shop page when perusing back posts on the Urban Outfitters blog today. She describes herself as a mostly self-taught photographer with some nurturing and training from two family photographers. Based out of Florida, she takes beautiful, simple photographs of vintage trinkets, natural objects, and flowers thus far. Her images look incredibly vintage for being so modern and I am completely in love with them.

You = NYLON

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

At NYLON yesterday I went through some reader-submitted “street style” photos. Although there weren’t too many sent in, those that we got were pretty decent so we put together a gallery and posted them on the site. For a header, I made this:

Perfectly Penned Pictures

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I came across this on BoingBoing today and this guy’s work is amazing. Juan Francisco Casas creates large-scale works of art using only a ballpoint pen in his latest series of work. The graphics are so starkly perfect, they look almost like photographs themselves.