Category Archives: Artsy Eye Candy

A place for you to indulge on some visually pleasing pieces of art.
WARNING: Some images shown *will* glue your eyes to the screen, maybe permanently…

Colorschemedesigner- Endless Eye Candy Combo’s

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Don’t tell me your good at matching colours because you aren’t, so read on my chroma-hanpicapped friend. I recently traveled to New York to visit my cousin a couple of weeks ago, to which he introduced me to a collection of fantastic sites to make my life a little less complicated; Colorschemedesigner.com was one of them.

Colours can make you feel anxious, scared, happy or calm; they can be the catalyst to opening you up to a range of feelings and if used in the right way can be ascetically pleasing to the eye, so it’s important to master them. Experienced designers can intuitively tell what colour works well with another (they can smell them) and can also understand the relationships between the many different tints in a spectrum. Using complex algorithms, colorschemedesigners can choose perfect colour combinations for you, or to give you a general idea of what goes well with what- so take that you experienced colour expert people!

The image you see above is the result of me choosing the colour red after clicking the triad button; it instantly chooses two other colours to complement the one I have selected. Underneath you have a choice of picking out a preview of what the colours might look like on a webpage, you have two choices: The light page preview has a white background to it and (you guessed it) the dark page has a dark back drop to base the website on.

 Here you can see that i’ve chosen the light background and have been given an example of what it might look like on an actual web page, pretty cool no? You also have the choice to change the secondary colours by clicking the example webpage to get feel of what you want. You can apply this site-tool to numerous things: interior design, posters, screen prints, websites or (if you don’t have a fashion sense) selecting your own clothes. If your interested in checking the site out click on the link:colorschemedesigner

Clifton Harvey- Fusing Imagination with Reality

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Cartoons, whether we like it or not have impacted our lives in many ways, creating myths and expectations of the world; Clifton Harvey (a bloody talented individual) was so affected by the pathos of Mickey’s Christmas Carol (when Mickey places a crutch by Tiny Tim’s grave)that he decided to infuse those feelings with his work, by letting the viewer draw his/her own conclusions- a sort of photographic narrative that inflicts a feeling of nostalgia for something the viewer might have never experienced. This is what glued me to his work, the flexibility of interpretation over the “story line” was enthralling to me.

It was in college Harvey started his love affair with photography, a love that came about from his fixation on the cameras magical ability to freeze a moment in time. Along with the camera was his passion for illustration and by throwing both loves into the mixing pot he’s come up with a rather unique photography style. By digitally placing his figures into a photograph, it allows the mediums to collaborate with each other, creating a rather bizarre and mystifying effect; one that tugs on the sympathetic heart strings.

As he takes his pictures, Harvey has more on his plate to chew than your average photographer; not only is he tweaking with his ISO, he’s arranging the elements of his shot to serve as a reference for lighting and perspective so that he can build a dramatic stage for his characters to act upon. The culmination if his labor resulted in his thesis work called Left Behind, a “meditation on personal indignities and an allegory on the passing of childhood.” The graphic narrative approach of this work is later expanded on in two of his following series: The Conductor & Castaways.

The biblical passage from Matthew,“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” was a conceptual starting point for The Conductor series. Harvey asked himself “who are the meek and what happens when they inherit the earth?” from this he imagined an empty world only inhabited by creatures that are broken in both body and spirit. Among these creatures he pictured “a displaced corporate mascot, abandoned by a society that once revered him, a stilted beast of burden who has grown complacent with being manipulated, and a puddle-bellied brute fascinated with socks.” He drew upon influences such as comic books, films, cartoons like Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and the dark visions depicted in Goya’s Los Caprichos. Overall, The Conductor is a reflection on the many social strifes people face day-by-day, with themes of abandonment, humiliation, and disappointment in falling short of one’s ambitions and other’s expectations.

Castaways was conceived after Harvey discovered his old sketches marooned in a dusty drawing book of his; he thought of how his abandoned creations were never fully realised for at the time their potential was locked away, ready to be found in a distant future. So the perspective gained through the passing of time helped him fulfil these unrealised illustrations- this lead to the theme of the entire series: A dedication to the departed and an elegy for everyone left behind, hoping for a reunion in the imaginary places they miss.

If you like what you see, go check out the rest of his work here!

 

BioLite- Innovations for the modern wild man

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‘We need to talk’ is possibly the most dreadful foreshadowing of badness one human can throw upon another, but what about the less traumatising yet equally ominous ‘low battery’ shootout from your technological devices? I could argue that the latter is miles worse just because a fully functioning phone (gps, light and what have you) could mean life… or death. Lucky for us that problem can be addressed with some technical ingenuity- so without further adieu, let me introduce you to BioLite.

The five designers of BioLite have mated together a portable stove the size of a bottle with a gadget charger that utilises the excess heat from a fire. You can burn anything from sticks, twigs, pine cones and other renewable resources you have available; these fuels are a much better alternative to petroleum gas, and brings water to a steaming boil in practically no time at all.

The additional containment of the fire helps capture wasted potential energy and lessens the toxic smog an open wood fire creates due to incomplete combustion. The carefully designed stoves that implement fans to blow air into the fire can significantly improve combustion, but unfortunately such stoves require small amounts of electricity to power the fans, which sucks if your out in woods. BioLite however, resolves the problem by converting a fraction of the fire’s thermal energy into electrical energy, powering the fans and the devices you attach. Costing only $130 it practically sells itself but if you’re still not convinced watch the video below for more information. If you are interested in buying the product click on this word.

Lee Jeffries- Black & White Homelessness

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‘BOOM’ that’s the sound my mind makes when I see something absolutely brilliant, so it was no shock to me when the explosion sounded at the sight of Lee Jeffries emotionally filled black and white snaps. How Jeffries began picturing the underprivileged goes something like this: In 2008 Mr Lee was nothing more than an accountant and an amateur photographer, being particularly fond of running he entered a marathon in London, an event that would change his life.

On the day before the big race, he decided to wonder around the streets with his Canon 5D camera with attached EF70-200mm lens. As he neared Leicester Square, he spotted and aimed his camera at a young homeless woman, huddled in a sleeping bag surrounded by empty chinese food containers- he took the shot. Jeffries recounts what happens next, “She spotted me and started shouting, drawing the attention of passersby, I could have just walked away in an embarrassed state, or I could have gone over and apologized to her.” He chose the latter and crossed the street and sat with the woman.

The eighteen-year-old, whose complexion indicated she was abusing drugs, told Jeffries her saddening story: her parents had died, leaving her without a home, and she now was forced to live on the streets of London. This single moment had a profound ripple effect in Jeffries life, intensifying his focus on the subject matter of his street photography -to the homeless- and defining his approach to capturing pictures.

He didn’t want to exploit these people or steal photographs from them like so many others who’ve seen the homeless as easy pray. Instead, he would connect with them in order to create intimate portraits that reveal an all-to-human story. Jeffries says, “I need to see some kind of emotion in my subjects. I specifically look at people’s eyes—when I see it, I recognize it and feel it—and I repeat the process over and over again.”

Keeping the conversations as informal as possible, Jeffries rarely takes nots as he believes it might raise some suspicion, blocking some of the more natural expressions; so he takes his pictures while talking with them and doing so enables him to freeze those “real emotions” within his subjects with the click of a button. “I’m stepping into their world,” he says. “Everyone else walks by like the homeless are invisible. I’m stepping through the fear, in the hope that people will realize these people are just like me and you.”

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Neverwet- Scare liquids away from your shirts, shoes & everything else

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Don’t you find it funny that people 500 years ago would have uttered such things to each other as “thy flying machine wilt nev’r happen, thou bro” when today we laugh at their lack of imagination and primitive tech. So now guys, when i tell you about this new product that actively repels water off of any surface, (meaning you can coat it on your phone and take a call underwater if you wish) don’t you say ‘Silly, that will never happen’ or cough ‘impossible’ because it’s happened! Ross Technology who faced the challenge of stopping undersea pipeline rust discovered this silicon-based spray, which they smartly realized can be applied to an infinite number of things; thus NeverWet was born.

Basically NeverWet works by harnessing the power of fear, or rather, angled microscopic nanoparticles to force the water to cluster together into a droplet. The angle of the nanoparticles is all important, and is what divides the waterproof or water resistant from the super-hydrophobic. For a surface to be hydrophobic it must have a contact angle of 150 degrees- NeverWet has a contact angle as high as 165 degrees. The benefits are not only dryness and saving a killing from laundry costs, but also improving ones own health since bacteria thrive in watery conditions. Superman can ricochet bullets but really, who needs that power when you can deflect deadly stains, spills and warmongering bacteria? I’ve laid out below a few videos which better explain the effectiveness of  NeverWet, and a link to the site where you can get this miraculous product: http://www.neverwet.com/

Julia Dunin- Traveling Faces

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My first order of business is to share with you an artist i found while searching for some delectable beats on Youtube; the picture of the song (shown below) put me on a little quest to discover the original owner. I had to wade through a bunch of random sites to find her but it eventually paid off- this is how i met the talented Julia Dunin. There wasn’t much information about her so i decided to get in touch, she happens to be a delightful and willing victim to all my many questions.

I asked her about her upbringing and discovered that It was rough living in Warsaw, Poland during the 80′s. Riots were breaking out after the end communism, economic instability ensued and martial law declared- this was the time when Julia was born. When she was 16 she got herself an old camera, a “rather not impressive one, since living wasn’t easy” and started experimenting with Photoshop for fun.

So started her love for photography, a passion tenderly fostered to become a integral part of her own life. The heroin addict has his needle, Julia has her camera and states that “Its a kind of addiction, that you cant imagine living without,” and a much healthier one at that! She also added that she has a tattoo to remind her to get her daily photography fix.

After maturing her relationship with the camera she looked into becoming a freelance photographer, which goes along with that lovely saying ‘follow your bliss.’ Staying versatile in her shooting, she’ll do anything from capturing weddings, portraits to interior spaces and anything else she finds interesting or artistically quirky. She shoots in RAW format, which gives her more control over color correction and processing on the computer, allowing her to place a part of herself in every shot.

Her current camera companion is a D300 but already she dreams of another more adept partner in crime: the Nikon D800. The other part of her merry camera crew are the Nikkor and Tamron lenses along with the Nikon SB900 lamp (although she prefers natural light.) She’s been trying to build her own unique style of photography, basing it upon many influences (a list too long to be named) and searches for more throughout the vast expanding universe of the internet and in galleries she stumbles across in her travels.

She is currently in Ireland, having a whale of a time and sharing that enjoyment through her lovely pictures- if you guys want to check out her travel blog it’s http://ilovegalway.wordpress.com/ On top of picture taking she’s been involved in some graphic design just as a means to realizing her potential. “I just need to create and be creative, i found a lot of things i really want to do (i.e., decoupage,) but feel like i need to focus on photography and graphic design instead.” For other down time activities she loves “cooking, Meeting friends, going to parties, that is what makes me who I am – a trully, 100% life-lover!” If you enjoy her work, take a look at more on her website!

Lego espionage- How to break into a building

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Are you some sort of bad ass spy or at least think you are? Here is one highly original way you can break into a building to steal whatever documents or cigars you need- all with the amazing versatility of Lego’s! This scene was taken off of a 1979 Danish movie called The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders, click on the title if your interested in knowing more.

Extreme Knitting- Looped madness

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Loop after loop Agata Oleksiak crochets anything that enters her bubble; even people! Olek was born in Poland and graduated with a degree in Cultural Studies, she moved away from the ” industrial, close-minded Silesia,” a region in Poland, when she rediscovered her crochet abilities while in New York- where she’s been knitting art ever since.

She has stated that she chose to crochet as a means to do two things at once: to watch movies and make some great art. She has been quoted saying, “Life and art are inseparable. The movies I watch while crocheting influence my work, and my work dictates the films I select.” I’d do the same to keep myself interested for the many hours of knitting to be done.

Her artistic goal is to bring renewed color, life and energy with a splash of surprise to a living space- presenting these spaces to the public. Her installations covering some very iconic structures, such as the business district bull.


She often collaborates with neighborhoods to highlight the, “economic and social reality in our community,” and takes advantage of New York’s many diversified areas to do so.

Olek’s work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Harlem; Istanbul to Venice; Poland and Brazil- her work has also been featured in many great magazines and newspapers around the world. If you like what you see go check out her site!

Philippe Ramette- WARPED REALITY

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Believe it or not, his works aren’t created on Photoshop, even though they have the gravity defying features commonly done up on the program. French artist Philippe Ramette adheres to his philosophy that nothing should be faked, which is why you’ll notice little incongruities throughout his pictures: “You see a tension in my hands, my red face is far from serene as the blood rushes to it, my suit is ruffled.”

Ramette sculpted his way to fame in the 90′s as part of the French contemporary art scene; creating odd wooden and metal objects & instruments. The next logical step in his career was photography, and through it he has created a strange, neo-romantic universe, using well planned, yet utterly irrational situations. His works seem to create a statement about gravity, weightlessness and man’s relationship to the landscape.

Ramette still sees himself as a sculptor and goes to extraordinary lengths to create his highly implausible set-ups, building hidden metal supports that he calls “sculpture-structures”. He has metal rings tethered to him by the ankles as he hangs from buildings, and metal seats hidden by his suits jut out from cliff sides to hold him up; all of these recreated from sketches that he considers storyboards- this is probably why his photographs have been compared to the work of Buster Keaton and the world of silent cinema.

The image you see above was shot in the middle of Hong Kong’s harbour, the inspiration of this scene came to him in a dream in the early 90′s. For the shot, a watertank served as an underwater float for the balcony and was put in place by a barge and crane; Ramette then secured his feet on supports, leaned back and clung to the wood. During the initial attempts, he was soaked by waves and had to swim to safety.

Yearning for the effect of absolute, implausible serenity Ramette dives under the waves for his series Rational Exploration Of The Undersea, which was set off of the coast of Corsica. Wearing lead weights under his suit and around his ankles, he hired a team of divers to supply him with oxygen when needed. Waiting for the bubbles and the divers to move out of frame, Ramette’s team would capture the effect of stillness. Ramette has commented on the experience saying, “there I was in a suit on the seabed, weighed down and able to walk underwater as if on land, unaffected by the currents. For me, that was a real pleasure.”

If you enjoy his works, you can see more picture here!

Ray Villafane- The pumpkin king

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This is a bit late but i thought it’d be worth the share for the next Halloween season. I know you artsy bunch are out there, so to inspire you to make something astonishing for the spooky season, here is Ray and is amazing pumpkin sculptures!

He was born in Queens, New York and at a very young age showed a natural flair to the arts; a passion that his mother fostered, motivating him to pursue it as a career. He became a teacher and from 1993 to 2006 Ray taught art to grade K-12 students in Bellaire, Michigan. It was during this time he decided to play around with pumpkin sculpting, initially as a fun project for his students and himself.

His popularity grew with the students’ parents as he started getting requests for custom-carved pumpkins; this made him realize he was on to something and so he started offering them to local hotels and restaurants- it soon became his fall hobby for several years.

His pumpkin sculpting hobbies were brought to an entire new level in 2007 when he was contacted by High Noon Entertainment and asked to participate in the Food Network’s Challenge Show, Outrageous Pumpkins. Ray competed as one of four professional pumpkin sculptors, impressed the judges enough to sweep all three rounds and was awarded the Grand Prize. Outrageous Pumpkins logged the highest ratings of any other Challenge episode, and a second invitation was extended to Ray in 2009. They wanted him to come back and defend his title in their Outrageous Pumpkins Challenge II. Ray defended his 2008 title and took home the 2010 Grand Prize from the Food Network’s Pumpkin Challenge II.

The ensuing exposure of Rays unique talent and creativity ushered in a whole new appreciation for pumpkin “carving”, and his artistic take on the traditional jack-o-lantern has granted him invitations from across the globe for VIP Galleries (Very Impressive Pumpkins). From the President’s Quarters in the White House to Bermuda’s Sousa’s Gardens, Ray’s pumpkins have gathered a cult-like following. He also does some very impressive sand sculptures as well as making some fantastic looking collectables.

If your interested in more of Rays’ magnificent pumpkins, go check out his site!

Ron Dudley- Capturing winged grace

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Oh man, i was riding the internet surf looking for some good nature photographers and found Ron Dudley’s awesome feathery pictures! He does to birds what Yoshika Sakai does to flowers, meaning the shots he takes are some of the best I’ve ever seen. He shows a unique side to the avian crew, a side people don’t often get to see, capturing their beauty, fortitude and strength perfectly. Ron needs a big pat on the back for these.

He has always had an interest in nature and forms a deeper understanding with it through the sciences- his college major was in biology & zoology which he later taught in high school for 33 years. Once he retired, nostalgic cravings for his science returned and he decided to give photography a whirl, as an avenue to peruse his interests without the stress of the work place. His interest in the behavior and beauty of birds made them a perfect subject to observe with his camera lens. Starting with zero skills to becoming a photographer of this caliber took determination and a financial hit in the face as he had to buy the proper lenses for the job.

Getting close to his air sailing subjects is no easy feat, he uses his pickup truck to get close since birds are less apprehensive about a vehicle approaching than they are a person. Finding the birds are another daunting task he has to undertake,  occasionally he reads up the birding listservs to get an idea of where is subjects are located, then goes off to investigate. He normally leaves to camp, taking advantage of his prime location which is close to the bird-rich wetlands surrounding the Great Salt Lake, the Wasatch Mountains and the west desert of Utah. Patience is a key ingredient in all of this, camping out and waiting for the opportune moment to snag a sweet shot- as you can see, it pays off in Rons’ pictures.

He uses a Canon 7D (nice) for his shots, and attaches a Canon F4L with a Canon 1.4 teleconverter, which allows him the ‘reach’ needed to capture his subjects. Roughly 10% of his shots are with a tripod, using a Gitzo GT3530LSV with full Wimberly head which is stable and lightweight enough to capture birds in flight. As stated before, bird photography is no easy task, Ron will normally shoot up to 16gigs worth of images (600 high-def photo’s) and does the most unloved part of any photographers job: herding the quality shots. Out of the 600, he usually only saves about 50 of which he uploads to his blog because of they’re expression of interesting behavior or beauty. He’s unbelievably happy when he gets at least 2 mega wicked sweet shots.

Ron does very little post processing, trying to present the birds as he saw them; obsessively trying to get the colors and light to look as natural as possible since he never uses flash. He’s not a fan of over saturated images that over blow the beautiful natural colors of the birds. Usually he just crops and makes small exposure adjustments in ACR and imports to photoshop to apply sharpening to the bird and the perch. He rarely does any saturation tweaks, only if the picture was captured in low light or fog.

He has been influenced by a variety of people, most of whom are not known for their avian shots. Those influences include: Frank and John Craighead, Edward Abbey, Doug Peacock and Terry Tempest-Williams. Also, his two mentors Mia McPherson and Richard Ditch who taught him everything he knows today. If you enjoy Ron’s work, you got to go check out his amazing collection of photographs on his site!

Hakan Ludwigson- architectural wonder shots

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If an original location is desired, Hakan Ludwigson knows where to find it since he’s one very well traveled man. It’s because of his worldly know-how he keeps his shots exotic and fresh, never letting the viewer get dulled by the same forms and environments.

The most recurring themes of Ludwigson’s include cars and architectural oddities, which when mixed in with his colorful style of picture taking results in some amazing photography! Ludwigson was born in 1948 in a quaint little town on the west coast of Sweden, after which he moved to Gothenburg in 1968 to start his photography studies.

His career started in 1975 when he started to professionally shoot for advertising and fashion companies, and was soon inspired by journalistic photography, architecture and cars. These have now become the pillars of which he based his current projects with the inclusion of his most recent rewarding passion for portraits.

Some of his clients include Condé Nast Traveller, Volvo Trucks,  Aqvavit, Fritidsresor, GEO, Oprah Magazine and Audi. He is represented by Agent Bauer in Sweden and Snyder & Co. in New York.

If your interested in his works go check out this link for more!

Ron Mueck- Creating giants

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Hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck is one gifted fellow, who’s currently working in Great Britain. Early on in his career Mueck started making models and worked as a puppeteer for a childrens television show called Shirl’s Neighbourhood and later worked on the film “Labyrinth” for which he played the voice of Ludo.

He went on to establish his own company in London, creating animatronic and ultra realistic props for the advertising industry. To much of Muecks frustration, these realistic props we’re only needed in one angel, so most of the “sculpture” was not completed. He wanted to move on to bigger things, which meant creating photo-realistic sculptures which looked perfect on every angle.

He did just this, reflecting the human form quite flawlessly by detailing the most minute features, even though he played with the scales of the bodies which produced some sensational visual images-as you can see. His first five meter sculpture, Boy (1999) was featured in Millennium Dome and then later exhibited in the Venice Biennale.

After awhile, Mueck grew tired of using Latex as his medium of choice so he ventured to find a new type of material and luckily he did when he saw a small archtectural decor hanging on the wall of some nameless boutique. It was fiberglass resin, which has become from that day forth his bronze and marble.

The most ambitious work to date would have to be Muecks Pregnant Woman, a 2.5 meter high sculpture that incarnates the exhausting 9 month process of child birth. Some viewers feel intimidated when first seeing this gigantic model of our own “mothers” but after awhile this “majestic Earth Mother becomes familiar, unthreatening and endearing.” Mueck labored tirelessly for 3 months to complete this work, mimicking a single female model begining when she was six months pregnant. Most of her form was made from his prized fiberglass but the face, however, is made with silicone so that the eyebrows and hair could be punched in with greater ease. Miniscule needles were involved to painstakingly punch in the human hairs in dull repetition.

His many works have been exhibited in major galleries in New York, Germany and not to mention the selection for London’s Millenium Dome which has now moved on to become the subject of a solo exhibition in the cities highest profield contemporary space: The Anthony d’Offay gallery. If you enjoy viewing his amazingly out of scale (oversized or undersized) versions of us, then check out this site for more info!

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Christopher Jonassen- Pan fried moons

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Wow, at first i thought i was looking at planets or one of Jupiter’s moons; my jaw dropped when i discovered that this series, Devour, is an investigation into worn-out frying pans! I’m really glad i found Christopher- he’s got quite a quirky, deep style to all his pictures.

Jonassen was born in 1978, graduated from the University of Sydney with a masters degree in design and is now an internationally recognized fine-art photographer based in Norway. He tends to stick to personal projects, exploring the artistic subtleties of the world close to home.

He delves into themes that seem to reflect the moments that are silent, frozen while time washes over, moving at it’s own pace. He captures emotions, using the objects we use to express them and picturing them so well that you can almost feel them for yourself.

He immortalizes natures fleeting, stunning hues as they fall away for winter time, letting us savior the magical qualities of all the seasons. Finally, he takes a snapshot of the reveries we have on existence, those brief moments of meditation, where we see the whole universe within ourselves; on top of all of this is the fact that he does it all so beautifully.

If you like his works, you got to go and click on this right away so you can see more of his stuff. Hope you enjoy!

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Facebook Shoes

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Are you obsessed with social networking? Now you can take it to a whole new level of creepy- no, not by stalking more friends or subscribing to unknowns, but by representing Facebook or Twitter as a fashion statement. Check out these concept shoe designs for Adidas by Gerry Mckay, unfortunately the MySpace editions had to be discontinued haha.

The fresh new Adidas Facebook Superstar’s come in a bright FB blue and even features the networks logo on the heel and tongue. If your unsure of what the slogan is, I’ve got it for you here: “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.” The Twitter design comes in tame Twitter colors, with the twitter bird logo chilling on the heal. I love Adidas but this would just diminish their reputation, they would loose a Facebook friend if they followed this to the end.

I wonder though, do the shoes tweet the number of steps it’s taken or check into the places it’s gone (In David’s garbage with empty coke can and old toothbrush) to? The real question is: How did it get this far?

Stereographic photography

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Discovered this new approach to photography today, it’s called stereographic projection and I’ve got to say, it’s pretty damn cool. I decided to go around the net and fish for some of the best looking ones out there; this is how i bumped into Gadl and his amazing series of stereographic pictures called ‘Wee planets’. Below you’ll see a collection of his works and others.

I got to say Gadl is clearly an expert in this field, for he explains the complex theory behind the planet making process beautifully. It still took me awhile to get my head around the whole thing, but it eventually sunk in and now I’m eager to go out shooting my very own. If you own an iPhone you can get an application called ’360′, that captures the panorama then stitches it into a stereographic, it’s pretty great.

Check out Gadls’ link for more information on how this works and to view more of his reality twisting photos. Oh, and I found a couple of YouTube videos to help visualize the stereographic projection concept and to show you how create your own awesome planets, just click on the titles: Stereographic Projection, Stereographic Projection of Riemann Sphere and 360 degree Panorama Photography tips and editing (This is a great video!)

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Pokemon revamped

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I’ve found two artist who know how to warp the original, manga-looking Pokemon that we hold so dear to our hearts into fantastical renditions of what they would be if they existed here in our detailed world or in our nightmares.

Gavin Mackey’s vision of the super-powered creatures lie in the world of bad ass horrors and twisted forms-I used to imagine myself living with Pokemon, now i realize it would be a freakish world of levitating psychic creatures, magma spewing fiends and massive walking vine whipping onions. The first two pictures you see belong to this scarily awesome realm of Gavins Pokemon imagination.

He is currently taking in requests from anyone, so go ahead and send him your favorite Pokemon so he can morph them into what they really are: terrifying monsters. Check out his gallery, you can find anything from Gastly, Bulbasaur as well as Patric from Spongebob SquarePants. The Togepi is probably the most nightmarish thing you’ll ever see, it’s pretty shocking how deranged it is. If your interested in his work click on this! (Just found out that he’s closed his commissions from his deviantART account for the time being, so you cant request works but you can still view them!)

Alysia Prosser, also known as Leashe is the the second Pokemon artist. She does less nightmare and more fantasy, staying close to the manga but tweeking the child-like monsters into a more adult friendly form. She has sets of epic battles; clashes with entire species of Pokemon, which is  inanely intense to look at, especially because you know the moves their using in the pictures- like above Steelix has to watch out, Altaria is using hyper beam!

People should try to get the makers of Pokemon to produce a new movie with these sorts of illustrations, that would create a new era for Pokemon. This way the children’s show can become an adult oriented one, where maybe Brock can actually get some nurse Joy action and the Pokemon more fearsome and brutal. If you like Leashes’ work click on this link!