Photogrammar
“From 1935-1944, the Farm Security Administration — Office of War Information undertook the largest photography project ever sponsored by the federal government.”
Photogrammar is the result of the crossover between an historical photographic archive and great visualizations techniques and design.
The photos can be searched not only by the Lot Number system and Classification Tags system but also visualized by location, photographer, in a treemap or a metadata dashboard. Visualization by hue, saturation and lightness is under development.
The Renewed Art of Embroidered Photographs
via The Design Observer Group
“I happen to own several actual photographic postcards from the turn of the last century that have been embroidered. These paper cards are embellished with decorative embroidered stitching that were created for tourists, and most of these seem to have come from Spain, Portugal, Germany and other European countries. More recently, an Italian born artist by the name of Maurizio Anzeri has found great success with his embroidered photographs, obviously inspiring a few other artists to take the needle and thread to photographic images. Anzeri’s work is gorgeous, bringing with it elements of extraordinary design and such masterful perfection it makes me feel as if it were created by computer — not that I find that detracting. If it is done by hand, one stitch at a time, that’s great. If he uses a computer program to create his stitching — that’s fine too. It’s ingenious work.”
Read full article by John Foster
Box
by Bot & Dolly
“Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera.”
Zoey and Jasper – a rescue dog and her little boy
via Visual News
“Jasper is a spunky little 10 month old Chinese-Korean kid with loads of character and a big happy smile. Zoey is a rescue dog that had a rough start. Born in front of a small store in Taiwan, she was literally washed into the gutter before a schoolgirl rescued Zoey and her sibling (…)”
Read full article here.
Follow Jasper and Zoey’s Tumblr here.
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Relics of Technology, as photographed by Jim Golden. Few things stand for ‘technical’ as crisply as reel-to-reel tape decks do, but I’m also partial to the obsessive placement of Zip disks or Beta videocassettes. (via The Verge)
En un xip Multicolor
by Xip Multicolor
“The film tells the unusual story of Neil Harbisson, a sonochromatic cyborg who sees in black and white. He wears an Eyeborg device on his head to "hear” colours. He hopes one day to have a magnetic implant. Watch the documentary to see how he deals with his situation!“
Find out more about Neil and his work here.
Neil Harbisson’s First colour-conducted concert
by Vodafone Firsts
“Composer Neil Harbisson invites you to recognise colour through sound in his #First colour-conducted concert.”
Sculpting Paint With Sound, in Sculptures for Canon by Dentsu London
via Fast Company
“Canon tries to reinvigorate its Pixma brand by celebrating the beauty of ink.”
