Splash photogarphy takes a right turn...

I love slash photography, but this is the first time I’ve seen an artist using this technique to create unique flowers, some with their own liquid flower pots. The patient man behind this amazing art is Jack Long, a talented photographer who spends months planning and experimenting to create these stunning pieces.

Armed with patience, a high-speed camera probably a Canon 7D with a sharp lens or so and lots of paint, Jack Long set out to create a series of beautiful images called ‘Vessels and Blooms’ in which he tried to create liquid flowers out of colored paint droplets captured in mid-air. The skilled photographer had spent several months planning and testing different techniques in order to achieve the best results possible.

The clever artist uses water mixed with dyes, pigments and thickeners and as this cocktail is suspended in the air for just a split second, he takes high-speed photos hoping to capture the right moment. Jack won’t reveal the exact technique used to create his paint flowers...

You’re probably looking at these gorgeous liquid flowers and thinking wowwwwwwwwww, these are so Photoshopped or so and I don’t blame you, because this is how we exactly read images...we only see what we know..... but Jack Long says he uses the popular software just to clean up his photos and enhance them with basic tools. ’All of my images are created in one single capture. One picture. I do not make composites from multiple images, unless otherwise noted. All of my fluid flowers are as captured,” says the American photographer. He adds that the thing he likes most about his art is that it’s different from other splash photography.

want to know more about him....

Google him...lots and lots of experimental images is how he works!!

Christopher Boffoli's Mini people Giant Food

When i was a child, and i used play with my toy cars i used to imagine what if i could become so small that i could sit in my little toy cars and travel through my garden, what if be the glass down my foot become like trees upon me and used to imagine the ants be like of my size...

I came across the same experience the other day we were sitting in the class and we saw the video of some artist(that i can't recall) which was playing around the camera an if it was an Rc aeroplane...That video almost remind me of the time i use to play the same way... I came  across an artist that creates these remarkable little miniature sculptures of human in abnormal environments...

The miniature people inhabiting the fine art photographs show humans live in a world of enormous food. A place where towering ice cream cones are turned into camping tents, cycling on the bananas appear to be cycling on a hill and deep sea diver love to dive in a cup of tea.

Christopher Boffoli is a photographer, writer, artist and filmmaker.  Largely self-taught, he took up photography as a hobby in his teens, honing his skills as a student journalist in high school and college.  While still an undergraduate he started his own commercial photography...

Boffoli says his work comments not only on our fascination with miniature things, but on “the American enthusiasm for excess, especially in the realm of food.”

More fact coming your way 

• This year Americans will spend over $110 billion on fast food more than they'll spend on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.
  
  
• Every day about one quarter of the U.S. population eats fast food.
  
  
• Roughly 12% of all American workers have worked at McDonald's
• American children now get about one quarter of their total vegetable servings in the form of potato chips and French fries.
  
  
• The typical teenage boy in the United States now gets about 10% of his daily calories from soda.
• A fast food soda that sells for $1.29 costs the restaurant about ten cents, a markup of more than 1200 percent.
  
  
• McDonald's is now the nation's largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the second-largest purchaser of chicken in the U.S, 
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After looking at these facts these sculptures means more to me then just playing around with and idea of just living in your childhood But now these mini creatures silently sarcastically comment on humans being obsessive with food and junk culture.

 

 

 

Reference to the facts regarding American junk food culture  http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-204_162-326858.html

Mechenical Flip Books of Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion picture-projection projection. Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and a device for projecting motion pictures that per-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

One of his most famous works is this, now u get whom im talking about...

Now in 2011 kinetic artists Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel created mechanical flip books based on the works of Muybridge...These flip books are one of their kind flip books i had even seen, they up in the gallery and they perform for less than a minute of so, and then they are on loop...

I found these work really appealing in two ways 

1. They are a tribute to the artist Muybridge, for the exceptional part he  had played in upbringing the photography art to the world.

2.The artists has used an interesting solution to the flip books and an interesting way to present old works in new style.

 

Moreover the artists Marveland and Arnon explain:

Instead of a crank on the side, there’s a tiny motor that rotates the spindle and flexible cards flip by giving the illusion of moving pictures. Then we connect several boxes together and coax the flipping images to tell a little story in a scene that travels from box to box.

Check out these links for the videos on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/48901714
http://vimeo.com/48901716

Check out their website as well if u want to order your custom made flip book ;)
http://www.mechanicalflipbook.com/

Them and Us...

Born in California in 1971, Patrick Jacobs currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Jacobs earned his BFA from the University of West Florida in 1994 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.

He works with these diorama models which are made in a way to create an illusion of a landscape, his works are actually really impressive in a way that the objects he creates are made up of totally artificial material, but eventually they create a illusion of landscape....

How does he do it

He first set up the lenses, a platform for the scene behind the lenses and LED lighting. Using tweezers, pliers, brushes, knives. He builds the model while viewing it through the lenses. The scenes are both foreshortened and elongated to counteract the distortion of the lenses.

Materials used

He uses different types of hair, depending upon the piece. Fluffy dandelion seed heads, for example, are made out of various sizes of white hairs from cat fur. According to him a cluster can take weeks to complete...Damnn. Other materials include neoprene, wax, copper wire, and gampi tissue paper, vellum, paper clay, foam, and aluminum foil for creating plants, leaves, flowers as well as bodies of water and mountains. He also use hemp fibers and vellum for creating various sizes of grasses. Impressively most often the cheapest and the most available materials could do so much to the works he produces for making these piece...

 When i see works like these produced in the other parts of the world, being an artist i ask myself the question, why don't artists in Pakistan produce works that  are so impressive and uses technology...although this one does not uses so much of technology....for the answer i think its the galleries or the art collectors that vary from place to place...although in our times art is a global language(as they say), but eventually as we a under developed people have to some how think and create the works that could sell...Its because of the situation that surrounds us, the corruption, inflation, currency prices and so an so. Galleries and collectors only invest on the works that had the selling power in them..

Let me narrate this with an example...

These are the most well known contemporary Paki-based artist that works with experimental mediums

Hamra abass, Faiza Butt, Rashid Rana and a few of more including Nusra Latif...

These Paki based artist mostly live abroad, work abroad and sell abroad...May be that is the reason we living in Pakistan get to see very less work that falls under new media category.

Diaorama Photogarphy

I had spend all of my teenage and childhood fascinated by these dramatic scenes that had been shown in movies, For instance a scene in which  flood is coming and the buildings are cracking down due to earthquake...I had been wondering if the cinematographers had been spending so much on re-creating a distruction scene...not anymore
The technique used in creating such enormous scene is called Diorama or Diorama photography...well for this post i am posting some works of the Photographer Lori Nix...

These images has been created in a way that they look real but actually there are mini scape or mini sculptures that are set in a way that they look real...when i first  looked at these works it appeared to me so natural and was so keen to know more and more about it, the next time i post i would be looking forward to post about the images that look so dramatic that one could literally think that they are computer generated images but they are diorama photography images...looking forward to your suggestions.