Awesome portrait photography by David Olkarny from Brussels, Belgium. Besides doing photography, David studies moviemaking as a cameraman & editor.
Tip: Turn on your volume when you visit David’s homepage: I love that song!
Awesome portrait photography by David Olkarny from Brussels, Belgium. Besides doing photography, David studies moviemaking as a cameraman & editor.
Tip: Turn on your volume when you visit David’s homepage: I love that song!
Meeting the world’s great hand-block printing artisans on a recent trip to northern India’s Rajasthan, photographers Andrea Gentyl & Martin Hyers (NY) documented how they create an array of striking designs, all printed using intricately carved teak blocks and richly colored pigment dyes.
via Happy Mundane
To launch their 2011 “Go Forth” campaign, Levi’s collaborated with Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils to create a series of portraits of local “modern day pioneers” on walls in Berlin. Using explosives to unveil the portraits, Vhils did not only create great murals but also an impressive action sequence with carries the empowering statement “Now is our time”.
(Click through to YouTube to watch in HD and full screen!)
The street murals feature community organizer Fadi Saad, who is working with immigrant teenagers to help them acclimatise to German society, artist duo Various & Gould, photographer Sven Marquardt and Joe Hatchiban, who hosts large outdoor karaoke shows in the city.
– Fadi Saad: Revalerstrasse 99
– Various & Gould: An der Schillingsbruecke
– Sven Marquardt: Postdamer Str. 151
– Joe Hatchiban: Chausseestr. 36
Also check out the Making-of.
Let The Arts Roam documents recent work of street artists El Mac and Retna for a school in Los Angeles. The video portrait is part of the I Am Los Angeles project by Joris Debeij.
Wherever they go, they try to make something that makes sense for the neighborhood, and the community. And they always make something positive, something the artists hope people can enjoy — regardless of whether life has greeted them with great fortune. Armed with a vision and their cans of spray paint, El Mac and Retna will transform a forgotten wall into a piece of art.
Eric Fischer created the heat map series „See something or say something” that shows where people post geotagged photos to Flickr and geotagged tweets to Twitter from.Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures, blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets, white dots are locations that have been posted to both.
French digital communication agency Dagobert created this well-done self-promotion video to illustrate the combativeness of the team.
By the way, the design-oriented website of the agency is also definitely worth taking a look at.
Another brilliant illustration by Christoph Niemann for Abstract Sunday.
This excellent video travelogue by Ruslan Fedotow lets you glimpse into Syrian life, people and land. Ruslan is a student of the Belarussian Academy of Arts.
If you like this video, be sure to check out the Egypt & Lebanon Montage by Khalid Mohtaseb.
No more excuses not to use the manual mode of your cameras! Great infographic by Miguel Yatco from Manila, Philippines.
In this inspiring, charming and funny talk from the Creative Mornings monthly breakfast lecture series, illustrator Christoph Niemann dances across everything from finding happiness at work to what it takes to have a good idea to the myth of “talent” to how to overcome writer’s block.
See more of Christoph’s brilliant work on his site or his NYT blog Abstract City.
Via Brain Pickings