Yes yes, I have been somewhat neglectative (is that even a word? Spellcheck says no…) of Stella Was A Diver of recent times. I’m sorry. I have many a-project on the go in work life , in regular life and all forms of life betwixt.
If you hop on over to my new photo blog one photo each day you will see that, in an attempt to get back into doing photography, I am documenting my entire life by taking one photo each day.
I am now also writing all about social media goodness and creativeness on a new collaborative project. That link will follow when there’s a bit more content and stylings sorted.
On the weekend, I “did some culture” and visited the National Portrait Gallery to see, as I do every year, the Photographic Portrait Prize. There’s some amazing photography there, go see it while you can. Some of my favourites below…
(note that the colours and prints are much more incredible “in real life”)
I also made it to The Photographers Gallery, happily settled in its new backstreet Soho home. What a lovely venue. Slightly depressing exhibition subject matter at the moment, however.
Tomorrow, I am very much looking forward to going to see Shutter Island (hooray for having film clients!), there’s some trailerlove for you below. Looks good, no? AND I intend to check out Damien Hirst’s new exhibition at White Cube Hoxton soon. Seeing as I can see it from my desk I think “why not?!”
Ooooooh, came across My Parents Were Awesome a few days ago and meant to blog it – essentially a lovely little photoblog with user-submitted pictures of their parents, back in the day, looking…AWESOME!
Stella Was A Diver loves Post-it Notes and here is the latest Post-it innovation, Post-it Note Stories, a blog of stories created entirely on Post-it notes.
How many more times can I use the name ‘Post-it Notes’ in this post…?
Two-hour client lunches, telling people how late they worked last night, urban scavenger hunts in big cities with a digital tie in (oh I have run one of these already…!) thingsmarketingpeoplelove.blogspot.com is possibly my favourite website of the month, if not a little too close to the bone…
Have I written about this one before? It seems VERY familiar…Â loads of cameras left all around the world, people encouraged to take a photo, blog the camera’s whereabouts, then leave it somewhere else until it’s finished, send finished cameras back to be developed and blogged, yada yada yada… Whilst I like these collaborative projects, the idea is getting a bit stale.
As I was perusing Sell! Sell!’s blog I spotted a piece on Esquire Magazine’s barcode art.
I have seen plenty of barcode art before but what’s nice about this is the fact that the magazine employs someone especially to illustate this small part of the magazine and, I imagine, it goes largely unnoticed by the reading public. Nice little touches like this make all the difference (to me, at least) between a well designed piece of work and an outstanding one.
On my meganet travels today I stumbled across Things I’ve Seen, a rather nice little blog about being out and about (and even in) London town with some sweet photography. I am liking the Columbia Road pics, pretty.
I have recently become a little bit obsessed with What Katie Wore.
In case you aren’t aware, it’s a little project where the aforementioned Katie attempts to wear a different outfit every day for an entire year and daily photographs detailing her ‘look’ are posted on the blog. Here’s yesterday’s, loving the splashy watercolour painting dress…
On a similar note, I am also a little obsessed with Face Hunter – one man, his camera and a whole world to pretentious fashionistas to photograph. I am especially loving this guys’ continental-moneyed-lothario-musician look:
This is inspiring me to start my own little photography project. Any thoughts…?
The concept behind this collaborative online-offline-online project is that people leave postcards in random places, addressed to themselves but with instructions for the finder to customise the postcard and then send it back. The original postcard placer then takes a snap of their postcard and sends it to the moderators to upload to the Igotapostcard blog for all to see and admire.
It’s early days yet so there is only a smattering of postcards on the site but I can definitely see this taking off. In fact, I am off to buy some postcards now…
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