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Atelieri O.Haapala
Tonight I met Saara from Atelieri O.Haapala at Helsinki Design Week open studios, and she showed us her Neo-Victorian cabinet cards and photographs… You can find more at www.ohaapala.com
I learned to ride a bike today. And I went to Zeitlos Schön at CO Berlin.
From Zeitlos Schön at CO Berlin, a photo by sohotrightnow on Flickr.
It is one of the best fashion photography exhibitions I’ve seen.
a sovereign state of self involvement/adrift in the pacific/impassive as the idle and impassioned alike/drown in the roaring thirties
image: Noemie Goudal line: me
Turn, look up/through the gritty window: an unexplored/wilderness of wires
Photo: Transit, Katrin Koenning.
Line: Margaret Atwood, A Bus Along St Clair: December
I sit and watch it with you/your hair so near/the dark whorl of your ear
Photo: Boogie
Line: Ivy Alvarez
Genius of the day: Charlotte Perriand
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living – living in harmony with man’s deepest drives and with his adopted or fabricated environment.”
-from designboom.com
Kim Keever’s dreamy tanks and dramatic constructed landscapes
- from newarttv.com
I was mesmerised from the moment I saw Kim Keever’s work, in a talk by the director of the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC). I missed the name, or got the spelling so wrong I couldn’t find anything on him till just now. This video gives an insight into how he crafts these dramatic, epic images – recalling a land before time – relying on algae, bubbles, lighting and the human need to see our world in dreamscapes.
Newsha Tavakolian’s “Listen” series: images for female singers without a voice in Iran
- from 500photographers.blogspot.com
Newsha Tavakolian, 1981, Iran, is a self-taught photographer. Her work has been published in magazines as Time Magazine, Newsweek and Stern. Her main focus lies on women’s issues. She started out as a photojournalist, covering stories in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon amongst others. Slowly her work has shifted towards a more documentary and creative approach. In her series “listen”, she photographed six female singers who are not allowed to sing solo, perform in public or produce CD’s due to the Islamic tenets. She then created six images and turned them into CD covers for these singers. As a statement she left the CD cases empty. Newsha’s portfolio is filled with interesting stories. The following images come from “listen” and Mother of Martyrs.
