Views On Vegas
In the end of 2012 Daniel Rettig and Hendrik Schneider visited Las Vegas, the glittering metropolis in the Mohave Desert, for seven weeks with the aim to create an unusual portrait of the city and its people. Most visitors only stay for a few days and barely feel the need to leave the Strip and its …
STEPS – The Ride Greener Film
The Ride Greener documentary is the first climate friendly snowboard and ski movie of its kind. It dives into the world of people whose deep connection to the mountains ties them together. Worried about impending climate change, they are looking for an alternative way to pursue their passion in harmony with nature and experience the …
Gulper – Handmade Bicycle And Urban Backpack
The Gulper Backpack ($199) sports a sleeker design and boasts an expanding elastic strap, burlier side release clips from National Molding, reflective decals and a lighter separated 420 denier high density Nylon liner with a durable waterproof backing. The backpack will keep your belongings super dry and has the ability to morph in size and …
A Life In Pictures – The Douglas Kirkland Monograph
Douglas Kirkland has given us some of culture’s most iconic images. A Life in Pictures (Glitterati, ISBN 978-0-9881745-8-0, $125) is, finally, a comprehensive volume of collected images honoring the photographer who has assiduously recorded and shaped contemporary culture. Kirkland is more than the iconic images of celebrities that have made him so famous. He has …
Solo Folio – An Intimate Collaboration Of Art And Design
Industrial Facility designed an annual limited-edition project for Toluca Editions where they unite an artist, a writer and a designer. The artist prepares six photographs, the writer contributes poetry with a relationship to the art, and the designer proposes a box or case to complete it. It is an intimate collaboration of art and design, …
World Famous Instrument Makers
Right in the heart of Germany, in the upper Vogtland, the Music Town Markneukirchen is found wich takes pride in having been world-famous as the Centre of German Orchstra Instrument making since 1655. Here lives the spirit to translate matter into sound! Generations, Stories & Faces is a collection of short movies which showcases world-famous …
Citizen Black Canvas Strap Eco Drive Watch
Citizen men's Canvas Strap Eco Drive Watch ($175) sports a black canvas in fine, good quality for the wrist and is lined on the inside with a soft-touch suede for added comfort. Imaging never having to worry about winding a watch or making sure it has a functional battery. The perfect everyday timepiece that rarely …
Out Of Time By Dominique Houyet
The world of books is going through a real upheaval and is undergoing an unprecedented crisis. There are many reasons that change the habits of consumers and photographic books are also in crisis. Editors of glossy books have cold feet and are no longer willing to take risks. Some of them no longer make any …
3D Virtual Tours Around The World
AirPano is a non-commercial project focused on high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. The AirPano team is a group of Russian photographers and panorama enthusiasts. During the next 2-3 years, they plan to shoot a variety of aerial panoramas and create virtual 3D tours of the most interesting places of our planet. ❚…
Create Your Own Collection Of Mixtapes
MiTapes ($0.99) is a music player app for iPhone similar to AirCassette that allows you to create mixtapes, just as you did on cassette tapes back in the day. The app recreates the experience of compiling an old-school mixtape by replicating a cassette tape with handwritten labels, complete with side A and B. You can …
Pentax MX-1 Digital Camera With 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
The Pentax MX-1 ($499) is a retry-styled compact digital camera with 4x optical image stabilized zoom. The name sounds familiar, because it pays homage to the Pentax MX film camera line, dating from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The sturdy construction of the compact MX-1 sports a brass top and a impressive image …
Ben Harper Reunites Innocent Criminals
Singer-guitarist Ben Harper is helping to raise money for the family of Australian pro skateboarder Lewis Marnell, whose untimely death in January at the age of 30 left his family in dire financial straights. A lifelong skateboarding enthusiast and friend to skaters around the world, Harper has reunited with the Innocent Criminals for the first …
Corter Leather Luggage Tag
Mimicking the look of the plastic tags that typically appear on one’s luggage, Corter's Luggage Tag ($18) is handmade of natural vegetable-tanned leather in New England and attaches with a custom Corter split ring. Write your address info directly onto the tag with ink, a wood burner or whatever method you may choose. Stylish and …
Man Is What He Eats
A young woman, bare, just as God has created her, is surrounded by freshly slaughtered warm beef. Death is in the air. Nonetheless the interaction between human and animal bodies discloses an unexpected aesthetics, beauty and perfection in an artistic sense. "Decay and death face life and mysticism. A peculiar combination of aversion and fascination. …
Camera Vest Eliminates Camera Strap Neck Strain
Do you sometimes carry a 400mm lens with you and ever wanted to end the day without the usual neck strain? Traditional camera neck straps won't reduce the strain on the neck and shoulders. The Camera Vest ($149) by Cotton Carrier is engineered to eliminate neck and shoulder pain, as well as the nuisance of …
Performers – Portraits Of Performance Artists
Performers is a photo project by Berlin based Johnny Amore, that is portraying the worldwide active artists in Live Performance. It's a visual profile of the international performance scene of last decades that through his wide spectrum also encloses an artistic photo archive. "The project is not showing a documentation of performances, but a collection …
Brutal Order – The Butcher Of Trees
The forest is at rest. But the horror comes closer. Merciless and brutal the machine takes hold of its first victim, grabs it and shreds it within seconds. "Brutal order" shows how a harvester "butchers" trees immediately. Christian Fuß directed and filmed the piece, which was captured with a high speed camera at 240 frames …
In The In-Between – Journal Of Digital Imaging Artists
In the In-Between is a web-based platform dedicated to the discovery and discussion of photo-artists working across the wide spectra of contemporary digital media and imaging. It was founded on the idea that computer-based imaging is and will continue to be among the defining characteristics of 21st century photography. In-B is designed to serve as …
Morpholio App – Tools For Presentation
The Morpholio Project is a group of applications that reinvent creative processes for designers, artists, photographers and any imaginative individual. Morpholio (free download, in-app purchase available) is a unique portfolio utility that evolves with you and Trace (free download, in-app purchase available) is a tool for hands-on thinking and building new ideas. Morpholio re-imagines your …
Fragile Italian Glass Snowboard
For this month's episode, Signal Snowboards' Founder Dave Lee leaves the factory to travel across the sea to an Italian glass factory to create a handmade glass snowboard—the most delicate build to date! The glass snowboard is cut, pressed, tempered, and ever so carefully transported to the slopes. Signal Snowboards Italian team rider Giorgio "Iannino" …
Snapzoom Turns Your Binoculars Into The Ultimate Smartphone Lens
Are your ready for a new perspective? Snapzoom ($79.95), the Universal Smartphone Scope Adapter is designed in Honolulu, Hawaii, by the team of Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen. This nifty smartphone-to-scope adapter is universal, it turns ordinary binoculars into super telephoto lenses and the applications are endless. From long distance photography to night sky stargazing …
This Has Been Photography
"In an age where ‘everyone is considered to be a photographer’ the ambiguous and enigmatic nature of photography, as an ‘ordinary’ and everyday cultural practice alongside its existence as an institutionally sanctioned art form, are magnified and accentuated that much more now photography can exist in digital and networked form," writes Dr. Jane Burton in …
Dedicated – This Is Rob Trnka
Dedicated is a series of short portraits about friends that René Eckert has met over the years. Their dedication constantly inspires him everyday. This series is a tribute to a close friends. Episode 3 focuses on mountain biker and photographer Rob Trnka. The first time Eckert met Rob was back in 2003 in our local …
