INDIESTORE : do it yourself downloads
7 Digital present indiestore.com - a new website offering unsigned bands the means to sell their music over the internet.
Inspired by MySpace, the site allows artists to set up their own web pages and charge fans for downloading their tracks. Sales will count towards the download charts in over 20 countries, and artists who sign up will be able to keep up to 80% of the revenue generated. Unique URLs are also issued to each artist, enabling them to promote and link to the virtual store from their own webspace. [indiestore.com] Rundfunk.fm Live on the airwaves
Starting from August 4th, 2006 Rundfunk.fm will be available to the international public live through web-streaming & on the Swiss radio airwaves. At the turn of the millenium in 2000, Rundfunk.fm went on the air & is currently in it's seventh edition. In the following years this seasonal Radio project has escalated from an Insider-tipp of the Zürich Subculture into a cross-media cultural event. It's roots coming from deep within the Vinyl culture, Rundfunk showcases diverse muscians & broadcasts live from the Swiss National Museum in Zürich & across some 200 local venues from barber-shops to café's and fashion boutiques. www.rundfunk.fm MODERNISM: DESIGNING A NEW WORLD 1914–1939
At the beginning of the twenty-first century our relationship to Modernism is complex. The built environment that we live in today was largely shaped by Modernism. The buildings we inhabit, the chairs we sit on, the graphic design that surrounds us have all been created by the aesthetics and the ideology of Modernist design. We live in an era that still identifies itself in terms of Modernism, as post-Modernist or even post-post-Modernist.
From the 6th of April - 23rd of July the Victoria & Albert museum in london is the first to explore Modernism in the designed world from a truly international perspective and in terms of all the arts. Source: Exhibition site LE GUN presents The Aubergine Tongue and more...
Subtitled "tales of excess from the fruity streets of Soho to the fleshpots of Tangier", The Aubergine Tongue is an exhibition of drawings by Neal Fox, the founding co-editor of graphic arts magazine Le Gun. Following the ghost of his grandfather, writer and publisher John Watson, Neal takes us on an illustrated adventure through Soho’s fruity streets and reintroduces us to the delectable and dysfunctional characters that have been remembered and forgotten. On show until May 21st, at the French House, 49 Dean Street, Soho W1D 5BG [map][pressrelease - pdf - 1.2mb]
Le Gun, soon to be distributed worldwide by Conde Nast, are also holding a showcase of illustrations, film and prints from artists who contribute to the magazine. Contributors include a strong international contingent and the Interational Festival runs from May 13 - 31st, at Nog Gallery, 182 Brick Lane, London E1 [map] with limited edition signed prints available online [posters] NEW YORK - Madonna & Steven Klein 58 page portfolio for W
When the woman in question is Madonna, one can expect the dynamic to get even more complicated. All of this was made clear when the 47-year-old, an avid horsewoman, took to a Hollywood sound stage with six stallions and photographer Steven Klein. It had been seven months since the riding accident that left her with multiple fractures, but the resulting 58-page portfolio—which represents the pop icon's second collaboration with Klein for W—demonstrates that her passion for the species remains unchecked. Unafraid, leather-clad and in the best shape of her life, the material girl, whose Confessions tour kicks off in Los Angeles on May 21, was ready to take the reins.
"Madonna" photographed by Steven Klein has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the June 2006 issue of W. Source: Style press release 2006 Turner Prize shortlist announced
The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that has provoked debate since its inception in 1984. The prize is awarded to a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twleve months preceding 9th May. One of the most prestigious visual arts awards in Europe, the four artists who have been shortlisted for 2006 are : Tomma Abts, Phil Collins, Mark Titchner and Rebecca Warren. Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain from 3rd October 2006. Full details and artist profiles are available online at www.tate.org.uk Restoration of 1929 Pullman luxury private carriage underway
AUSTIN,Texas - A patron of the Panik community has begun restoration to the Santa Fe "Mazatlan" luxury steel carriage. Built in 1929, the carriage served as the private transport for President Harry S. Truman and a business carriage for rail officials in Mexico before laying to rest in the desert.
In its century of operation the Pullman’s Palace Car Company and later Pullman Company rose quickly, employing thousands in the manufacture and operation of sleeping cars on railroads throughout North America. But the firm fell victim just as suddenly in the decades after World War II to the convenience, comfort, and speed of road and air travel. During its hey-day, Pullman revolutionized rail travel, operating the largest hotel in the world, at its peak accommodating 26,000,000 passengers a year. Beyond that, Pullman had a significant effect on the American labor movement and on the economies of the many cities where it operated shops and yards. "We Feel Fine" is an exploration of human emotion.
Jonathan Harris has released this self-organizing particle system project of information visualisation. Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved. We Feel Fine study Diesel U Music 2006 open for submissions
A proven formula in the sourcing and supporting of Unsigned, Unsung, Unseen and Underground artists, Diesel U Music has made preparations to go global in 2006 with the contest inviting any musician across the world to come out of their bedrooms and garages and showcase their talent in Rock, Urban/Hip Hop and Electronic music. Past winners of the awards around the world include Mylo, We Are Scientists, Tom Vek, Infadels and DJ Yoda.
Entries are being accepted for this year’s awards on the official website until 25th June. Finalists from each territory around the world will be announced and put to the public vote in July, winning the opportunity to participate at the awards in London this October, performing in front of a huge international audience. [diesel-u-music.com]
Panik serves up airline fare@Paul Smith SPACE shop in Japan
Paul Smith is pleased to announce the opening of the Space shop in Japan, the first unisex shop in Jingumae, Tokyo. The Panik collective has provided a fleet of antique Swissair flight service trolleys for in-store decoration. Built in a residential area the “Paul Smith SPACE” shop is set around a small garden with bushes and bamboo trees in front of the shop. It consists of four floors with the ground floor housing Men’s and women’s accessories. The second floor is dedicated to men’s: Paul Smith, Paul Smith Collection and women’s: Paul Smith BLUE, Paul Smith BLACK and Paul Smith PINK. A beautiful garden spreads across the third floor and the space next to it will be used as a gallery displaying work from various artists. The basement is very different from the upper floors showcasing Paul Smith Jeans alongside books and curiosities that have been selected by Paul himself. See Paul's press releasehere
Shop name: Paul Smith SPACE_ Address: 5-46-14 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo_Telephone: 81.3.5766.1788_ Open: 11:00-20:00
Paul Smith ALPA (featured in GQ 07/2003)
Thanks to a collaborative effort initiated by the Panik team, A special edition of the ALPA 12 with hand grips for Paul Smith has been featured in GQ 7/2003:
" ... This is the ALPA 12. It's a camera. You can't surf the internet on it and you'd have trouble using it to ring your friends. Unlike so much digital gadgetry these days, the ALPA 12 does just one thing: it takes very good pictures.
These high precision, medium format models are made in Switzerland with the same alloys used in aerospace engineering. Attention to details is painstaking - from the ergonomically designed grip handles to the interchangeable lens positions - and its classic design has garnered ALPA many prestigious awards in recent years..." www.alpa.chHow to Navigate the Panik platform:
The main navigation area is located in the upper right corner of the frame & allows you to choose the different sections. Browsing artist's works:
You may browse the list of artistic contributors in the "Artists" screen. Once selected, The complete list of portfolios from the selected artist are available for browsing. While viewing an artist's portfolio, you may click in the middle of a desired image and it will open in an enlarged frame. This enlarged image is fully free to be placed anywhere on the workspace you choose. Artist's portfolios are displayed in the form of a book. You may turn the pages of the book with your mouse, simply grab the corner of the pages to flip through the content. Portfolio Management:
Upon becoming an artistic contributor, you'll receive a publishing package which guides you through the management of your portfolio for live publishing on the platform. You can create your account by clicking on "request membership". In order to ensure the integrity of the platform, we recommend sending a preview of your work to salonprive@panik.com and you'll be contacted when your account has been activated. Creative Industry Reference:
Industry professionals are given access to light-box functionality, Portfolio briefing pages, and contact information for engaging a panik artist. We encourage you to send us a mail with comments & wishes for additional functionalities to support your needs as a creative industry professional. We can be contacted at salonprive@panik.com
Sruli Recht installs another moment in states of decay
SRULI RECHT PRESENTS ONE “Leather ~Elt” Precision Water-Jet Cut BELT
The first Buckless Belt is a completely Icelandic product, from the skin to the hand-made vertical-feed boxes, in colours flesh, bone, ash and rust and in widths of 3, 4 and 5 centimetres.
Utilising a Unique Feed-Teeth method of fastening, and cut using a needle fine jet of water, this is Metal Detector Invisible. Mr. Sruli Recht
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BBlessing - New York City BelleVille - Reykjavik Alternativity 2007
The StellaDore collective present Alternativity -- an alternative vision of Christmas. Described as a successor to Santa's Ghetto, this exhibition of street art is open for only 5 days and features the UK's leading proponents of the genre. 6-10 December, Studio 95, 91 Brick Lane, E1. www.stelladore.com Open Studio - Street Art 2007
Open from 6th December, thirty of the world's best street artists come together in London to paint live in an Open Studio environment.
Including the likes of Solo One, Pure Evil, The Toasters and Ben Eine, the show will feature existing work as well as blank canvasses that will be developed throughout the 3 week residency and displayed at the closing party on 20th December. Open daily, 11am-7pm, 19 Kingsland Road, London E2 -- www.openstudiospace.com Santa's Ghetto 2007 - Bethlehem
Building on the success of last year's event in Oxford Street, the "squat art concept store" moves out of London for the first time, into a former chicken shop on Manger Square in Bethlehem -- one mile behind the Israeli security wall. Personal visits are particularly welcome, but those unable to make it can also follow updates online. Boasting work from the likes of 3D, Banksy and Eine among others, the gallery and shop are only open until 25th December -- www.santasghetto.com
Graphic language of Global cities
Global cities at the Tate Modern is an infographically-inspired exhibition at the addressing the major issues facing today’s cities, such as size, speed, form, density & diversity. the exhibition draws on data originally assembled for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale. the show presents films, videos & photographs by more than 20 artists and architects to offer subjective & intimate interpretations of urban conditions in all 10 cities.
wooden models created from data compiled by the LSE represent the population density in London, Mexico City, Mumbai & Cairo. clear information graphics are complemented by bold typographic statements. the restrained graphic language communicates key facts that add context to the artwork on display. Global Cities Contribute to Le Gun #4
LE GUN, the twice-yearly narrative art magazine is once again open to submissions, looking for short stories, illustrations and anything in-between.
The next deadline is September 01 2007, and LE GUN #4 will be constructed according to the immortal words of Herbert Fischl and Aleister Crowley. That is to say, "do what thou wilst..."
Further details, including how to submit work for inclusion available at legun.co.uk (website)
TVU Contemporaries 2007
Thames Valley University (TVU) and the Trocadero are set to present the first showcase from the Digital Arts, Photography and Digital Imaging and Computer Arts programmes.
The innovative work in the ‘TVU Contemporaries 2007’ show, which runs from Monday 16 July until Friday 4 August, represents the best of cutting edge art and design practice. Several artists in the show particularly reflect a multidisciplinary approach to work, and other artists in the show focus on the figure and emotive issues around making images of people
Exhibiting artists : Lukas Birk , Kazembe Hamadi , Emmy Kidane, Kay Marie, Michael Honkys, Rosy Notta, Alexandra Thomasson and Haley Wood
This exhibition is the latest in partnership between Thames Valley University and the Trocadero, curated by Valerie Chang. (website)
Sruli Recht releases 2008 shoe collection With collection items such as "Grey Nurse",A button-up ankle boot with pleats and a cuban heal, Preferred Use: espionage and straight out traditional Mexican standoff.
Icelandic designer Sruli Recht continues to innovate in the disciplines of materials and form. The collection is currently available in Reykjavik, Paris in October and Tokyo in late 2007. Full catalogue available for download here: Shoe collection 2008 Pixel Shake degree show It is over fifty years since John Whitney Sr and others made the first images with computers in the early 1950s. Since then, the computer has lost none of its appeal as a way of offering new scope for artistic exploration and invention.
PIXEL SHAKE showcases graduate student work from the MA Computer Arts and the BA Digital Arts at Thames Valley University and Kingston College of Further Education, making connections across the disciplines of 3D virtual worlds, games design, internet art, generative art, time and lens based media, interaction and physical computing, to carve out new modes of creative expression. http://pixelshake.org/
Magnum Celebrates the art of documentary Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Magnum Photos and the establishment of the Magnum Foundation, Magnum Festival '07 will explore documentary in its various forms – photography, film and journalism.
Magnum is pleased to partner with such notable NY institutions as the New York Public Library, International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, the Film Forum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Walter Reade Theater).
Our June calendar boasts over 30 photographic exhibitions and special events, and over 40 documentary film screenings.
Together with writers, filmmakers and photographers from across the world, we invite you to join Magnum Festival '07 in embracing the past and promoting the future of independent vision and documentary work. Source: Magnum Photos Sruli Recht exhibits @ Magma - Icelandic Design Exhibition MAGMA is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Icelandic contemporary design to date, spanning myriad dimensions of the art form, including furniture, clothing, lighting, jewelry, architecture, textile, technical innovations and cuisine. The exhibition opens at The Reykjavik Art Museum – Kjarvalsstadir on 19 May 2007, during the Reykjavik Arts Festival, and will remain on display through 19 August 2007.
Two pieces from the ESJA installation will be presented, as well as published in the book of the exhibition. Also published in the book will be some work from the MUNDI knit wear label collaborated on with Guðmundur Halgrímsson [www.mundidesign.net]
The object of the exhibition is to illustrate the impact of design on our immediate surroundings and to bring design's multiform expressions to our attention. Though we do not always notice design, it affects all of us in diverse ways, and often the form and structure of an object contains a long and interesting history which can't be discerned from its appearance. MAGMA attempts to reflect on these themes through the design pre-eminent in Iceland today. The title of the exhibition refers to the simmering creative energy that characterizes the moment in Icelandic design, in both its theoretical and material aspects.
About seventy of Iceland's most prominent and progressive designers will take part in MAGMA; five designers have created innovative works especially for this exhibition. Featured designers are Ninna Thórarinsdóttir, Páll Einarsson, Sigrídur Heimisdóttir, Unnur Fridriksdóttir and Thórunn Árnadóttir, and their projects range from a floor heater to a dress made out of lead? The exhibition will be launched along with a finely crafted book on Icelandic contemporary design. Educational programs and lecture series will be offered in conjunction with the exhibit.
Magma - Icelandic Design Exhibition Sruli Recht design work in Magma - Icelandic design at 4 pm.
Reykjavík Arts Museum, Kjarvalsstadir. May 19 at 4 pm - August 19 2007 Intimacy by Namiko Kitaura & Juliana Loh Emotions can get intense within small insular communities. With daily interactions, you experience subtle looks and little gestures pregnant with connotations that you spend too much time trying to decipher. You discover feelings you never imagined existed within yourself, a wealth of hidden emotions and romantic fantasies. This project aims to capture from a female point of view, the various unconventional forms of beauty in male individuals. Idiosyncratic aspects of a boy's features have been emphasized and communicated photographically. The meaning behind a look is multi-faceted and can be transmuted. An odd look can become charming; a lustful look can become affectionate. This collection of pictures physically manifests the unpredictable states of emotion and desires, capturing intimate details of every individual.
Epilogue: Intimacy remains an abyss of space and time, passion and fear. A familiarity that comforts yet alienates. With an intensity rivaled by no other, every touch and every word spoken is tattooed in the mind, leaving an indelible memory of love, sex and all things between.
Revealing our modern mythology - Universe by Jonathan Harris Dear Friends,
I would like to share with you my latest work, Universe, which premiered last week at the TED Conference, and which is being released publicly today.
Universe was inspired by questions like: if we could draw new constellations in our night sky today, what would those be? What are our great stories? What are our great journeys? Who are our heroes and heroines? Who are our Gods and Goddesses? What is our modern mythology? Universe tries to answer these questions through analysis of global media coverage, as construed by Daylife.
Universe presents an interactive night sky, composed of thousands of twinkling stars, which then connect to form constellations. Each of these constellations has a specific counterpart in the physical world -- a story, a person, a quote, an image, a company, a nation, a mythic theme. Any constellation can be clicked, making it the center of the universe, and causing all other stars to enter its orbit. Universe is infinitely large, and each person's path through it will be different. For an explanation of how it works, read "Stages". For a longer discussion of the ideas behind the piece, read "Statement".
Start exploring, get lost, find something amazing, and make your own mythology.
- Jonathan Harris, March 13, 2007
universe.daylife.com Information Aesthetics Symposium in The Hague, Netherlands The tenth anniversary of graphic design studio LUST is celebrated with a month of events at <>TAG. Parallel to the LUST exhibition Generation Random, <>TAG is organising a symposium on Info Aesthetics. In this light, a number of speakers will offer different and surprising angles to the subject, delving into the depths of data storage, exchange and representation.
This results in an interactive visual catalogue, in which physical storage media trigger digital information. The exhibition at <>TAG is not primarily aimed at summing up, it strives to highlight the actual process of design in which failure and success exist side by side. In the course of the exhibition period, a number of masterclasses/ workshops, presentations and lectures will be organised under the name Info Aesthetics focusing on topics such as visualisation and mapping of data, generative systems and non-hierarchical systems.
Guest speakers include David Reinfurt (O-R-G, USA), Catalogtree (Joris Maltha and Daniel Gross, NL), Wilfried Houjebek (NL), Jonathan Harris (USA), and Aaron Koblin (UCLA, USA).
<>TAG Den Haag: <271> LUST: Generation Random Opening > 2nd of March from 17:00 – 22:00 hrs Location: <>TAG Den Haag, Stille Veerkade 19, The Hague Open > 3rd untill 31st of March, wed-sat from noon untill 17:00 hrs Source: www.Tag004.nl
Mike Von Walder
Das TA-Magazin hat eine Online Umfrage durchgeführt und unter den Teilnehmern ein Nachtessen mit der berühmtesten und beliebtesten, populärsten und bestesten Jungautorin von Zürich verlost. Und einer von uns hat gewonnen! Wir haben soeben die Benachrichtigung der Magazin-Redaktion erhalten. Hurra! Erfahren Sie, wie wir den Glücklichen darauf vorbereiten, denn von Knigge hat er keinen Schimmer!
Jonathan Roquemore
Satoshi Date
Satoshi Date is a graduate of Fashion Design Women's Wear, St Martins/London. Over the last decade he's developed a unique organic but technically informed style and practice. He is currently undertaking projects ranging from music art and design to fashion and teaching. His work has been exhibited and published in London and Tokyo. His garments were selected by the British Library and exhibited in Aug 2004, he was involved in Phantasmagoria at Hayward Gallery in Oct 2004. In Oct 2005 he had an exhibition showcasing his art works and fashion performance at Project142. Nov 2006, he participated in a group show: Melange a music live art preformance held at 281 Kingsland Road. Most recently,He has participated in London fashion week ss2008.Satoshi is currently seeking exposure and is developing strategies to share his work a cross cultural audience.
Jowey Grensted
Sharif Hamza
Sharif Hamza was born in London in 1980. Having studied at the london college of printing Sharif is now cutting his teeth as photography assistant for top fashion photographer Steven Klein.Preferring to think of his work as communication above all other forms of classification, this has led Sharif to create works of various types from commercial and edgy fashion, to portraiture, abstract and reportage. Sharif enjoys drifting from commercial to more avant-garde aesthetic approaches depending on what he is trying to say. As an artist who openly admits to constantly being in an ongoing struggle to find himself and his desire for self-expression in his work, expect to see much more of him in all manners and all mediums.
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Tonje Indseth
Tonje Indseth is a Norwegian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, who produces original contemporary art and photographic works that are also functional. The highest quality materials are used to create Scandinavian art and design influenced pieces, created with Swiss made quality.
Drawing on years spent in many diverse locations, such as Sydney, Rome, Oslo, Copenhagen, Zurich and New York, and a background in marketing, corporate business and visual arts specialising in conceptual photography, Tonje experiments creatively with various printing techniques and ways to display work. In the fields of photography & visual arts, lighting and texture are essential factors on how work is presented and ultimately experienced.
By collaborating with printers and manufacturers in Zurich and Copenhagen, Tonje has created an innovative way to merge visual arts and lighting. Tonje produces visual interior art works such as lighting, furniture, and moving images for specific space requirements such as offices, hotels, showrooms or the private home.
Gustavo Camilo
Miguel reverigo Cortes
Miguel Reverigo was born in Madrid, Spain. At the age of 18 he went to New York to study photography at NYU. He then moved back to Spain to begin assisting the countrie's most famous photographers. For the past 3 years he has been focused on the fashion industry in his native country and has already been published in top spanish magazines such as Neo 2, Vanidad, El Pais, Semenal and Tendencias. His skills have also been applied commercially while shooting for advertising clients such as Smirnoff, Lycos, Peugeot, Telefonica and Movistar amongst others. Most recently he decided to move to London to take a new path in his career.
Namiko Kitaura
Namiko Kitaura was born in Tokyo in 1977. Following her experience as a freelance photographer in London and Tokyo, Namiko was a resident at Fabrica in Italy, producing extremely distinctive works. Her sensitivity and deep insight slices into reality and all the cut ends she creates are edgy and unique.
Ananda Ferlauto
Ananda was born in Brazil in 1972. She started her professional career in the early 90's photographing concerts for numerous brazilian pop bands. In addition to it's publication the collection was exhibited at Porto Alegre's IAB gallery in 1992.
After receiving her degree in social communications in 1994, She moved to Sao Paulo to work as an assistant in a fashion and advertising studio. She has worked extensively for some of south america's top commercial photographers.
Vanessa Bon Scheltdorf
Clearly this is a sculpture photographer, whose work challenges the traditional genre of portrait photography while imparting it with a new significance. Her fashion and advertising work often have an allure of a cinematic quality, which seduces the viewer into narratives of pan nostalgic beauty, while her documentary work often depicts people in real life scenario. Throughout the wide spectrum of the imagination her work has the magnetism to draw the viewer into a realm of contemplation, while unfolding the story. In 1997 Vanessa moved to London where together with a number of young photographers she started her career in photography. Her outstanding display of photographic genius gained her in 1999 a commission based assignment from The Bull Gallery to produce a picture series of children living in the vicinity of London, for this project she received an award. This resulted in several other assignments one of which was an exhibition at the famous Galerie Seine 51 in the heart of Saint-Germain Des prés. These challenging and empowering images probed an extensive sale of her photographic work plus a wide range of ongoing exhibits.
Stijn Decorte
Stijn's Biography here
Sasha Tharakan
Sasha's family heritage is from India and he began his photographic work in Switzerland where he was born and raised. Sasha was educated in medicine and is licensed medical doctor. Snowboarding provided an entry to photography for Sasha, and he developed his technical skills through collaboration with well-known Swiss professional sport,fashion & advertising photographers.
He has produced works for various publications, both magazines, newsprint and poster media. Sasha is regularly engaged to produce advertising imagery for europe's snow sport & athletic industries.
Portraiture work is an exceptional area of practice for Sasha, where his objective is to portray the elements of his subject's character, livelihood and passions through their mutual photographic relationship.
Ursula and Thomas Capaul Weber
Alpa Capaul & Weber is one of today's most innovative & influential creative teams specialising in the design, integration and production of precision photographic imaging equipment.
On December 19th 1918: the company Pignons SA was founded in the village of Ballaigues near the railway junction of Vallorbe, Switzerland. The area, located in the Swiss Jura mountains close to the French border, had long been a center of traditional Swiss watchmaking skills. Until 1990 the company was to remain wholly or in part in the hands of the Bourgeois family. Initially, activities were limited to supplying mechanical parts to manufacturers of watches and other precision instruments.
In 1996, Ursula and Thomas Capaul Weber took the reigns of the Alpa brand and product portfolio. Through fierce ingenuity & relentless attention to detail, Ursula and Thomas continue to drive the evolution of the mystical Alpa platform and inspire the photographic industry's leading manufacturers to produce high-end imaging equipment for the Alpa platform.
Rudolf Arndt
Holly Henderson
Holly's heritage is in Lufkin, where she was born and raised. It was during her formative youth in which she embraced photography through the culture and landscape of this town in east Texas. Her formal education was at the University of Texas in Austin & during this time she was an assistant to various commercial photographers. In addition, she was a student of the International Center of Photography & the Rocky Mountain school of photography.
In September of 2003, Holly moved to New York to apply her visual instinct and develop her technical skill through an apprenticeship with Annie Leibovitz. Holly is currently producing portraiture work within the music industry. In parallel, she is continously driven by a strong affinity to fine art & reportage assignments and personal projects.
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Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris is an artist working primarily on the Internet. His work involves the exploration and understanding of humans, on a global scale, through the artifacts they leave behind on the Web.
Harris was born August 27, 1979 in Shelburne, Vermont. Growing up in Vermont and New York City, he kept detailed sketchbooks, filled with watercolors, drawings, writings, ticket stubs, pasted dead insects, and other marginalia. He studied Computer Science at Princeton University under Brian Kernighan, where his senior thesis was a program that gathers and clusters similar news articles.
At Princeton he founded Troubadour Magazine, a publication that uses personal travel narratives to explore world cultures, with themed issues like "Empire", "Evil-Doers", and "Pirates". He also co-founded Oral Fixation Mints, a breath mint company, for which he still designs mint tins and other paraphernalia.
In 2004 he received Italy's Fabrica Fellowship from Benetton, to join 40 other young artists for a year's work in non-traditional art, near Venice. At Fabrica, Harris created the award-winning sites 10x10, which automatically chooses the top 100 words and pictures in the world every hour based on what's happening in the news, and WordCount, which presents the 88,000 most frequently used English words, arranged side by side as one very long sentence.
Harris' work has won numerous awards from AIGA, Ars Electronica, The Webby Awards, ID Magazine, Yahoo!, and the State of Vermont. His work has been shown internationally in Austria, Italy, Spain, London, and New York City, and has been featured by CNN, Reuters, BBC, The Guardian, USA Today, Voice of America Radio, Creative Review, and Wired. He has lectured about his work at the Parson's School of Design, at Princeton and Stanford Universities, and at Google.
He sits on the Advisory Boards of re:think Media, Princeton University's Art of Science Competition, and the nascent clothing company Distilled Spirit.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His complete works are available at www.number27.org
Billy Bishop
Visual artist, Poster designer and master screen printer Billy Bishop has his creative roots firmly planted in Austin, Texas. The fervent artist produces & broadcasts his pieces from his Atelier in east Austin, roughly a mile west of more than 150 live music venues.
Browsing through Billy's atelier is a visual time-warp, layered paints and inks covering every surface, fine detail printing screens stacked generously, spinning rotary print stations & a team of impassioned printers. Billy's atelier; Obsolete-inc.com delivers hand-made posters, handbills, invitations, business cards, record jackets, etc. In addition, Billy's team can bring the entire printing supply-chain on location, for events which engage the public through a hands-on approach.
Austin had its first live music venue and poster (broadside) printer and artist – ten years before San Francisco even had a press. It is well known that the city of Austin boasts of a lively musical heritage; however, what is not as well known is that Austin can also boast of a 165-year tradition of producing music advertising posters.
Marcos Weskamp
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James Farias
James Farias was born on the mean streets of Houston, Texas (aka tha rugged lands of Shao Lin) in 1987 where he has studied extensively in the ways of the ninja. At the age of 9, he moved to Austin to perfect his craft. He became so adept in his skills that upon a recreational trip to Tokyo, he single handedly defeated the three-headed space monster named King Geedorah. Since then his days have become more tame, and he is now a humble art student at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He spends his time educating sucka' emcees on the ethics of real hip hop (whatch'all know about that?).
Neal Fox
Neal Fox is the founder of LE GUN, the magazine that brought budding artists work together in an extraordinary display of illustrative and narrative talent. Described by the editors as “a spattering Uzi of narrative illustration and absurd wordage,combining art from the old guard with an explosive smorgasbord of emerging international talent”.
The demand for Le Gun's collaborative content feeds the "Dreamers, the misfits, people who love drawing and storytelling, the eccentric rather than the fashionable, and people who appreciate a rare, collectable and unusual publication...”
Orders for the second edition are already flooding in, so much so that the editors have found it hard to keep up with demand. The Tate Modern, which was already stocking the first edition, will be the biggest stockist of the second along with other specialist design shops in central London, such as Magma in Convent Garden, Art Words in Shoreditch and The Whitechapel Art Gallery.
LE GUN 2 is due out on July 11th 2005. The price for a single copy of LE GUN 2 is £8. www.legun.co.uk
Irenaeus Herok
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candas sisman
candas sisman was born in izmir,turkey in 1985..he graduated izmir anatolian fine art high school, he has been attending animation department for 3 years and now he is going to nhl üniversity communication department in netherlands as an exchange student for one years.His aim that combine all creative technics like art,animation,design,photographs,illustration and many with experimental point of view...and he want to fusion traditional with digital....also he is interested in music(especially avantgarde and experimental)..his gallery adress; http://csisman.deviantart.com/gallery/
Myrna Talbot
eliz koknar
Renee Seghezzi
Kyrre Wangen
Aine Scannell
Kyrre Wangen
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Cybil Pawn
Herman Tascioglu
Herman Tascioglu was born in 1970, in Istanbul. He was dismissed from the middle school for slapping the school director and graduated from high school 10 years later. He has worked for a long time as shoe maker and jewellery craftsman. His first meeting with computers was in 1999 in Los Angeles. After his arrival to Turkey, he worked as web master in data processing firms. Besides he wrote and pictured computing creations in magazines. He can use Adobe and Macromedia products. www.maetl.com
James Robles
Bibi Khonsari
Naomi Bailey Cooper
Dustin Kemper
Kensuke Koike
Kensuke Koike was born in 1980 in Nagoya (Japan). He is now living and working in Venice (Italy) as a video artist. www.kensukekoike.com
Tamana Rodes
Tamana Rodes is a Japanese jewellery designer currently based in Brighton, England. Her pieces may be acquired directly by contacting her or through selected shops in Brighton.
Theanny Villalba
Jonathan Roquemore
decay, growth, desire, consumption, solitude, waste, mortality, craft and mysticism are core interests. Information visualisation and photography are the methods he uses to ask questions & search for answers.
A founding member of the Panik platform he is passionate in supporting creative collaboration and artistic discourse.
YASUHIRO TAKEHISA
Yasuhiro Takehisa(YASU), originally from Japan, has been based in London since 2005.
In that same year Yasu became assistant to Nicola Formichetti, fashion director of Dazed&Confused, and worked on a number of editorials, fashion shows, displays and campaigns.
In 2008 he finished assisting and began his career as a stylist.
http://www.yasuhirotakehisa.com
YASUHIRO TAKEHISA
Jana Sabanosova
Brice de Belleroche
Brice de Belleroche was born in 1977 in Paris - France. He became a professional photographer in 2000 after History and Sociology studies. Passionated by report photography and Asia, he travelled during this seven last years in India, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Vietnam to treat issues around the Refugees and ethnies. In 2003, he created a photographers collective named i-loox based in Paris and developed www.i-loox.com as a platform of freelance authors for creativity. Since 2006, the photographers collective i-loox is sponsorised by Fujifilm France.
Paul Boisvert
Gézelin Grée
Gézelin Grée was born in 1980 in Saint Rémy (France).
He became photographer in 2001 after three years in a photography school. He shoots colour photography, and he's inspired by the fact that you only have to change your look to see the world differently. In 2003, with Brice de Belleroche, he created a photographers collective named i-loox based in Paris and developed www.i-loox.com as a platform of freelance authors for creativity. Since 2006, the photographers collective i-loox is sponsorised by Fujifilm France.
Fairouz deghia
christina amanda
genevieve adebiyi
Michael Tammaro
Michael grew up in New England and has been in the fashion and movie industry for 20 years. He has photographed some of the most beautiful and interesting people around and continues to do so every day. Michael is planning to publish a book of his personal work in 2008 through Rizzoili Publications. He has exhibited his work in galleries around the world and has curated 3 group shows for charity. He currently lives in New York City's Chelsea area. STUDIO T-212-675-1680 / F-212-675-1681 / CELL-917-669-0408 WWW.MICHAELTAMMARO.COM EMAIL/ MICHAEL@MICHAELTAMMARO.COM 211 WEST 20TH STREET , SUITE 6E ,NYC, NY 10011
Iona hodgson
www.ionahodgson.com T: (00 34) 678 987 200
Keni lam
Michael Huitt
Isabel Elfast
Luis Diaz
Lucy Moller
Raphael Blasselle
carrot eight
deghia fairouz
Nichole Panik
Joy Fennell
Jürgen Atzgerstorfer
Looking back there is probably one common theme throughout my work: traces. Whether it be landscapes, architecture, or industrial sites, what captures my attention are traces of mankind, scars inflicted by occupants, things left behind by inhabitants.
Such artefacts stir my mind, make me wonder what had happened in those places, what led to their desertion, how long would they stand against time. In this sense, my photographs are archeoligical documents, trying to understand the past, maybe helping to predict the future.
naqi KICKqi
Zaineb Survery
rachel copeland
rachel copeland
Rafael Pinho
deghia fairouz