Join @ShannonLeto + Me at #SXSW for #ARTIFACT March 10th, 2013
Zitat Synopsis:
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, “Artifact” gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album “This Is War”. The film is a true artifact of our times, as its subjects struggle with big questions over art, money and integrity.
Get your questions in for @AstroMarshburn for a chance to get answered by MARS on March 18th! #MARSasksISS March 10th, 2013
ZitatWe’ll be visiting Mission Control Houston on March 18th to chat with astronaut Thomas Marshburn. Submit your questions for Marshburn now in the comments below or on Twitter using #MARSasksISS for your chance to get answered by MARS!
Capturing Time with Pinhole Cameras March 11th, 2013
Zitat The pinhole camera is one of the simplest photographic instruments available.
Photographer Matthew Allred doesn’t let the pinhole camera’s simplicity limit his work.
Borrowing the French term ‘Heliography’ to describe the process, Allred painstakingly constructs his own cameras and also carefully formulates his own chemistry to make his work possible.
More specifically, Heliography is, according to Allred, “a photographic process that utilizes pinhole cameras and ultra long exposures, ranging from 24 hours to 6 months. The resulting images are landscapes which feature the path of the sun. In the longer multi-month exposures the Sun’s path can be seen shifting with the seasons.”
Significantly, Allred’s work makes an important statement about photography and its role in the capturing of time. He mentioned that usually, photographers tend to turn to the latest camera technology to capture fractions of time.
On the other hand, capturing detail that only long exposure can deliver has photographers going back-to-basics, making the simple pinhole camera, ever relevant.
Photographs of the Sun by Alan Friedman March 11th, 2013
ZitatAlan Friedman is a fascinating guy. By day he’s a maker of greeting cards and a lover of hats, but in his spare time he’s a self-proclaimed space cowboy who points a telescope skyward from his backyard in downtown Buffalo, directly into the light of the sun. Using special filters attached to his camera Friedman captures some of the most lovely details of the Sun’s roiling surface. The raw images are colorless and often blurry requiring numerous hours of coloring, adjusting and finessing to tease out the finest details, the results of which hardly resemble what I imagine the 5,500 degree (Celsius) surface of Sun might look like. Instead Friedman’s photos appear almost calm and serene, perhaps an entire planet of fluffy clouds or cotton candy.
Frosty Morning on the Rhine by Patrick Hübschmann March 12th, 2013
ZitatGerman photographer and graphic designer Patrick Hübschmann recently captured this great series of photos on a freezing morning on the Rhine in Southern Germany. The trees and grass are completely covered in a thick layer of frost, conveying an uncanny sense of stillness in each shot. You can follow more of Hübschmann’s work over on his blog. (via behance)