Camera Tattoo Filmed in Stop-Motion (Part 3)
July 11, 2010 at 4:50 pm | Posted in art, film, photography | Leave a CommentTags: camera, stop-motion, tattoo
For those of you that have been following the progress of Dabe Alan’s camera tattoo sleeve things start to get a bit digital in Part 3…
“So for this video the main two things that you’ll see are my very own Canon 5d Mark ii, and my favorite mouse I’ve ever owned, the Logitech MX518 (I TOLD you this was gonna get nerdier). With the addition of the glowing mouse, all the green that was glowing on the other cameras makes sense. You’ll also notice the 35mm film turning into pixels as it gets higher. Oh but it’s not gonna stop just there…” – Dabe Alan
For more info on the tattoo and stop motion film check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here. His website is also looking pretty cool these days – www.dabealan.com
For more great work and other impressive nerd sleeves check out Tony Touch’s flickr page here
If you haven’t seen the previous parts of this stop-motion film check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here
Phillip Johnson Portrait by David LaChapelle
April 26, 2010 at 4:16 pm | Posted in architecture, photography | Leave a CommentTags: David LaChapelle, glass house, Phillip johnson, portrait
Saw this awesome portrait of Philip Johnson over on archdaily the other week taken by fashion, advertising and fine art photographer David LaChapelle.
Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was one of the most influential American architects and the inaugural Pritzker Prize winner back in 1979 (considered by many as the Nobel Prize of architecture).
I don’t know many old architect greats, let alone old men that would be into a light hearted photo shoot like this. Philip Johnson = champion.
Below is one of his most famous buildings, his personal residence, The Glass House, which was built in 1949.
‘A Finnish Afternoon’
February 22, 2010 at 9:50 pm | Posted in my work, photography | Leave a CommentTags: helsinki cathedral, photography
Photo: Aidan Taylor 2004
The Helsinki Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland. Designed by Carl Ludvig Engel.
I love this photo – it was as if the pigeon was reading my mind, placing himself perfectly in the photograph’s composition.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately – Most of my spare time the past month and a half has been taken up with a design competition entry that I have been working on. It’s all finished now so my resolution for February/March: More regular blog entries!
Camera Tattoo Filmed in Stop-Motion (Part 2)
January 19, 2010 at 8:09 pm | Posted in art, film, photography | Leave a CommentTags: camera, sleeve, stop-motion, tattoo
If you haven’t seen Part 1 check it out here.
Part 2 – The Sleeve Continues… the follow up to the extremely popular stop-motion film by Dabe Alan, which he filmed while getting his camera tattoo sleeve by Tony Touch.
For more info on the tattoo check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here
For more great work by Tony Touch check out his flickr page here
Check out Part 3 of Dabe Alan’s tattoo in stop-motion here
I Love The Garage Sign
December 29, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Posted in my work, photography | Leave a CommentTags: diana f+, my photography, neon, photography, signage
Photo: Aidan Taylor 2009
Hang Me Out To Dry – Diana F+
November 22, 2009 at 9:12 pm | Posted in my work, photography | Leave a CommentTags: diana f+, my photography, photography
Photo: Aidan Taylor 2009
Camera Tattoo Filmed in Stop-Motion
November 4, 2009 at 10:12 pm | Posted in art, film, photography | 24 CommentsTags: camera, stop-motion, tattoo
Here’s an awesome video by Dabe Alan that he filmed in stop-motion while being tattooed by Tony Touch.
This is cool on so many levels so I couldn’t help but post it onto My Design Fix. I love the vintage cameras, the cool tattoo, the insight into the detail and seeing the process from start to finish. The effect of the stop-motion looks awesome in its own right too.
For more info on the tattoo check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here (Be sure to check out some of his other photos – he’s a great photographer)
For more great work by Tony Touch check out his flickr page here and his website pitheory.com.
Check out Part 2 of Dabe Alan’s tattoo in stop-motion here and Part 3 here
Halong Bay Crusin’
October 26, 2009 at 11:15 pm | Posted in my work, photography | 1 CommentTags: diana+, halong bay, my photography
Photo: Aidan Taylor 2009
So the frequency of my blog posts has taken a serious beating of late (doing long hours at work doesn’t seem to help blog productivity??)
Well here’s another photo I took with my Diana+ during my Vietnam/Cambodia trip a few months ago to tie you through to the next post – I promise it’ll be in the next few days!
Five Girls (1962) – Sam Haskins
October 11, 2009 at 9:58 pm | Posted in books, photography | 4 CommentsTags: five girls, nudes, photography, sam haskins
Sam Haskins is a South African photographer best known for his contribution to nude photography during the 60’s and 70’s. During this time he also published a number of photography books, some of which include Five Girls (1962), Cowboy Kate (1965) and November Girl (1966).
Five Girls explored a fresh approach to photographing the nude female figure and contained important first explorations with black and white printing, cropping and book design which went on to become a key feature of all his subsequent books.
Below are some of the more famous photographs of Gill, one of the models featured in the book: 
"Gill was an art student in Johannesburg in the early sixties. Not a professional model, she just walked into the studio one day and was a total natural in front of the camera.
There were stories of Vietnam soldiers taking copies of Five Girls (often gifted to them by their wives or girlfriends) to war, so Gill was also a Vietnam pinup. The fan mail generated by Five Girls in the 60s included letters from both men and women." - Sam Haskins
You may recognise two of the photos from a more recent artistic project as they were used for the album cover artwork for The Last Shadow Puppets – a side project of Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals.
For more info on everything Sam Haskins visit:
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
July 29, 2009 at 9:19 pm | Posted in architecture, film, photography | Leave a CommentTags: architecture, photography, julius shulman, visual acoustics
This film has been on my list of things to blog about for a while so I figured this would be a fitting follow up to my previous entry; a tribute to the late Julius Shulman.
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics explores the monumental career of 98-year-old architectural photographer, Julius Shulman. Populating his photos with human models and striking landscapes, Shulman combined the organic with the synthetic, melding nature with revolutionary urban design. The resulting images helped to shape the careers of some of the greatest architects of the 20th Century, with Shulman documenting the work of Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, and many others.
For those of you who happen to be in Melbourne there is a screening of Visual Acoustics this weekend (Sunday August 2) as a part of the Melbourne International Film Festival. I’m afraid I’ll just have to wait for the theatre release or when it comes out on DVD though. 
For more information visit the official website at www.juliusshulmanfilm.com
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