Archive for the Photography Category
Instagr/am/bient: Stop, Collaborate and Listen
January 20, 2012 | No Comments | View
One of many lessons to be learned from hip-hop (or Kenny Rogers) is that it’s hard to beat a solid collaboration. For us that goes exponential when you make it cross-media, with bonus points if there’s an iPhone involved. So you can imagine what happened when we got ahold of Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards – the [...]
Tags: ambient > instagram > iphone > music
One for the U2 People
December 2, 2011 | No Comments | View
Tempus fugit. U2′s Achtung Baby is now only a year away from buying its own drinks, and part of the party U2′s team is throwing is an image contest/collaboration, inviting artists to submit photographs and artwork ‘which reflects today’s global environment’ in the same spirit that Achtung Baby and its original artwork did way back in [...]
Tags: Achtung Baby > Contest > U2
Inspiration in Black & White
September 23, 2011 | No Comments | View
As great as color is or can be, it’s oftentimes very refreshing to take it out of the system and get into the purity and richness that comes with greyscale (especially on an cloudy fall day). That’s why we love and recommend Shiro to Kuro, a design curation site that explains themselves simply and elegantly: [...]
Conceptual Infrastructure
June 17, 2011 | No Comments | View
It could be argued that sometimes the only difference between pure art and pure decoration is the presence or absence of a concept: does the object in question transcend the object-ness of itself – and if so, in what manner, and on what grounds? It’s a lot to chew on, argue, and possibly spit out [...]
Out There Thinking: Generative Photography
April 7, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s always a good idea to be surveying and sampling the nooks and edges of the landscapes that get your engine revving, whether that be personal or professional. You never know what your going to find – and just as importantly, you never know what new thoughts and ideas you’ll have as a result of [...]
Informed, Inspired, & Influenced: Influencers Short Film
November 4, 2010 | Comments Off | View
Andy Warhol. Jay-Z. Both MJs. Steve Jobs. Basquiat. Obama. Shepard Fairey. Ali. The Beatles. Picasso. Paul Newman. Marilyn Monroe. Gandhi. Biggie Smalls. Ramones. Run DMC. Steve McQueen. Einstein. << Those are just a handful of the reasons Influencers may be of the best 13:55 of video you’ll ever watch. Throwing a party with those luminaries [...]
Tags: music > philosophy
Be Inspired: New Type York
September 23, 2010 | No Comments | View
This sounds kind of dumb to say, but language and communication is effing amazing when you take a quiet minute to think about it: sounds and symbols that allow an idea from one person’s mind to enter the mind of someone else. Dang. How many times as a kid did you furrow your brow and [...]
Tags: fonts
Hipstamatic and Swankolab: Two Apps that Get Photographers, and Vice-Versa
May 27, 2010 | No Comments | View
I don’t miss photography class, not even for 1/60 sec. It was the spool. On the cusp of mainstream digital photography, there I was: sitting alone in the dark, ruining what I hoped were art-school masterpieces, just trying to get the effing film on the effing spool. Don’t let the film touch itself! Better not [...]
Tags: apps > iphone
New Awesomeness from Trent Reznor
April 29, 2010 | No Comments | View
Our admiration for Trent Reznor just downed a Red Bull and vodka. The announcement of new music to come would’ve been enough in itself to stir the buzzpot for a few of Bluezoom’s resident NIN fans. But when has that ever been enough for Trent Reznor? (The answer is “never”. Again, we’ll encourage you to [...]
Tags: music