i’m a big fan of toy cameras, and this new one performs well outside its price bracket and has bags of character… got it in the post today for £4.99, that’s a ridiculous eBay bargain!!!:
You may remember the Lomo Diana which was posted about a couple of times:
the results i’ve seen with this one look surprisingly good. there’s a flickr pool dedicated to the vivitar wide & slim here.
i’ll report back when i’ve had a few rolls through it!
Slow posting this one!
My good friend Amar pointed ‘Made in Queens’ out to me yonks ago and it looks most excellent! The picture above says it all really - NY kids strapping speakers to BMXs - ingenious.
Read more over at the daily read - Creative Review blog.
It’s been a long time since anyone put any sneakers up in TheScrapBook… which is not only telling, given all the fashion trends we’ve brought to you etc, but it’s a bit strange since it was one of the things that got us all together as mates (along with many other fine things, but kicks is certainly strong!)
These new dunks from Nike absolutely steal the show though. Taken from stills from the Beautiful Losers film releasing very soon, this collection of Dunks is, in my humble opinion, stunning.
We mentioned Beautiful Losers before, but it’s a collection of artists that have been put together, curated along the lines of their “anti-art” backgrounds, their skate or music influence, or the way they influence the world. You’ll be familiar with them, perhaps - Kaws, Obey (Sheperd Fairey), ESPO (Steve Powers), Twist (Barry McGee) to name a few.
Supertouch has the low-down on the Beautiful Loser Dunks:
“Presented by NIKE SPORTSWEAR, the film chronicles the lives and creative process of artists including Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton, among others, whose DIY attitudes informed the aesthetics and ethos of their generation…
To further commemorate the film’s release, Nike’s Sportswear’s JESSE LEYVA has also created a series of 22 Beautiful Losers Dunks emblazoned with iconic stills from the movie using the company’s new high-resolution digital printing process. Says Aaron Rose of the project, “We went back to the documentary and pulled frame stills of what we felt were key moments in the narrative. We used these moments to tell the Beautiful Losers story using the shoes as a medium, with the end result being a collection of works of art.” Viewed together, the shoes reflect the overall narrative of the film, and after being exhibited at the NYC and LA “Make Something!” workshops, two sets of the shoes will be auctioned off with proceeds donated to the Children’s Aid Society.”
The MAKE SOMETHING! workshop schedule, if you’re in NYC looks interesting too:
255 Elizabeth Street
August 8: Zine Making with Aaron Rose
August 9: Cinematography with Tobin Yelland
August 10: Character Design with Kaws
August 14: Animation with Todd James
August 16: Photography with Cheryl Dunn
August 17: Design with Eric Elms
August 18 Tattoos with Scott Campbell
August 21: Painting with Eric White
August 22: Sneaker Design with Jesse Leyva
Wow. Sky News has brought something rather “impressive” to light: The Olympics fireworks display was faked… Read the full article here, but here’s the bottom line:
“The global television audience of more than three billion people watched in amazement as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird’s Nest stadium - except they were watching a computer animation.
Even the giant television screens within the stadium itself broadcast the fake images.
Stunned viewers thought they were watching the string of fireworks filmed from above by a helicopter, but in reality they were watching a 3D graphics sequence that took almost a year to produce. It even included a ‘camera shake’ to mimic the effect of filming from a helicopter…
…Organiser said that the footprint fireworks were there for real, but thought it unsafe to try to film them - so they recreated them instead.”
More photos of the ceremony can be found on Flickr.
Malcolm McLaren teams up with Creative Time to showcase art and pornography where it belongs - in the heart of NYC, in Times Square. McLaren’s video art showpiece, Shallow, is airing from June 25 to mid-August on 44 ½, MTV’s giant outdoor, gilded HD screen between 44th and 45th Streets.
“I’ve cut up pieces of old stag movies, slowed them way down, and set them to music,” says McLaren. “What you see is not people having sex but people about to have it. The old movies had a lot more foreplay. I was interested in the body language of nonactors, how they communicated their longing.”
The 21 “artful” films are interactive too by calling a specific number to hear the musical mashups commissioned for the pieces. “Love Will Tear Us Apart” meets “Love Will Keep Us Together”. Show schedules and MP3s are here.
From Supertouch
Been looking around the net and found James Dawe’s portfolio site through The Serif - a daily dose of design inspiration.
“As a longtime supporter of, and innovator in, the bike community, PUMA is happy to present the I-Cycle Film Series produced by Daniel Leeb of Cinecyle Productions. This collection of short films is dedicated to exploring bike culture and its influencers.
Featuring today’s trailblazers of the two-wheeled community, this film series talks about the importance of biking and the impact this simple activity has on the world we live in. For the production of these films, we followed guys who look at their bikes as more than just a mode of transportation.
The advocates we pedaled alongside include: Matthew McGuinness, a cofounder of The 62, a Brooklyn-based art collective who started Re-Bicycle; George Bliss, the man behind New York’s Pedi-cabs; Brendt Barbur, founder of The Bicycle Film Festival; Matthew Modine, actor and founder of Bicycle-For-A-Day and finally, Antonio Bertone, PUMA’s CMO, who much like the men above, finds pure joy in cycling to work every morning. “
Brilliant blog in the vein of Gaping Void comes Business Guys on Business Trips.
Getty Images - the leading supplier of stock images with an archive of 70 million still images and illustrations and more than 30,000 hours of stock film footage - has this intriguing website - Moodstream.
The website claims:
“Moodstream is a powerful brainstorming tool designed to help take you in inspiring, unexpected directions. Whether you want images, footage or audio, or just need a stream of fresh ideas, tweak the Moodstream sliders to bring a whole new creative palette straight to you…”
I am not so sure about the site’s ability to get the creative juices flowing, with its irratic changes in music and bewildering settings which appear to change very little - but it is worth a visit, even if only for some short glimpses of some of their outstanding photography and footage.
