Links: Elephant Cam, Photoshop Disasters, Food for Thought
Filed Under: On: March 25, 2008 posted by: 20x200
- This is going to sound really weird, but my favorite photos that I've seen today were taken with webcams attached to elephants in India: "One carried a "trunk-cam" - a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground. Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp." The first two on the page are especially great, but I kind of am totally crazy about the wild boar in the very last photo.
- It's barely a month old so who knows if it'll stick around long or if the anonymous person running it will get bored and dump it (which is what happens to the vast majority of blogs ever created), but I'm really enjoying Photoshop Disasters, which takes great glee in pointing out "clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching" in commercial ventures like magazine covers, ads, and movie posters.
- If you find yourself around Charlotte, North Carolina between now and June 29, make sure to check out the group exhibition Food for Thought at the Light Factory's Knight Gallery, curated by Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. One of the featured artists is the photographer Brian Ulrich, whose 20x200 edition from December (Untitled, Thrift 2006 (0635)) sold out before I could even collect my thoughts about it enough to buy one. Alas! I wish I could go see the show, especially Brian's Kenosha, WI 2006 (Jello), which I just can't stop thinking about—I find it so seductive, and yet also so very subtly menacing. (And why yes, it does disturb me to have feelings like that associated with something Bill Cosby sold during my childhood.)
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