New take of the old masters

The other day I came across this post from Boooooom and it really made me laugh. A brilliant idea from Booooooom & Adobe, a competition to recreate any famous piece of art in a real photography. Some of the submissions are amazing, others… not so good – but funny though.

This challenge is aimed to students in the UK is worth £10,000 cash prize. The rules are only recreate the original picture with photography and this means no painting or drawings and the deadline end soon, so if you are interested, hurry up.

The beauty of imperfection

So, you spend a grand on the latest reflex camera with super wide angle zoom lens, 20 mega pixels and all this amazing technology and then you use your £1 iPhone app to make cooler pictures… Yes, the Hipstamatic app has changed the angle of taking pictures. You don’t need to know anything about exposure, apertures, metering….only open your app and click. Voila, here is your awesome picture.

If retro sneakers, bleach dye jeans, old Barbours and big framed glasses are the must have items, why not get the same retro look in your pictures?

A view to kill for

A really nice piece of web kit has just caught my usually very cynical attention. It’s called PicLens and is a very simple to install extension for browser of choice, Firefox.

Interpol, new album. Great cover.

One of my favourite (spelt ‘favorite’ in the bands home town of New York) bands Interpol, is releasing a new album later this year in July.

An exciting start to 2007

Just when I thought I was going to be able to slack off for the first couple of weeks of 2007, we land a really large project. We were commissioned by a client late in December to organise a photo shoot with three models, some heavy post-production and quite a bit of collatoral to design and turn around.