Posts Tagged ‘weird’
Of Quirkiness, Popsicles, and Colour-Blind Film
We go off on the wayward, weird path, pointing out quirky happenings in the world of Photography no more than once a week. Well, there’s so much weird, quirky stuff going on that we just have to follow up The Good, the Mad, and the Chuckly from earlier this week with another post treating you to off-the-wall news from yesterday and today. Aquarius in his first week must be a joker!
Quirky Cerise
PetaPixel even starts the title of a photo-article with the word ‘quirky’: Quirky Portraits of People Surrounded by Swarms of Hanging Objects. (See how bad things are getting?) It features the photographs of Cerise Doucède.
Doucède’s photographs are truly, well, quirky, ranging to weird. They are also reminiscent of surreal painting. Perfectly natural portraits of persons are offset by a variety of objects in midair in front of and around the subject. Some persons are clearly put out by said objects while others find them amusing! Which are you?
Colour-Blind Film
Aquarius is such a bad influence that even staid BJP makes one of our weird-and-quirky posts! Once upon a time, King Kodak used to produce and “infrared” film called “Aerochrome” that was “intended for various aerial photographic applications, such as vegetation and forestry surveys,” and similar serious applications. It had the endearing trait of turning cool greens into popping purples.
Now, Lomography is bringing out their “LomoChrome Purple 400 film” which is neither infrared nor meant for aerial and/or serious applications. It does retain Aerochrome’s endearing trait of converting greens into magentas and purples, however! Click the link to see a few sample shots and to access a couple more links if you’re into The Colour Purple.
Popsicle-Stick Cameras
It’s the height of summer and popsicles would be most welcome. What’s more, we should save the popsicle sticks because you can . . . build a camera out of them.
Maxim Grew used a Polaroid film holder, card stock, duct tape, and aforementioned popsicle sticks to build a working camera! Grew even demonstrates how well his camera works with a photo or two. In case you’d like to build one, he freely shares his fabrication process and trade secrets.
The Good, the Mad, and the Chuckly
This post has nothing to do with Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood; it’s about a troika of articles on PetaPixel which make up our (near-)weekly set of all that’s quirky and offbeat in Photography News. This week: The Good, the Mad, and the Chuckly.
The Good
Ethereal Macro Photos of Snowflakes is about the unusual and marvellous art of Russian photographer Andrew Osokin.: photgraphing individual snowflakes.
‘Ethereal’ is the word for captures like this one, straight out of Fairyland. PetaPixel assures us that no trickery is involved, stating that all images are macro photographs.
You’ve heard this before, now see it for yourself: isn’t the wondrous breadth and diversity in the tiniest aspects of nature breathtaking? Compare this intricate detailwork to the delicate fragility seen in this snowflake, both crafted by a master lapidary. Thanks to Osokin for preserving fleeting, ethereal beauty.
The Mad
Is Kerry Skarbakka mad? After all, he photographs ‘self portraits’ in the act of . . . falling! If asking whether Skarbakka is ‘mad’ sounds rude, consider that PetaPixel writes, “. . . you find yourself worrying about Skarbakka health… and sanity” in Photographer Shoots Scary Self-Portraits.
The opening shot shows a man in midair falling off a toppling stepladder!
Here too little Photoshopping is involved: “His trick is that he uses climbing gear, ropes, and other rigging in order to stop his fall before his body actually makes painful contact with the ground” but “when all else fails, he admits to editing out glimpses of his safety gear during post-processing.”
The man’s talents are not limited to photography and falling, he’s a trick cyclist and apparently he can levitate too. Let’s say ‘goodbye’ to Skarbakka with this fine suicide shot.
The Chuckly
Trust New York and New Yorkers to do wacko things that would make the rest of us (more normal people, shall we say?) chuckle and giggle.
Evidently the whole business of not-so-well-heeled diners at Noo Yawk’s de luxe establishments taking quickie snapshots of their entrees and then posting the results on Facebook or wherever is totally out of control now. So much so that several New York restaurants are banning the practice, as reported by PetaPixel in Upscale Restaurants are Starting to ban Food Photography.
That story piggybacks on an NYT story, Restaurants Turn Camera Shy which reports a spokesman as saying, “It’s reached epic proportions. They don’t care how it affects people around them.” He has a point; such behaviour is unmannerly. Throw the bums out!
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