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Art by Richard A. Estrada at LA-Artist.com
Danielle Lange at LA-Artist.com
As you may or may not know, for the past few years I’ve been inviting artists from across L.A. to contribute towards an art project I run at LA-Artist.com (learn more here).
I’m going to start re-posting some of my favorite submission here at Oi-Media.com. If you have any questions or if you would like to take part, leave a comment below of hit me up on LA-Artist.com’s Facebook page. Cheers, Mr. O
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Tagged artcard, community art, fav art, LA-Artist.com, los angeles, street art
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Bruce Davidson’s Subway (Tate)
In the 1980s the Subway in New York was poorly run, poorly lit and considered dangerous. Photographer Bruce Davidson decided to head underground to embark on what he called ‘a voyage of discovery’. In Davidson’s own words, ‘I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the colour, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day.’ With its striking portraits ranging from gang members to a blind man, Subway is considered one of the finest photography projects ever completed. From his home in New York, Davidson talked to TateShots about the series.
Sourced from the Tate on YouTube
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Tagged Artist Profile, Bruce Davidson, Photojournailst
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Animated Op Art
Learn more about Op Art on Wikipedia.
Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting
Sourced from TIME Light Box
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1
In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris began a project in which he used his trusty Olympic Stylus 35mm film camera (he’s since gone through six) to take a self-portrait each day and then posted the results on his website.
Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/03/jeff-harris-self-portraits/#ixzz1rWDsgqJA
Also posted in Film, Multimedia, Photography, Video
Tagged Jeff Harris, Self Portrait, TIME Light Box
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The World’s Most Important 6-sec Drum Loop (The Amen Break)
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
Sourced from mobius32 on Youtube
Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium
Sourced from PBSoffbook
GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, from functional to entertainment. Now, 25 years after the first GIF was created, they are experiencing an explosion of interest and in novation that is pushing them into the terrain of art. In this episode of Off Book, we chart their history, explore the hot bed of GIF creativity onTumblr, and talk to two teams of GIF artists who are evolving the form into powerful new visual experiences.
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Also posted in Citizen Journalism, Film, Photography, Publishing, Web 2.0
Tagged art, Art on Screens, Digital Art, Media Arts, PBS, World Wide Web
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Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu
Sourced from the Guardian UK
The British Journal of Photography recently asked a panel of experts, including photographer Chis Killip and the writer Gerry Badger, to select their best photobook of the past 25 years. Surpisingly, perhaps, Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency, from 1986, came a close second to a much less well-known book, Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu (Ravens), which was published the same year.
Read the full article @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/24/masahisa-fukase-ravens-photobook
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