Is it possible to lust over an electric range? Well, it is possible if it's this beauty! The Siemen's cook range is an absolute ode to beauty within function. So very cool! Check out the other great design awarded the iF Design Award.
Via FastCompany.com: iF Design Awards Highlight Brilliant Solutions to Everyday Problems
The Craft & Vision series of eBooks from David duChemin and friends is one of the most cost effective resources I've found to help develop a artist's eye in your digital photography. The basic goal of the series is to help improve one's photography without the need for any new or additional gear.
The latest installment, Below the Horizon - Understanding Light at the Edges of Day, by Dave Delnea, is a great read for those who love the light from the "magic hours" of dawn and dusk. Getting the light right makes such a huge difference in the quality of photos, and Dave provides several examples of how different times of the day invoke different feelings and reactions.
I highly recommend Below the Horizon, as well as all in the eBook series. I have them all!
Now, my biggest challenge is to figure out how to get out and shoot at these times while juggling the responsibilities of a husband and dad. So many things I want to do, so little time.
UPDATE: A huge apology to Matt Brandon and Gavin Gough for screwing up the credits for this article! I've corrected the references and links below.
ORIGINAL POST: Along with David DuChemin, Chris Orwig, and Gavin Gough, Matt Brandon is a favorite photographer of mine. His photos, like David's, Chris' and Gavin's, elicit emotional responses, provide a look into other worlds and cultures, and challenge our sense and understanding of what photography should be. Matt has a great post on the power of the photo subject's eyes and line of sight:
"There is one underrated and often under utilized aspect that I would like to focus on with today’s post and that is the use of eye-lines or simply put, the line of sight. The face is one of the strongest compositional elements in an image. So much visual weight is given to the human face that it trumps just about everything else in an image. And so, when the human face is looking at an object that line of sight becomes a strong element of design. This line of sight is so powerful it has complete control over the viewer and makes or to put it stronger, forces the viewer follow through to the end of this implied line."
There are so many posed portraits and postcard shots made today that just this one powerful photographic element could turn upside down the quality of casual photos - in a positive way!
I challenge you to focus on the eyes - plan for the eyes of your subjects - be intentional about the eyes!
Enjoy.
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At least that’s my girls’ opinions. Not mine!
We spent a great Saturday last weekend at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. Great places off the beaten path in Washington DC. The museums are attached and share a tremendous old building several blocks off of the Mall.
Even better is that they are located one block from Washington DC’s small, but authentic, Chinatown. So what makes for a good day? Train into DC, lunch in Chinatown at a great local restaurant where they still make the rice noodles by hand (apparently becoming a rare find), and several hours with some fantastic art. Of course, the girls may say differently, but a surprise end of day visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum lifted their spirits back up just in time for the ride home.
The redeeming thing, though, is that after all the walking and looking and reading…and complaining, in the end, they said they had a good time. That’s a good day!
Except for a few. I just purchased the 2010 Pentagram Wall Calendar from Pentagram Design. It's a celebration of great typography design and is, as the supplier Veer calls it, "the typophile's pinup calendar". I'll give you a review once it comes in, but I sure am pleased to find it.
This is so very cool. I found this site before Christmas and thought it would be a great gift. I didn't move on it fast enough, but it is still calling my name.
The concept is so simple, yet the delivery is just fantastic. In my opinion, it would look great framed on our wall!
Enjoy.
Along the same lines as a previous post, I'll repeat myself that utilitarian and useful does not have to be boring. These have to be some of the most unique and inspiring designs I've seen for mass transit. Why can't the US have something like these wonderful subway station designs?
I've seen some really nice designs on some civil engineering projects in recent months, and I'll try to share some of those soon.
Be sure to check out all the subway station designs by clicking on the link above.
Posted via web from Jonathan Hasson's Mind Stream
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We had our first big snow today. Going on 12 hours now and still snowing. There’s just something about snow during the Christmas season that seem all just right.
The photo above is a happy accident. You never know when equipment hiccups and user errors might just come out with something that your really like. This one occurred when my tripod mount started slipping during the exposure. I’ll take it!
Click on the photo and it will take you to other photos in the gallery.
Happy Christmas Season!
I’ll leave you with a couple ideas from the Editor’s Note in the same magazine. This is Kaja Perina’s short list of things to do to annihilate your creative spark. I think she used the word “extinguish.”How true these are for both the creative professions as well as the standard business environment! If we only could teach our children and students to respectfully challenge the status quo, then think of the possibilities.
1. Know exactly what you’re doing before you start.
2. Be careful not to offend.
3. Get Permission.
4. Run it by everyone else first.
5. Criticize yourself at every step.
This is a good article on Man Ray from Fast Company. I recently saw an Ovation TV program on the influence that Man Ray, among others such as Alexander Rodchenko and August Sander, had on the development of photography as an artistic medium. He had a revolutionary eye, and his work is just plain cool.
Be sure to set your DVR timers for the upcoming re-broadcast of the program: The Genius of Photography: Document for Artists. It airs several times in late November on Ovation TV.
My name is Jonathan Hasson and I’m a man on a mission…a mission to discover as much as I can of the blueprint that God has for me. So far, the blueprint has held many surprises, some tears and many blessings. It’s taken me to a place today where I sometimes refer to myself as an engineer with a creative side hiding inside, dying to escape. That’s probably an exaggeration...
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