Video of the Week: Lost in the Woods

Filmmaker Ruth Hogben collaborates with award-winning musician Kanye West to create a film for his single Lost in the World. The song, which features Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, is taken from West's fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Hogben's piece breaks the mould of popular rap aesthetics while still celebrating the extraordinary talent that has made West a modern icon.

Storms and Sunsets

Here are some pretty shot during my trip to Rodanthe, North Carolina. We had a great view of the ocean and sound.  One night, a slow storm came from the sound.  I was able to get some great long-exposed shots of the lightning.  Sunsets were always gorgeous every night there as well.  The bottom photo illustrated some of that.

All images ©2012 by Martin B. Cherry.

Video of the Week: Mary Ellen Mark

A short video about Mary Ellen Mark's Prom photos using a 20x20 land camera.  (aphotoeditor)

Video of the Week: Yoga By Equinox

Yoga theme continues.

Thanks Lacey for showing me this!

Reuters photos of the year.

Happy holidays and happy new year.  Here are some of Reuters' best of 2011.

 REUTERS/Jason Lee

REUTERS/Damir Sagolj 

 REUTERS/Anis Mili

 REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Please go to this link to see all 100 images, behind-the-scene comments by the photographers and even camera settings used to make the image.  

Video of the Week

Directed and Shot by Dylan Wiehahn

Cool Photographer: Sebastian Mlynarski

Sebastian Mlynarski is an awesome photographer that caught my eye when I saw this album cover for Cold Cave's Cherish the Light Years.

This photograph (on right) of band member Jenifer Clavin is nearly perfect I believe.  The smoothness of the shades of gray throughout the photograph, but it has great contrast. Her eye is so well lit but has that great texture of the shadow from her knitted hood.  Very classical, dark and beautiful.  The flowers I think give it that classical painting look to the composition.

Mlynarski has many other great photos on his website.  Also check out his personal work. He has also done music videos which is a major plus in my book.


image from www.mlynarski.net

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Kanye West posted this video on his blog awhile ago. I really like this video and song. It's a lot of fun and visually hypnotizing. Kanye was was so impressed by this video, he commissioned the director, Javier Longobardo, to direct the video "Street Lights".

Tokihiro Sato

Today at the Frist Center, I saw work from fantastic photographer/ sculptor, Tokihiro Sato. These images were created within the camera. He flashed lights into the camera during hours-long exposure, creating a Shinto-eque look.

(image by Tokihiro Sato from www.efimera.org)

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French artist, Debombourg Baptist, used a simple, everyday office supply to make mural.

Staples....

the result.....

Amazing!

(Fubiz)

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Both cool and cute

from Veasyble via Fubiz

Black Passport

A book trailer for war photographer Stanley Greene. Check it out. Heads up: it's pretty intense.

More info here.

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Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

Video by Takuya Hosogane. Created using After Effects and Cinema 4D.

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"Ubiquitous" by Naoko Ito

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Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Sculpture Photography

works by Szymon Roginski

(images via Fubiz)

Outta this world!!!

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

via - Gizmodo

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This was shot entirely on a Canon 5D (SLR camera) with Lensbabies by Photographer/ Director Chris Milk.

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Frames Per Second - Exhibition in Salon Projektionist - Vienna from dirk rauscher on Vimeo.

This is a cool Video/Photo installation by Dirk Rauscher. Where he combines photograms and video projections.