The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. They’re finding out who rides [...]
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Tagged: bicycle, bicycles, Photography, portraits, south-africa
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- June 8, 2010 – 10:00
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- By Andrew
Kim Jong-il is North Korea’s commander in chief, part-time resident evil and each time I hear his name I wonder who this mad man really is. The Boston Globe often features great pictures sets its Big Picture category. Kimmy is the subject this time and might I say a nice example of some good old [...]
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Tagged: axes of evil, big picture, evil, hans blix, kim jong-il, Photography, propaganda, team america
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- March 14, 2010 – 17:46
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- By Andrew
Strolling through Nerdcore a while back, I came across a great photo set by Niall O’Brien. This photographer (and indeed I had never heard of him) has been able to capture punks in a great set of pictures it seems. An ongoing project he finds himself in as you will read further on. Right now [...]
Categories: Codes,DIY,Documentary,Everyday life,Exhibit,Gathering,Heroes,Looks,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Rebellion,Street culture
Tagged: berlin, brighton, london, niall o'brien, Photography, punk, punks not dead
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- February 16, 2010 – 20:55
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- By Andrew
This is probably one of the coolest time lapses I’ve seen in a while. It features Dabe Alan, who is getting a full sleeve tattoo with cameras and photography as theme done by Tony Touch. As we’re huge fans of time lapses and the art of tattooing, this is a win win for us all. [...]
Categories: Animation,Codes,DIY,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Quickie,Skills,Street culture
Tagged: dabe alan, flickr, Photography, Photography themed sleeve, sleeve, Tattoo, tattooing, time lapse, tony touch
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- November 21, 2009 – 12:34
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- By Andrew
The members of LICHTFAKTOR use light to give expression to their creativity. They take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night. The Cologne artists’ collective experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. Their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and [...]
Categories: Animation,Connectivity,DIY,Entertainment,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Rebellion,Skills,Street art,Technology,Urbanyouthfiles
Tagged: lichtfaktor, light graffiti, Photography
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- June 29, 2009 – 18:42
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- By Andrew
“Your daily dose of inspiring photography from around the globe” The Black Snapper promises to become a great project, based from Amsterdam. Its is the brainchild of Frank Kloos, an interactive media designer, and Diederik Meijer, a documentary photographer. (One of his projects, amongst many other, was a photo documentary on Dutch women working in [...]
Categories: Gathering,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Skills,Street culture,Urbanyouthfiles
Tagged: Amsterdam, diederik meijer, interview, Photography, the black snapper, theblacksnapper.com
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- June 5, 2009 – 07:03
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- By Andrew
Head on over to PhotoChaining.com if you want to see a wicked global project. People are saving pictures to cheap memory cards and then leave these cards in all sorts of public places for other people to find and view once they’re home. The concept is rather simple. You buy a cheap memory card, put [...]
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Tagged: Ghent, memory cards, photochaining, Photography
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- April 15, 2009 – 15:55
- Author:
- By Andrew