Letters From Here

Tom Ireland

Work from Sierra Blanca.

“My more recent practice explores the relationship(s) between modernist art and design practices and the western space programme of the mid/late 20th century as proponents of interrelated aesthetic and ideological values. My practice is becoming increasingly reductive with the bare minimum of intervention in source materials and with greater emphasis placed on slight gestures designed to unlock new meaning and possibilities within the given objects and/or images. A constant theme within my recent practice is an unpicking of specific histories and legacies.

via Tom Ireland | i like this art)

It’s easy to make fake photos with Photoshop. It’s harder to do what Franck Allais does: make fake photos that say something real about everyday life.

His delivery truck photos show static street scenes with the sum of ads that have driven by on trucks that day just floating about the road. His pedestrian photos capture people walking and returning from work or errands in the same scene, facing off with themselves.

 (via Clever Photoshops Defeat Space and Time to Expose Hidden Worlds | Raw File | Wired.com)

iPhone Shot – Shuttle Endeavour – Los Angeles, CA, a photo by NatashaBishop on Flickr.

(via L.A. Journey | MLK BLVD)

Adding more from others, via the MLK BLVD Flickr pool, soon.

An up-to-date live stream of photos from any location on Earth, allowing you to see whatever is happening “right now”: Worldcam is a simple web app.

Provide it with two pieces of information — city and location — and you can do everything from look into the office buildings of your favorite companies (e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft) to visit famous landmarks (e.g. Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, the Great Wall).

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The fact that you can quickly look inside buildings around the world is what makes Worldcam a pretty interesting service.

(via Worldcam Lets You Peek Inside Private Buildings Through Instagram Photos)

Pottstown, Pennsylvania newspaper The Pottstown Mercury has begun sharing photographs of wanted individuals through the popular photo sharing service Pinterest.

Using photo sharing channels to increase the number of eyeballs seeing the photos is apparently working: the Pottstown police department reports that there has been a 58% uptick in arrests since the Mercury began sharing photos of perps through social media.

(via Perp Pics Posted to Pinterest Lead to an Uptick in Arrests)

Why stick with one photo of a landmark when 20 will do? That could be the reasoning behind photographer Pep Ventosa’s series The Collective Snapshot, which uses a composite of different photographs of the same landmark to create what look like impressionistic schizoid sketches. They also look a little bit angry—due to their blurry nature—like the photographer is shaking with rage while taking the snapshot.

 (via Dozens Of Snapshots Create Spastic Images Of Landmarks | The Creators Project)

See also the piece I did last year for D.O. about pictures of the familiar, and the more recent piece by Peggy Nelson for Hilobrow, take only pictures.

Series from Stephanie Jung juxtaposes images of  Paris and Berlin.

(via Stunning Composite Photographs Of Cityscapes Contemplate The Geometry Of Paris And Berlin | The Creators Project)

Atomic Overlook is a startling series of images by photographer Clay Lipsky that shows tourists enjoying the beauty of mushroom clouds at atomic bomb tests.

(via Composite Photos of Tourists Watching Nuclear Explosions)

In late 2010 Dutch design studio HEYHEYHEY built a large-scale Rube Goldberg machine called Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine that interacted with viewers by uploading photos and videos of them to its own blog, Facebook and Twitter pages as it operated. A ‘robot’ with an online personality that corresponded to offline actions, Melvin was a huge hit.