Three-D artist Kim Kamens reproduces photographs using nails and thread.

It’s pretty amazing stuff, and online images hardly do her work justice.

Originally published at Amul Kumar Photography. Please leave any comments there.

The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read.

These essays form the bulk of what has been keeping me too busy to produce my own blog material, and as those guys are writers and ( Read more... )

File this one under “Things I never thought I’d see done with wedding photography: AltF, scroll to the bottom for some fantastic photos set aboard mechanical monstrosities.

Originally published at Amul Kumar Photography. Please leave any comments there.

Frieke Janssens is another photographer who produces amazing, slightly surreal, work that is well worth looking at. Add this to the list of my inspirations.

Check out her personal work, as well as the pre-production materials she shows. She has managed to create a career, not just using the tools she loves, but creating the sort of images she loves ( Read more... )

Episode 18 of Paul Giguere’s excellent podcast, Thoughts on Photography, does a great job of summarizing the primary points to consider when writing an Artist Statement or a Project Statement. Even better, he concisely explains the difference between the two.

I’ve been listening to Paul’s podcasts practically since the first episode, having ( Read more... )

I discovered the truly breathing-taking work of Dave Nitsche through the course he is offering at The Picture Perfect School of Photography, which is titled Conceptual Photography.

The course Dave is offering is precisely the sort of subject matter which I feel does not get taught in traditional art colleges. While most courses focus on “nuts and ( Read more... )

Painted Alive - The Fine Art Body Painting of Craig Tracy

My friends, Dawn and Joel of Moonhowler Productions stumbled across an exhibition led by Craig Tracy on their way back from Hong Kong. D&J landed in Florida with the rest of the American staff for Ocean Park’s Halloween Bash, and decided to take the long way back to Milwaukee - the route ( Read more... )

In my quest to teach myself 3D Rendering, I discovered the Vue Tutorials from Geekatplaytm Studio, totally free video tutorials. They do charge a (very reasonable, in my experience) fee to purchase the content used in the tutorials. Since they are primarily creating these tutorials as a form of marketing for their services (which include creating ( Read more... )

Liquid Sculpture - Water Drops by photographer Martin Waugh (Martin actually describes himself as “Father, engineer, artist”)

Discovered while trying to figure out how Chili’s menus get those amazing splash effects in their drink menus. Much thanks to Jeff Callen for giving me the 411.

I am a particular fan of Martin’s “Elephant Toes” photo.

Enjoy.
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Brian Ulrich, of NotIfButWhen.com is teaching Digital Studio this semester, with a focus on developing projects which address social concerns. It’s often surprising to me how art education frequently focuses on the nuts and bolts, the methodology of making art, while rarely teaching how to think about art, how to judge what is worth making art ( Read more... )