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“Danish artist group Superflex unveiled their latest intervention, part of Creative Time’s Living as Form exhibition. In the Olympic Restaurant on Delancey and Essex, the group created a near-exact replica of J.P. Morgan Chase’s executive washroom. This greek diner has been a cornerstone of the Lower East Side for over thirty-five years, and, by the looks of it, the new bathroom is the first major addition in that time. The Olympic Restaurant did not pay a dime for the bathroom – it is free and open to the public, not just customers. Most importantly, it is a permanent installation that we hope will stay in the neighborhood for another thirty-five years.”
“Before I die” is going national. And Brooklyn has now resorted to importing art projects. (Taken with instagram)
“Do u know if any sweet concerts or outdoor events were cancelled? Was this a ‘pussy tornado’? Should I do a ‘performance art piece’ about ducking and covering?”
DISASTER VIDEO: Tornado tears up Brooklyn, 2 altbros ‘flip a shit’ in their sweet loft
I recently researched the new Halls ads. I then decided to email the photographer Matt Hoyle to see if he could offer me any other information about how the images were processed. He sent me a nice response:
first, i shoot with wide angle lens to get a slightly distorted effect.
basically my work usually consists of lighting with nice rim light around the face to get it to pop.
then i use channels to get as much contrast without getting it too contrasty.
i then slightly desaturate.
next i use high pass to sharpen the eyes and lips.
then i mask the person from the background and sometimes create a backdrop that compliments the skin or eye color.
that pretty much it.
for the halls i also reddened up the nose and added a little blue toning around the eyes. also i had a great makeup artist to start the sick look.
hope this helps.
the term is hyperreal. well, that’s at least what i get described as.
There is a series of new Halls ads that has been popping up. With their swollen red noses and half-shut eyes, the individuals depicted seems to be suffering from much more than just a sore throat, the only thing which Halls helps with. However, something else has been bothering me much more. The portraits look too fake to be photographs and too detailed to be drawings. Perhaps they are computer-generated.
After some investigation, the answer was found. According to Advertolog, the ad campaign was by JWT and the photographs were taken by Matt Hoyle who mentions them on his blog. How much post-processing was done is yet to be discovered. Carry on, partner.
“Initially, I was attracted to the noisy amateur aesthetic of the raw images. Street Views evoked an urgency I felt was present in earlier street photography. With its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities or agendas of a human photographer. It was tempting to see the images as a neutral and privileged representation of reality—as though the Street Views, wrenched from any social context other than geospatial contiguity, were able to perform true docu-photography, capturing fragments of reality stripped of all cultural intentions. The way Google Street View records physical space restored the appropriate balance between photographer and subject. It allowed photography to accomplish what culture critic and film theorist Siegfried Kracauer viewed as its mission: “to represent significant aspects of physical reality without trying to overwhelm that reality so that the raw material focused upon is both left intact and made transparent.””
“A gigantic knitted rabbit is part of an art installation on a Mountain Hill (Colletto Fava, 1600m), above the Village of Artesina in Piemonte, Italy. The artists Gelitin (a team of four creatives) took five years to hand-sew the pink bunny, and they state it will be on display for the next 20 years.”
“The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign. Get the inside story on how design was used by the campaign, and scope out the pieces, created unofficially, by grassroots supporters.”
