姚仁禄教授创意讲座

a friend of mine shared these wonderful and inspiring clips with me,
thought you will be interested and enjoy his lectures too!

姚仁禄教授 has a series of lectures, here are some of them :)

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc1OTM1NzMy.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTY0NDI3NDUy.html


he uses TED talks extensively in his lectures, and shares his ideas, opinions, and stories with the his students, who are majority of them in the design field. :)

Sebastiaan Bremer

loving these whimsical, happy and nostalgic images by Sebastiaan Bremer.
enjoy~!

“Using various inks, he draws directly on slightly blurry C-print enlargements of photographs, and often adds splotches and streaks of photographic dye. Almost always, the underlying photographic images have much to do with personal and family history: a best friend from Bremers teenage years, a shot of himself as a kid, a view of a room taken from under his grandmothers piano, his family on vaction, a former girlfriend.”

500 Days of Summer

If I must only say one phrase for this movie, it would be... "Please watch it."




As seen in the poster, it is a story about love.
Having a very complicated feeling after the movie but I won't spoil the movie by telling the synopsis, which I hate people doing that, so please watch it.
However, I would say, the method of shooting the film is quite interesting and it is not boring at all as compared to other romance movies although the storyline couldn't gone too far. What do you expect in romance movies except relationships, though?

So, enjoy it :)

images from everywhere!

these wonderful images are curated by Erik Baker, he regularly shows series of images that he finds interesting and posts them on Design Observer . The posts always starts with a phrase "Here are Today's images". Some images from his posts are from established and widely known artists while some (i think more) of them are lesser known and date way back before our grandparents were even born. Here are the lists of series of his posts dating back on his first.

Click on the images below and they link to their original websites. however, a couple of them are not linked due to technical problems. sorry! :S

Julia Fullerton Batten

By Julia Fullerton Batten.

When searching more of her works and images, come across to websites discussing about her "Teenage Stories" project. One of the websites says:
"Earlier images in this series show girls involved in everyday leisure activities, at home, in the garden, at the swimming pool, or at the beach. More recently, she has placed the girls in a model village environment, dwarfing their surroundings. The project aims to capture the lives and feelings of young girls as they change from relative innocence to a heightened awareness of their adult life.

Uniquely, for these shoots, Julia deliberately select girls who are not professional models. Once she has the idea for the shoot, she street casts the models. This produces a slight awkwardness in the posture of the models that enhances the unusual surroundings. Another difference is Julia’s use of studio lighting to supplement daylight. She may use as many as seven or eight flash heads to achieve the impression that she wants. This combination of eye for the content of an image, the naturalness of the models, the unusual surroundings, the effect of the lighting all combine to yield a style that identifies her pictures."
(from Doobybrain.com)

More of her artworks..



And she said:
‘I used to approach unknown people on the streets in London and ask them to take part in my photo shoots. There are so many fascinating faces accompanied with wonderful personalities around. The freshness that street cast models have, has also benefited my work immeasurably. I now don’t have the time to find the amateur models myself. But I hire a producer to source models for me’
(from Lost at E Minor)




Lastly, I feel really cold by looking at the last photo above.

Hope you people like it :)

henri cartier bresson

like Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Henri Cartier Bresson (HCB) was the classic in photography. he was the father of modern photojournalism, helped develop what is now known as "street photography", coined the term "desicive moment", travelled throughout the world with his Leica, and co-founded Magnum- one of the most prestigious photography agencies known intenationally.

some of the very zen quotes from HCB:

"my passion has never been for photography in itself, but for the possibility of forgetting oneself and recording in a fraction of a second the emotion evoked by the subject and the beauty of the form- in other words, a geometry created by what is there."

"i never try to take great photographs. great photographs are offered to me. you have to be available to catch them, be there, not think too hard, forget yourslef, not force it, but use your senses, your intuition, your eye. there's no secret: there's no more to it than that."

"the subject only becomes important and the photography only gains strength when you succeed in forgetting yourself. it's through this attitude alone that you reach something real."

in an interview of HCB with Charlie Rose, Charlie asked HCB about he he takes his photographs, and asked him to give some technical information, HCB replied, "what is there to teach? it is just clicking with your finger"- while he made the clicking on shutter gesture.

HCB uses the beauty of geometry in his compositions. he despised staged pictures and banned any publisher from cropping his pictures. he even made a stamp that read "Do Not Crop" and stamped it on the back of his photographs with his signature and agency name.

although HCB is no longer with us in person, but his work continues to inspire photographers, not only in the photojournalism and street genre, but he also inspried great fashion photographers like Richard Avedon, Brigitte Lacombe and many others from a wider field.

inhale, digest, and be inspired by this legend~! :D

Matisse with his pigeons

the most famous photograph by HCB, look closely, there is another silhoutte with the similar pose in the background!

the examples of the photos here are just "the tip of an iceberg",
here are some links to more HCB~!

HCB's portfolio at Magnum

Exhibition of HCB's work at the Museum of Modern Art

Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson

Rosson Crow

Rosson Crow, I don't know what to introduce about her, but I get attracted by her works when I flipping through the i-D that I bought last month. However, I am a lazy person so I didn't read all the words of that paragraph. On the other hand, I don't feel good for not sharing the existence of such interesting painter/scene builder? whatever you call her..






So sorry for the lack of information due to my laziness.

Will try to read more next time. I admit I am a picture-person. I love seeing pictures only. Hope I can love words more.