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 Ernst Haas 

I accidentally tagged these photos as ‘poetry’ but I don’t think I want to fix it. Some things are better left as is.

Centre field at McMahon Stadium, and a vintage recording studio all in the same day :) Fun!

Check out this vortex of gelatin emulsion that’s been beautifully stripped from its celluloid backing.  No shit, film is magic!

For all those who missed out on the first round of invites to view our recent work from Namibia, it’s up on Tumblr for all to enjoy.

Last November, my good friend and fellow image maker Ryan Faubert and I were commissioned to film a luxury travel and adventure tourism pilot for American television.  With the brilliant skies and natural wonders of Namibia as our star attractions, we were full of optimism and excitement: what an opportunity to translate our experiences into something we can share with others!

I’m still processing the disappointment with our client, whose unprofessionalism has left many hardworking and trusting people holding the bag, but remind myself to be free of these ill feelings, and grow on with love and joy.

After this long silence, I’m pleased to share some supreme vibes from my journeys afar.  The above cinemagraph is a snippet from a lighting test taken while working on location at Huab Lodge :)

What is the Gateway to Astronaut Photography?

The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth. Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 1,155,810 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website.

These images include 675,262 from the International Space Station. These numbers were determined 11/1/2011.

Bread as nutrition, craft, and culture. From the land mark Sample Lesson for a Hypothetical Course.  Charles and Ray Eames, 1953.

Me, on the set of Nurse 3-D , Trinity Square, Toronto.

(via Adam John)

“It is no meaning to create art work by one’s own aesthetic and concepts.  However, when people take photos, one’s aesthetic and memory are always included.  This is a kind of everlasting contradiction.” Daido Moriyama

tokyo-camera-style:

Shimokitazawa

A GR signed by Daido Moriyama.

Time-capsule night!  2008 was the first year I attended a the Photographic Historical Society of Canada’s photo fair / flea market called “The Big One”.  Located inside a musky soccer dome on the fringe of the Greater Toronto Area, deal hunters, and photo enthusiasts of all ages piled in to walk the rows of folding tables and astroturf.  I loaded up on expired film for $1/roll and amongst the many gems, was this roll of vintage Ektar 1000 :)

“¡Madre de dios!  The legends were true!” Bart Simpson

For the ladies who fantasize of walk-in shoe closets and the like: this is the film junkie’s wet dream. Film cooler at Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku.

tokyo camera style

It’s nice- but this is about 1/6 of what they had back in 2001!

(Source: tokyo-camera-style)

Ooh, I do hope to catch this :)

jennilee:

Photo: Jeff Wall test shoot

Picture Start Harry Killas, Canada, 2010, 48 minutes

In their studios, at galleries and while walking around the city, three Vancouver art stars (Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace and Rodney Graham) reflect back on the pioneering art they individually, and occasionally collectively, began producing in the 1970s. Their art — causing nothing short of a tremor within the art world — eventually came to be known as photo-conceptualism: a novel approach to photography involving stripping down the photographic image to pure information, pure idea.

Exploring the movement, Picture Start offers an informative insider’s look at the personal motivations that drove these artists to create the art that they did. Along the way, we are treated to lesser-known and fascinating side tales: the brief visit of legendary artist Robert Smithson to Vancouver, and the earliest reception of Wall’s now canonized photograph, Destroyed Room (1978), which insured photo-conceptualism was here to stay and forever placed Vancouver on the art world map. —JM

Director’s Biography

Harry Killas is a Canadian director, writer and producer who has lived and worked in the United States, Canada and Europe. His dramatic films have been screened at several international festivals including Bilbao, Toronto, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Torino and Vancouver. Harry resides in Vancouver where he is an Associate Professor of Media Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Picture Start will play the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver on May 13, 2011 at 6:30 PM Vancity Theatre -(Double bill with KOOP).
Broadcast Premiere of Picture Start will be on BRAVO! on May 16, 2011 at 8 PM ET, 5PM PT.