Top 5 Twitter Discoveries- Week of June 22
Well, it was a long but eventful week. And now it’s time to look back at the highlights. Please enjoy this edition of Top 5 Twitter Discoveries. And as always, don’t forget that you, too, can appear in the series by simply following us and tweeting your favorite finds. You should also connect with us on Facebook! Do it – we’ll return the favor.
1. When Shadows Kiss
(via @designyoutrust)
It’s not often that I showcase a single photograph, but this one was just too cool to pass up. There are so many things about this image that make me smile. I am getting myself a large print right now.
2. Picasso’s Light Drawings
(via @workforfood)
In 1949, LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Pablo Picasso in Vallauris, France. With him he brought photographs of ice skaters who had tiny lights affixed to their skates. Immediately inspired, Picasso began a light painting campaign along the lines of what you saw in this post. Apparently light graffiti has been around a lot longer than I originally thought…
3. The Sketchbook Project
(via @LisaSonoraBeam)
How cool is this idea – a publicly accessible library of sketchbooks that people can browse at their leisure. I say, sign me up! For those of you who are with me, here are more details:
Sign up to participate in The Sketchbook Project, and you’ll receive a package containing a Moleskine sketchbook with a barcode on it, a randomly picked theme to create your book around, and detailed instructions about the project.
When we receive everyone’s sketchbooks back, we will take the collection on a tour around the United States to select galleries and venues. Everyone who sends their book back will be included in the collection and taken on tour.
In addition to the touring exhibitions, the ultimate goal of the project is to create a permanent library for which the sketchbook collection can be on display. The opening of the permanent sketchbook library location is expected in 2010.
4. Mind Blowing Architectural Photography
(via @iamkhayyam)
I used to want to be an architect – who knows what happened that dream. It’s collections like this one that make me wonder what life would have been like had I gone down the architecture road. Check out these photographs – some of them are truly inspiring.
5. Martin Wilson Photography
(via @Booooooom)
Martin Wilson’s artwork is incredible. Talk about a guy with patience! Wilson’s pictures are painstakingly created frame by frame on 35mm film. Sounds like he has quite the routine going on:
I get the whole film developed, scan it, then piece the final image together on the computer, making a large contact sheet. It’s only when the completed film strips are laid out side by side in the contact sheets that the final image appear. Each work usually takes months to complete, as each frame is obsessively taken in sequence. No pasting together after the event, no cheating in Photoshop! If I make a mistake or take a frame out of place I start the film again from the beginning. The works are all records of real journeys, the visual remnants of hours walking or cycling round town, bringing to life the unheard voices of the city.
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