Professional ‘Pigeon Spookers’ Help Tourists Nail Instagram Photos
1 HR AGO - Here’s a photo-related job you’ve probably never heard of before: professional Expand
1 HR AGO - Here’s a photo-related job you’ve probably never heard of before: professional “pigeon spooker.” Pay a visit to certain areas of Thailand, and you may come across people who now make a living by helping tourists capture the perfect travel photo by scaring pigeons. Viral Press reports that the pro pigeon spookers can be found in […] Collapse
Thieves Steal $100,000+ in Camera Gear from LA Studio
2 HRS AGO - Thieves broke into a studio in Los Angeles this past weekend and after spending just 6 minutes Expand
2 HRS AGO - Thieves broke into a studio in Los Angeles this past weekend and after spending just 6 minutes inside, ran off with well over $100,000 in camera gear. Director and cinematographer Peter Cote tells PetaPixel that the two suspects entered the building early Sunday morning between midnight and 1 AM. “It’s a warehouse-type building in south-central […] Collapse
John Giorno – the New York radical who broke art and poetry's boundaries
7 HRS AGO - Whether sleeping in a five-hour Warhol film, putting poetry over the phone or experimenting with Expand
7 HRS AGO - Whether sleeping in a five-hour Warhol film, putting poetry over the phone or experimenting with augmented reality, the artist, who has died aged 82, refused to be confined by convention‘What do telephones, poetry and the Museum of Modern Art have in common?” read a press release issued by the New York institution on 21 July 1970. A question to which they might have added gay liberation, Aids activism, the aesthetics of advertising, Tibetan Buddhism and sleeping for Andy Warhol, and still received the answer of John Giorni. The artist and poet, who died on Friday aged 82, was the linchpin of New York’s downtown scene.The list of his collaborators, friends and lovers, many of whom made their work at the Bunker, the studio complex Giorno established on the Bowery, which the New York Times described in 1965 as “a vision of Montparnasse replacing Skid Row”, is as numerous: John Cage, Anne Waldman, Mark Rothko, Lynda Benglis, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Trisha Brown and Carolee Collapse
No Straight Lines in Nature - in pictures
12 HRS AGO - Over the past 10 years, David Bebber has photographed for World Land Trust, capturing their Expand
12 HRS AGO - Over the past 10 years, David Bebber has photographed for World Land Trust, capturing their crucial conservation projects across the globe that protect threatened natural habitats through land purchase. This exhibition brings together a collection of work from both personal projects and his time photographing WLT sites, which couple together on the theme of environmental celebration. No Straight Lines in Nature at theprintspace Gallery 17 October - 4 November Continue reading... Collapse
From hated queen to 21st-century icon: Paris exhibition celebrates life of Marie-Antoinette
15 HRS AGO - Paris show includes treatment of woman France loved to hate in mangas, fashion and filmWhen Expand
15 HRS AGO - Paris show includes treatment of woman France loved to hate in mangas, fashion and filmWhen Marie-Antoinette met a gruesome end at the guillotine 226 years ago this week, she was the most hated woman in France. As the horse-drawn cart carried the former queen, her blonde hair shorn and prematurely grey, through the streets of Paris to her execution in 1793, the crowds jostled to spit and hurl insults at her.She was 37, an Austrian-born “foreigner” accused of treason and of being aloof, branded a shameless spendthrift and nicknamed “Madame Deficit” for the bills she had run up on the finest clothes and jewels. Continue reading... Collapse
Wandsworth Business Awards 2019 Winners!
1 DAY AGO - The Wandsworth Business Awards, developed and organised by Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce Expand
1 DAY AGO - The Wandsworth Business Awards, developed and organised by Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce took place at the Roehampton Club on Friday 11 October, and Tooting businesses won or were runners-up in every category! Here’s the full list...
Business of the Year
Winner – Minar Jewellers
Best Business for Marketing & Social Media
Winner – Aim Solutions
Highly commended – Poppy’s Funerals
Highly commended – Hetu
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Duff House, Aberdeenshire: Claude Monet – A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight
1 DAY AGO - Until 2020 Claude Monet's Impressionist masterpiece A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight features at Expand
1 DAY AGO - Until 2020 Claude Monet's Impressionist masterpiece A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight features at Duff House, Aberdeenshire, in its diverse autumn programme of exhibitions. Collapse
Dress like your life depends on it': art's most glamorous and scandalous nightclubs
1 DAY AGO - Fuelled by booze and fleeing the humdrum, they dressed and danced like their lives depended on it. Expand
1 DAY AGO - Fuelled by booze and fleeing the humdrum, they dressed and danced like their lives depended on it. We celebrate the heyday of racy caverns crammed with art and attitudeThe Cave of the Golden Calf had such a scandalous reputation that a high society divorce case once cited the mere act of attendance as evidence of dubious character. The doorway to the notorious Mayfair club stood at the top of a steep set of steps and was illuminated by a single electric light bulb. A panel set in the wall showed the titular calf in a state of tumescence, flanked by phalluses hanging limp.Opened in June 1912 by Frida Strindberg – writer, bohemian and ex-wife of playwright August – the Cave of the Golden Calf was named after the idol erected by the Israelites at Mount Sinai, and cultivated an appropriately pagan image. The London establishment pronounced itself England’s first and only artistic cabaret and its heady decor was provided by artists of the moment: Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Collapse
Charlotte Perriand: happiness by design
2 DAYS AGO - Louis Vuitton Foundation, ParisThe visionary French architect and designer is celebrated in a new Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Louis Vuitton Foundation, ParisThe visionary French architect and designer is celebrated in a new exhibition – although, as in life, her generous, joy-filled work is partially obscured by that of her male contemporariesIn most of the photographs of Charlotte Perriand, whether as a precocious pioneer in the 1920s or as a contented old woman in the 1990s, she is smiling. In one of the most famous you can’t tell, as she turns her naked back to the camera in order to salute with upraised arms a snowy mountain landscape, but you can guess that she is. It is certainly an exultant image. The famous creators with whom she worked – Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Isamu Noguchi – are more often shown solemn and serious, in keeping with their image as men of destiny.There are many things that can be said about Perriand (1903-99) – that she was the principal author of some of the 20th century’s most memorable pieces of furniture, that she could be as inventive with traditional materials such as Collapse
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Google Pixel 4 Promises ‘Studio-Like Photos Without the Studio’
1 HR AGO - Google today announced the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, the first generation of Pixel Expand
1 HR AGO - Google today announced the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, the first generation of Pixel phones to boast more than one camera. Both phones feature a 12.2-megapixel f/1.7 main camera and 16-megapixel f/2.4 telephoto camera on the back, and on the front is an 8-megapixel selfie camera. The dual-camera system is one camera […] Collapse
Nam June Paik review – Move over Tim Berners-Lee, here's the real web prophet
2 HRS AGO - Tate Modern, LondonHe built a garden of tellies, revelled in digital overload and foresaw the Expand
2 HRS AGO - Tate Modern, LondonHe built a garden of tellies, revelled in digital overload and foresaw the internet back in 1974. What a shame this revealing show smothers Paik in seriousnessThe first room says it all. By which I mean it shows you all the work by Nam June Paik you need to understand his contribution to modern art. There you will see, among other things, his masterpiece: TV Garden, an array of different-sized monitors embedded among greenery, their multicoloured screens blossoming like flowers in a gorgeous electronic pastoral.The more you think about this installation, the more insidiously provocative it is. Paik, who died in 2006 at the age of 73, was a polymath philosopher who prophesied our technological age. In 1974, he predicted the coming of an “electronic super highway” that would link everyone on Earth. Move over, Tim Berners-Lee. In 1994, when his vision was coming true, Paik celebrated it with a work called Internet Dreams, in which multiple ever-changing screens glory Collapse
David LaChapelle's Lavazza 2020 calendar – in pictures
11 HRS AGO - The photographer best known for his surreal celebrity portraits has teamed up with Lavazza to Expand
11 HRS AGO - The photographer best known for his surreal celebrity portraits has teamed up with Lavazza to create their 2020 calendar. Shot in Hawaii, his shoot is a hymn to the relationship between humankind and the natural word. Continue reading... Collapse
Not so swinging: how the 60s really looked – in pictures
13 HRS AGO - Before his death at the age of just 30, Tony Ray-Jones travelled through England photographing Expand
13 HRS AGO - Before his death at the age of just 30, Tony Ray-Jones travelled through England photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life, as the 60s drew to an end. A new exhibition marks the pivotal contribution he made to British documentary photography Continue reading... Collapse
Fred Lightfoot obituary
1 DAY AGO - My friend and former colleague Fred Lightfoot, who has died aged 96, was an organiser of Expand
1 DAY AGO - My friend and former colleague Fred Lightfoot, who has died aged 96, was an organiser of large-scale international exhibitions.Fred was born near Tooting Bec, south London, to Frederick Lightfoot, assistant superintendent of a parcels office, and Mabel (nee Cooper). Continue reading... Collapse
Adobe Rolls Out Revamped Creative Cloud Desktop App
1 DAY AGO - Adobe has launched a new version of its Creative Cloud desktop application that has been Expand
1 DAY AGO - Adobe has launched a new version of its Creative Cloud desktop application that has been redesigned from the ground up “to be a more intuitive way to access your apps, update them, and discover new apps that complement or extend your creativity.” Instead of a lightweight app that’s designed for managing Creative Cloud apps, the […] Collapse
Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh: The Artists’ Pool – Human Condition
1 DAY AGO - 17 - 26 Oct The Artists' Pool's latest show at Edinburgh's Dundas Street Gallery explores the Expand
1 DAY AGO - 17 - 26 Oct The Artists' Pool's latest show at Edinburgh's Dundas Street Gallery explores the complexities of human existence, from the physical to the spiritual, from birth to death, through growth, and change. Collapse
Martin Parr's 40 years in the life of Wales: 'Let's face it – people are funny
1 DAY AGO - His ability to turn photos into odd mini-dramas has found its perfect subject: Wales. We talk Expand
1 DAY AGO - His ability to turn photos into odd mini-dramas has found its perfect subject: Wales. We talk mountains, beaches, mushy peas and Magnum with the great photographerWhat do Martin Parr’s photographs of Wales tell us about the country, its past, its present and its future? “Nothing much,” Parr replies in a deadpan voice when I pose the question. It’s not quite the response I was anticipating, given that he has been photographing the country for 40 years now and his best shots are about to go on show at the National Museum in Cardiff. But then Parr has spent five decades confounding and wrong-footing – if not actually deflating – people’s expectations of his work.“It’s a coincidence they’re all taken in Wales,” he says. “It’s not like I’ve gone out to capture Wales. They’re just pictures that happen to have been taken in Wales, and therefore by default are a portrait or interpretation of the country. There are places that aren’t represented, but that’s the point really. These are the Collapse
The mystery of the missing Leonardo: where is Da Vinci’s $450m Jesus?
2 DAYS AGO - The Louvre has asked to loan Salvator Mundi for a major exhibition – but many doubt the Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The Louvre has asked to loan Salvator Mundi for a major exhibition – but many doubt the much-disputed work will make an appearanceWill it or won’t it appear? This is the question being asked across the art world about the Salvator Mundi - the first Leonardo to be discovered for more than a century - as the Louvre prepares for its blockbuster da Vinci exhibition.With just under two weeks to go before the show opens, there are now serious doubts as to whether the star of the exhibition will be included, as the Paris museum had hoped. Continue reading... Collapse
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Charles Jencks obituary
2 HRS AGO - Architectural historian, garden designer and writer who was regarded as the godfather of Expand
2 HRS AGO - Architectural historian, garden designer and writer who was regarded as the godfather of postmodernismCharles Jencks, the architectural historian, patron of the Maggie’s Centres and designer of cosmic gardens, who has died aged 80, pinpointed the expiry of modernism to a precise moment in history. “Modern architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972, at 3.32pm (or thereabouts),” he wrote, “when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather, several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”He was referring to the notorious failed housing estate , which he thought embodied everything that was wrong with the dogmatic principles of modern architecture and urban planning. In its place, he announced, would come the brave new epoch of “Post-Modern” architecture, a style of “radical eclecticism” that would return content, meaning and metaphor to the built environment. With his pithy, polemic writing, he saw to it over the coming decades that the style wars Collapse
NFL Player Slams Into Photographer, Checks In on Her After the Game
4 HRS AGO - Sports photographers on the sidelines of games sometimes find themselves a little too close to the Expand
4 HRS AGO - Sports photographers on the sidelines of games sometimes find themselves a little too close to the action. One NFL photographer had an unexpected meeting with the quarterback recently, and the clip of what happened quickly went viral online. During the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens on October 6th, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson […] Collapse
Buy a classic sport photograph: Kelly Holmes' eye-popping celebration
11 HRS AGO - The fifth of a new Guardian Print Shop series featuring classic sports images from the likes of Expand
11 HRS AGO - The fifth of a new Guardian Print Shop series featuring classic sports images from the likes of Gerry Cranham, Mark Leech and Tom Jenkins – yours to own for just £55 including free delivery Those eyes! Having just crossed the line to win 800m gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, British athlete Kelly Holmes is pictured bursting into celebration. Part shock, part jubilation, her expression spoke volumes of her remarkable journey to success. Holmes’ career had been blighted by injuries, anaemia, asthma and depression, and her undeniable talent was frequently stymied on the greatest stage of all: at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta she competed with a stress fracture in her shin, narrowly finishing fourth in the 800m; at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney she overcame a calf tear to win bronze. By 2004, aged 34 and injury-free for the first time, she targeted gold in the 800m and 1,500m. In both finals she waited until the home straight before powering to the front of the field, becoming only the Collapse
Gavin Turk: art's king of trash on plastic, protest, prison and canning his pee
14 HRS AGO - The former YBA once put a plaque up to himself – but these days he’s more likely to be getting Expand
14 HRS AGO - The former YBA once put a plaque up to himself – but these days he’s more likely to be getting locked up with Extinction Rebellion. He’s even recycling his urine‘I have a lot of piss,” says Gavin Turk. He’s going to need it. He shows me a drink can he’s made from silver bearing the label “artist’s piss” in several languages as we stand in his studio, fittingly located in Canning Town, London.Turk is planning to fill as many cans like this with his own urine as necessary – in order to buy, well, a can of excrement made by his hero, the late Piero Manzoni. Before his untimely death aged 29 in 1961, Manzoni – or so art world orthodoxy has it – filled 90 tin cans with his own ordure, sealing and labelling it “Merda d’Artista”. Continue reading... Collapse
Attacker Used Eye Reflections in Pop Star’s Photos to Locate Her Home
1 DAY AGO - A man who attacked a pop star in Japan reportedly managed to find out where she lived by studying Expand
1 DAY AGO - A man who attacked a pop star in Japan reportedly managed to find out where she lived by studying the reflections in her eyes in photos she posted to social media. NHK World-Japan reports that 26-year-old Hibiki Sato was indicted last week for the attack last month on the “idol”, who’s in her 20s. As […] Collapse
New Image Sensor Could Make Blown Highlights a Thing of the Past
1 DAY AGO - German researchers have created a new high dynamic range (HDR) CMOS image sensor that features a Expand
1 DAY AGO - German researchers have created a new high dynamic range (HDR) CMOS image sensor that features a new pixel design that could pretty much do away with blown highlights. While traditional CMOS sensors have pixels that “clip” and stop capturing highlight data when they’re fully saturated — all additional data is lost in those areas of […] Collapse
Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow: Glasgow Society of Women Artists
1 DAY AGO - Until 31 Oct The long-established Glasgow Society of Women Artists' holds its annual exhibition Expand
1 DAY AGO - Until 31 Oct The long-established Glasgow Society of Women Artists' holds its annual exhibition at the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, showcasing the work of exceptional women artists, in myriad genres and styles including original painting, printmaking, photography, jewellery, textiles, ceramics and sculpture. Collapse
The gold standard in social housing design | Letters
2 DAYS AGO - After Norwich’s Goldsmith Street was awarded the Stirling prize, readers discuss the ability of Expand
2 DAYS AGO - After Norwich’s Goldsmith Street was awarded the Stirling prize, readers discuss the ability of councils to build more homes, what constitutes high-quality housing, and the insecurity of being a private tenantIt was gratifying to learn that the RIBA Stirling prize has been awarded for Norwich council’s Goldsmith Street during the centenary year of Christopher Addison’s Homes Fit for Heroes initiative (Award for best new UK building goes to council housing project for first time, 9 October).As Oliver Wainwright reports, the council could build more housing if right to buy was reformed – or, better still, abolished. When the scheme was first introduced in 1979, Norwich councillors – led by their housing chair, the late Lady Patricia Hollis – took a stand against the Thatcher government by refusing to treat sales as an urgent priority. The minister responsible, Michael Heseltine, sent in Whitehall officials to oversee sales for several years. Let’s hope that in future councils will be Collapse
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