- outerland
The preview images from Allison Davies book of photographs Outerland promise a beautiful experience. I enjoyed these three for their colour and texture.
- lost
Lost… it was such a love it or hate it tv series.
I loved it :) In so many ways it was a fantastic story and I am not disappointed in the ending at all – how else could it end?! Not one person I know likes Lost and I really think they’re all missing out, I enjoyed even the seasons that went off track and seemed pointless.
I’d love something cool, besides each season on blu-ray (currently only have them on dvd…) to memorialise the series and I’ve found two sites selling products that definitely fit the bill.
The auction of small props used during the filming is currently being previewed, the website unfortunately gives no indication of the auction date – I would LOVE some Dharma Initiative beer cans or condiment bottles!
Also, artist Ty Mattson is selling silk screened prints with a perfect retro feel on the abc site, there are 3 or 4 prints I could definitely live with them hanging on my walls. My favourite is the print I’m showing here because the story line of Locke is one that I particularly liked, I really did love that character.
- lantern slides
There are some beautifully coloured lantern slides on flickr released under the creative commons from Norway. I always feel like hand tinted photographs look like they’re from some sort of story book land, especially when people have been liberally coloured in the face, big red lips, huge red rosy cheeks, strange straw coloured hair.
Flickr has come a long way!
After it started becoming so popular there was a worry amongst the original, more professional amateur photographers, that the whole site would descend into happy snaps of pet cats and kids birthday parties taken on point & shoots. Thus lowering the professional tone of the site.
Well I think that it’s proven we can all co-exist on this great site (including people like me who have far better cameras than their skills can handle ;) ) and it has become an invaluable repository of photographs such as this one above where we can all access historical images from countries all over the world.
I’m a bit of a flickr cheerleader, I’ve met some fantastic people and some very talented photographers through this site, I love being part of this community.
- viola
I would love to be knitting something right now in these beautiful colours – Radioactive & Goldfish, by Canadian hand-dyer Viola.