Photographic processing is the way in which photographic film and paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image. The processing transforms the latent image into a visible image, makes this permanent and renders it insensitive to light. Here are some recent experimental shots.
Today, Gavin Froome and I ditched the agency at high noon in hot pursuit of a Black Cod lunch at Aki. According to Gavin, Aki has the best Cod in the city. Apparently, the owner has some type of fresh fish connection that ensures your delicious Omega-3 filled lunch was just snatched from the sea. And if it’s not ‘fresh to death’, “no soup for you”, know what I mean?
Sadly, Aki was closed. Rather than smash down the barred up doors and fry that fish our damn selves, we opted for Guu. There, we had a savory bowl of deep fried chicken, rice and egg. Hearty, delicious, cheap.
Aprés lunch, we took the long route back to office. There’s nothing like taking in the Cherry blossoms on a beautiful spring day in Vancouver. Work to live, don’t live to work. Work supports life.
I first had the pleasure of meeting Josh Michnik a.k.a Charles Lee a few summers back. He was dating the sister of the woman that I was dating at that time. Over the years we’ve had some serious fun together. Most notably, doing navy seals dives off the back of a ripping speedboat on Tulameen Lake while intoxicated off of cheap liquor. And an impromptu acoustic music show we hosted at his apartment starring Sam Bradley - the then unknown musician behind the #1 hit from the film Twilight - myself, and a stand up bass player from the VSO. He’s a chilled out dude - a creative that understands the balance between producing work of the highest quality, while simultaneously managing to enjoy life and not take things too seriously.
Today’s savory/delicious web findings are as follows:
Theme magazine writes, “Given the frequency of earthquakes in Japan, it would seem a bad place to build elevated highways; but given their space constraints, they’ve got no choice”. Check out Ken Ohyama’s documentation of Japan’s elevated urban expressways. Be sure to add the dude as a contact on Flickr.
GOOD recently worked with Wooster Collective to curate some examples of cutting edge street art. I’m not sure I’d agree with most of the selections, however, I do agree with the statement “These days, if you’re looking for innovative and vital art, skip the galleries and take a walk down the streets of any major city.” In a separate post Good writes, “That Old Testament God sure was kill-happy. By Dwindling in Unbelief’s tally, the good lord smote some 33 million people during Biblical times”. On that note: Watch Zeitgeist y’all.
Will Loafers be the must have kicks of ‘09? I’m digging Ryan from Hyr Collective’s prediction.
Speaking of Zeitgeist, Hype Machine has a great version of its own. So, “Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2008 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.”
Flipping Typical is a cool font tool.
Are you into Popular Behaviour? If so, my colleague Gavin Froome just started a new block. YAMS, that clean white and black design looks slick, no?
As the year has now come to a close, it’s time to look back at The Aesthetic Poetic’s most popular stories of ‘08. In case you missed them the first time, here’s a list of the top 12.
1. Ilkka Halso: Museum Of Nature - Finnish artist Ilkka Halso portrays a futuristic world where nature, no longer capable of serving its natural purpose, functions as nothing more than an amusement attraction.
2. The California Academy of Sciences - The California Academy of Sciences is currently migrating 20 million specimens and 38,000 living animals to its new location in Golden Gate Park.
3. “Chinglish” In China - Recently, the F-word has been popping up on many signs leaving government officials bewildered and expats amused.
4. Carbonated Conflict - Prompted by a recent surge of prosperity in the Middle East, the giant American beverage companies have engaged in a fierce race to win the soft-drink allegiance of Arabs, especially youth.
5. Reverse Shoplifting - “Shopdropping” as it’s known, is an ongoing project in which artist Ryan Watkins-Hughes replaces the packaging of canned goods with his own artwork, and then “shopdrops” the items back onto grocery store shelves.
The last six months have been insane, to say the least. Many aspects of this time were great; others were filled with gut wrenching pain to likes I never thought possible. The good: an amazing journey through France and Spain followed by landing a great new job. The bad: ending a fantastic, albeit tumultuous relationship with the love of my life. Let’s just say that heartbreak is a bitch. It sends relatively sane men off the deep end and into self-destructive whirlwinds of dark and dreary self-analysis, retarded liquor consumption and mental oblivion. Oblivion by definition is the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening: they drank themselves into oblivion. Fitting, no?
Looking back, being temporarily fucked out of my mind was the best thing that ever happened to me. It enabled me to reach a state of clarity, a return to my center, so to speak. As stated in the song Jerusalem by Hasidic Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu, “Out of the Darkness Comes Light”. It’s all about returning to your renaissance - focusing on what’s important. In my case, writing, work, entrepreneurship and the arts.
In the words of Jay-Z, “If you love it, let it fly out it’s cage and if it comes back to you, then fuck it, cause it’s here to stay. An equally inspiring passage, “I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one”.
I’m often amazed by the political incorrectness of advertisements from the past. Especially those that use category experts or celebrity endorsement to mislead and deceive consumers into misinformed, inappropriate and unhealthy product selections. For example, in the early ’90s, St. Ides Malt Liquor ran a campaign strategically targeted at low-income blacks that featured rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Project Pat, King Tee, DJ Pooh, The Notorious B.I.G., Eric B & Rakim, EPMD, Wu-Tang Clan, Method Man & Redman, Cypress Hill, RBL Posse and The Geto Boys reciting original rhymes written by St. Ides that advocate consuming the subpar liquor.
Watch some of the campaigns spots after the jump.
“People who remember when tobacco advertising was a prominent part of the media landscape — and others who recall what they learned in Marketing 101 — probably recollect that actors like Barbara Stanwyck and athletes like Mickey Mantle routinely endorsed cigarettes.” Read When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco.
I’m digging the wheatpastes of Vancouver based artist The Dark. He has some cool work to scan posted on his Flickr.
“Give Hieronymus Bosch a Mac Pro with two 3.2-GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 32 gigs of RAM, unfettered Internet access — and some electricity — and you have Case Simmons and Andrew Burke’s You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth.” Hit up Wired, and check out Assembling Internet Images Into a Garden of Webly Delights. Amazing!
I could be wrong, but does this Forbes article not reinforce Haddow’s opinion?
On the SMS front, Vancouver based Tagga is about as sweet as vanilla ice cream doused in maple syrup. The application “allows anyone to create instant SMS and Mobile Sites so that you can interact, sell to, or simply communicate with mobile users. Promote your band, your house for sale, your business, organize your sports team, club, events… anything!”
In music, Radiohead Launches Easier, Less Expensive Remix Contest and here’s a look at Six New Directors Who Are Making Music Video Cool Again.
A year ago, a leading network/Telco exec advised me that Twitter would be dead in a year. Since, hundreds of applications for the simple, open-source platform have been developed. Here’s 140+.
On the wheels, I’m really digging spinning jams released on Fort Knox Five label. Check out their MySpace.
Back in August, a jobless man in his sixties from Shizuoka, Japan, wrapped his 1.7-meter tall, 50-kilogram silicone sex doll in a sleeping bag, drove into the woods, and dumped her. A short time later, a couple stumbled upon the body - bound around the neck, waist and ankles - while walking their dog and alerted police.
Via Pink Tentacle, we read, “Police retrieved the body and immediately launched a criminal investigation. But several hours later, when forensic pathologists began to unwrap the “corpse” to perform the post-mortem, they realized it was actually a state-of-the-art sex doll. Seeing themselves as victims of a malicious prank, the authorities vowed to track down the perpetrator and charge him with interfering with police business.”
The story quickly made national and international headlines. After seeing the news reports, the culprit succumbed to his own guilt and turned himself in to police. Apparently, he’d lived with the doll for several years, but decided to part from her after electing to move back in with his family. Rather than chop her up and toss her out with the trash, he dumped her illegally. The man now faces fines for violating waste management laws.
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