Degree Show

After 4 years I am now graduating my photography degree!! We will be exhibiting at Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Edinburgh from 12th of June to 25th of June and then on to Free Range at London’s Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane where we will be showing from the 20th Jun 2013 – 24th Jun 2013. Come along!!

www.alixmcintosh.co.uk

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5 months. Gulp.

In 5 months I shall hopefully be graduating from a photography degree, yay! But like so many panic is setting in and I dreading the inevitable, what now? Gulp. My tutor reminded me of this video of Alan Watts last week. The first time I saw it I found it hugely inspiring and that seems to still resonate in me. Although I have a feeling that I have perhaps chosen a career path to self-destructive financial woes, which does fill me with dread,  I ultimately hope to be happy and I am excited about my creative future. A geography teacher I had at school once asked me what I wanted to do when I left school. I replied saying that  I’d like to go to Art College and study photography. With no sarcasm in her tone she replied to my answer with, “ohh, that’s an easy option isn’t it”… That conversation has stuck with me, partly because of her sheer ignorance and partly because I detested the woman. So take a moment to watch this inspiring video and remember if all else fails we could all become geography teachers, I hear that’s an easy job option

Image – Doris Day

Music: Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire

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Slack

I’m sorry for the slack behaviour towards my blogging, one weeks break became two and then three and so on and then all of a sudden it was the 5 months! However I have now decided to crawl out of the little rock that ive been hiding behind and start posting again! So I thought I’d start with these otherworldly portraits of animals by Swedish artist Simen Johan.

“Photographs from Simen Johan’s ongoing project, Until the Kingdom Comes, depict an unsettling natural world hovering between reality, fantasy and nightmare. Johan merges traditional photographic and sculptural techniques with digital methods. Having originally photographed a variety of plants and animals in natural preserves, zoos, farms, museum dioramas or his own studio, the artist then resituates them digitally into new environments constructed from images photographed elsewhere.” Yossi Milo Gallery

More here.

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Alice in Waterland

By Elena Kalis

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Nanna Van Blaaderen, More or Less

The sculptural handknitted collection ‘More or Less’ is inspired by organic forms, animal life and nature. Using thick woolen yarns in off-white colors, Nanna van Blaaderen experimented in combining knitting techniques with braidingtechniques. This resulted in various expressive garments of voluminous structures and forms. (Via Nanna Van Blaaderen’s website)

Check out her other beautiful collection Species. A Tribute here

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BAMBI

Bambi Northwood-Blyth…

Girl crush!

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Oh You Pretty Things…

Kate Moss by Frederique Veysset, Paris 1992 Allure magazine

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Legotron, Mark I

This is the best DIY project I’ve seen in a long time! A 4×5 camera made out of LEGO bricks by Cary Norton!

The results!

Brilliant!! Check out the whole process over on Cary’s blog!

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Shinichi Maruyama. Gardens

I haven’t felt very inspired to blog lately, but these images from Japanese artist Shinichi Maruyama has changed all that. His latest exhibition Gardens, at Manhattan’s Bruce Silverstein Gallery, captures beautifully sculptural forms of floating tempera paint, water and sumi calligraphy ink in midair.

“It is said that a Zen garden represents in a three dimensional space the spirits of high priests who have achieved enlightenment. The Zen garden is the expression of boundless cosmic beauty in a physical environment, created through intense human concentration, labor and repeated action.” Shinichi Maruyama

Images via Bruce Silverstein Gallery website.

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From Space To The Sea

What a journey that would be…

credits. Hubble Telescope, Ansel Adams, Julian de Armas, Hengki Koentjoro and here, Joseph Szabo and National Geographic.

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LOVE!

Love Rodarte for Opening Ceremony collection

and most of all

Papa in 1944

Via Ffffound, Twisted Lamb, The Sartorialist, TomBoy Style, Opening Ceremony and ones I lost the credits for. If you know any of the credits please let me know.

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National Geographic’s Ultimate Adventure List

National Geographic compiled a list of the top 20 adventures on the planet. Here’s a few of them…

Dive the Blue Holes, Photograph by Wes Skiles, National Geographic

Descend Into an Active Volcano, Photograph by Bradley Ambrose

Climb, Swim, or Surf the Poles, Photograph by Yassine Ouhilal

Cross the Sahara Desert, Photograph by Joerg Modrow, laif/Redux

Megatransect the Amazon, Photograph by Peter McBride

Wingsuit Fly off the Eiger , Photograph by Corey Rich, Aurora

Swim with Great Whites – South Africa Photograph by Jeb Corliss

Ski K2, Photograph by Dave Watson

Free Climb Yosemite’s El Capitan, Photography by Jimmy Chin

For the rest of the list and info (definitely worth a read) on each adventure click here.

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Paper Love

Below are photos by LA-based photographer Nicholas Alan Cope. I’m not going to try putting in to words how I feel about this series entitled ‘Paper’ as I won’t do it any justice! Check out his other work here. His still life work is incredible, they have the aesthetic of paintings depicting 16th century banquets but with less of the indulgence and gluttony seen in such paintings. Nicholas’ work is definitely worth a look.

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To Lee, With Love, Nick

Below is a new fashion film tribute to Alexander McQueen from photographer Nick Knight. The film featured on his impressive SHOWstudio is set to an exclusive track by Bjork. The trio collaborated many times over McQueen’s career so it seems a very fitting tribute.

‘This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life. My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and the light contained within Lee, and within us all.’
Nick Knight

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Locals Only

Below is a selection of photo’s from Hugh Holland’s Locals Only exhibition at M+B in Los Angeles. The images were taken in the mid-seventies and captures the beginning of skating before extreme sports and mass corporate sponsorship. Holland captured kids skating in pools and drainage bowls which were emptied due to a drought which allowed them to ride boards in a whole new way. The images were captured round Venice, Orange County and Brentwood’s Kenter Canyon Elementary School. Enjoy bare feet, long hair, sun-kissed skin, the innocence and the knee pads!

For the rest of Locals Only click here and more info about this work here and buy the book HERE!

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