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EveryMe

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:18:00 -0400

A couple of photos of mine were featured in a lovely brand new iPhone App: Everyme.

Everyme is a special place for you to be the real you. No one wants to share everything with everyone. With Everyme, you can share like you do in real life, in intimate Circles.

Create Circles for your family, your coworkers, your best friends, your high school buddies, your significant other and more.

A Circle is a private news feed between you and a group of people. It’s private and secure, so you no longer need to worry about who sees what. And because a Circle is created from your address book, you don’t need to convince everyone to sign up for yet another service in order to receive your stories, it just works.

via Everyme.

Cannes

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:13:45 -0400

Just got back from Cannes, France.

The city is well known for it’s International Film Festival and is the world’s biggest annual awards show and festival for professionals in the creative communications industry.

I planned on having a relaxing vacation and walking a long with Cannes’ palatial hotels lining palm-shaded on boulevard de la Croisette made my stay perfect.

Here are my personal suggestions:

Hotel Intecontinental Caltron: InterContinental Carlton Cannes is located near the beach in Cannes and close to La Croisette, Palais des Festivals et des Congres, and Cannes Harbour. If you’re looking for real luxury and exquisite of service this is the place to go.

Hotel 3.14: Hotel 3.14 is a unique design hotel located in the heart of Cannes, just 55 yards from La Croisette. It offers luxury accommodations with a rooftop spa and a panoramic pool.

Each floor of the hotel is individually themed to represent 1 of the 5 continents.

La Croisette: The Croisette is known for the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, where the Cannes Film Festival (Le Festival International du Film de Cannes) is held. Many expensive shops, restaurants, and hotels (such as the Carlton, Majestic, JW Marriott Cannes, Chanel and Martinez) line the road. It goes completely along the coastline of Cannes. The boulevard lights up in different colors during night time making it the place to be if you’re looking for a romantic walk long the coastline.

Lament pt. I Ph: Tommaso NervegnaStyling: Alessandra...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:19:00 -0400

Lament pt. I

Ph: Tommaso Nervegna
Styling: Alessandra Faja
MUA: Antonella Manca
Model: Kertu Joandi

Location: Abandoned Asylum

Lament pt. II Ph: Tommaso NervegnaStyling: Alessandra...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:19:00 -0400

Lament pt. II

Ph: Tommaso Nervegna
Styling: Alessandra Faja
MUA: Antonella Manca
Model: Kertu Joandi

Location: Abandoned Asylum

Trivia fact about the shoot:
While looking for directions to get to the asylum I encountered an old lady dressed in black sitting on an old wooden bench. I asked her where the asylum was since it seemed it was impossible to find. She gasped and started yelling at me: “Don’t go there, for the love of God! It’s haunted!”. To which I replied: “Haunted by…uh…rats?”. The answer I got seemed coming out from the worse clichè horror movie:” Haunted by the souls of the insane inhabitants!”.
Well, that set me on the right mood.

Create a Vintage Photo effect with an iPad 2, Photoshop Touch and Snapseed

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:50:00 -0500

Recently Adobe realesed Photoshop Touch for the iPad 2 and today I had the opportunity to try it out. I was very sceptical at first, premusing it would have been limited as Photoshop Express but I was immediatly intrigued by the features and the power of this great App. I’ve always dreamt of the ability to bring only my iPad in my travels, using it for focused work and to update a trip journal with content and photos. With the use of a few Apps now this is finally possible.

Adobe Touch gives me all that I require to do the minor edits I usually do with travel photography, and does an excellent job creating a fast workflow.

While playing around with the App today, I decided to create a very simple and quick tutorial to obtain a vintage effect on your photos.

I hope you find this tutorial useful and that it will help you understand the power of the brand new Photo Editing app by Adobe.

What you will need

An iPad 2
Adobe Photoshop Touch
Snapseed
A Camera
Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit
A subject

The Process

1. After importing your photos with the Camera Connection Kit, open Adobe Photoshop Touch and select the photo you want to edit.

2. From the Adjustments panel, select Levels. Levels is a tool in Photoshop and other image editing programs which can be used to move and stretch the brightness levels of an image histogram. Add some contrast to the photo moving the sliders to the edges towards the center. Once satisfied, press Apply.

3. From the Adjustment Panel, this time press Curves. The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating, this is way you need patience to play around with this tool to master it’s full power. To gain a vintage look select the blue Channel and higher the position lower-left slider and drag down the top-left one. My suggestion is that you experiment tweaking with the other channels as I did with the green one as shown below. After a few tries you’ll see that you’ll master this tool without any difficulties.

4. Crop the image to enhance the composition of the photo. I decided to give more focus to the top of the pen using the golden spiral method.

5. Save the photo as a Jpeg and open it in Snapseed.

6. Apply a Tilt-Shift filter to add even more focus to the top of the pen.

7. Snapseed’s built-in Vintage filter look great but in my opinion are too strong. Lower the intensity of the one you choose to use to equilibrate the look and feel of the photo. Save and exit.

8. Open the photo saved from Snapseed in Photoshop Touch again. This time create two empty layers. Select the first empty layer and from the “&” top menu select Fill&Stroke.

Select a dark-beige color and from the layer menu found in the bottom-right of the screen set the Layer blending mode to Darken and lower it’s opacity to 25%-40%.

9. Repeat the same process on the second empty layer but this time select a dark blue/purple color and se the blending mode to Lighten and lower it’s opacity to 40%-45%.

10. Sharpen the image from the filter menu and save your work and enjoy your faux-vintage photo.

Giulia

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:38:00 -0500

Giulia

With the amazing Rita Lynch. One of the most amusing women...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:56:00 -0500

Rita Lynch

With the amazing Rita Lynch. One of the most amusing women I’ve ever met.

http://www.tommasonervegna.com

Fishing under ice. Brilliant.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:08:18 -0500

Fishing under ice.

Brilliant.

Agnes Cecile - Incredible Watercolor Paintings

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:11:01 -0500

Today I wanted to share with you the incredible work of young talented Rome based Agnes Cecile (Silvia Pelissero).

Her work set the bar of awesomeness sky high. I’ll be sure to buy myself a print to hang in my home as soon as possible.

Share some love on her Facebook Page.

Marbert Rocel - Ba Ba Bounce

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:27:55 -0500

Marbert Rocel - Ba Ba Bounce

Gizmon ICA - Leica inspired case for your iPhone

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:59:00 -0500

Winning the “Inutility of the day” award the Gizmon ICA is a japanese designed case for iPhone that resembles a Leica i9. The Gizmon iCA has an optical viewfinder, shutter button, conversion lens mount, tripod socket and strap holes.

via Gizmon.

Cartographic Nature by Claire Brewster

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:52:13 -0500

Discover the work of London based paper artist Claire Brewster.

Enjoy more of her work on her blog.

Luminarie De Cagna - A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:41:42 -0500

The Luminarie De Cagna is an imposing cathedral-like structure that was recently on display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

Lichtfestival Gent 2012 from Lieven Vanoverbeke on Vimeo.

Luminarie De Cagna is an Italian family business founded in 1930. Back then on festive occasions the company illuminated buildings and squares with oil and carbide lamps. This was quickly switched to electric lights, and since 2006 only LEDs are used for new projects. The lights are joined to make large curtains of light, which are placed onto buildings or spread out on other objects in the area. In this way, whole streets and even squares are full of light.

via Colossal.

Shinjuku - Tokyo

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:43:37 -0500

The Dark Knight Rises - Movie Titles

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:50:13 -0500

The Dark Knight Rises - Movie Titles

The Chemical Brothers’ “Don’t...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:06:00 -0500

The Chemical Brothers’ “Don’t Think”

Don’t Think documents The Chemical Brothers’ headline set at Japan’s iconic Fuji Rock Festival in 2011. Set to a hallucinogenic backdrop of exploding paintballs, psychotic clowns and galloping horses, the film immerses the audience in an onslaught of sound, film and light, catapulting the viewer onto centre stage for brief, intimate glimpses of Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands, before dipping them into the heart of a frenzied 50,000-strong crowd.

“The aim was to create a different type of concert film for a different type of show,” explains Smith. “By using small unobtrusive cameras, we were given privileged insights into the private moments of joy, fear and ecstatic escapism from reality that this show induces.”

Smith, who directed Emmy-winning period drama Little Dorritt, has worked with The Chemical Brothers since the band’s first gigs in 1994. He produced Don’t Think in collaboration with Marcus Lyall and Lee Groombridge for Ridley Scott’s production company RSA Films in association with ML Studio.

via Computer Arts

How to enjoy a Sunset

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

A culture of overachievers, we make things happen-and happen fast. While rushing along, though, the days seem to get shorter and shorter. If only time would hold still, just a little bit, to let us savor life’s simplest moments…

This is why we must learn the Art of Doing Nothing, giving us permission to celebrate idleness in all its mesmerizing forms.

Doers that we are, we cant’ help but feel that the sun is like us-a busy celestial body running circles around the Earth. This false impression is a tenacous one, but we can resist it. Te next time you watch a sunset, sit tight: Experience the Earth’s majestic rotation. Here is how to do it.

Before dusk, watch the sun as it nears the horizon. Notice how you assume that it is sinking. Remind yourself that this down-ward motion is an optical illusion.
Drive an imaginary stake trough the sun and pit it to the sky. Make sure it doesn’t budge.
Now watch the horizon climb gradually toward the sun. Imagine the ground shifting under your feet.
Give in to the feeling that the Earth is tilting backward in slow motion.
As the sun disappears, visualize your side of the planet rolling quietly into the twilight.
Congratulations. In the last ten minutes, you’ve done a ten-thousand-miles-per-hour backward somersault into the night.

source: The Art of Doing Nothing by Veronique Vienne

Why use a Wax Seal

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:45:00 -0500

With the advent of emails, fast comunications, IM’s we gradually lost a sense of concreteness in our work. Small design suppliers often get lost in a big brand’s address book because the name or the a small project itself often is not sufficient to be reminded even if the work has been excecuted magnificently.

A remedy to this is adding an ecletic visual and tactile input in a client’s mind. The use of a wax seal may sound a bit cheesy but the impact and the sure-to-be-remembered factor is unique. All for a modest price.

You can apply a wax seal on your estimates and envelopes to make your work stand out from the mass.

I personally use it with black or gold wax and the addition of other tactile elements like gloss embossed lettering and leather-like paper to give an unique experience to who views my works.

Live Mix 17/01/2012

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:35:41 -0500

A live mix featuring tracks from Hecq, Omega Code, Clubroot, Tycho, Eleven8, Burial and Combustion.

Fujifilm X100 Black Limited Edition

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:57:00 -0500

With only 10.000 sets available worldwide, the new X100 BLACK Edition Fujifilm camera is a gorgeous piece of equipment every vintage loving photographer fancies.

The package will include a genuine leather “ever-ready” case for your camera, a lens hood, an adapter ring and a protective filter.

Discover more on: http://fujifilm-x.com/x100black/en/