I don’t usually blog about fashion. The apparel industry is a whole other can of worms. And while fashion should in my opinion be considered alongside product and architecture as parallel subsets under the modern rubric of industrial design, it is not yet, and so I leave it at that and stay largely away. But [...]
Photography
May 13, 2012
Burglar’s tools
By SinclairThis photo comes from the NYC Municipal Archives crime photo collection via the nytimes. The Times caption reads “Set of burglar’s tools, including hat.”
May 1, 2012
Old photos of New York
By SinclairInsanely beautiful and cool early 20th century photos of New York from the NY Municipal Archives were published on The Atlantic website. Check them out.
April 20, 2012
Carmen & Lupita, Conjoined Twins
By SinclairThe image above is by photographer Annabel Clark and featured in the NYTimes Lens piece, A Most Intimate Bond, about the conjoined twins, Carmen and Lupita Andrade. The photographs are stunning. The challenges of living presented in these otherwise quotidian incidents raise interesting design questions about alleviating the struggle of having two heads and chests [...]
December 8, 2011
Joshua Foer bio pic
By SinclairI’ve seen a lot of bio pics on about pages and wrestled plenty with how to deal with my own. Author Joshua Foer gets a cigar.
June 21, 2011
Ice Queen Helene
By SinclairNasa satellite Cassini captured this beautiful shot of Saturn’s ice moon, Helene. Poor Ansel Adams never got to space. More here… (via KR)
May 22, 2011
Vivian Maier
By SinclairMother Jones has this incredible story in the May/June issue about a real estate agent who randomly bought a box of negatives at a yard sale or something and discovered Vivian Maier, a previously unknown amateur photographer whom I assure you will become known as one of the great and most prolific street photographers of [...]
May 22, 2011
Full color Depression pix
By SinclairNPR had a piece last week about gorgeous Depression Era full color photographs. And they are amazing. That early 20th cent divergence when representational media went black & white as captured by photography and painting took its color into an abstract land of blobs and streaks left a hole in the collective memory that’s hard [...]
May 11, 2011
Legotron, Mark I: 4×5 camera made of Lego
By SinclairI am probably late to the party on this one given the March publishing date but I needed to note it for combining two of my passions: analog photography and lego. I love any quirky thing made from Lego, but photographer Cary Norton has stolen the show by making a functioning 4×5 camera and some [...]