Fashion photography and videos

Here’s a rather cool and exciting teaser fhe next issue of Jacques Magazine. It’ll be the May 2010 Sports issue.

I didn’t know about this magazine at all, but it looks like it’s a really good one, giving the feeling of vintage men magazines like Cavalier. And that video is out of this world. The model is so gorgeous, don’t you think? She’s Michea

What about the study of legs? check it out over here. It’s a movies by Jim Heldon, which apparently will be presented in a series of short videos. He filmed photographer Asushi “Jima” Nishijima photographing the legs of unsuspecting women walking the streets of midtown Manhattan during his lunch break. It isn’t anything creepy, or at least it doesn’t look like it is. You be the judge of that:

Also, for your amusement:

On FB Spin, two years ago, a girl in lingerie
and on FB Revolution, three years ago, some fashion photography links

ERECTRO(clara), 2004 / Photo:KIOKU Keizo

My initial intention with this post was to show the cool photo above, say that it’s an sculpture (I doubt it is a real person) by japanese artist Odani Motohiko, and then go on with my life. It catched my eye. It’s a bit weird, and eerily cool.

One of the things I like doing is searching for the sources, researching for more information, and not just trust what a blog says. And this is the perfect example of why you all should do the same.

I first saw a post about Odani Motohiko at a chilean blog named Bold.cl. The post is in spanish, and the author says the female artist is 26 years old. The text is an almost exact translation of a post at Design You Trust, where they also mention the artist is 26 years old. They, however, don’t mention if the artist is male or female. I’m assuming the Bold.cl poster assume it was a female, based on the photo. Following the sources, Design You Trust links to a post at Look in art. It’s in another language (I believe it’s georgian? I’m not sure) so I couldn’t translate…the only thing I understood is the first two characters in the post: 26. Look in art links to a post at Agitatto, but there there’s no mention of the age or genre of the artist.

The orginal post and information traveled through several blogs and each added a little bit of information. In the end, we know Odani Motohiko is a female japanese artist and she’s 26 years old, which is completely wrong. The funny thing is that all posts (except the original one) link to this page, where you can clearly see the artist was born in 1972 (it’s below the name), which means he/she is about 37 years old. That’s quite a difference from the other age everybody says he/she was. It took me a few seconds in google to find a bit more information about the artist. Art-it has a nice article, with a photo of the artist, where you’ll confirm he was born in 1972, and you’ll realize the artist is male.  Assembly language has another article on the artist, where you can again confirm the artist is a "he". They mention he’s 25 years old, but the article was written in 1997, which by then was correct.

I guess it’s very easy to pass the wrong information around. I think bloggers should be specially careful with this, even more when a lot of them consider themselves journalists.

That’s it. Now you have a nice collection of links about Odani Motohiko, so go read about him, and if you can, go see his art. Oh, and keep in mind that everything I wrote might be wrong…you have to do your own research.

I usually post the artsy stuff over at insomnio.org (now you know, so I hope you visit that site often), but this time, for no reason at all, I won’t.

I just discovered the portfolio site of an amazing illustrator, so I wanted to share it with you, my kind and quiet readers. It’s the portfolio site of Mário Bélem, and let me tell you, it’s full of really cool artwork, both artistic and commercial. So, go there and enjoy.

Link: mariobelem.com

Figments are one of a kind hand made characters. Each character is made from fabrics that attracted me in the color, weave, and design. Their personalities take shape as each character is sewn and put together. Their clothes give them their attitude, which allows them to express their moods and emotions to us differently.

(figments)

bonus: imaginary foundation t-shirts

extra creepy, by Andrzej Dragan

According to his website, Andrzej Dragan has a PhD in quantum physics, he’s also a musician, and a photographer. His artwork is amazingly creepy, and therefore very cool, so, to check out his site

bonus: modern fairy tales

Cool sketch found at the site of german illustrator Natalie Ratkovski.

click on the pic to go to the bigger version

It’s good to post some artsy stuff from time to time.

This one looks as if it came out of a dream.

by winter and wolf

Elevator music is the title of this photo. Why? I have no clue. I only know it’s a beautiful and wonderful photo. If you like it, you can order a print at the author’s deviantart store.

Illustration, photography and graphic design. That’s what you’ll find at emohoc, a great little design showcase by Alan Campbell.

Emohoc was formed in nov 2006 to showcase the digital works of Alan Campbell, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Photographer and all round good guy located in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Bonus: Gregory Euclide