John Gerrard at the RHA Dublin

John Gerrard's new exhibition Dark Portraits opens at the RHA Dublin this Thursday and includes the sublime (pictured)Smoke Tree III. Highly recommended.

Limit Telephotography

Trevor Paglen's photographs of 'secret' US military bases and CIA 'black Sites' using high power telephoto lenses in the 1300 - 7000mm range at distances of up to 40 miles.

via Rhizome

Space Shuttle Launch seen from Space

Photographs of a space shuttle launch taken from the ISS.
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Thomas Hirschorn's Camo-Family

One of two large Thomas Hirschorn pieces at Frieze, the more I see his work the more impressed I am by it and he's now 42 in the art power list. When I was looking at this there were two young Americans taking great offence at what they saw as it's anti-american stance.

Nobuyoshi Araki's A/film light box with slide strips, one of three at $70,000 each which sold out with the gallery reporting that demand was so high they could have sold 100s of them.

More images of both in my Flickr Frieze Set

The more I work the poorer I am

Estonian artist Kai Kaljo documents a week of work in 25 photos with text and discovers The More I work the Poorer I Am. I know that feeling.
More images at my Flickr Frieze Set

Sparklehorse

I saw a back-on-form Sparklehorse last night at Whelans, a great crowd, great venue and a quite emotional Mark Linkous glad to be back.
More at my Flickr

Da Realest

Both from the same site hoarding. I love the semantics of it all - Don Johnson the most real and Paddy who persumably takes a realistic view of life. And who says that graffiti doesn't tackle the big issues!

Paris Tunnels

Some fantastic galleries of unauthorised journeys through the underground tunnels of Paris.
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Skating at the Eiffel Tower

more at my Flickr page

X-ray records

In the 1950s in eastern Europe nightclubs made pirate copies of western records which were cut onto recycled x-ray films, digibodies has a gallery of them.

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Capoeira at Dun Laoghaire festival of world cultures

A dazzling display by Oficina da Capoeira at the Festival of World Cultures, more at my Flickr page

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Broken Forest

Henrik Håkansson's Broken Forest at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Henrik Håkansson's After Forever (ever after) at the same exhibition. More at my Flickr account
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Pic of the day

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Graffiti

Graffiti project at the Palais deTokyo in Paris, a few minutes later I saw this guy get what looked like a crit which kinda sucks the fun out of it all.

Severn Bridge

The Severn Bridge in Wales, taken while flying from Paris to Dublin.

Google Profanity

Google maps notices (or causes?) a new breed of crop circles, giant profanities only visible from space.
via The Register

The Photography of Richard Mosse

From Beiruit to Pakistan, Srebrenica to Iran Richard Mosse shows the aftermath of war and natural disasters through it's effects on the architecture in his extraordinarily powerful photographic series.

Edwardian Postbox

A pre-independance British postbox painted green, the crest has an intertwined E and R and A VII (Edward VII) which dates it to pre 1910. There are quite a few of these still in Dun Laoghaire where this photo was taken.

Ten Ways

Getty Images have invited five designers to create ten innovative ways to access their database of images pictured above is Information by Sumona - keep zooming in on the image in a neverending chain.
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Paris night life

Very cool Paris night life photographic montages by Nyctaloop aka Julien Taylor.
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Urban Fiction

Xing Danwen's Urban Fiction series in which the artist creates narrative by inserting herself into photographs of architectural maquettes of real estate projects in China

Eat your TV

CORRUPT™

CORRUPT™ by Recyclism, upload an image to get it corrupted.

Art vending Machines

Here's an interesting call for submissions for art content to be sold via art vending machines during the Dublin Fringe festival, how can you resist?

DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2006 VISUAL ART EVENT

'THE VENDING MACHINE PROJECT' (curated by Alan Butler and Lola Rayne Booth) are seeking submissions from artists/designers/musicians to create small works to be sold in vending machines around Dublin for the duration of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2006. As part of the Dublin
Fringe Festival, The Vending Machine Project will offer an alternative space for artists to exhibit, engage with the public and promote their work. Selected artists will be required to make 10 small works under the dimensions of 15cm x 15cm. Proposed artworks can be multiples, editions, originals, photos, CD, DVD, etc.

E-mail submissions:
thevendingmachine -at- gmail.com .

- 3-6 images of previous work (.jpg only)
- current C.V .
- short proposal (no more than 300 words)3-6 images of previous work (on CD or prints – NO SLIDES & DO NOT
SEND ORIGINAL WORKS AS SUBMISSIONS WILL BE KEPT ON FILE FOR FUTURE
REFERENCE)
- current C.V.
- short proposal (no more than 300 words) THE VENDING MACHINE PROJECT c/o Studio 5, Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland.
DEADLINE: 31st May 2006.

The 1916 Military Parade

Some images from the first 1916 military parade the first since 1969. While as a once off it's OK I don't think I'd want to see it every year. I saw the Bastille Day parade in Paris the year before last and it was truly a bizarre militaristic affair tied into a colonial past, not really something we want to emulate here. Interestingly while we all know that we have a numerically small army it appears from the evidence of todays parade that the army is also, well, small. At 6'1" I felt like a giant.

1916

I was at the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the 1916 rising in Dublin today and I thought this banner on Liberty Hall caught the true spirit of 1916.

Beckett Centenary

On the centenary of Beckett's birth, his grave in Montparnasse Cemetry, Paris.

Honest Graffiti

An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life

The Siqueiros Image Bank is a collection of over 5000 images from the 20th century collected by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros who compiled the photographs as source material and for the use of fellow artists as a means of inspiration and a source of found imagery. As Siqueiros wrote,

Nothing can give the [artist] of today the essential feeling of the modern era's dynamic and subversive elements more than the photographic document.

Spencer Tunick

An investigation is underway in Newcastle after surveillance camera footage of Spencer Tunick's Tyneside photoshoot involving 1700 nude volunteers were found to be on sale in local pubs.

Found Photos

A wonderful collection of photos from film found in cameras by a camera collector.
via we make money not art

New York photography sales

A feast of photography goes under the hammer in NY, among the items that caught my eye were a complete set of Nicholas Nixon's 30 Brown sister photos (his wife and her sisters) for $180,000, Alberto Korda's uncropped Che print for $16,800 and a nice Robert Frank for $22,000.
Oh and that Yul Brynner mentioned at Galleryhopper, it's here.

Back

I'm back from holidays in France, in Paris and the middle of nowhere near Limoges. Who knows I might even blog a bit. The picture above is of a pétanque game at the fantastic Paris plage

This one from the Friday night skate through Paris where thousands of skaters follow a 30km route through the city accompanied by a few cops on skates. Click here for more pictures If only we could get a little of that imagination and willingless to try something new and to stop the traffic here in Dublin.

New York a Go-Go

A fantastic collection of photos by Allan Tannenbaum of New York in the seventies, from the days before we learned to hate America because of their freedom, grrr freedom.

And in keeping with the seventies theme the official website of the Go-Go boot mailing list We are a diverse group, all sharing a common enthusiasm for women's boots, and the women who wear them, a diverse group with very specific interests.
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Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard

A fascinating photo essay by Jonas Bendiksen about the people who live under the flight paths from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan who have to contend with flaming spacejunk falling from the sky several times each month.
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The image of Che

This image of Che Guevara is one of the iconic images of the 20th century, it was taken by Alberto Korda in 1960, he claimed no copyright on the image until 2000 when he was so appalled when Smirnoff used it in a advert that he sued for copyright infringement. One of the beneficiaries of his enlightened view on copyright was our own Jim Fitzpatrick here in conversation about his famous poster made from Korda's photo and his attitude to the copyright of the image.
On a related note Alberto Granado on his friendship with Che Guevara - you may remember him as Che's travelling companion in The Motorcycle Diaries.

Surfing in Dublin

New bridge on the Liffey under construction

The Prandtl-Glauert Singularity

On reaching the sound barrier, breaking the Sound Barrier, flying at transonic speeds – varying near and at the speed of
sound (supersonic) – can generate impressive condensation clouds caused by the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity. A fantastic gallery of images of this phenomena.
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The Ramones

The photography of Roberta Bayley the photographer responsible for this iconic image of the Ramones, in my unbiased opinion probably the best band photo ever, her site photographs 1975-1984 documents punk and new wave music from the period and includes many of the most memorable images of Debbie Harry and Blondie.

On a related note check out this Russian tribute to the Ramones site with many MP3s of cover versions and originals to download, in particular try dante koma's Havana Affair.

Base jumping

An extraordinary gallery of French base jumping photographs, the one above by Laurent Filoche. If that looks like fun maybe you could consider a polar base jumping trip to Baffin Island and jump off this.

Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville

An original print of Robert Doisneau's Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville was sold at auction by Francoise Bornet (the subject) for €155,000, ten times the expected amount but not quite a record.

On a related note a project which is rephotographing Atget's Paris, of course apart from cars Paris still looks the same.

UFOs

From a fantastic gallery of UFO images at the Black Vault archive of US Government documents obtained under the freedom of information act.

Graffiti on the City Arts Centre Dublin

St Patrick's Day

My flickr album of Dublin's St Patrick's Day parade, good weather and despite what you might hear in the media lots of good humoured fun.

Some photography websites

A photography theme: there's so much bad photography online I though I'd link to some good stuff, all these have also been added to the Stunned homepage.
The incomparable Ralph Gibson
A Stranger a Day daily portraits of strangers taken with an 8x10 Deardorff large format camera, a camera that commands respect.
Zone Zero extensive high quality online photography magazine
BlueEyes magazine online magazine specialising in new documentary photography
Redux Pictures portrait and reportage photographs
Visual Diaries photography portfolios
Panoramas.dk full screen panoramas from around the world
AK 47 Bimonthly online Photography magazine
VII Photo Agency documentary photograpy portfolios

Cloudship?

Photo taken in Dublin today, no touching up. It's a cloudship right?

Winter Solstice

Today is the Winter Solstice at New Grange megalithic passage tomb when the rising sun illuminates the passage and inner burial chamber.

US soldiers' photos from Iraq

Very disturbing galleries of photographs taken by US soldiers in Iraq, in echoes of the Abu Ghraib scandal this site has a mixture of innocuous, almost travelogue, photographs combined with images of mutilated corpses with"jokey" captions (pages 50-56 but be warned these are very shocking and disturbing). Evidence if evidence is needed of an army out of control and why ultimately they will be defeated.

Tokyo night photos

A very cool gallery of night photos of Tokyo and Yokohama, in Japanese but with english alt tags.

Demolition

Lightning Sprite Images

An excellent page on sprite (upper atmosphere lightning) research, make sure to take a close look at the scale on the images. Another lightning page with some fantastic images and more on sprites

An extensive archive of storm photos from a tornado chasers homepage.

And finally in keeping with the lighning theme Walter de Maria's Lightning Field which apparently doesn't even attract a whole lot of lighning.

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