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Keith Davis Young is a young designer and photographer from Austin, TX, and I just finished clicking through his flickr set bearing the rather inconspicous title 35mm. I had starry eyes. He captured a fantastic set of impressions and fragments of daily life. RVs, parking lots, diners and restaurants, people, furniture, all kinds of moods. Go take a look!
Although Jack Ambrigde’s photos were shot in Great Britain rather than the US, we are still going to post ‘em here. Let’s just say for inspirational reasons, since we will also utilize tilt shift photography – which is responsible for the awesome miniature effect in Ambridge’s pictures – during the shooting of THE AMERICAN BACKROOM. Keep up the amazing work, Jack! View more in his Behance portfolio…
BTW, we are currently finishing up a little tilt shift test video we shot during our research trip. It will probably go online within the next ten days! Check back soon or join our mailing list so we can keep you posted.
Claire Martin‘s portfolio offers a set of amazing pictures of people living in Slab City (Link to Wikipedia), a community of campers and snow birds in the Colorado Desert, southeastern California.
And don’t miss her photo set about the Salton Sea, Californias largest lake, not very far from Slab City.
Right there, on the fringes of Slab City, you will also find Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain that we visited during our research trip last fall. Check out these pictures wie took.
The television documentary series “Mister & Missis.Sippi” that was broadcast on German television during the Easter holidays, is now available online via the library of its broadcaster 3sat. There are three parts of 45 minutes each that take its viewers on an entertaining journey by raft on the Mississippi, peeking into some true American backrooms. Please note: The show is available in German with only Interviewees speaking in English. And due to possible geo blocking it might be unavailable in non-German-speaking territories.
Part 1 – From St. Louis to Cairo
Part 2 – From Memphis to Vicksburg
Part 3 – From Saint Francisville to New Orleans
Volker Strübing, writer, musician, poet, and Patricia Schäfer, German TV host, are travelling on the mississippi by raft. From St. Louis to New Orleans. And they made a documentary series about it. Great idea! The Trailer (in German only) looks absolutely fantastic and I’m definitely going to tune in. Three part series starting tonight at 8:15 PM on German broadcaster 3sat. Parts 2 and 3 will air tomorrow and on Monday.
Post-apocalyptic movies like “I am Legend” use special effects worth millions of dollars to create worlds that have long become part of reality in Detroit. In the ruins of Motown Yves Marchand und Romain Meffre, photographers from Paris, France, have found monuments they compare to the pyramids of Gizeh, the Colliseum in Rome or the Akropolis in Athens. The result of their photography is creepy and beautiful at the same time and provides us with another set of insights into an America that can rarely or never be seen.
Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies
and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.
The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at
some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires.
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originally uploaded by 415Kurt
Absolutely beautiful photostream by flickr-user Kurt Manley who mostly captures the dense atmosphere of San Francisco at night. Edward Hopper couldn’t have painted it better. 415kurt proves to have a perfect eye for remote and fleeting places and literally looks behind the facades.
Looking at each of these images I get the feeling that the actual thing is yet about to happen. As if something is in the air and everyone is just waiting for it to come about. Like on a film set: lights are burning, cameras are about to roll; at any moment the actors will come out of makeup, step onto the set and start playing their scene. It will be the kind of film they no longer make today; it will be at least thirty years old, the print will be scratchy and dusty, it will jump from time to time, since digital is still talk of the future. But all of that won’t matter, cause the story is so dense, the characters are gripping and the overall atmosphere transports the viewer to another place in a another time.
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