photoshop content-aware fill

OMG-worthy. If you’ve ever sat for hours with the ol’ healing brush and clone stamp tool (and who hasn’t), Photoshop’s upcoming (when?!) content-aware fill should give you a thrill.

(via John Nack’s blog on Adobe)



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no sleep fridays

© Hee Jin Kang

“No Sleep” is a series of photographs of abandoned mattresses found around New York City, though mostly in Brooklyn. The beds are sometimes seedy and sometimes luminous, pathetic, monolithic and architectural, strange, out-of-place and totally banal. I’m interested in how these beds present all those things we do on them — sleep, dream, make love — and how by dumping them onto the streets of New York, we bring our very private lives out into the light.  More here.

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i recently unearthed my sixth-grade diary

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dirk braeckman

I saw these Dirk Braeckman photographs at the Armory a few weeks ago and they’re still stuck in my mind, so I thought I would share:

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Mysterious!

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aipad photo show nyc

I know, I know, you’re sick of art fairs, but the AIPAD Photography Show is smaller and more manageable, I promise. Look, less than 100 exhibitors!

March 18 – 21, 2010

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave & 67th Street
New York, NY 10065

Some of the Saturday afternoon “special events” look interesting. Here’s a partial list:

2:00 p.m.: STREET SEEN: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959

This new exhibition, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from January 30 through April 25, 2010, examines a unique and pivotal moment in American photographic history. The first major examination of street photography of the 1940s and ‘50s in nearly 20 years includes work by Lisette Model, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Ted Croner, Saul Leiter, and William Klein – and uncovers a crucial time in American art, when global media was in its adolescence and photography was just beginning to achieve recognition in the contemporary art world. A highlight will be the New York debut of Time Capsule, a recently discovered short film by Louis Faurer.
Moderator:
Lisa Hostetler, Curator of Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum
Speakers:
Saul Leiter, Artist; William Meyers, Critic, The Wall Street Journal; Ann Thomas, Curator, Photographs, National Gallery of Canada; Tom Gitterman, Gitterman Gallery, New York

4:00 p.m.: The Collector’s Viewpoint: Martin Margulies

The world-renowned collector of contemporary art discusses 30 years of collecting.
Interviewer:
WM Hunt, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York
Speaker:
Martin Margulies, Collector, Miami

6:00 p.m.: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY NOW

An insider’s look at contemporary photography today – with leading AIPAD experts – examines trends from digital photography to new media.
Moderator:
Susan Bright, Independent Curator and Writer, New York
Speakers:
Kim Bourus, Higher Pictures, New York; Martin McNamara, Gallery 339 Fine Art Photography, Philadelphia; Andrea Meislin, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York; Robert Morat, Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg, Germany; Bryce Wolkowitz, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York

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Exciting, right?

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no sleep fridays

© Hee Jin Kang 2010

Tonight, on the walk back to civilization from the Armory.

“No Sleep” is a series of photographs of abandoned mattresses found around New York City, though mostly in Brooklyn. The beds are sometimes seedy and sometimes luminous, pathetic, monolithic and architectural, strange, out-of-place and totally banal. I’m interested in how these beds present all those things we do on them — sleep, dream, make love — and how by dumping them onto the streets of New York, we bring our very private lives out into the light.  More here.

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get lucky, stay lucky

The Guardian recently asked several famous writers to share their Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (part one, part two). Applicable to other creative endeavors:

Anne Enright:
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Geoff Dyer:
Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

Richard Ford:
Try to think of others’ good luck as encouragement to yourself.
Don’t take any shit if you can ­possibly help it.

David Hare:
Write only when you have something to say.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

PD James:
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Colm Tóibín:
Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Ian Rankin:
Get lucky.
Stay lucky.

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nyc armory arts week 2010

I’d rather be here:

Oh well.

The art fairs have arrived.  For listings, go here.

Or here.

Or here.

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