What a question, makes you wonder ey? We live in such a fast paced lifestyle in London, well I do anyway. In this age of connectedness, it’s so easy into fall into the comfortable booby trap with your day job and other projects. Once you fall into that trap, you probably won’t realise your in that situation for a whole minute. Luckily for me, I have a whole bunch of personal projects outside of work to drown myself in – photography, Y&Y, a documentary amongst other things. Even then, I still feel like I’m always working and doing the same but different things all the time!? So when was the last time I tried something new. You’ll have to hop on after the cut to find out.
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It’s fair to say that we’re renowned for rain all year around. Come on, where else do you get monsoon rain in the middle of Spring!? Londoner and photographer Gavin Hammond has made use of the city’s non-stop rainfall through photographing beautiful reflections from the puddles. Hammond’s series entitled London in Puddles almost looks like a painted series showcasing its citizens and architecture through the reflections. I’ll always post work that represents London in a beautiful light, especially since the Olympics are around the corner which most of us feel like it’s going to be shambolic. More on the reverse.
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Ever taken photos on Instagram and thought to yourself ‘whoa, that would look good as a fridge magnet’?… indeed we all have. Well you’re in luck as courtesy of Mint Digital, ‘StickyGram’ allows you to do just that. StickyGram is a printing service that allows you to submit your Instagram photos for printing onto a cool personalised fridge magnet, they come out in the best quality possible at 50mm x 50mm (same size as original instagram photos). Also worth mentioning: as promo for the launch of StickyGram on Android, a black cab with a mosaic of instagram magnets on it’s roof was sent around London.
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Everybody is a photographer, or a least that’s what Instagram will have you believe. Over 27 million users on the iPhone alone are in current use of the app with that number hitting well over 30 million when you include android users. The next logical step would be to own an actual Instagram camera rather than just the app right? Well ADR Studio have gone along with this belief and have gone ahead and designed/produced this concept design. The have turned the Instagram icon into an actual camera called Instagram Socialmatic. Would you buy an Instagram camera? Peep more pics and camera specs after the cut.
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Shelley Jones is a photographer/film maker, currently working as a freelancer in London and most importantly a friend of Y&Y. Found her through that ‘Space Hoppers in Venice’ video on one of my random vimeo viewing sprees and have kept myself updated on her work ever since. I think it’s safe to say that we’re all quite intrigued by Shelley’s work, more so her concepts and inspiration, so I thought it would be cool to do a mini interview with her. You can have a read of it and see some of her work after the break.
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Berta Vicente Salas is a Spanish photographer, I came across her work very randomly on Flickr and am pretty impressed. Looking at her flickr, she has such a wide scope of photography in her library, she’s really versatile, she’s got THE eye and she’s also quite clearly very creative. Some of her photos are very theatrical as they draw you in, in a way that makes you think of a backstory- some are creepy as hell… i.e the main photo! But I think the photo with the girl manipulating the water in the glass bowl is simply amazing. Berta could shoot my album/single cover any day… more photos after the break.
Photographers of the world this one is for you. If you’re a snap happy person much like our very own Yin then why not enter the Adidas ’Take The Stage‘ competition. The task is to submit one horizontal picture of anything that you desire, it doesn’t have to be a new pic it can be one taken a while ago that you’re very proud of. Having submitted your picture your task then is to get as many people you know to vote for it. The 10 entries with the most vote will then be judged by Adidas and David Beckham where they will chose their favourite with the winner getting the opportunity to join Beckham on the set of a photoshoot. Does this appeal to you? For more info watch the TV advert on the flipside and/or head over to the Adidas website.
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