Susan Bowen

known for her overlapping multiple exposure panoramas, which she shoots with a plastic camera

“The urban experience to me is largely about motion. The intense pace and vitality of the city excites me;
I like to shoot fast and furiously, to be totally immersed and to be swept up in, and along with, the tide of the moment. ”

Seattle Cement Plant

Nautilus Kirlian Photograph

Nautilus Kirlian Photograph


Also known as electrophotography or ‘aura’ photography, the practice was popularized in the early 20th century by a Russian scientist Konstantin Karotkov, and said to capture the photographed body’s corona, or energy field without the use of film. Some say it is a simple recording of a living entity’s electrical current, affected by the atmosphere’s humidity and temperature, whilst others claim it’s capable of recording the spirit’s ‘life-force’ or electromagnetic field of the subject’s aura. Claims concerning “The phantom Leaf” experiment, where a section of leaf removed will leave a corona of it’s former body haven’t been fully explained. Either way, they are fascinating and have puzzled scholars and scientists for quite some time.
electrical fields

Hours of Darkness, in light of our most recent assignment

Looks like there’s all kinds of night and low-light shots on this site, have an explore fest for some inspiration =)

http://www.hoursofdarkness.com/Home.htm

American Malls 1989

It’s so funny to see what people were wearing 21 years ago. Ch-ch-check it out!

From http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42454073/?GT1=43001:

Don’t pretend you didn’t spend every weekend at the mall in your younger years! After all, what’s more of a hallmark of youth culture than shopping-center adventures? Photographer and filmmaker Michael Galinsky was 20 years old in 1989 when he and a friend decided to spend six weeks driving across the country, capturing images of mall life. They started in New York and ended in North Carolina.

“At the time, the mall was the new public space, the new community center where people would interact,” Galinsky told TODAY.com. He had no idea what those pictures would mean two decades later. “This was pre-Internet, pre-cellphone, there was smoking in malls, it was before the Gulf War. It was this weird moment in time where things were getting ready to change,” he said. “Sometimes when you’re taking pictures, you don’t know what is or is not going to be there 20 years later.”

And as a side note, I’m from North Carolina. So this really is what my family was wearing in 1989, the year I was born. Sweeeeeet. Much love y’all!
Amber

The Pale Blue Dot

Here is Michael Marantz. A social media content producer who does work for large companies such as AT&T and Honda.
He heard some of astrophysicist Carl Sagan’s narration for his book, “The Pale Blue Dot” and was inspired to make a time lapse video short to accompany the epic excerpt.
He shot the beach scenes in Mexico and the mountainous scenes in Utah. Not only did he beautifully mend the lapses together, but he also COMPOSED the music.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q&w=640&h=390]