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Kinetica GIF!

Posted on May 13, 2013 | Leave a comment

These are some photographs I took at Kinetica Art Fair back in March. I wanted an excuse to play around with the GIF Maker on 15 Folds using my own photographs; these images were perfect because I could easily align the spheres to be the same size on Photoshop.

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Posted in Art, Design, Events, Photography, Social Media, Technology, Writing

Tagged 15 Folds, Ambika P3, animation, art, arts, blogging, cool, creative, creativity, design, digital, digital art, experimenting, fun, GIF, GIF Maker, graphic design, internet, Kinetica Art Fair 2013, Leonie Cumiskey, light art, lights, London, media, moving image, photography, Photoshop, playing around, psychedelic, skills, technology, writing

God’s Own Junkyard

Posted on May 11, 2013 | Leave a comment

Today I headed up to Walthamstow to visit Chris Bracey’s huge studio on Vallentin Road – God’s Own Junkyard. Peeking through the locked iron gates, it really does look just like a junkyard, but once inside it’s like an Aladdin’s cave of neon treasures.I don’t know whether it’s because of the junkyard’s location, or if it’s because not that many people know about it, but when my friend and I showed up at around 2pm on a Saturday – a peak time for visitors in most places – we were lucky enough to be the only people there.The man who works there, John, is really friendly and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of pretty much everything stored in the studio. He was happy to show us round, pointing out props and signs that had been in various films, like Tombraider, Eyes Wide Shut, and the newest installment of the Iron Man films – a huge ‘STARK’ sign. I really can’t recommend this place enough; I’ve never been anywhere else like it!

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Tagged photography, nostalgia, surreal, creativity, London, art, fun, set design, creative, east London, writing, contemporary art, film, cool, Leonie Cumiskey, writer, artist, 2013, blogging, fashion shoot, signage, neon lights, Chris Bracey, neon art, props, film industry, light art, places to visit, Walthamstow, film props, cool locations, something different, God's Own Junkyard, old signs, lightbulbs, slogans, days out, friendly London, artist studio, junkyard

iPhotos iEverywhere

Posted on May 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

I know that this new iPhone advert is supposed to be poignant and heartwarming, but I actually find it a little but creepy and unnerving. I’ve probably watched too many episodes of ‘Black Mirror’, because this advert just reminds me that we’re under constant surveillance.

Everyone wants to take pictures of everything! I don’t like to think about it too much, but it really freaks me out to think that there is a very real possibility that a complete stranger has taken a picture of me either passed out or wearing a badly-chosen outfit, just so they can upload it to Facebook and get a few derisive ‘Likes’ at my expense. It’s even worse when you think about how this kind of attitude can escalate – like in the recent Steubenville rape case. It’s definitely got to the point now where taking photos all the time hasn’t just become mundane and disposable – like the scenes in the iPhone ad. Gawking and voyeurism is so deeply embedded in contemporary society that it’s become quite disconcerting. Especially because, to some extent, we’re all guilty of it.

With the recent introduction of Google Glass, a campaign group called Stop The Cyborgs have called for the gadget to be banned in certain areas – something which I am definitely in favour of. The BBC article covering the story raises a lot of interesting questions. While it’s definitely true that technology and innovative design makes our lives faster and easier, these new inventions are also shaping our attitudes in ways that very few could have predicted.

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Tagged advertising, apocalyptic, attitudes, Black Mirror, blogging, brainwashed, bullying, campaigners, Charlie Brooker, communication, cruelty, cyborgs, design, digital, documentation, drones, Facebook, future, gadgets, gawking, Google Glass, innovation, Instagram, internet, internet age, iPhone, kindness, Leonie Cumiskey, media, memories, morals, opinion, photography, photos, privacy, reportage, respect, robots, social media, sociology, stalking, Steubenville rape case, Stop The Cyborgs, surveillance, technology, Twitter, voyeurism, writing

Lego Technic

Posted on May 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

Really nice adverts for Lego Technic by J and L. I automatically assumed that they were done by Todd McLellan when I first saw them, but no, they just look quite similar. Well, really similar, actually…Still don’t see it? How about now?I guess that imitation is the highest form of flattery…

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Tagged 2013, advertising, advertising to children, arrangement, blogging, brand, children's toys, comparison, components, composition, creative, creativity, deconstruction, design, destruction, disassembly, dismantled things, fun, gadgets, graphic design, hardware, household appliances, ideas, inspiration, J and L, LEGO, Leonie Cumiskey, opinion, organisation, photography, rearrange, similarities, technology, things organised neatly, Todd McLellan, toys, trends

The Bilinda Butchers – Careless Teens

Posted on May 1, 2013 | Leave a comment

Aww. This video for ‘Careless Teens’ by The Bilinda Butchers is really priddy and makes me yearn for a lazy sunny day where I can just do whatever I feel like. I discovered this band a couple of months ago when I first heard ‘The Lovers’ Suicide’, which also made me think of the weather. It was March and still snowing a lot in London, so it felt strangely appropriate to be listening to the lines: “Like a flower can’t bloom in the snow / We can’t hide, we can’t grow!”

Don’t you think that this video is almost like a lookbook for some kind of hipster fashion brand, like Wildfox or Cheap Monday, or something? When I saw it, I felt that it evoked a real girly ‘Tumblr’ aesthetic. Hopefully the maker of the video, Vanesa Capitaine, won’t be offended by that description – she does seem to use Tumblr a fair bit!

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Tagged 2013, aesthetic, beauty, blogging, brand, Careless Teens, clothing, creativity, cute, dream pop, dreamy, fashion, feminine, film, fun, girly, indie, internet, lazy days, Leonie Cumiskey, London, lookbook, lyrics, media, music, music video, My Bloody Valentine, new music, photography, psychedelic, rainbow, seasons, shoegaze, social media, songs, style, summer sound, teenage girl, The Bilinda Butchers, Tumblr, USA, Vanesa Capitaine, video, Wildfox Couture, winter, writing, Youtube

Marilyn Manson For Saint Laurent

Posted on April 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

Meh, Westwood did it first AND she did it better…

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Tagged 2005, 2012, black and white, blogging, boring, brand partnerships, branding, brands, campaign, celebrity, colour, cool, Dita Von Teese, fashion, fashion advertising, Hedi Slimane, Leonie Cumiskey, London, Marilyn Manson, meh, menswear, monochrome, musicians, Paris, Perou, photography, rock music, rock star, Saint Laurent, selling out, style, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent

Grumpy Cat in TIME Magazine

Posted on March 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

Tardar Sauce, known to most as ‘Grumpy Cat’, is in TIME Magazine. She’s been photographed by Elizabeth Renstrom doing her thing – looking simultaneously pissed off and cute as a button.

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Tagged 2013, animal photography, blogging, cat, cats, cute, digital culture, Elizabeth Renstrom, famous cat, fun, funny, grumpy cat, internet, internet fame, magazine, magazine covers, media, meme, photographer, photography, pop culture, Tardar Sauce, TIME Magazine, viral meme, Youtube

Rihanna in ELLE

Posted on March 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

Rihanna channels Catwoman in these cool shots by Mariano Vivanco. She’s wearing a leather mask by TheatrHall, and a hat by House of Flora for PPQ. I’d say she looks ‘fierce’, but that’s so not something I’d actually say!

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Tagged 2013, April 2013, Catwoman, celebrities, character, comic book, cool, editorial, ELLE Magazine, ELLE UK, fashion, fetish, hat, House of Flora, leather mask, magazine, Mariano Vivanco, photography, pop culture, print, publishing, Rihanna, Rihanna interview, Rihanna photoshoot, sexy, style, styling, villain

Trip The Light Fantastic

Posted on March 5, 2013 | Leave a comment

These vibrant compositions aren’t abstract paintings or prints – they are photographs! The pictures were taken by Montreal-based photographer Jessica Eaton, who uses a method called ‘additive colour separation’ to create these effects. By photographing blocks using motion blur or stepped multiple exposures, Eaton causes the blocks to blend together. There is no digital trickery involved, either. Although Eaton says that digital photography and Photoshop helped her to conceive her work, she uses an analogue 4×5 large format camera.

While the solidity of Jessica Eaton’s pieces make them really intriguing, these light studies by Kim Pimmel possess a fluid movement that works well with the translucency of the neon lights. The San Franciscan UI designer and photographer creates mesmerising long exposure light photographs. To achieve these images, Pimmel uses common objects and simple technology; such as LEDs, phone screens and ping pong balls. More of his light studies are on Flickr, but you should definitely watch his ‘Light Drive‘ video – a stop motion sequence of his light study photographs.

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Tagged abstract, additive colour separation, analogue format camera, animation, art, arts, blogging, cool, creative, creativity, digital, film, Flickr, fun, Jessica Eaton, Kim Pimmel, LEDs, Leonie Cumiskey, Light Drive, light studies, long exposure light photographs, media, Montreal, moving image, multiple exposures, neon lights, photographer, photography, Photoshop, psychedelic, stop motion sequence, UI designer, video, Vimeo, writer, writing

Now Wash Your Hands

Posted on February 5, 2013 | Leave a comment

Advertisers get a bad reputation for being scaremongers. Recently, Hilton Hotels even made up a ‘disease’ called Vacationitis in a bid to convince Brits to use more of their time off to go on holiday. However, the advertisements that play on paranoia the most are probably those that promote hygiene or cleaning products. Given that I am quite fussy about cleanliness myself, I really get the emphasis on hygiene with these items, but the demand to be germ-free and fresh can go way too far…
This campaign for Protex by Y&R South Africa show just how dirty common professions can be, and why antibacterial handwash is especially essential to certain people.

These print ads for Lifebuoy handwash use the strapline, ‘You eat what you touch’ and show some of the cutest pets melded with popular foods. The photographer behind these images – Jeremy Wong – is the same guy who did the brilliant 3M lint roller ads that I previously featured.

“Pets are wonderful. And filthy.” states the blurb on the box of Todd Lawson’s ‘PetPetter’ – a contraption that was put together solely so that hygiene-conscious people could have the option of never touching their pets again. Funnily enough, the only positive press reviews that this gizmo seems to have garnered is that ‘Woofs Weekly’ called it ‘unique’. Yep, I’m sure that Todd Lawson can rest easy knowing that he’s got that whole corner of the market totally NAILED. I don’t think he’s got anything to worry about in terms of competition…maybe that could be because this idea is really fucking stupid?! Seriously, I’d quite like to know what kind of nutjob owns a pet, when they clearly don’t even like them! I love my cat. I also like being clean. The solution is quite simple – I wash my cat with bleach every day.

Not really. Please don’t wash any cats with bleach; it’s highly likely that the cat in question will scratch your eyes out in protest…and you’ll totally deserve it.

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Tagged advertising, animals, antibacterial, cat, cleanliness, dog, germs, hamster, handwash, hygiene, Jeremy Wong, Leonie Cumiskey, Lifebuoy, paranoia, pet petter, pets, photo manipulation, photography, print advertising, print media, Protex, pug, Y&R

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