ANA CABALEIRO…JUST THE TIP
We don’t know too much about photographer Ana Cabaleiro, but we really dig her photostream on
Flickr . We do know, Ana has a blog (www.calmintrees.blogspot.com) and in an interview with freckledcup.com she professes her love of music, travel and taking photos in very open, arid and spacious spaces. We have so much in common. (call me?) She uses the words “freak, psych, weird, folk” to describe her work which often focuses on the tips of heads, mountains, and trees and is inspired by American/Indian mythology, other Flickr photographers, the sun, mountains mountains mountains, trees, people free and running naked, tropical breeze, tribal drumming and people’s backs, always. Ana’s photographs capture landscapes and people in Northern Spain, Las Bardenas Reales, Navarra deserts, and las Médulas, amazing old ruins in León. Some images to peruse below:
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EVERYTHING CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO SIMPLE GEOMETRIC SHAPES
After attending Art Center College of Design in LA, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope has worked for a number of commercial and editorial clients as well as some personal projects. His most recent work focuses on abstraction and viewer perception. “The Cope’s” images, emphasized by stellar composition and all shot in black and white, play upon the idea that everything in the world can be broken down into simple geometric shapes. Great images here. Some more goodies for you all below:
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REN ROX PHOTOGRAPHY
Lately, I’ve been really digging London based photographer/artist Ren Rox. She has a serious CV under her belt, being featured in publications like The Face, Dazed & Confused, Dazed Digital, BlackBook, Oyster, Neo2, Fader, NME, Clash, Stella (The Telegraph), DAMn, Magnificent, Artrocker, Calle 20, LaMilk, Lamono, Dirrty Glam, Prim, Soko, etc. But what’s more impressive, her photos have this really recognizable cool dreamlike psychedelia to them that we love. While, Ren’s online portfolio is fashion minded, she also documents art, music, travel, and herself. And if she ever gets bored with photography, her self-portraits show she is just as good in front of the camera as behind it. A great mix of personal, high fashion and rock n’ roll and in her music collection, Ren has had the amazing fortune to work with a solid crop of some of Discosalt’s favorite musicians like: Crystal Castles, The Kills, Peaches, The XX, Art Brut, Von Bondies, Late of the Pier, Camera Obscura, Lightspeed Champion, Be Your Own pet, The Datsuns, and Vivian Girls, to name a few. You can check out the Complete list below. We are really looking to seeing more of what Ren has in store in the coming future.
So many great photos to choose from, but here are some of Discosalt’s favorites:
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JAMIE NELSON PHOTOGRAPHY
Jamie Nelson is a New York based fashion photographer with work shown in numerous international publications, ad campaigns and billboards. Her work is really remarkable, taking inspiration from textures, people, sounds and places. You may have come across some of her work in Cosmo, Elle (Russia), Harper’s Bazaar En Español, InStyle Germany, Lula, Nylon, Oyster, Plaza, Vanidad and Vanity Fair (Italy). Nelson recently participated in a New Museum/Chandalier art exhibit in New York as well as a collective exhibit in Rome. Take a peek at some of our favorites:
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EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Everybody knows this is nowhere, is the latest gallery exhibition from American photographer Ryan McGinley at Team Gallery in New York. The show runs only until April 17, 2010, so get over there before its gone. McGinley’s last exhibit featured a photo series of carefree teenagers playing in the American desert but for this new exhibit, he has taken an extensive series of nude black and white studio portraits of 150 hand selected subjects. While Neil Young’s album by the same name took 2 weeks to record, McGinley, has spent the last 2 years composing this exhibit. “The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture. Here we see McGinley not as a chronicler of youthful adventure, but as an engine for an almost scientific cataloguing of a kind of emotional optimism.” They kind of remind us a little of Hedi Slimane’s photo diaries. Check out some of the images from the exhibit below:
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Team is open from Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm and located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor.
“I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around, Everybody knows this is nowhere.”- n. young
BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2010
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. The Festival hits New York City June-16-20 to celebrate its 10th Anniversary. The good folks behind the fest have been doing it for the past 9 years and are doing it and doing it and doing it well. The BFF hits 30 cities to celebrate the bicycle lifestyle through art, film and music, featuring all styles of bikes and biking from Tall Bike jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents. Bringing together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways, and ultimately the Fest is about having a good time. Past BFF’s have featured work from artists like Jorgen Leth, Mike Mills, Jonaas Mekas, Blonde Redhead and Michel Gondry. Its also where we first learned about “encuclopaedia”. Google it.
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE 27/3/10
How do I submit my film? Download the submissions form here and send it to:
Bicycle Film Festival
70A Greenwich Ave. #307
NY NY 10011
along with your film on either DVD or miniDV, NTSC and PAL are accepted by March 27, 2010. There’s no submission fee.
Check out this pretty cool photo-stream shot by Lorenzo Fariello, featuring some action in front of BFF Headquarters in New York today. Austin Horse stopped by with a flat on the Samurai Messengers cargo bike. As well a BMW hit a cyclist out front. He looks to be alright.
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Tola! Presents: Bridging the Gap. V. 1
…or some of Discosalt’s favorite Bicycle Music Videos:
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Flaming Lips: Watching the Planets
Bat For Lashes: What’s a Girl to Do
ROGER WEISS PHOTOGRAPHY
Some stunning new work from Roger Weiss, a Swiss born photographer who studied in Milan at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Since an early age, Roger has always experimented with photography and his curiosity with the human form led him towards an artistic approach. He continues as an artist, as well as a fashion photographer. Check out the rest of Roger’s portfolio HERE or scroll through some of Discosalt’s favorite images from Roger’s photostream below:
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LOGAN WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
Being inspired by everything from mystical nuances, the female psyche, and the southern gothic, to crumbling wealth, sexuality and death, Macon (GA) based Logan White creates fantastic photography that can’t be put into just one category. Her work ranges from lifestyle and fashion, to more artistic photography.
Check out the rest of her work here.
or scroll through the images below:
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SGT SALT: FOTO OCH FILOSOFI
Check out this really great photostream from Swedish photographer, SgtSalt. You can find more of SgtSalt’s photography and philosophy HERE, or you can view some of Discosalt’s favorite images in the gallery below:
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DISCOSALT IN “LOOK AT THIS F*CKING HIPSTER” BOOK
Check out Discosalt’s review photo from last summer’s unapplified accoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden in Brooklyn, in the book version of Look At This F*cking Hipster (LATFH.com), which hits stores on March 30. LATFH takes its hipsterati photo format from the web to your fingertips, providing a coffee table friendly slice of hipsterdom that will sit nicely next to your helf-empty PBR cans. Now you can ironically hate your coffee table book too. You can win free copies of the book by checking out The_Real_LATFH on Twitter on March 30.
Check out the rest of the Discosalt photoshoot here.
KATHERINE SQUIRE: THINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL IF YOU LOVE THEM
Discosalt came across this flickr photo stream from Austin based photographer Katherine Squire via www.booooooom.com. Katherine says that her photos are “rushed attempts to capture something inspiring.” In an attempt to live with awareness, photography allows her to capture moments that inspire her as she lives them and share them with the world. She likes good hugs and the open road and we can’t argue with that. Check out some of our favorite photos in a sneak peak below:
WAD LUND PHOTOGRAPHY
Wad Lund is the Scandanavian love-child of two photographers, Bjørn Wad and Elisabeth Lund who have teamed up with makeup artist and fashion stylist Mari Nes. Together, the team specializes in music, fashion and advertising photography. Check out some of Discosalt’s favorite images from their portfolio below or check out their website to see all their work.
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PIERRE DAL CORSO PHOTOGRAPHY
Pierre Dal Corso loves you…or we love him…maybe both. The under-rated fashion photographer has channeled his kavorka to create a portfolio of incredibly striking photos with uncanny use of color that beautifully capture the sex appeal of the female form. We have no idea why his work isn’t more well known…but now you know and can spread the word. Check out some of his portfolio below or scroll through his full portfolio HERE.
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ANDREW KUYKENDALL: SHE’S A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY, A LITTLE BIT ROCK N’ ROLL
New work from Andrew Kuykendall worth checking out. After getting kicked out of art school in LA, Andrew started working professionally and has been at it for a little over two years now. Based out of LA and New York City, his photos have a washed out, vintage american dessert feel, drawing inspiration from “Egon Schiele, David Lynch, Tom Waits, Eastern Europe, road tips, Sushi, , the California/Nevada desert, Milan Kundera, pugs, hot sauce, Devo Lucien Freud, Henry Miller, vintage clown paintings, Glen Luchford, Scandinavian Black Metal, etc.” Most recently, he has been getting into video projects working with New York stylist, Discosalt friend and secret/not-so-secret Discosalt t-shirt muse Julie Williams. You can also check out more of Julies really sweet fashion styling at Dripbook. Andrew has completed a photo-shoot for Spanish Moss which is entitled ” She’s a little bit country, a little bit rock n’ roll” that you can check out at www.spanishmossvintage.com or peep some images from the shoot below:
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or explore some of Andrew’s other shoots:
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Video projects:
gothic americana from andrew kuykendall on Vimeo.
dramarama. from andrew kuykendall on Vimeo.
NATIF NATAL:BENEFIT SHOW FOR HAITI
On February 25th, Partners in Health, in collaboration with Svedka Vodka and Discosalt are throwing a benefit show to raise money for Haiti at Grasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. We are really excited to participate in this event which will feature art on auction from Discosalt Artists and performances by Annie and the BeeKeepers, Apollo Run, Kenji Urada, Lost Coves and Social Hero.
8:30pm – Lost Coves http://www.myspace.com/lostcoves
9:15 – Kenji Urada http://www.myspace.com/kenjiuradatheband
10pm – Social Hero http://www.myspace.com/socialhero
10:45pm – Apollo Run http://www.myspace.com/apollorun
11:30pm – Annie and the Beekeepers www.myspace.com/annielynch
DJ Miles Michael Morris in between sets and late night Emcee Jay stone
Doors 8pm, 21+
Load-in for bands 6pm
If you cannot attend the show, pease learn more and help us reach our goal by making a contribution at: http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/brooklyn4haiti Thank you!
It’s for a really great cause so we hope you come out and show love the Brooklyn way. See you all there!
BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE SNOW
Last November, we shared a photo essay from the Land Between Here and Mountains, a London based collective of photographers held together by Jess Gough and Hannah Davis whose goal is to capture the in between moments of their journeys rather than their destinations. They recently updated their site with some new wintry mix of images from their travels in the past few months which you can check out above or just click on their blog to see the entire essay…in progress of course.
KILLER VAN, MAN!: JOE STEVENS ONGOING PHOTO PROJECT
Joe Stevens, a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been featured in the MoMA in New York, Creative Review and the Guardian, has created a curious ongoing project called Vans and the places where they were: A photo documentary which chronicles surviving custom and conversion vans on the west coast from the 70’s and 80’s. Originally started over a decade ago in 1996, the project now includes hundreds of images shot on 120 mm film and “examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment.”
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While discosalt and chicks equally share love for these shaggin’ wagons, they have been dying a slow death in favor of more fuel-efficient transportation and will surely be erased from the road entirely (tear). Luckily for all of us, Joe is carefully chronicling these 4-wheel rock and roll dinosaurs that once reigned supreme as the ultimate self-expression vehicle. For Joe Stevens, “the goal of the project is to one day shoot the last remaining van on the final frame of photographic film in existence. Then the project will be finished” . Check out more of this insanity (to date) HERE.
…and if you are on a van kick now like I am, you should peep some more vintage vandemonium found HERE. Just mentally insert yourself into these pictures and feel the awesome power of the van.
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FIXIE PHOTO EXHIBITION + THE REVIVAL FILM PREMIERE
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Photographer Brad Serls recently joined Perth’s bike crew to showcase a photographic exhibition that features fixed gear bike messengers. Here are a few snap shots from the exhibit but you can check out more of his work on his facebook page or ProllyIsNotProbably.com
In other fixie news: Back in August, Discosalt featured a film teaser for a new documentary on fixed gear riders called The Revival. You can learn more about the filmmakers and the riders featured in the film on their website but no word on the next screening or whether the film will be available to purchase on DVD. The film first premiered in Vancouver last November, was later shown here in New York through an event put together by ProllyIsNotProbably.com, and Post Bike Shop in Brooklyn and has been working its way around Europe. If you missed a screening in your hometown, you can check out this video from the screening in New York posted by Skitch clothing:
PETER ROSS PHOTO SERIES: INSIDE WILLIAM BURROUGHS BUNKER
Gothamist tipped us off to a new photo project from Brooklynite photographer Peter Ross that examines the metaphysical aura of stuff with a series of photographs of William Burroughs’ possessions. The series contains such iconic images as Burroughs walking sticks, hat and typewriter. All of which, are still sitting in his old apartment in NYC at the partially converted YMCA at 222 Bowery; the apartment which Burroughs affectionately dubbed “The Bunker”. You can see more of “The Bunker”, on Flickr or watch this short film entitled William S. Burroughs “The Bunker” by Rattapallax.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF YUSUF SEVINCLI
Our friends at Tinyvices.com turned us onto some really great art from Istanbul based photographer Yusuf Sevincli. Yusufs photography provides us with a beautiful and intimate look into the life and times of everyday citizens of Turkey. Working often in B&W, without ignoring the benefits of color film, we’re presented with a stunning body of work. Check out some more of Yusuf’s portfolio on his webs here or at tinyvices
