Tony Carter Photography, Website update

Jamesfoto - new website

Ceci n'est pas une idée originale

Slave Cadaver Work in Progress

Palette Simplification

I've now been using Photoshop for 13 years and have pretty much learned all the in's and out's of what truly is a groundbreaking killer app. Being a creative I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting ways of creating and manipulating imagery. Back at Art School, one of the most influential teachers Ive had in my life, the lovely Donna Willard-Moore, told us of a method painters use when in the creative doldrums, and that is to reduce their palette to just a few colours or hues. So I've taken this back to basics approach to photoshop and having another look at the built in filters that have been there since the early days.
When a creative first gets their hands on photoshop you tend to go on a bit of a filter frenzy embossing, rippling, warping and generally causing mayhem to your images. Most of it comes off a bit short in the awesome dept, but its loads of fun and many a genesis of an idea comes from this kind of random play.
Now I'm looking back at these filters with a few years under my belt as an artist and seeing If I can create some hot stuff.
A friends Death Metal band is my muse, and my old favourite, the 'glowing edges' filter and a yellow - red gamut is my limited palette.
check back here for the work in progress.

New DBH Submission

This is actually a re-working of an old design. I'd love to see it printed, I think it will make a standout shirt. I'll post when it is approved so you can go vote for it if you like it.

My Jaynie

Random Band 3

Just had to do one more for the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moosewood

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16913744@N05/3310717305/

Random Band 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothrops_ammodytoides

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pop38/3317798444/

Random Bands

Via Jotham

Was put onto this idea by Jotham. Have always been amused by the creation of band names, album titles etc derived from random means. This seems to be a good contemporary way of doing it.
Here is what i came up with. Leave a link in the comments and show me yours.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/manbokey/3313621734/

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoobooks

Mo'vember Effort

Here's my Movember effort. Its a bit wonky and needs a tidy up

idiotbox #1

54 Mind-blowing Digital Paintings

Stunning stuff

via psdtuts

Candy Apple Pie

Yum!

via the kitchn

7th wave doing well, still need more votes!

My design "7th wave" is doing pretty well over at DBH. I'd really like a win at DBH as they are an excellent apparel site doing good work to promote up and coming artists and sell great shirts. Please go here and vote. If it goes to print I'm going to run a competition here to win one for those that voted, so leave a comment here and on the voting page so I can add you to the comp.♥

Carrot clarinet - funny and amazing

via boingboing

Lost : Season 5 preview

via IGN

Best Wild Animal Photos of 2008 Announced

via national geographic

Oxford University Top Ten irritating phrases

"The top ten most irritating phrases:

1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science "

via telegraph.co.uk

7th wave - New T-shirt Design

Latest T-shirt Design. Submitted to DBH, awaiting your votes



Larger View Here.

Vote here

"We are all spiraling toward the center of a galaxy of our own creation" - Craig Aeon Macdonald. 2008.

About me

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity;
therefore, I shall be short.
-David Hume (1777)

Rubens LP

Ive always admired an artist who can show form movement and expression with a few simple lines, here is an excellent example.



via rubens lp

Lucid Decapitation

"...Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds … I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased.

The face relaxed, the lids half closed on the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day in the exercise of our profession, or as in those just dead.

It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: 'Languille!' I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions … Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves … After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out..."

via damninteresting

Stephen Meisel Photographer

Makeover Madness

via art+commerce

More Otzi

"Among Otzi's possessions were two species of polypore mushrooms. One of these (the birch fungus) is known to have antibacterial properties, and was likely used for medical purposes. The other was a type of tinder fungus, included with part of what appeared to be a complex firestarting kit. The kit featured pieces of over a dozen different plants, in addition to flint and pyrite for creating sparks."
-via Crystallinks

more:
National Geographic
BBC
Wired

Otzi's shoes

Heres an interesting article on the shoes from everyones favorite copper-age Rambo, Ötzi.


"...The shoes were complex. The leather on the bottom was from a bear. It'd been cured in a mixture of bears brains and fat from its liver. Deer leather formed the top. All this was mounted on a mesh of braided linden bark. The bindings were made of calf leather. Straw was used for insulation, and moss as lining..."

"...Hlavacek and a colleague set out to make three exact replicas of Ötzi's shoes, and five additional pairs, each fitted to a specific living person. They used flint to cut the material and bone needles to sew it...."

"...The shoes serve remarkably well. When they have to wade through snowmelt water, they feel an initial sting of cold. But the inside immediately warms up again. Traction is excellent. And the shoes offer no opportunity at all for blisters..."

Full Text at Engines of our ingenuity

Christmas wishlist - shoe

A pair of these please

via urbanoutfitters

Kid Creatures

I "stumbled" these some time ago and they have shown up again. I really dig this concept, and have been meaning to render some of my own kids drawings.

via drawergeeks

Blueberry Pound Cake with Dipping Sauce

via The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Textured graphics

Via Youtube

Snowchange 08 Registration Brochure

Registration booklet/brochure designed for the Snowchange Aotearoa 08 symposium.

View the full brochure here (1.4Mb PDF)

More Information on Snowchange here

Husband's coffin kills woman on way to cemetery

(11-11) 13:03 PST SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) --

Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck. Police said 67-year old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Barcelos died instantly.

Her 76-year-old husband Josi Silveira Coimbra died Sunday of a heart attack while dancing at a party.

The driver of hearse and Barcelos' son suffered minor injuries.

via Associated Press

Skid Row: 1938

Via Shorpy

eWaste - Please watch this

via Boingboing

Urban Snail

Via Inner city Snail

Hike 12 Oct 2008

atop_pouakai 12 Oct 2008
Originally uploaded by c_macdonald

On 12 oct 2008, myself, my friends Ric, Jeff, his son Danny and his dad Ian, hiked up the Pouakai ranges in Taranaki. We hiked from Carrington road up over Pouakai across the swamp and around to North Egmont.

DOC info

Kapa haka festival photoCD covers

PhotoCD covers forJamesfoto

Urban Knitting

"urban knitting: the world's most inoffensive graffiti
there's a new form of graffiti in town, and it's extremely pleasant. so pleasant that i can't imagine even the harshest critics of regular graffiti getting wound up. i mean, who in their right mind would come face to face with a sweater-wearing tree and do anything but smile?"

Via deputydog


The drain pipes are very cool also

Dive into the deep

Deep Web

From Wikipedia-
"The deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web, which is indexed by search engines. It is estimated that the deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web."

From DeepWeb.com -
"Also known as the 'invisible web', the 'deep web' is a vast repository of web pages, usually generated by database-driven websites, that are available to web users yet hidden from traditional search engines. The 'spiders' used by these search engines to crawl the web cannot reach most of the pages created on-the-fly in dynamic sites such as ecommerce, news and major content sites."

From internettutorials.net-
"The deep Web has gotten a lot of press in recent years. The Web is becoming a complex entity that contains information from a variety of source types. It is much more than fixed Web pages. In fact, the part of the Web that is not fixed, and is served dynamically "on the fly," is far larger than the fixed documents that many associate with the Web. Some people incorrectly refer to this content as the "invisible Web," for reasons that will be explained below.

Oedb
Copernic inc.
Northern Light search
science.gov
closer look search
Google Scholar

Happy birthday mum!

Today in History for 1943

events : US air raid on Rabaul
births : Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
Top baby names: Barbara, Patricia, Linda, Carol, Judith, James, Robert, John, William, Richard

Fields of Noise

Personal website of an old friend. Talented guy

Fields of noise

Tony Carter Photography

Award winning photographer. Beautiful images.

Tony Carter Photography

Wicked Mustang!

"Created specifically for Carroll Shelby from a stock 1968 Mustang, the Shelby Black Hornet (starts at $100,000) is now being auctioned off to benefit the Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation. Identical to the Green Hornet Shelby GT500, this masterpiece offers a Cobra Jet 428 V8 engine producing 335 hp, Edelbrook aluminum heads, a top-loader 4-speed transmission, power steering, power brakes, Shelby 10-spoke wheels, and instant classic car cred."
- Via Uncrate

More here

Insectoid robot with router bit head

Insectoid robot with router bit head carves a human face in high density foam
Via Boingboing

Snowchange Aotearoa 08

Logo for the Snowchange Aotearoa 08 Symposium being held here in Taranaki. New Zealand.
Link to Snowchange