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From Me To You

Meet Jamie, a NYC based photographer, whose blog, From Me To You, I was introduced to thanks to Smashing Magazine. I don’t have an image here to show you because they are her beautiful images. I wouldn’t do them justice anyway because you have to visit her blog and really get a feel for it – everything from the photographs and her tumblr theme is magical :)
Just go visit it! NOW…

From Me To You

Her work is clearly a reflection of her interests: vintage cameras and classic images. I absolutely fell in love with her photographs! What’s even better is her use of animated gifs to bring to life her beautiful photographs and create a certain ephemeral quality about them. These images move, subtly and beautifully. But the quality of her work is evident in the photographs themselves. Yes they move, but they are beautiful even without it.

Anyone can use this technique by combining jpegs and animated gifs but I love Jamie’s work for the images themselves. It’s just a bonus when you see a flutter of a piece of fabric on a beautiful dress or a lock of hair swaying across a model’s face… And, as a shoe lover, how bout those Louboutins shimmering in all their beauty?! Her images of fashion week are so delicious. I love all the behind the scenes moments and the images of the garments just waiting to be taken down the runway.

Jamie, you have made me a fan. I am in love with your work and I can’t wait to see what other images you come up with! I wish I could buy them all – actually I wish I were the creator of those images! Jealousy is the best form of flattery :)

If you want to know how this animated photography technique is done, check out this article Positioning an animated gif over a jpg image.

The New AlexShakar.com

About a year and a half ago I was contacted by Alex Shakar, who I met while I was in New York working at EFS, to do illustrations for his upcoming novel. His previous works have garnered critical acclaim and he is an accomplished author and professor. Fast forward to today and that novel is being published with a release date of August 2011! Congratulations Alex!

Upon this years release, Alex contacted me again to redesign his website and I am honored that he would come to me to complete his vision. Alex was a pleasure to work with as he was patient and always available for collaboration. Together we came up with a redesigned website that reflected the elegance, simplicity and artistic vision he had in mind. We also architectured the site around WordPress so we could allow him to post updates and appearances around the new novel easily. He was very happy with the new site and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Alex once again.

Check out alexshakar.com and discover his writings. You can also preorder your copy of the upcoming novel, Luminarium, now!

Wow.

I came across this while reading one of my favorite artist’s blogs, Eliza Mazzone, and I just had to share. This is incredible video of artists SupaKitch and Koralie at work on a large wall piece. I think it is absolutely stunning and you can see from the video just how intricate their work is. It’s work like this that inspires me to create and get back to my art. Graphic design work is wonderful, but there’s something about drawing/painting that is magical.

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE – VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG from elr°y on Vimeo.

Introducing Mauricio J Calero Photography

I’m proud to announce the launch of the Mauricio J Calero Photography website,
www.mjcphotography.ca

I’m really happy with the way the site turned out and Mauricio really loved it too which is the most important. I’ve enjoyed working on it and it was so easy working with Mauricio to get everything right. For the most part he gave me creative freedom over the design and the functionality of his photo galleries. Being given that freedom from a client is rare and I am humbled to have been given that level of trust.

Take a look at Mauricio’s site. He is a talented young photographer with beautiful pictures already to his credit!

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