I’ve got really interested in the 60′s Californian surf scene since meeting farmer Dave in Venice Beach and he told me that even the Kids up in Malibu were rockin it old skool again. Excellent post on the photography of Leroy Grannis over at the Selvedge Yard. Jon Patrick of the Selvedge Yard recently won a best Menswear blog at the Cravat awards and he has some brilliant and inspiring ideas about menswear, read them after the Jump.
Scott Shuman eat your heart out- http://thecatorialist.blogspot.com/
Last year I stumbled upon the greatest forum thread I’ve ever seen. It belonged to 28dayslater.co.uk, a community of ‘urban archaeologists’, who explore abandoned industrial buildings across the country. One of their raisons d’etre is to capture what they find in stunning images. This particular thread is of the protagonists – the urban archaeologists themselves – in the places they explore. The majority of the images deliberately obscure their faces, as the pursuit is of dubious legality. The effect is captivating, rendering the explorers as mysterious, Gotham-esque vigilantes.
I also covered the explorers for the Guardian, joining them on a exploration of a Victorian culvert underneath Coventry, and an abandoned textiles plant in Leicester. Check out some more of the best images from the thread after the jump.
OWTIC is stoked to announce image blogger Them Thangs, aka Justin Blyth, will be guest posting all this week. We tracked him down to find out a bit more about the man behind the pictures and what a top bloke he turned out to be. We’ve also asked him to take five of our categories, do what he does best and choose some great images, along with an explanation why. The result… a post a day for five days. But first, the interview:
So, as means of an introduction, tell us a bit about yourself:
I was born and bred in Los Angeles, wound up in art school, and then spent about five years working in the endless grinding motion graphics machine that runs there 24 hours a day. I’ve been living in Amsterdam for the last couple years now, working with advertising agencies as an art director, designer, and animator. Ah, and I’m Justin Blyth.
As you said when you took Them Thangs off-line, you were getting 20,000 hits a day and transmitting more data than CNN. Pretty amazing. How did Them Thangs get so big?
Yeah it’s really crazy, the whole thing happened in a totally organic and unplanned way. I was basically working in an office and had a fair amount of free time, essentially waiting on feedback from a client. As I would spend my day looking around on the web, I would just collect a lot of my favorite images into a folder. Eventually I opened a new document in Dreamweaver, dragged the 200 or so images into the document and uploaded it onto my site. It was really just a page for my friends and I to look at when we needed inspiration. I started posting the link on facebook, friends would post about it, I started updating it, and eventually it just became this big thing. I would have friends from all over the world telling me ‘dude, everyone is talking about your blog’. For me it was all pretty surprising, I never intended it to go that way.
Interview continues after the jump…
Archigram was a seminal avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960′s that came to fruition with its technology-inspired, pro-cosumerist visions of how the world should be. Their work changed the world of architecture and has served as inspiration for countless understudies ever since.
EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster, has recently launched this online archive, which makes all of their works, ideas and incredible drawings available to the public the peruse through as they wish. Not only is this undoubtedly a brilliant resource for practising architects it is generally a very inspiring site to look through. Each and every architectural drawing is like a piece of art in its own right. Check it out.
We all have those moments when sitting up high on the top deck of a bus, watching the world go by when something or someone catches your eye and makes you take notice.
From the Upper Deck captures exactly this moment. This fantastic ongoing photography project by Przemek Wajerowicz is a very simple observation, nicely documented, with some brilliant results that every Londoner can relate to.
Check out the FTUD website where you’ll find daily updates and archives full of great photos. And you never know, you may even spot yourself in one of them. Check out some more of my favourites after the jump.
The Selby has launched a book, like other prolific bloggers who’ve released books recently it’s a best of and a coffee table must for fans, mines in the post. To celebrate the London launch on the 21st April I thought I’d post one of my favourite Selby interiors, Erin Wasson’s Manhattan apartment. It’s your perfect open plan, bare brick, New York abode. Erin also happens to be one of my favourite models, which kills a few birds with one stone. More flics after the jump..
I was checkin out the featured blogs from our homies over at The Blaaahg and came across Inspiration bored, an image blog with a difference in that the images are curated into mood boards. Very nice.
