A local artist collaborated with me this week by using some of my photography as the background material for a music video for a song he wrote about Omaha. Take a look and enjoy.

Labels: art, omaha, photography

WARNING: The following link contains nudity and is not work-friendly. Repeat, nudity, not work-friendly. Also, possibly not "my mother"-friendly, although maybe it will help her understand my artistic nude portfolio better (but I gave you the warning ahead of time in case you don't want to look anyway, mom).

Jordan Matter is a New York-based photographer who did a just splendid series of photos that I Stumbled upon last night. The series portrays a variety of "real" (not paid fashion models) women topless in New York (where apparently it's a little-known secret that such is legal) with commentary either from the women themselves or from the discussions of the people interacting around the shoot. The topics range from the unrealistic expectations of feminine beauty in American society to breast feeding to breast cancer and mastectomies to growing old without being discarded. The pictures show a world where women are women regardless of their body dimensions and are accepted for being individuals instead of objects, a world where nudity does not equal sexuality (in fact, one of the opening quotes is "In the city, nudity means something. In the wild, it just exists."). I think Mr. Matter came pretty close to knocking Lois Greenfield off as my favorite professional photographer with his synthesis of art and human commentary, something I've tried to express in my own portfolio.

Just as a reminder, this site contains nudity.

Uncovered, by Jordan Matter.

Labels: art, cool, photography, wonder

To most people, the lines of code that make up a computer program are meaningless symbols. To make computer threats more "personal," digital artist Alex Dragulescu has used the code of a variety of viruses and spyware programs to render unique three-dimensional images that add a "face" to the programs' names. His next project, an even more interesting venture, will use a person's blog and other online projects to create a three-dimensional "picture" of that person's online life.

Labels: art, computers, cool, internet

I've been collecting a few choice trinkets from friends over the last few weeks:

From Mull comes this fantastic artist who creates sculptures representing mathematical constructs and etchings of DNA and other biological components. Make sure you click a couple of the links (the Sculpture and Math Models ones, at least). Wow.

From Jamie comes an artist who plays the theramin, an all-electronic instrument that is played by moving your hands through empty space. No word on whether Jamie is going to learn to play one . . .

On a more comedic note, from Cris comes the swear jar.

Labels: amusement, art, friends, funny, wonder