The greatest challenge of creating a photographer’s promo is to keep it simple while compelling. After all, it’s all about the images. Yvonne Boyd’s new promo is doing precisely that; showcasing her photography without cluttering it. At the same time she found a way to add a little something special. www.yvonneboyd.blogspot.com

The captivating images of Alejandro Cartagena. Lost Rivers series.

Entire Portfolio:

www.alejandrocartagena.com/category.php?id=9

It’s time for the 10th annual design awards. Cast your vote for the best new design by visiting the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum website. The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. First launched at the White House in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement.

I have just launched a new section at www.melissamercier.com called “Exposure”.
Using recycled materials and mostly trash, I have started changing the look of Vancouver by converting these materials into canvases and public art installations.

I find it’s a unique way to express myself, advertise my work, and leave an environmental statement all in one creative package.

Call to Artists

“Exposure” is a multi-artist campaign designed to expose the work of artists around the world through the traffic of my site. Artists installations will be featured regularly.
To submit your melissamercier.com installation follow the link to the guidelines for “Exposure”.

I’m looking forward to seeing your work and bringing our creative explorations closer together.

www.melissamercier.com

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March 2009

HD Show 2009

Have you booked your ticket to the hottest design show in the land? HD Las Vegas (May 14 to 16th) is coming up fast and we hope to see our old friends and meet new ones. This year promises to be better than ever, recession be damned!! We’ve got new products and of course, new designs that we believe all our designer friends are gonna love to put into their clients’ environments. Remember we’ll be on the lower floor again and in booth number 8144.

Farmboy Fine Arts Medium • MIRADA

MIRADA is an innovative new medium that combines Farmboy’s optically clear acrylic digital art (ADA) and our ever popular laser cut mirrored acrylic (FORMA). MIRADA can be used as a headboard, wall sculpture, room divider and more. MIRADA will give any space an elegant and modern look.
FarmboyFineArts.com/Mediums

Farmboy Brochure 2009

We’re eager to get our new Farmboy Brochures into the hands of all interior designers far and wide, so if you would like a copy just send us a request at info@farmboyfinearts.com. This year we think we’ve outdone ourselves with exciting new products in environments that will surely inspire designers and their clients.

Tell us…

Farmboy Fine Arts Team Retreat

Every year we take time to put our collective heads together, so we decided to embrace the Westcoast once again and headed up to Rock Water Secret Cove in Sechelt, BC. The team was split between camping and hotel accommodations so we went “Glamping”. It’s the outdoor tent experience with some high-end comforts (think glamorous camping). Sightings of black bear, eagles, sea otters and the odd whale certainly did help with our intense “tete a tete” meetings and pajama parties. Good times were had by all!

Thank you Exposure Travel.

See more of the Farmboy Retreat on Farmboy Fine Arts Facebook.

All the latest, most stunning, imagery from the Farmboy Fine Arts Stockyard.OPEN IT! You’ll be glad you did.

FARMBOY PODCAST

This month’s podcast: An interview with Farmboy Featured Artist, photographer Laura Boston-Thek on her fascinating nomadic lifestyle, and a Glitch Pop music mix from the famed DJ Ill-esha.

DJ ill-esha is a vocalist, MC and DJ. She has headlined alongside artists such as De La Soul, Klute, Dieselboy, LTJ Bukem, and has performed in over 42 cities across North America and Europe, DJed on major television networks, and released top-selling vinyls on labels like Breakbeat Science, Outsider & Whisper Audio. Currently she represents drum & bass weekly on Bassdrive.com and performs with the Integrated Grime Unit.
Ill-Esha.com

Photographer Laura Boston-Thek is perpetually reinventing a visual world. Born in New Jersey, she and her husband have been blessed to live most of their married life in Europe. rarely seen without her camera or her beloved Wheaten Terrier “Clover”. Laura creates a visual record of the amazing world and landscapes that surround her. See Laura Boston-Thek’s work featured at FarmboyFineArts.com

Farmboy Quote of the Month:

“Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.”

Fractals are images created with specialized mathematical formulas and feature self-similar shapes that repeat at different scales throughout the image. One of the ways to explore fractals is to choose a small area and “zoom” into it. This zooming can be done infinitely, without ever running out of structure.

To really appreciate this phenomenon, I have utilized a Google-map-type tool that allows viewers to zoom into and explore a few of my works. The first image is a deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set’s “Seahorse Valley”:

Vielle. Copyright © Janet Parke.

If the original Mandelbrot fractal from which Vielle came was printed the size of a 10″ x 17″ print, this particular section would be smaller than a hydrogen atom. Conversely, if the entire structure was magnified and printed at the same resolution as that print, it would be wider than four times the distance to the Moon and back. The self-similar repetition of spiral shapes is easy to see here, both in the foreground and in the lacy background shapes. See the zoomable image here.

Unlike photography, which can only be enlarged a certain amount before resolution is compromised and details become grainy or fuzzy, fractals are generated mathematically and can be enlarged to any size without losing details. In fact, the larger the render or print, the more clearly the details of the fractal structure can be seen.

Florishen is another very detailed fractal image, with a modern, pop art feel:

Florishen. Copyright © Janet Parke.

Fractal art is ideal for large installations because the work is stunning when viewed from a distance but also invites inches-away inspection. Explore Florishen’s incredible detail here.

In Birdejo, it’s the small details of the textures that are best viewed in a high-resolution render:

Birdejo. Copyright © Janet Parke

This image uses a fractal formula based on “Perlin Noise,” for which Ken Perlin received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 1997. The award reads “The development of Perlin Noise has allowed computer graphics artists to better represent the complexity of natural phenomena in visual effects for the motion picture industry.” Explore a high-resolution version of Birdejo here.

Many of my works are available through Farmboy Fine Arts. And you can see my complete online portfolio here.

Paola Antonelli and Benoit Mandelbrot enter the Seed Salon to discuss the arrival of fractal geometry, generative art, and its influence on science and architecture.

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