Nadav Kander

He is my favourite photographer of all time I cannot recomend looking at his work enough, he changed the way I thought about photography when I first saw his chernobyl, half-life set







theres allot more to this set I just didnt want to bombard my blog, more of these can be found under work and chernobly, half-life

http://www.nadavkander.com/nadav_kander_small_screen.html

he has been doing allot of famous photographs more recently, he taken portrate pictures of the whole obama team and has taken pictures of allot of famous actors and musicians

but the reason I love his work is mainly for his scenic pictures, they have a very eerie and ghostly feel to them but at the same time aren't creepy, they just feel like there from a dream







I just love his work and it inspires me to become a better photographer

Matt Longue

This guy is a amazing photographer, he has recently done a set called "Empty L.A." his photos normally dont have people in them there normally scenery and this set that he has done is a amazing example of his work, reminds me of 28 days later when hes walking threw London and its completly empty





his full set can be found >HERE<

eye candy

I was on twitter and saw stephen fry share a link about eyes, there a amazing quality, most detailed pictures I have ever seen of the human eye

http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery/Your-beautiful-eyes/428809

Manchester visit / Editing photo's

I tend to get bored while im watching tv and listening to music, so I mess around in photoshop try and learn new things, not been out of the house much recently friends have ether been busy or have work or been away on holiday so I got really excited when warren came back from sonisphere so that I could get out of the house and go somewhere, we ended up going to manchester so that I could take some pictures and get some free stuff from noise and other shops that give away free artists work, only to get there and all the places have ether shut for good or are shutting :\

Noise Lab is a great place that puts on talks and exhibits artists work that you could see for free please help to keep it open :[

http://www.petitiononline.com/n0i5e/petition.html

anyway looked around in the usual places and got abit carried away with looking at cool things to buy, if I had the money, on the way back to the station I rememberd that Invader had a piece on the wall facing the courts, some people might know him, hes the guy/girl that tiles space invaders in cities all over the world.


This is the one in manchester opposite the courts



This is just some editing I did to see how good I could get camera phone pictures to look

Bored no.4

finished colouring in my letters :]



gonna do the others soon after I have come up with somthing that I like

Bored no.3

Ive been sat watching deadwood drinking coffee and colouring in my letters one by one-ish

Bored no.2

Fixed my pencil and went over the letters with a pen




I want to add some colour or texture to the letters now then add the creative below it, then add something to the background around the text

Bored

I just thought of trying to make a header for my blog, so I was going to have kimera creative written in 2 different styles would have had it done sooner but ive been busy and just add onto it when im sat doing nothing, then today when i thought i will get it all finished and done my mechanical pencil i use to draw everything broke :[ tried to find another pencil and there isnt one in the house so thats another thing to add to the shopping list, heres what i got so far

Incoming

I forgot to update about me making my background, saw loads of people making there own backgrounds for the blogs so i decided to give it a go, I was playing worms at the time i was thinking of making one, plus i used to play this game with my friend when I was a kid called señor worm, where you draw around your finger on a piece of paper and you draw faces and hats on the worms, so i just started drawing worms and then just decided to go into illustrator and draw them out.

Dan Mumford illustration's

Don't you just HATE it when your looking for somone who did a design you liked, I was looking for the guy who did my black dahlia murder t-shirts,

and I couldnt find anything out about him, so I gave up on that and started to look at album art that I liked and trying to find the artist who did them couldnt find out anywhere, untill I came up with the genius idea of going on wiki and looking at the album and seeing who the album artist was ..... why I didnt think about this after 2 days of searching and almost coming to the point of emailing the band to ask them who did it.

When I found out who the artist was I found out that he had also produced other work that I knew and found out that it was the same guy that did my Black dahlia murder t-shirts.

The first one if you dont know it is, A Day To Remember, album: Homesick

So I was kicking myself that I didnt know who it was sooner or recongise his style seen as I see it everywhere




This is work he did for the Gallows





This is from the singles that were released from this album













<3 love his work, its so detailed and colourfull heres a link to his personal website, its full of his work for bands and his own personal stuff, he also keeps a blog wich is very intresting into how he does his work and places he goes http://www.dan-mumford.com/

Easy art

Someone shared this website thought it was very cool, its software you can download and it runs in the background and follows where your mouse goes and creates lines untill you tell it to stop, creates little circles that get bigger the longer you leave your mouse in that spot, creates some pritty funky stuff :]

http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/09/track-mouse-activity-on-your-computer/

link to the actual website to download the app

http://iographica.com/

8-bit dreams

Found this cool website that has 8-bit, HTML art very cool, reminds me of old monkey island and stuff :]

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0

heres a link that explains what it is and how it moves and also has downloadable code so that you can learn to make some yourself

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5

Outside is evil

I was looking threw pictures on my pc and found a screen shot I took of some funny advertising by steam


Click it to see the small warning at the bottom

Fonts are fun

Ive been getting bored at home and find myself doodling, its normally just lines or random stuff but recently ive been writing letters and words and just getting used to making random stuff up so far it seems to be just random gothic styles, so i decided to neaten up one of the letters and just show thought process and then the final one



think im going to look at different types of font and give more rounder bubbly fonts a go see what i can come up with

somthing like

Attack of the fluffy signets

My house back in Warrington keeps getting attacked by swans and there baby signets, the weather was nice so i decided to take some pictures of them, couldnt go outside to take them otherwise the adult swans would get all defensive and run at me, so I had to make do with taking pictures of them threw the door, not many photos came out how I wanted but a few did this one is my favourite and just shows how fluffy they were, if u cant see it very well just click the picture for a better view

Planning next New york visit

Last time I went New york it was with college, we went for 4 days, its was good but it felt abit rushed, we got woke up and had to be out for 10am to go on tours, it was good but we didnt really get to do much.

So when I heard we were going to New york with uni I thought that I would plan some places to visit, places ive heard about and seen on tv, places I want to go again because I was to busy to notice things last time I went.

So to start off I was watching a tv program about art auctions around the world, and they were looking at new art work in New york and they stopped at a toyshop (well what looked like a toyshop) and it was full of cool little figures that artists have designed and made themselfs, I forgot the name of the shop so I went on a hunt and found some cool shops/galleries that arnt like the MOMA.

Theres:


http://www.kidrobot.com/Toys/

A cool toy shop with loads of old and new artist designed toys located south of Manhattan island


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Then I found this gallery that has shows and shows off artists work that you can buy if you want called Gaint Robot


http://www.grny.net/

Located south of the island to the east side

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I also heard last year that they had turned old train tracks into elevated parks above the city, I was looking on news websites and found a article about it with allor of pictures of it too





all these pictures and more can be found on the website I got them off

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/13/return-high-line-new-york

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