Los Angeles Gallery Featuring the Works of … Dennis Hopper

by Karen Walrond on

And you thought
Dennis Hopper was only known for acting, easy riding, and epic drug use:  turns out, he’s an artist as well. 
The Telegraph is reporting
that Dennis Hopper’s work is currently on exhibit at the Ace Gallery, in Los Angeles.  The work includes Hopper’s
photography and paintings — examples of hobbies which he has enjoyed, apparently, since he was 9 years old.

"I was always into art," says Hopper. "Being an actor, I had the time. It’s all part of the same
sensibility. I cannot imagine an artist who doesn’t want to be involved in the arts, and I think of acting as an
art."

His work is apparently appeals to collectors as well — according to The Times, during opening night at the
gallery, "Mr. Hopper sold five billboards, making $1 million (£575,500) in a few hours."

The
exhibit continues through July 1st.

San Francisco: After the Ruins

by Karen Walrond on

The Travel Bookshelf of the Houston Chronicle is
featuring a new book, After
the Ruins, 1906 and 2006:  Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.  It’s a pretty neat
premise:  photographer Jack Klett returned to the settings of 48 historical photographs, and reshot the sites as
they appear now.  Accompanied by essays written by Philip L. Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit, the work "likely
will captivate anyone who has visited San Francisco."

Another bonus:  the book is also supported
by a  photography exhibit, featuring the both the works of Klett and the historical photographs, at he Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, at 34th Avenue and Clement Street in Lincoln Park.  The exhibition
continues through June 4; call 1 (415) 863-3330 for more information.

Photo of the Day (4/8/06) Perspiring Fungus

by Adrienne Wilson on


With Earth Day approaching fast I thought this shot taken by Nicholas Stevenson of a ‘perspiring fungus‘ on
a Redwood seemed rather fitting. For some reason Earth Day always generates pictures of tree huggers gathered in masses
and I say if you’re going to be doing any tree hugging this April 22 you should hug a California Redwood at Redwood National Park. Judging from the detail of this awesome nature shot there’s
tons of little secrets to discover on the very large trees. So perhaps you’ll even capture something similar, but in
the meantime we have Stevenson’s work to admire over at
TrekEarth.

Photo of the Day (2/13/2006)

by Erik Olsen on

There was a book at Barnes and Noble recently that had
an amazing series of photos, one after the other, of shots of the earth taken from a plane. It was really stupendous to
see the patterns and forms that emerge when we change our perspectives. I suppose that goes for both photography and
philossophy, eh? Anyway, this photo
by weegolo of a river near
Christschurch easily deserves today’s POTD. Breathtaking.

Panoramic Video Camera?

by Erik Olsen on

Always on the lookout for interesting innovations in panoramic photography I was pleased
to see an interesting post over at DV
Guru about a panoramic video camera. Way back when I was at ABC, a company was shopping around somethiing like
this, but essentially it was a camera pointing up at a spherical mirror, and then the image was run through an
interpolation software that turned it into a 360 image. Problem was, the image sucked.

This version, a panoramic video camera with plywood , is a DIY kind
whereby several cameras are arranged and their images stiched together. A list of videos shows yo the results. Still not great.