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Historical glass negatives sold as NFTs and buyers told to smash originals

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An auction house based in New Zealand sold two historically significant glass plate negatives as NFTs and allegedly encouraged the buyers to smash the originals in order to increase the value of the NFT.

The photographs were of the artist Charles Goldie who was well known for his Portraits of Maori elders. The photographs were taken by Rupert Farnall and date back to anywhere between 1910 and 1920. Webb’s auction house based in Auckland listed the plates as NFTs on the platform OpenSea, and included a framed contact print of the image and the original glass plate negative presented in a custom-built pine box.

Why tilt the camera? The history and use of the Dutch Angle

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For most photographers and filmmakers, making sure that the horizon is level is of vital importance… Usually. This is mostly because any deviation from the norm looks like an accident. Like we don’t know what we’re doing. But it is possible to tilt the camera intentionally with both photography and filmmaking for added emphasis or effect depending on the shot you’re after.

We call this a Dutch Angle. But what is it? Why do people use it? How and why did it start? And how can we implement it effectively in our work? This fascinating video from the folks at Vox looks at the history of the Dutch Angle and how we can use it in our work. And it probably appears in a lot more movies than you realise.

Chalk artist creates stunning 3D illusion response to viral milk crate challenge

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An unlikely collaboration between two artists has saved countless victims from their own stupidity through an incredible optical illusion. Artist Naomi Haverland from Minnesota created her own answer to the viral TikTok Milk Crate challenge by making a clever chalk drawing on the street in a way that creates a perfectly realistic perspective in 3D when photographed from the right angle.

The Thursday Society is the world’s first global open artists collective

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Thursday Society, the world’s first open global artists’ collective, launches simultaneously tomorrow (Thursday) in six international cities: London and Leeds in the UK; Indianapolis and New York in the USA; and in Europe, Vienna, Austria and Valencia, Spain. Based on ideas of ‘open collaboration’, the collective plans to make creative support and education freely available to all artists (including photographers), both online and in real life. 

Any artists and creatives are encouraged to participate from anywhere in the world, particularly photographers and visual artists. Participation will begin through Instagram and will feature the hashtag #ThurSoc.

This guy chops up Leica M6 and other cameras to turn them into weird exploded art pieces

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The artwork of Fabien Oefner is going to hit people on this site in one of several ways… The first will be “Wow! That’s freaking awesome!”. The second will be [Insert Ryan Reynolds “But why?” GIF here]. The third will be screams of blasphemy with lots of tears. If there’s another response I’ve not thought of, let me know in the comments.

Once you see Oefner’s work on Instagram, you’ll quickly understand why the potentially polarising reactions. He likes to take things apart, but not in the traditional sense. He doesn’t dismantle them. He casts them in resin and then slices them up. like slivers of an MRI. Then, he sets them in their new permanent form.

Half an Art. First images from the Sigma 85mm f1.4 Art DN GN

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When Sigma started the global vision range the Art series, in particular, became a household name for high-quality lenses.

My personal favorite is the lovely 105mm f1.4 Art that is as wonderful as it is large! That is a common theme with the Art series.  As they often sacrifice size and weight for image quality.

So imagine my surprise when Sigma released a new 85mm f1.4 DG DN Art lens that is roughly half the weight of their original DSLR version, the 85mm f1.4 DG HSM Art.

Newspaper Navigator is a free online base of 1.56 million newspaper photos

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The Library of Congress has created a fantastic online trip down the history lane. Newspaper Navigator is an online base consisting of 16,3 million newspaper pages, out of which 1.5 million are photos. It covers the period between 1900 and 1963, giving you a whole lot of historic newspaper photos and headlines in just a few clicks.

The British Museum now lets you freely access 1.9 million images from its collection online

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It’s always a good time to browse through online galleries of historic photos. But if there’s the best time for it, it’s probably now while we’re in isolation. Because of this, the British Museum has revamped its online collection sooner than planned. It has made 1.9 million images free to view, download and use under a Creative Commons 4.0 license.

The importance of not giving a f*ck as a creative

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Nowadays, we can find and learn pretty much anything we need on the internet. We can see what other people have created and how they did it, which can be a great thing. But it also has its negative side: it can often make us feel inadequate and question our own  work. In this video, Chrystopher Rhodes of YC Imaging discusses why it’s important to “detoxify” from other creators’ content from time to time and stop caring about what they do.

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