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Peter Milton

Born in 1930, Peter Milton does extraordinary black and white etchings and engravings. Exploring themes of myth, history and architecture Milton's work is packed with hidden messages and detail -- the images below don't do him justice so be sure to visit his site for "zoomable" versions.

Published
May 14, 2012
Tagged With
fine artprintmaking

Spomenik

From Trendland:

During the 60s’ and 70s’ former president of Yugoslavia, Tito wanted to show the world the strength and con­fi­dence of the Social­ist Repub­lic by having sculptors and architects building those (very futuristic) monuments com­mem­o­rat­ing the Sec­ond World War. This series entitled Spomenik was photographed by Jan Kempenaers. Today these sculp­tures now in ruins are located in Croa­tia, Ser­bia, Slove­nia and Bosnia.

Published
May 14, 2012
Tagged With
cool places

Photo's From a Woman's Prison

Photographer Cosmin Bumbut distributed six digital cameras to fourteen female inmates housed at a Romanian prison. The results are stunning.

I received six Canon PowerShot cameras that I took with me to Tirgsor in July. The cameras worried me, they had so many buttons and the technical book was so thick, that I had doubts in someone being able to use them; I, for one, wasn’t able to. I felt very nervous. I didn’t know how to teach someone to work with a device I wasn’t able to use. Plus, I hadn’t taught photography since 1997, when I was an assistant at the Theater and Film Academy. I had no idea how to start and what I should explain to them.

Raducanu recommended me 14 convicts. I gathered them in a room and I gave them the cameras, the spare batteries and the cards. I told them that I would be back in five days to see their pictures and select 6 girls. I said that I would only select for my course those who take sincere pictures. I forbid them to use the built-in flash and the digital zoom.

Published
April 15, 2012
Tagged With
photography

HTML 5 Boilerplate for Drupal

Metal Toad Media has released Boilerplate 1.0 for Drupal 7.

This is an HTML 5 starter theme loaded with all sorts of goodness:

  • HTML based on Boilerplate HTML5 3.0, settings based on the Basic theme and the Boron HTML5 theme provides semantic markup
  • Simple default CSS from Boilerplate HTML5 for browser consistency
  • Modernizr.js allows for HTML5 element use in IE
  • Box-sizing: border-box layout with IE shim - CSS padding and border width no longer included in width calculations. Easily removed if not wanted.
  • Three default responsive layouts at 800 (PCs)
  • SASS and Compass support with SCSS syntax - support for spriting coming soon! (Compass is required for the default installation but can be removed if not wanted)
Published
April 15, 2012
Tagged With
drupalHTML5