Martijn's Blog

Tumblelogging now

Martijn Winkler — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:55:10 +0000

Posting a daily (!) photoblog at Tumblr: Life in Pictures.

Please check it out at: winkler.tumblr.com

I’ll be abandoning this blog indefinitely, I’m afraid.
Please follow my Moodfactory blog, at:
moodlab.wordpress.com

Thanks!

“Real” miniature photography

Martijn Winkler — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:47:12 +0000

Nine images by Canadian photographer Adam Makarenko from his recent Northern Highways & Rockcuts project. Influenced by science and nature, Makarenko creates a vivid tableau vivant through miniatures, which he photographs into poignant visual narratives concerned with human intervention in nature. Makarenko won the Magenta Foundation’s Bright Spark Award in 2008.

Streetsigns

Martijn Winkler — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:50:41 +0000

Ms Dewey is no more

Martijn Winkler — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:54:49 +0000

Alas, since last month there is no more personal search assistant on the web, in the form of the charming Ms Dewey. She disappeared quite abruptly, without an goodbyes or even a notice or obituary. A banal, sluggy and rather ugly videoblock has taken her place and name on msdewey.com. I somehow feel violated…

Searching the internet is as much about the search as it is about the find. How many times have you not started to search for something online, only to end up finding something you did not set out to find. Or even to not find anything at all, but rather to keep on searching. For what, you may not even know.

Ms Dewey knew this. Searching is not about finding. It’s about the process of finding. She commented on your queries and results, encouraged you onwards, and mostly looked at you in a bemused manner. She knew that nobody was taking the search seriously.

Of course, Ms Dewey was a viral campaign, for Microsoft’s Live Search. Developed by McCann-Erickson. And now she’s been sacked; after 2 years of outstanding service. I can’t help to think the internet has lost some of its personality. It’s all about the finding again… or so they want us to believe.

Ms Dewey in better days.

Perspective is how you look at things

Martijn Winkler — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:10:13 +0000

Here’s an interesting match of two visual arts: drawing and photography. Photography brings to the drawings what they in themselves do not have: a fixed audience perspective. How do you look at reality?

As noted on Wikipedia:

Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l’œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. His works are created using a projection called anamorphosis, and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle.

Some more intriguing examples:

And of course, the artist has his own web page with tons more of his work to see.

How viral meets iPod meets an apple pie

Martijn Winkler — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:09:35 +0000

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)

Die Hard in 30 seconds with bunnies

Martijn Winkler — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:26:33 +0000

Simply a great film, modern day Shakespeare I dare say. And even better with Bunnies (although the violence seems somewhat exaggerated).

http://www.angryalien.com/aa/diehardbuns.asp

Secrets go public

Martijn Winkler — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:57:38 +0000

PostSecret is an art project meets group blog. Anyone can send in their secrets (anonymously) for everyone to read. And people from all over the world do just that, en masse. It’s brutal, lovely, tender and desperate all at once. Real life poetry.

One example:

Do take a look, at least once a week I’d say, and feel the pulse of society. Or perhaps post your own secret?

PostSecret

Park and ride…

Martijn Winkler — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:08:54 +0000

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become “one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions”: a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have — Greatness.

Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875 – 1947)

Truth In Advertising

Martijn Winkler — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:09:34 +0000

Painfully accurate…

more about “Truth In Advertising – Tim Hamilton -…“, posted with vodpod