#thepantoneproject

Any of us who ever got a DSLR knows the initial urge as you take the beautiful charcoal black, deliciously heavy equipment into your hand, that you must, you really must become a pro. It subsequently fades for most, but in those first few days, weeks, or perhaps months we are all on the lookout for a project that could keep us engaged and motivated.

Now here is a clever idea from Chicago based photographer, Paul Octavious. This one is iPhone based, but still, a great project to get you going.

Get the 100 pack Pantone Postcard set, match the colours with that of the background, and start snapping.
Here is how the pro Octavious does it:

Would you be surprised to learn that it has caught on? Here is how others have fared:

Will you try it?

Art break

Masterpieces | Louvre Museum | Paris

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple)


The Paris uprising of July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, known as the Trois Glorieuses ("Three Glorious Days"), was initiated by the liberal republicans for violation of the Constitution by the Second Restoration government. Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France, was overthrown and replaced by Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Delacroix, who witnessed the uprising, perceived it as a modern subject for a painting; the resulting work reflects the same romantic fervor he had applied to Massacre at Chios, a painting inspired by the Greek war of independence.

What do YOU want to do…

before you die?

Nicole Kenney, a Brooklyn-based artist took polaroid shots of people and asked them to write on the photo, what it is, that they’d like to do before they die. Check it out for inspiration, and a smile!

Inside artist Ben Johnson’s studio

Working and creating within boundaries is intrinsic to art. A writer uses paper and pen to awaken our senses (i.e. smell, hear, feel), a poet needs to fit the words into a row no longer than a few words, and a painter needs to reduce reality to two dimensions. And that’s why Ben Johnson’s work is admirable. You almost want to step inside his pictures and wonder around…
In the below video he ‘takes us on a tour of his Hammersmith studio, where he creates his haunting, half-real and half-imagined interiors and cityscapes’. (wallpaper)

The British artist is most famous of his city landscapes, mainly that of Liverpool (see how that one was created here) that took 11 assistants, 24,000 hours to complete.

Various forms of art…

Some people are just so creative!

‘Hans-Peter Feldmann creates installations in which images and everyday objects - collected from different commercial and domestic sources - are put together in carefully constructed settings or forms.’ (Hugo Boss art prize Oct 2010, more at the Wallpaper magazine)