Erik Johansson: Impossible photography

Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping them visually plausible.

Transformer dress by Hussein Chalayan.

Hussein Chalayan is known as fashion’s big thinker. From his endlessly whirring mind come future-gazing garments that transcend the runway and live outside trend. Voguedeclared his spring 2007 show, in which metal animatronic dresses rapidly morphed through more than a century of silhouettes, a moment of pure magic. And magic is what we’ve come to expect from this technology-obsessed conjurer whose designs continually challenge any received notions of what fashion can be.

The First Fully-Articulated 3D Printed Gown, Featuring Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese has unveiled the world's first fully articulated dress produced with a 3D printer.

The gown was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti and revealed at the the Ace Hotel in New York.

Created with the help of Shapeways, a company which lets designers sell objects which are printed on demand with industrial-scale 3D printers, the dress is based on the Fibonacci sequence of numbers.

Shapeways said:

"The gown was assembled from 17 pieces, dyed black, lacquered and adorned with over 13,000 Swarovski crystals to create a sensual flowing form."

It took thousands of components to fit the dress perfectly to Dita's body, the company added.

Instant flowers! Manel Torres 2011 Fabrican

Spanish Scientist and fashion designer Manel Torres created Fabrican, the instant spray-on fabric from an aerosol can, aims to bridge the gap between science and fashion, as well as provide a new material with potential applications for the medical, transport and chemical industries.

ANSEL ADAMS; PHOTOGRAPHER.

http://www.anseladams.com/

His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books.

With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. Adams primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.

DAVID EM; FINE ART.

Electronic artist David Em’s work encompasses virtual worlds, film, photography, sculpture, and printmaking. Em began producing digital art in the 1970s, before the advent of personal computers. He worked as an independent artist in research laboratories, including the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group. He is the first digital artist to have his papers collected and preserved by the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
http://www.davidem.com/01_art/0_art_lead_page/art_lead.html

GILLES TRAN; GRAPHICS.

http://www.mediaport.net/CP/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html

Gilles Tran is a contemporary French 3D artist mostly known for his images rendered in POV-Ray. Most notable is his web site project The Book of Beginnings with images accompanied with pieces of unfinished text.

Urban fashion shoot.

Urban fashion shoot; Model: Megan Joyce

Harry.

Experimenting with Lomography; Harry the west highland terrier.

Remembrance.

Experimenting with cyanotypes; remembrance negative.

Brother.

Brother; self identity.