Mac Premo

Mac Premo is a collagist, animator, director, illustrator, painter, carpenter, and stuff maker. Check out the video 'two parts' if you visit his site. (I can't link directly because his site is in Flash.)

The images are from a collage book experiment with artists from Belfast, N. Ireland. Each artist designed a spread and sent the book to the next artist. This created a dialogue through the mail using art. 

Ed Wargin, photographer

Ed Wargin©2008

Ed Wargin©2008

Ed Wargin ©2008

A Minnesotan native (who happily lives in Michigan), Ed Wargin captures the rugged beauty of Michigan. I had the opportunity to work on Voelker's Pond, a picture book about John Voelker (Robert Traver) the author of Anatomy of a Murder. Ed Wargin took images of Voelker's secluded cabin, deep within the Michigan wilderness and juxtaposed them with James McCullough's writings. 

Legends of Light, another book by Wargin, depicts the stunning majesty of Michigan's many lighthouses. 

images courtesy of Ed Wargin | www.edwargin.com

:: Words ::

a few of my favorite words:

kern

raster

ensconced

sinuous

ochre

chartreuse

pallid

tin

auger

colour

svelte

astute

smoosh

persimmon

codec

meiosis

flagrant

embiggen

chagrin

scapula

tibia

pensive

tween

Winnebago

perturb

meh

mercurial

incandescent

protonate

cytoplasm

ghoul

meme

balk

moofing

idiom

wry

flustration

:: Category :: What We Eat

From the current issue of Good magazine. Each page has a general category with a specific image in the background, statistics about the category are in the margins, along with a caption of the specific food.

HDR images

High Dynamic range images created by splicing three different digital image exposures together to produce one single, vividly detailed image. Effects are especially evident in night/dusk shots, and images used purely on computer screens. I have yet to try this technique (I was actually surprised at how long it has been around—1990s, but with the advance of personal, high-res cameras the technique can now be achieved by amateurs.) 

I am curious if it is a printable technique. But I may try it out on my next magazine project at work.

A flickr gallery of more HDR images.

New York Times infographics

By far, the New York Times produces some of the most useful information graphics online, or in print. This interactive graph demonstrates the ebb and flow of movie releases over the past few years. You instantly notice when movies peak, where the blockbusters fall in the year, and how long most movies stay in the multiplex. 

Another graph, shown above, charts the fall of a few civilizations and the causes that preceded their demise. An interesting correlation can be inferred with the US.

These graphs visualize how households spend their income. Accompanying graphs can be found here. 

Finally, there is this chart. It puts into perspective the riches men in US history, that all but 2 lived in the 1800s, and they are all white men.