Featured on Colossal, the photographic series A Colorful Winter by Florent Tanet is currently on display at Le Bon Marché Department Store in Paris (incidentally, Le Bon Marché is historically the first ever department store, founded in 1838. I wrote an essay on it last year.). See more images on Colossal.
I have another past and future post for you today. A series of photographs, diptychs where the first is the original and the second is a staged recreation many years later. Some of them are eerily successful, while others are just plain odd. I find the idea of this project intriguing and unusual. Argentinian photographer Irina Werning‘s project Back To the Future (part one and part two) has that strange, exotic, uncomfortable, giddy, tangential string of unresolved emotions. It makes you wonder what happened in the years between, and how long did it take to get the recreation right?
She says about her work:
I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… Two years ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future..
You can see more pictures on her website
Working in the tech industry is about coming up with something better, more efficient, with more advanced technology. At the same time, as designers, we strive to think outside the box, push the boundaries further, create something unexpected. Where this really comes into effect is in future planning. These videos look so silly now, but all of what we have and experience today is based on someones unfathomable or outlandish idea. Our CTO at Lookout, Kevin Mahaffey, often says, “If it’s not impossible, it’s not worth doing.” And, as Henry Ford said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster Horse.'”
You can watch more vintage news clips about future predictions here
“In 1981, long before the Internet as we know it had come of age, early adopters of the home computer were reading their morning newspapers online — kind of. This story by journalist Steve Newman, originally broadcast on San Francisco’s KRON network, expolores what the then-future of digital publishing and electronic journalism could hold.” (read more)
I had some free time this evening so I decided to actually draw something for a change.
Being a graphic designer is awesome because people from other teams ask you to draw stuff for them! Photographed and captioned by the Brand Director, my boss.
“Yes, I get paid to do this”
stream of consciousness 