A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
Looking at panoramas of Venice yesterday reminded me of this panorama of my own which I pieced together after a trip to Paris two years ago. (See the very long version unsqueezed here.) The location was the small park at the point of the Île de la Cité where the Seine divides in two.
For some fully 360º panoramas of Paris there are plenty to choose from here, including a view from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The panoramas archive
Piazza San Marco.
Gilles Vidal‘s 360º panoramas are justly celebrated but some of his photos benefit more from the location than others. The cathedral of St Cecilia is a great example of this, as is the city of Venice in this remarkable series of views. As well as showing a few less obvious locations, Vidal shows some of the more familiar sights in night views which are still fascinating due to the high quality of the pictures. The view of a misty Piazza San Marco (above) is wonderfully atmospheric.
Sestiere di Santa Croce.
Ponte dei Sospiri.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The panoramas archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Abelardo Morell’s camera obscura
Dark Angel, one of a series of photo-manipulations by Jared Pallesen, a New Zealand dancer (also the picture’s model). This makes me think again I should start another fetish sub-category, Men with Wings. Maybe later.
Via Front Free Endpaper.
I was going to post something about jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard who died this week (yes, another one). But enough people have been doing that elsewhere and I wrote about the album of his that I know best, Sing Me a Song of Songmy, back in April. Better, then, to leave a gloomy year with a smile, even if it’s only a piece of cosmic anthropomorphism. The rare trifecta of Venus, Jupiter, and the moon earlier this month was one of National Geographic’s most viewed space photos of 2008.
The Royal Mail issues this splendid set of stamps next month, celebrating their choice of “the greatest achievements of British design”. The set was designed by HGV with photography by Jason Tozer and regular readers will note two { feuilleton } cult items among the selection, the Penguin book jacket and Harry Beck’s London Underground map.
British Design Classics will be available from January 13th, 2009.