books

glamourpuss

I saw this on Boing Boing a couple days ago and clearly I needed to post about it. Glamourpuss is a photo book featuring cats… in wigs. Amazing, right? Check out the promo video below and the Kitty Wigs website to learn more (or if you want to get some wigs for your own cat!)

Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs from Julie Jackson on Vimeo.

exteens

I found a very cool photo-book being released by Blood of the Young Zine, called Exteens. It’s a collaboration between between David Geeting, T. Reilly Hodgson, Dimitri Karakostas, and Hannah Myall, a hand assembled edition of 40 – 36 4″x6″ photographs with 4 11″x15″ B&W posters and a nameplate.

It’s their second release, and it’s a limited edition, so get it now while you can!

rafal milach

I just came across this interesting interview with photographer Rafal Milach on feature shoot. Check out the link to read the interview. Something to note is that Rafal won the Grand Prix from Photography Book Now from Blurb, which is pretty impressive considering the amount of talented photographers he was up against.

I checked out his website to learn more about him, and I loved his photo series and the way he presents them. He takes you to this other place, and leaves you wanting to see more. You can preview his winning book here. I’ve also included a small gallery of some of the images from the book. Very inspiring and exciting!

chase jarvis: the best camera

Photographer Chase Jarvis has release a new iPhone photo app called The Best Camera, as well as a new book to go along with it called The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You. You can find out all the info on thebestcamera.com.

The app looks pretty good, I haven’t tried it yet but it has a bunch of cool filters with cute names (jewel, paris, slate, candy, light, dark, fade, contrast, warm, cool, desaturate, vignette, square, frame) that make me want to try them. It gets even better though because the app lets you easily share your photos online, which I think is what a lot of photo app’s are lacking. So you can upload to Facebook, Twitter, email, or even to thebestcamera.com which is probably the most interesting option because then it will post the combination of filters you used, and in what order you used them so other people can get the same look.

I love the idea behind the app and the book, because I also believe everyone should take more photo, and why not use your phone? Also, the images from Chase’s book are pretty amazing considering they were taken on an iPhone. I love anything that reinforces the idea that it’s not the camera, but the photographer that makes a good image.

Check out this video and get inspired to start taking more mobile photos:

Here are some images from the book, The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You. Makes me want to make my own iPhone photo book!