PENTAX borrows a handy feature from DSLR cameras and applies it to this Optio VS20 point and shoot camera. Features a vertical shutter button, which will aid when it comes to taking steadier vertical photos. Other features include a 16MP sensor and a 20x optical zoom. This camera is set to drop in February of this year.
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Hotel rooms are impersonal and neutral by their very nature, designed to house visitors, not permanent residents. Any one person may not alter their interiors according to subjective taste; invisible staff will always put the room back in its original form when a guest leaves. A hotel room is always a paradox as it says to its guests: Do feel at home, but please don’t. For a limited time, however, one can lock the door, pretend to own the space and feel at home, albeit in a strange, indifferent place. “I merge myself into the interior of rooms,” Niemi has said in regard to some of her earlier works.
In Do Not Disturb, her latest series of photographs, the artist’s relationships with interiors continues to evolve, this time in hotel rooms. To make these photographs, Niemi fled her safe and predictable existence as a Norwegian woman, mother of two, committed life partner and responsible citizen in one of the world’s safest countries, with a suitcase filled only with borrowed garments and her camera. At undisclosed locations she checked herself into carefully selected hotels and rooms, which through their very neutrality and lack of expectation could offer Niemi a refuge from the repetitiveness that is mundane life.
Exhibition runs from March 27th to April 21st, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has travelled the world to chronicle the effect of oil on all our lives, and to reveal the rarely seen mechanics of its production and distribution.
This exhibition shows three sections from Burtynsky’s series OIL: Extraction and Refinement, Transportation and Motor Culture and The End of Oil. The works depict landscapes scarred by the extraction of oil, and the cities and suburban sprawl defined by its use. He also eloquently addresses the coming end of oil, as we face its rising cost and dwindling availability.
Burtynsky’s colour photographs render his subjects with a transfixing clarity of detail. From aerial views of oil fields and highways ribboning across the landscape, to derelict oil derricks and mammoth oil-tanker shipbreaking operations, we are confronted with the evidence of our dependence on this finite resource.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to July 1st, 2012
The Photographers’ Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies St
London
W1F 7LW
Fun, disarming and musically provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand’s finest lesbian country and western singers and the country’s greatest export since rack of lamb and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
In theaters February 15th, 2012
TweetFor No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo tradition questions of witness and authenticity are challenged. Steadman’s art is for the first time animated, including illustrations from Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. Featuring Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Robinson and with music from Slash.
In theaters February 12th, 2012
TweetIn 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted and within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. Now they’ve released a full feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.
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