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The photographer known on flickr as platonov pavel has created a series of images which showcase his talent as a photographer and designer. The series depicts models adorned with unique creations which are sculpted around their heads, obscuring their facial features. These mask-like creations range from folded paper to large-scale constructions made using small pieces of wood. Each one is a different material and arranged in such a way, as to complement the portrait.
Betsy Van langen's body of work is visually stunning, and constantly refreshing with transitions from dark and arresting, to loud, bright and colorful images. Betsy is fascinated with the body, and while a large amount of her work is self portraiture, she is constantly exploring new tactics to express herself as a contemporary artist. Betsy is currently working towards her masters degree at Rutgers University, where she continues to develop her experimental style of photography.
For the better part of the decade, Dan Bergeron, aka Fauxreel, has been creating subversive, photo-based street works. Often his projects address current social and political themes, while others simply attempt to re-contextualize the physical spaces he liberates. By primarily working outdoors, Bergeron's image challenge the city's predominant visual culture of advertising, not only in presence, location and scale, but in their efforts, "to document people that are rarely focused on in mass media." Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating.For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!
NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any specific building and will be exposed by a battery of powerful projectors.
Polish photographer Szymon Roginski has been inspired by cubism for the the 2009 spring/summer collection of Ania Kuczynska. He wanted to break the two dimensional sense of photography as well as cubist painters in 20's tried to break two dimensions in painting. The first part of work was a photo shoot and then Szymon Roginski finished with a final photo shoot, rebuilding original frames with hundreds of hand made solids.
Digg celebrates its 5th anniversary with Digg 365 [labs.digg.com], the newest incarnation of the ground-breaking data visualization interfaces available at Digg Labs, next to the well-known Arc, Big Spy, Stack and Swarm variants. 
