Photographer Patrick Ng has an obsession with natural materials such as wood and leather. Recently, he decided to “woodenize” his beloved Canon F-1n SLR (a professional film SLR released back in 1976). He didn’t use a pre-made kit for the conversion, though… Instead, he simply ripped off the faux-leather and replaced it with faux-wood wallpaper.
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Apparently the universe isn’t perfect enough for Apple’s products. David Kaplan, a keen-eyed physics professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, noticed that an entire galaxy is missing from the image of the Andromeda Galaxy used as OS X Lion‘s default wallpaper.
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What does it look like when every inch of a room’s walls and ceiling are covered with photographs? German art students Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay decided to find out through their project titled “fbFaces”. Using a crawler that traverses the Facebook social graph, they harvested 100,000 profile pictures and used them to print out an intense wallpaper for the entire room.
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You might have framed photographs up in your home, but what about using an entire wall to show off your pictures? Photographer Lyanne Wylde turned her hallway into a photo wall by putting up wallpaper with frames and slowly filling in the frames with her own photographs. You can buy the wallpaper, titled “Frames“, yourself from Graham & Brown for $45 a roll and start your own wall!
Frames Wallpaper (via Photojojo)
Image credit: 304 366 – My treasure #1 by Ly and used with permission
Do you recognize this photograph? It’s the wallpaper for Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, which found its way into hundreds of thousands of eager hands this past weekend. Photographer Richard Misrach created the image, titled Pyramid Lake (at Night), in 2004 at a Native American reservation in Nevada.
According to ARTINFO, Apple first requested 10 images from Misrach’s various series some time ago, but rejected them. Then, two weeks prior to the iPad announcement, Apple again approached him with a request to license Pyramid Lake. After laying out terms to an exclusive five-year deal without mentioning the iPad, Misrach was blown away (in a good way) when the photograph was featured in the announcement.
The web was abuzz for a few days due to the fact that the image Apple featured in the announcement was unlicensed, but Misrach likely signed a contract soon after, and states that the terms were good.
Few photographers will ever have the opportunity to have their work recognized on the scale of default wallpapers for one of the dominant operating systems. Bliss is another instantly recognizable photograph due to its presence on Windows XP:
It was photographed in 1996 by photographer Charles O’Rear. Here’s a look at the same location, taken in November 2006:
Can you think of other ways photographers’ work can gain the same degree of instant public awareness?
Image credits: Pyramid Lake (at Night) by Richard Misrach, Bliss by Microsoft, Bliss (location) by Simon Goldin
