Watching Humans Watching, an ongoing project from Stockholm-based photography team Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström, is a beautiful, slightly oddball look at human tourism and the way that we interact and merge with the sights we travel to look at. As they’ve written,
The photographs in Watching Humans Watching depict archetypal human expectations and actions in nature. Groups and couples move in seemingly predetermined patterns and dress in similar clothes that mimic the colors of their unfamiliar surroundings – captivating representations of tourist paradigms. Through the documentation of these patterns, we explore how humans appear in the landscape, and how their presence affects our perception of the landscape. By detaching ourselves from the natural environment and from the groups and individuals we find there, we are able to approach our subjects with the same distance a nature photographer applies to animals.
Shh. Tourists in the wild. Click through to see some of Inka and Niclas’ wonderful photos and then head over to their website for even more quirky cool photography. Plus, we’ve even heard a rumor that the pair has a book in the works, so keep an eye out for that.
In the first round of Flavorpill and FanBridge’s A Band Apart competition presented by Stoli, hundreds of musical artists from all over the country threw their hats in the ring for the chance to reach millions of new fans and perform at an exclusive blowout Flavorpill event in New York City this fall. Now A Band Apart is tearing into Round Two, and that means it’s time to claim your free mixtapes featuring the biggest contenders.
We’ve narrowed it down to the top ten in each of seven regions spanning the US, and created a series of one-of-a-kind compilations spotlighting their music. We’ve also rounded up some of the brightest acts in the competition here, spotlighting one from each area, from SF to NYC, representing everything from alt-country to hip-hop and modern rock. Check them out, then head over to Stoli’s Facebook page to vote in the second round, and the free mixtapes are all yours. After this, only ten bands will remain — and only one will win.
Employing themes of functionality and repetition, Michael Johansson subverts everyday objects into neatly packaged contemporary art.
Most of Johansson’s work pokes at the tension between what the artist calls the “now-familiar” and the “now-unknown,” finding a happy medium in an exaggerated form of regularity. Taking apart commonplace objects (suitcases, mattress springs, hairdryers), he both highlights and renders useless their original functions.
