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kottke.org posts about tomcarden

Stamen interview

Short interview with Mike Migurski and Tom Carden of Stamen about their projects and process.

We try to start from a position of great abundance and information, to show the vastness or the liveness. I think live, vast, and deep is some of the terminology that we’ve been using lately in a lot of our talks.


How to photograph cool smoke pictures. Or

How to photograph cool smoke pictures. Or you can skip the smoke altogther and make smoke-like images with Processing. (thx, shay)


Photographer Clayton James Cubitt interviews Tom Carden

Photographer Clayton James Cubitt interviews Tom Carden about their Metropop Denim collaboration. “I don’t think the work ever belongs to the computer, any more than a photograph belongs to a camera. The computer is a tool โ€” there wouldn’t be any artwork if I didn’t tell the computer exactly what to do โ€” it just works a hell of a lot faster than I do!”