The Camera Van

Harrod Blank -

One night In the fall of 1993,
Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car
with cameras and then drove around and took pictures
of people on the streets. The public, unaware
that the cameras worked, reacted naturally.
At the end of the dream, Harrod looked at pictures
taken with the van of faces frozen
in the moment of awe, pictures so powerful
that the next morning he decided
to attempt to build such a vehicle in reality.





The Camera Van's front grill features
every polaroid camera ever made,
from the Land Camera to the popular "One-Step"
to The Swinger.






The Camera Van's passenger side is both a
gallery of antique collectible cameras
and an interactive delight for the eyes!
Four fully-functional 32" color TV monitors
make up the frames of a giant film strip, while
36 separate slide viewers comprise the film strip
sprocket holes. The monitors broadcast
anything Blank wants to show, from one
of his several films to
the actual closed-circuit image of what the Van's
working video and still cameras see.






Two life-size Duratrans murals of children light up
and "wave" at passersby from the Camera Van's
rear "windows."





A perfect, blow up-replica of a kodak instamatic on
the camera Van's driver's side comprised entirely of
Kodak instamatics.





The camera van has a dash of over 200
operational light meters.






Mounted on the engine shroud is the monitor which,
thanks to hidden video cameras outside,
displays what Harrod's hidden still camera's see.
A click of a dashboard button, and Blank is one shot
closer to his photographic dream.






Check out this video -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfjmP51Gy84

Dean Chamberlain

Dean Chamberlain -

A photographer who specializes in unique lighting effects
and extended exposure times (up to five hours),
creating luminous and colorful images.







He has taken photographs for David Bowie, Duran Duran,
Paul McCartney, Deborah Harry, Madonna, Arcadia, Berlin,
Missing Persons, Marshal Crenshaw, Roy Orbison, Stan Getz
and Timothy Leary.







He received an MTV Breakthrough Award for
directing music videos
for Arcadia ("Missing"), Paul McCartney ("This One")
and Duran Duran ("All She Wants Is").

Video - Arcadia - "Missing"



http://www.deanchamberlain.com/motion_frame.html

Video - Duran Duran - "All She Wants Is"

all she want is



He is the co-founder and co-director of the Light Space Gallery
in Venice, California,
founded in 2001.


Dean has also created a series of portraits called
"Psychedelic Pioneers"
which are being sold as a fund-raising effort for the
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Patrick Rochon

Light - Painting

Patrick Rochon -

Medium - Lights (moving lights) through various media.
Photography and Video are mainly used,
to capture the movement created with lights.
Patrick Rochon started light-painting, combined with
photography doing long exposures in the dark, in 1992.








In 1999, Patrick Rochon started creating
videos and performances with lights.
Then with friends Patrick Rochon created a multimedia group and built costumes of lights.
Using video feedback, they performed by
"light-painting" on a giant screen creating a new visual experience.






Process:

In complete darkness with the camera shutter open,
you move lights on and around a subject with pen lights,
flash lights or anything that emits light for a single take.
Exposure times may vary between 5 to 30 minutes.









The images in this collection are exactly
what was recorded on the film at the time of the shoot.
No computer effects or digital manipulation was done.

KAWS

KAWS -

Born in 1974 in Jersey City
earned street-status by reworking advertisements,
oftentimes in bus shelters,
in New York City, Paris, Berlin and Tokyo.





Now he's a full time artist and toy designer.




KAWS — who still goes by his tag name —

is known for replacing his character's eyes with a
scull-and-crossbones- style "x," typically on popular cartoon
figures like The Smurfs and The Simpsons.










Dubbed the next Jeff Koons,

KAWS's cartoon-style gallery pieces sell
for between $10,000 and $85,000.
The artist also boasts collaborations with
Nike, Vans and fashion label Comme des Garcon.