A creative collective of toy photographers
Another month of 2019 is now over. February saw 28 days pass, 4 weeks, 2 women and two men that we explored. Annie Leibovitz, Wes Anderson, Marie Curie, and Elon Musk. And today we have a look at your entries that caught our eyes on Instagram.
(If you want to join in the SiP goes 53 series you can still join at your ow
Stuck In Plastic.
The creative collective of toy photographers.
For this week of SiPgoes53, there’s no particular human being. Next Friday, it will be International Women’s Day. And so we thought that for this week, it will be for you to choose your own woman.
Continue reading “Week 10 – Choose your woman”
This week, we’re coming back with our series of #FeatureFriday interviews. Of course, this time not about SiPgoes52, but SiPgoes53. Today it’s Kenton who joins us around a virtual cup of coffee.
I live in Salt Lake City, UT and am the father of four kids that help me build my LEGO creations and, from time to time, even help me set up photos. My day job is working as an e-commerce director at a company that makes bags and travel accessories.
I first started taking toy photos about 4 years ago when my wife bought me some LEGO for Christmas which reignited the passion I always had as a kid of building amazing LEGO sets. I was initially inspired by Avanaut and his work that I had seen on Flickr even before I started getting back into LEGO. Then I discovered Chris McVeigh and started trying to recreate the style of both with certain photos.
I love all types of photography and actually used to have a successful wedding photography business on the side. As my family has grown, I don’t have as much time to do that anymore and toy photography has taken its place. It allows me to miniaturize my subjects and setups, and create awesome shoots with a variety of “models” and sets all in my basement on a small table.
Continue reading “Meet Kenton”Stuck In Plastic.
The creative collective of toy photographers.
Who is Elon Musk? I must confess I didn’t know this name until it popped out in the SiPgoes53 list of names. Thanks to the Internet, let’s learn more about him.
I’m Karine, a French girl living in the South of France and I’m the girl behind Eat my Bones. During my free time I enjoy taking pictures of my small skeletons friends : Edgar, Rebecca and Peter. You can follow my adventures on eatmybones.com
Maria Skłodowska-Curie is one of the most remarkable Polish scientists.
She was born in 1867 in Warsaw. She had been revealing talents for science since her childhood, but at that time Poland, after the Third Partition, became part of the Russian Empire, and in the area of annexation scientific activity was limited. In addition, women simply were not allowed to study.
Continue reading “Maria the First”
For the past three weeks, we’ve been exploring more contemporary but less famous human beings. This week, we are back with a more famous person that most people know at least by
Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, she was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, first in physics in 1903 and then in chemistry in 1911, for her work on radioactivity and the discovery of two elements.
Continue reading “Week 8 – Marie Skłodowska Curie”
Wes Anderson is a well-known American filmmaker and I’m really excited we have his name on the list of SiPgoes53. For me, he is one of the greatest directors of the beginning of this century.
He’s the director (and the writer) of The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel. A lot of actors are coming back in a lot of his movies: Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Andrien Brody and Rob Balaban. Watching a new movie of Wes Anderson is like going on a joyful family meeting once a year!
He makes movies with real actors but also stop-motion movies, that is close to the toy universe (from my point of view at least): Fantastic Mister Fox and Isle of Dogs, released last year. If you haven’t seen them, I highly recommend you watch them, no matter your age, you will probably love both movies.
Continue reading “Week 7 – Wes Anderson”I’m Karine, a French girl living in the South of France and I’m the girl behind Eat my Bones. During my free time I enjoy taking pictures of my small skeletons friends : Edgar, Rebecca and Peter. You can follow my adventures on eatmybones.com
On Monday I mentioned Rembrandt lighting as one of the characteristics of Annie Leibovitz photographic style. Following that, I felt the need to play with toys and lights… at home. Something unusual for me who mostly plays outside.
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see how easy (or difficult) it was to get something close to Rembrandt lighting with toys, and in particular with LEGO Minifigs.
A Rembrandt lighting is a technique used in portrait photography that imitates the lighting style of Dutch painter Rembrandt. One characteristic of many of Rembrandt’s paintings is the specific use of low-key light creating a shadow shaped like a triangle below one of the eyes of the subject. The goal is to create interesting shadows and lights driving the eyes of the viewer through the frame.
In photography, this is usually achieved by placing the main source of light above the subject at a 45° angle.
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Annie Leibovitz is an American photographer, most well known for photographing John Lennon on the day of he died.
She made her debuts as the chief photographer of Rolling Stone magazine, her career led her to take photos of celebrities for the cover of magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair. From touring with the Rolling Stones (the band this time) in the
And the first month of 2019 is a wrap. We had our first 5 weeks of January, and we explored Tolkien, Cleopatra, Darwin, Marilyn and Harari. And so did you.
Here are some of your entries that caught our eye.
If you want to join in the SiP goes 53 series you can still join at your own pace and leisure. Just tag along and creatively explore our handpicked fifty-two humans. One every week. And tomorrow we have a fellow photographer for you to get week six going.
But first, let us introduce you to the creative work of these 5 toy photographers and how they saw the world.
Stuck In Plastic.
The creative collective of toy photographers.
