Hi... It's been a while since I've been on DA. I'll be checking out some personal favs of mine soon! Looking forward to that.

I've uploaded some images of a project I've been working on called: 'Unfold Us'. It's more commercial than what I normally do, but it still has this personal twist to it. You can find more info with the new uploads.

I'll also try to upload a few illustrations I made for the street magazine ‘De Fish’ (www.fishandchips.be) (I liked their previous site better btw).
The theme, this time, was: Show us the oxygen of your life! I started this really personal illustration, but near the end I decided not to work with that one and I made a new one at the last minute.
The new one is still personal as well, but in a different way… It presents more the lack of oxygen… (‘my oxygen’ failed me a little lately, which made me feel weird to post the original illustration in that magazine)

I’ll probably post the original one on here later on.

Ow, some other great news: I got featured the previous month in Addict Magazine # 25 World Heritage. I was really excited about that.
I also just read in a note that I got featured in DA Arts-Magazine. So I want to thank them for featuring me!




Some great artists!

Beautiful images, a little dark, but at the same time so fragile. I like her avator a lot btw
macabre
great photography
Still in love with his Luna figure
'Mister Sepia'




Thanks for the support!

While being on here the last few months I’ve come across some talented people, but yesterday my eye fell upon something that really touched me. A little story about a girl named "Luna". With the text I found 2 old pictures which capture her beauty and the fascinating story behind her very well...


The Story:


Gaspard-Felix Tournachon was a 19th-century photographic pioneer and innovator, whose best-known works include portraits of the notable celebrities of the day.

is younger brother, Emil, wasn't quite so talented. Or famous.

For some unknown reason, Emil chose to specialize in portraits of the most difficult people to photograph - people who just weren't destined to being immortalized. They flocked to him, desperate for decent portraits, but something always went horribly wrong.

But Luna's portrait was one of Tournachon's rare triumphs.

Little is known of Luna, although she was mentioned in newspapers and journals, and was briefly famous. Her family travelled from Ireland to visit Tournachon, in the hope that he could capture what no previous photographer had captured - Luna's image. Luna's sad and unexplained affliction was that, each month, slowly but surely, a shadow would pass across her face. At times, it was impossible to see her face at all, and it was rarely visible during the day. Tournachon's diary tells how he darkened his studio, and used a very long exposure to reveal Luna's beauty. He was worried that she would not be able to keep still, but he found that Luna could sit in silence, hour after hour - motionless and never blinking.

Luna


Luna's life might have changed dramatically when her parents took her to Paris for her portrait photograph. Why did they take her? Maybe they were proud doting parents who wanted a keepsake of their dearest child. Or maybe they desperately hoped that Tournachon could capture her likeness with his camera, and they could prove to potential suitors that Luna was indeed beautiful - at least on the days when you could see her face at all.

Luna might have been abandoned in Paris when the first man of any worth showed an interest in her. He might have been entranced by the mystery of her, fascinated by the elusiveness of her, and awed by her stillness and silence. He might have been torn - whether to allow her beauty to be celebrated and admired by Paris society, or to isolate her and share her beauty with no one.

He might have loved her. He might have protected her. He might have done everything that might have made her happy. He might have gone mad trying.

And Luna might have been happy.

Luna As She Might Have Been



Made and written by *Diregram




I believe the story has much potentional. I love the whole concept behind it.



Another artist where my appreciation goes out to (~spiralstudio):

tamsin hopes

time passes funny 'round here





Others:


(the black and white's)





P.S.: I want to thank Diregram for his help.