Two new artists have just been awarded one year pro memberships on DeviantART and on Flickr! Check out they’re work, it’s quite amazing.

Trixis (Beatriz Martin Vidal) – DeviantART

B o O  (Katherine Bayer) – Flickr

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Last night I got the urge to do a nice little ‘old school’ spontaneous shoot, no planning, no make-up, just use what I have around the house. So grabbing Raquel, my great new friend and muse, we planted ourselves on the floor and just had some creepy fun with light, gold, white, and a few laughs.
What we came up with, in my humble opinion, is one of my best works.
So I got this up and out as soon as I could so there would be a PRINT available HERE for purchase.

I’ve just launched a side project of mine called “The Membership Foundation“.

This is a very personal project for me. This is my way of giving back to all the people who’ve inspired me over the years.
So far I’m doing three sites, Flickr, Zooomr, and of course deviantART.
My goal is to give away one year pro memberships. I’m giving away three memberships per month, one person per site.

With the release of the new NIN CD(s) comes the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts Film Festival. You can read/hear about the announcement here. I’m sure I was one of the first million to buy the new CD online, (only $5!), and it’s quite a collection. So when I heard about the open call for videos, well, I just jumped on that!
Together with Nina McEvoy and Raquel Nevado we set out to make something powerful, something that could breath life into the music. Also, keep it simple was also the goal. So with Nina and Raquel laying naked on my lighting table with pieces of machinery between them, well, what could be more effective!
In order to keep the video as with the realm of copyrights as possible, the original footage is helped along with various film clips from 1897 – 1902.
Full video can be viewed HERE. And feel free to comment or rate it.

Normally I would talk on and on, giving each picture a story of such detail. But for this series, I wanted to bring out my personal side. So I bring to you my mystery. My love of mystery. Never will I talk about what these are pictures of. I will say this. These pictures are indeed photos. Except for the framing set up, no modifications where used in creating these effects. These are all in camera.

The city by night, the city by day. Forcing focus, forcing contrast. Bring out the basic shapes and colors of what we see everyday. Sometimes the light hits the lens just right and there’s no point in even trying to focus.

All photos can be viewed here.

Prints are also available here.