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A gaggle of Moab Masters (Andy Biggs, Jim Graham and Joshua Holko) met in Iceland last week to photograph Mother Nature at its best (and coldest). Here are some of their images.
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Wow, WPPI was fantastic. The energy was high, people were great, and the buzz about the launch of the Moab's newest metallic member Slickrock Metallic Silver was tremendous.
Our booth was highlighted by prints from our Moab Master Jim Graham, Jim LaSala, and Norman Seeff. Showcasing our entire range of inkjet papers, it was clear that the energy of our Slickrock Metallic silver stole the show. Attacting constant traffic from professional and novice photogrpahers, Moab would like to thank you for swining by our booth collecting samples, talking paper, and discussing your expierences throughout the year.
The next upcoming show Moab will be present at is Photoshop world April 17th-19th in Orlando Florida. Again, thank you WPPI and look forward to seeing you in Orlando.
In this audio interview Moab Master, Michael Zide, tells the remarkable story about an event that changed his life.
Moab will be visiting Calumet New York Feb 22nd from 11am-7pm. We will be raffling off Moab sample boxes and giving away free swatchbooks. So what are you waiting for? Come down to the store and talk paper and photography with your fellow moabites.
Moab is packing up the truck and heading down to Nashville February 19th. Come into Dury’s and talk paper, photography, and printing with our very own Ryan Fernandez. All Moab products will be 10% off. We look forward to seeing you.
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We would like to announce the upcoming photography workshops at the California Eastern Sierra. Rising over 10,000 feet above the Owens Valley, the California’s Eastern Sierra is a hidden photographers dream. This jagged and prominent escarpment is one of the best in California. No other region in the country offers such vivid stonework peaks, condensed foliage and roaring mountain streams.
Moab Master Salvatore Vasapolli will lead this workshop. Salvatore is a nationally renowned award winning photographic artist. He has been featured both in national and international publications. Salvatore has led workshops instructing students on how to capture dynamic art images in the most photogenic locations in the United States.
Join him on prescheduled workshop or a private tour that can be designed around your photographic desires.
Congratulations to Jim LaSala on winning the Gold Photographer of the Year Award, the Imaging Excellence Award, and to be one of four photographers to receive the “Kodak Elite Award” at Nationals in Atlanta. The National Award is provided by the PPA to national, regional and international affiliated associations which confer this special honor in recognition of a outstanding service to professional photography per- formed by an individual usually in the association's region. Recipients are selected by the affiliated association.
Jim continues to specialize in photographs of the Haitian community while raising funds to donate back to the country.Next month, Jim will travel back to Haiti for another photo exhibition. Moab wishes him continued success and a safe trip.
You begged and pleaded for it and now it's here. Moab Paper has partnered with Bay Photo Lab to provide a source for those Moabites who don't print themselves to have their work professionally produced at one the of top photo labs in country. From large prints, to portfolios, to framed pieces, there's not much that Bay can't handle and immediately opens the Moab Paper line to a plethora of applications. We're extremely excited to have Bay Photo on our team and welcome them with open arms. Let the printing begin!"
We are excited to announce our new Moab Master, Norman Seeff. Norman’s impact on pop culture has earned him several appearances in Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, etc., and many other high profile billboards worldwide.
Norman began his early career as a qualified medical doctor before moving to New York where he began photographing people he encountered on the streets of Manhattan. After over 3 decades of capturing the lives of actors, authors, scientists, and film directors through his innovative camera and video lens, Seeff has been able to illustrate his own dynamic and personal image.
Seeff’s entire collection of work is extremely impressive and our team is looking forward to working with him. Seeff comments that, "Moab Entrada Rag Natural has the fidelity, warmth and depth I was seeking when I began creating digital prints of my images. It has superseded my favorite darkroom papers. The gorgeous matte surface turns my images into art and I am thrilled to have found a paper that fulfills all my aesthetic requirements.”
Welcome to Moab, Norman.
The Moab team is packing up the crates and traveling down to Atlanta for the annual Imaging USA show.
The highlight in our booth will be focused on the new Lasal Dual Semigloss 330 along with a special surprise we have been working on over the past year. If you have been interested in giving this paper a try, then swing by our booth #1428 to pick up your free sample.
Featured at the show, our very own Moab Master Jim Lasala, will be showcasing several of his breathtaking prints from his portfolio.
In addition to our entire Moab line,we will also be showing the Museo range of fine art inkjet papers, including their 100% cotton Artist Cards.
Hope to see you in Atlanta.
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This is a repost from darkhallmansion.com:
Dark Hall Mansion is excited to release our officially licensed 2012 Peanuts print for Charles M. Schulz' masterpiece, "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Artist Laurent Durieux has masterfully captured the depth and pathos that is “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Always aspiring to something just a little different on a classic legacy.
Laurent’s quiet moment of reflection is directly emotional and complimented beautifully by a palette of dark
blues against a frosty night. His Variant by contrast is celebratory, joyous and allows us all to join Charlie in perhaps his greatest moment of triumph, one from the soul, one celebrated in song as well as spirit.
All editions are 18″ x 24,” strictly limited and numbered. The Standard Edition being a hand-pulled screenprint by the fine printers at DL Screenprinting and the Variant printed via giclee on Moab Entrada Bright White 290 gsm.
Joshua Holko was recently interviewed by the editor of Camera House’s Better Pictures magazine for their Christmas issue and the article ‘Outward Bound’ is now online. The magazine is free and can be viewed online in a web browser or you can download a PDF of the article HERE. Check it out if you have a few minutes spare.
Amherst’s Public Art Commission is pleased to present an exhibition of landscape photography by Amherst resident, educator and photographer, Michael Zide. The selection of black and white photographs were taken in Western Massachusetts, Martha’s Vineyard and California and printed on Moab fine art Entrada paper.
In the world of black and white landscape photography, Michael Zide has a most selective eye. He possesses that rare quality of artful seeing, bringing his sensitivity to gesture and mood to every image. Sensual and tactile, his work elicits a visceral response that draws the viewer in to demand a second look and a more thoughtful response. His personal vision began as a child after the otherworldly experience of waking to find a luminous blanket of snow covering his Southern California home. That first snowfall set in motion both the search for a view of equal enchantment, as well as a visual memory in search of meaning.
Not surprisingly, many of his photographs are inspired by the striking drama of winter ice and snow transforming the New England landscape.
Zide's work will be on view through February 28, 2013 at the Amherst Town Hall in Amherst, Massachusetts.
It's ultra-cool and they're coming to an online store near you. Here's an overview from TNW that we wanted to share:
“Want to turn your creative thinking about objects into a reality? Of course you do. What if you could just magic up a new button for the one that fell off your favourite shirt? What if you could invent a new way for carrying hot items in the kitchen? What if?
The rise of 3D printing holds a lot of promise for those of us who can focus and visualise what we might make. The idea of the replicator might have sparked the imaginations of Star Trek viewers or the Maker with ‘base block’ (recycled or otherwise) from Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan series could point to a home unit that can take spoken commands to create almost anything. But we’re a long way from this future, for now.
3D printing might not be available in all homes yet, but the latest desk-top 3D printers being us one step closer to the possibility of manufacturing more things for ourselves.
The process is not an easy one still, but some are more optimistic than others when it comes to future possibilities. Chris Anderson, former editor of Wired magazine recently left his editorial position to take up the position as CEO at 3D Robotics. Though the $5million+ investment in the company led by Jon Callaghan of True Ventures and Bryce Roberts at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures probably helped a lot, it’s Anderson’s belief in people’s own power to manufacture things for themselves that appears to have spurred on his change in career.
Anderson’s book, “Makers” also came out recently. It outlines ways in which people are making products for themselves already and 3D printing plays a big part in the inspiration for more people to get involved.
It’s smart to get in while the industry is on the uptick, but 3D printing has been around for some time and there’s a long way to go before domestic users will be able to think of something and print it off.
Academic origins
It probably won’t come as a surprise to read that the term ’3D printing’ was coined at MIT. In 1995, grad students Tim Anderson and Jim Bredt hacked an inkjet printer to spew a binding solution onto powder to create 3D shapes. After a time, the experiments became a business and Bredt and Anderson founded Z Corporation which was acquired by 3D Systems in January this year.
That’s a lot of history to skip in one go, but the companies helping people print in three dimensions today are pushing the boundaries for heavy industry and small businesses to design and create some pretty amazing things.
Shapeways is a 3D printing startup that began as a spin off of Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands. It was established in 2007 by Peter Weijmarshausen, Robert Schouwenburg and Marleen Vogelaa who pushed things further through the Philips Lifestyle incubator.
In 2008 the company launched a service for customers to design their own 3D products by sending a computer aided design (CAD) file to the Shapeways website. Through this process, the startup has encouraged hundreds of designers and businesses to make things and sell them, as well as providing tutorials and generally working to democratize the manufacturing process.
Shapeways has since printed and sold more than a million user-created objects from the delightfully silly to the practical and extraordinarily beautiful. Everything from Minecraft figurines and the Internet’s own “F U Anteater” to an assortment of wedding rings and even mathematical shapes have been explored through the service.”
