Fossil Summer

Fossil Summer

Urban Fossils photography art project by Yohannes Artinyan

http://urbanfossils.artinyan.net

The Idea
Urban Fossils art project by Yohannes Artinyan

The project is a photographic portrait of two fossilized building complexes, realized in the summer of 2010.
I. Perperikon. A famous ancient sanctuary and oracle shrine dedicated to Dionysus, a sanctuary of the Thracians from the transition between the Stone and Bronze Age. Located in the Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria.
II. A never finished medical complex in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A sanctuary of graffiti artists from the transition period between Communism and Democracy.
Places which history is full of sweat, blood and semen, literally and figuratively. A huge contrast in scale and importance, and at the same time a cynical similarity of the passions.

Photography / Web design and programming

The shooting is made with Nikon D60 camera with various lens. All images are digitally manipulated with custom made cross-processing filter.
Design and programming:
The graphic design is based on non uniform grid for thumbnails and multi-column text layout.
The navigation is alternative and is possible in three ways:

I. drop and drag – with the mouse or touch for touch screen devices.
II. by using the keyboard arrows.
III. by context menu – on right click.

Custom programming modules in the project: text engine, dynamic random non uniform grid, custom Pixel Bender filters, transition engine, custom Photoshop filters, etc.

The author
Yohannes Artinyan personal portfolio: http://artinyan.net

The author was born on 5th of May 1965 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Master of Arts. He is a winner of great number of prizes for sculpture (his academic subject), architecture and web design. He is a founder of Art Group 7+1, which is one of the most significant art groups in Bulgarian contemporary art.

He isa  founder and Art director of I-creativ studio for web design.
I-creativ studio website: http://i-creativ.net

About the Author

Eliwolf (Elena Valkova) is a co-founder and Manager in i-creativ studio for web design. I-creativ has a rich portfolio of art projects and corporate web sites, award-winning flash sites. The author has a 6-year experience as an art and web studio manager for non-profit art organizations and is interested in contemporary art, arts management, web marketing and promotion.

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