Featured Photographer: Erik Lafforgue

Erik Lafforgue is a man who is really living the dream, travelling around the world and creating images of little known people in little known places. Having only started making images in 2006 he became successful very quickly as his vision and quality was recognised. His images can be seen on www.eriklafforgue.com and a few are featured below.

Featured Photographer: Shikhei Goh

Shikhei Goh produces absolutely astounding macro photography of the small animals he finds around him, often taking them into the studio to shoot them. He lives on Batam Island in Indonesia and can be found, amonst other places at, www.shikheigoh.com

The Big Ear Iphone case

This is great, it is designed only for the iphone 4 and was available online at www.achica.com, it is sold out right now but that does not exclude it from this blog, i'm guessing it's hard to fit in a pocket but my god it is cool!

The Iris camera by Mimi Zou

Iris by Mimi Zou from Dezeen on Vimeo.

RCA graduate Mimi Zou has designed a camera that follows your eye movement to take pictures of exactly what you see – and it can even identify your friends by their unique iris signature.

King Porter Stomp at Telford's Warehouse

King Porter Stomp are an eight piece band from Brighton, their music has elements of swing, jazz, funk, reggae, ska and much more. I can honestly say that this gig was one of the best I have seen in years. The venue was Telford's Warehouse in Chester, the tour is to promote the release after the summer of the band's second album, The Shuffle. Headphones will give you a better audio experience. Enjoy!

King Porter Stomp live at Telfords from Lucien Grey on Vimeo.

Featured Photographer:Henry Hargreaves

Henry Hargreaves is a New York based, New zealand born photographer known for his quirky, fun images, like these deep fried gadgets.

For more cool imagery, check out.
www.henryhargreaves.com

The Leap. control your computer with your hands.

This is awesome, I have to have one of these!!


Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.

To learn more, pre-order, or apply for an SDK, please visit
http://www.leapmotion.com.

Slam Poetry, Swedish Championships:Henry Bowers

The Swedish Championships in Poetry Slam will be from the 16 may to the 19 may in Gothenburg, it will, as always, be amazing, I plan to be there and for those of you don't know what poetry slam is, here is Henry Bowers, otherwise known as Kung Henry from Uppsala, Sweden.

 The championship url is

 http://www.poetryslamsm.se/

 below here is "Was it wicked of me"

Scott Wade, Dirty Car Art

Scott Wade likes to draw art on the windows of dirty cars but he does it rather better than the majority of us.







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Cardboard Ikea Camera

This is so Ikea, this camera, given away at an expo is cardboard, takes 40 images and has a USB connection, I'll bet we'll see this in stores soon.



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Remee, the Lucid Dreaming Mask

This is just amazing, I have to have one of these. Lucid dreaming, the ability to control your dreams, to shape what you will do and where you will go when you dream, I do this from time to time, this mask claims to help you do this more often. It is a kickstarter project and is well overfunded so this will happen, awesome! Keep an eye out for these badboys. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1047510073/remee-the-rem-enhancing-lucid-dreaming-mask?ref=search

Holi, India in high speed

The New York production company, Variable, took a Phantom Flex high speed, HD camera to India and filmed the Holi festival with it which resulted in this fantastic slow motion film, check it out!

Featured Photo-essay: Moroccan Market Traders by Andrew Duggan

This photo-essay brings together two things which fascinate me; markets, especially meat and fish markets abroad, and Morocco. These images were all created in one trip but focus on markets other than the obvious Moroccan souks. These are markets where the local people go for their everyday food needs, where the type of meat for sale is advertised by the placement of a relevant head for the locals who cannot read.

see more work at:

http://shotaday365.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.lifeframe.net/

http://folksy.com/shops/QuirKUK

Leica M9-P in White

This little beauty is known in some circles as the unicorn, appropriate as there will only ever be 50 of them and they will all sell in Japan.
Anyone who knows me knows I am obsessed with all things photographic but also with all things Leica, so if you have an extra 38,000 us dollars, feel free to grab one of these for me, I'll swap it for one of my kidneys.
This is so beautiful but I can't help thinking that it would have been even more beautiful with the Leica red dot on the front like the older white M8 had, but that's just me.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/leicas-m9-p-white-unicorn-for-japan/

Featured Photographer: Lee Jeffries

Lee Jeffries is a forty year old accountant from Bolton who started photographing football but due to a chance meeting with a homeless girl in London, started to photograph the homeless he found on the streets. His images are very detailed and exude character and emotion, a couple of his images are included here but I recommend taking a look at his Flickr stream.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16536699@N07/

Banksy CCTV mobile

This fantastic mobile was inspired by Banksy's CCTV painting, it is an awesome mobile for the kids while at the same time making a political statement, hey, maybe you could put real cameras in there, keep an eye on what they're doing. The best thing about this mobile is that you don't buy it, you make it yourself, the instructions are here.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Banksy-style-CCTV-Mobile/

L lens shot glass

This is great, this combines the two great loves of my life, photography and booze, imagine having a L lens to drink out of, whoo, you don't have to imagine, just get over to the wonderful peeps at Photo jojo and get yourself one of these.


http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/lens-shot-glass/

Buy the The Shot Glass Lens Set at the Photojojo Store! Lucien Loves...

Photoshop Fridge magnets

These are so cool, if only my fridge was more than 6 inches square I would have these, go check these out and buy them at Photo jojo.




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Titanic commemorative coin

The titanic sank 100 years ago today and what could be better to mark the occaision than a coin which is legal tender in Tuvalu to remember the event, check out the video, this coin could be yours..

Lucien Loves...

Trigger Happy Camera Remote

This great project is something I am going to have to get myself, great functionality, truly useful.


TriggerHappy is a patent-pending camera remote to control your DSLR or high-end point-and-shoot camera with an iOS or Android device.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1435018402/trigger-happy-camera-remote?ref=discover_pop

Pebble Smartwatches

This is the first of many posts about all kinds of stuff, this one is a great product which will soon be on the market. I found this on kickstarter and they are already funded and no wonder, what a great product, a watch which links to your android or iphone and gives you emails, apps and of course the time, in a very stylish package. Lucien Loves...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android?ref=discover_pop