Who hates balloons?

I stumbled across these portraits on Greyscale Gorilla whilst trawling the Coudal blended feed (a good source of inspiration and randomness throughout the day), and I absolutely love them. A wonderful set of photos, with stark simple photography and wonderfully contrasting colours. The placement of the subject’s favourite thing is at times playful and humorous, and in others works wonderfully to frame the subject’s face. I especially like Nick’s self-portrait.

“I asked my friends to grab their favorite things off their desk at work for a quick photo shoot project.” -Nick Campbell

After looking through more of Nick’s (awesome) photography on his flickr I couldn’t shake the feeling that his work seemed strangely familiar. It was whilst looking through more of his portraits that it hit me.

Nick Campbell directed my favourite ever video short!!

Produced by Colin Davis, edited by Josh Bodnar, starring Benny Monson, shot at a unnervingly beautiful 250fps, ‘Bubbles’ is a perfect blend of chilled Jazz and slo-mo frantic bubble popping. Part of the reason I like the video so much, aside from being a sucker for slo-mo footage and Benny’s manic expression, is the way it gives the impression of being shot underwater. The way all the movements of skin, hair, and clothes are slowed down to a crawl, there even seems a similarity between the way skin pales and eyes look ‘glazed-over’ when underwater… probably a mix of how the video is shot and my own imagination.