Is Instramming an art? Debate amongst yourselves, but in the meantime please take a look at the 10 people singled out by PetaPixel for using Instagram “to its full potential as a device for unconventional humor or revolutionary marketing.” You might expect someone like National Geographic photographer David Yoder (@daveyoder) to be a skilled Instagrammer. But you’ll also be impressed by the symmetrical compositions of Jussi Ulkuniemi (@skwii) and work by Cory Richards (@coryrichards), one of the top adventure and expedition photographers in the world.

Chris Sickels's specialty is creating two-dimensional print illustrations by photographing three-dimensional puppets. So branching into stop-motion animation was certainly not a big jump for him. "My interest in stop-motion grew out of my childhood love of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion films of the 1960s and from my exposure to the Spike and Mike's animation festivals during my college years," he says. Sickels was named a winner of the first annual International Motion Art Awards for a short and stylish stop-action video he made to introduce himself at the 2011AIGA Design Ranch in Austin, TX, a three-day retreat for advertising design professionals

The unofficial start of summertime in New York is now—and for my money, the best one-day destination this weekend is Governors Island. Yesterday I beat the downpour for a preview of LMCCs Building 110 Swing Space studios, which will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday. Jeanne Verdoux, a French artist living in Brooklyn, met me at the ferry in Lower Manhattan for the ride over. Views from the upper deck are spectacular, adding to the holiday appeal: A 360o panorama ...