THIS IS NOT A TIME TO BE DISMAYED.
Patti Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer who’s still rocking at 77 years old. She’s been fighting for the right side of history longer than most of us have been alive. Please share this (with credits)! COMMIT to doing political work to organize and fight! COMBAT the forces that […]
Flesh Font Friday (NSFW)
From designboom: a series of ethereal photographs by greek artist anastasia mastrakouli utilizes the nude human form to highlight the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual art. each image is the product of an experimental performance, rendered as a composition of a silhouette and surface while conforming to the shape of the english alphabet. cut […]
Delightful Papercraft Food and Grocery Sculptures
From laughingsquid.com: These delightful papercraft foods and groceries were created by artist Maria Laura Benavente Sovieri for advertising and editorial clients. For more of her photography and visual art, check out her Behance portfolio. via Ian Brooks
Vintage Crime Scene Photos Superimposed on Modern NY Streets (Warning: Graphic)
By Chris Knight from fstoppers.com: Photographer and historian Marc Hermann has done a beautiful job pulling historic crime scene photos from the New York Daily News archive to blend them with photographs of the same locations today. For those who live in New York now, it may be easy to forget just how rough the […]
Magical Miniature Worlds by Matthew Albanese
By Kaushik from amusingplanet.com: Matthew Albanese creates small-scale meticulously detailed models of outdoor scenes and landscapes using everyday, simple, mundane materials and transform them into an image through the lens of his camera making them look hyper-realistic. Albanese has used ordinary household items such as spices, cotton, colored paper, ink, steel wool and glasses to […]
Walter Koessler project: An extensive personal look into World War I
Walter Koessler Project by Dean Putney (@deanputney, deanputney.org); Kickstarter project link: As I was getting ready to leave home after Thanksgiving, almost two years ago, my mom said she had something to show me. She pulled out a big black photo album from under our coffee table, casually laid it out in front of me, […]
Photographer’s Facemash Project Reveals Uncanny Genetic Resemblances
By Quenton Narcisse from Mashable.com: One photographer has taken face-swapping to a whole new level. In his Genetics Portraits series, French-Canadian photographer Ulric Collette photographs two family members and edits half of each face to create one portrait. Some of the portraits look so seamless, it’s hard to tell they’re even mashups at all. While […]
Macro Eye Photos Zoom in on Nature’s Complexity
By Jakob Schiller from Wired.com: Long-eared Owl For years Suren Manvelyan has been making extreme macro photos of both human and animal eyes, and he’s just released a new batch of purely animal eyes that are equally stunning. “I don’t think many people suspect there are so many interesting structures in the eye,” Manvelyan says. […]
Going Digital: The Fourth Triennial Exhibition at the International Center of Photography
By David Rosenberg from Slate.com: Shopkeeper Suparat Taddee, Chumchon Ruamjai Community, Bangkok, November 2011. Courtesy of Gideon Mendel. For their fourth triennial, titled “A Different Kind of Order” the International Center of Photography focused on the sweeping influence of digital photography on established and emerging artists. The exhibition, featuring 28 video artists and photographers from […]
Wooden Pinhole Cameras Make Old-School Techniques Cool Again
Digital cameras are great, but like most electronics, they likely won’t withstand the test of time in, say, a century from now. So Slovenian industrial designer and self-taught carpenter Elvis Halilović developed pinhole cameras that he and his brother make out of locally-harvested chestnut and maple wood. The ONDU Pinhole Cameras, as Halilović has branded […]
Nine Things The Squirrels Are Up To These Days
From BuzzFeed.com: Photographer Nancy Rose builds tiny sets in her back yard for squirrels to interact with. Then she lies in wait and takes hundreds of frames as they run around the sets. Anyway, this is what Nancy’s squirrels are up to these days. (Click on images for larger size.) [Full article] 1. Amateur leaf-painting […]