Short, Martin, Chase, in hats, on camera In 1986, classic comedy western ¡Three Amigos! was released, starring three living legends, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short and directed by none other than John Landis. One month ago, 25 years later, all four of them came together for a very special Empire reunion in Los [...]
Link: PROSTITUTES of Old Japan 昔の日本の売春婦 – a set on Flickr.
Kibera – Google Maps.
In a very sensitive context, we need to be clear. We are in favor of a solution for which two countries, Israel and Palestine would live peacefully within safe and internationally recognized borders. We hope that this project will contribute to a better understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. Face2Face Project.
Currently, Twitter users who wish to post photos in their tweets must host them elsewhere, with popular options including Twitpic, Yfrog, Instagram and Flickr. Users then include links to the photos within their tweets. Link: Confirmed: Twitter Plans to Announce Photo-Sharing Service This Week – AllThingsD.
Calligraphy specialist Julien Breton and photographer Guillaume Plisson create arabic calligraphy in light. Link: Light Calligraphy, calligraphie en light painting.
Link: Dogs in Gas Masks.
“In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.” via Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949 « How to be a Retronaut.
LEUCHTPUNKTORDNUNGEN : :STEPHAN TILLMANS PHOTOGRAPHIE.
A slider is a thin, thin slip of beef, cooked on a griddle with onions and pickles piled atop patty. The steam from the onions does as much cooking as the griddle. The buns are placed atop the onions, absorbing the pungent aroma and flavor. VISIT LINK: Sliders (are not just a mini hamburger) (tags: [...]
Files and documents manager for iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing to read, move, copy, rename or transfer via email, documents, images, videos, PDF or office files with multiple selection so that all documents can be organized from the device, on the go. VISIT LINK: FileApp Pro launched – read, move, copy, manage documents on iPhone [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” [...]
Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait "Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that [...]
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View – An image-based essay Photos from Google Street View by artist Jon Rafman (tags: art internet photo google photography images culture photos image maps documentary privacy googlemaps streetview essay street googlestreetview jonrafman view netart …)