Category Archives: Photography
Wafflewaitress tweetz:
Hmm, guards, army with guns etc…wonder what’s occurring here? Nosy cow at Dublin airport. On a plane.
Ladies and gentlemen – to your conspiracy theories!*
(*or killjoy rational explanations)
Morning Hit
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Sarah writes:
[Targetted] while battling way to work in the snow on Fitzwilliam Place [Dublin] by an evil genius with ninja dump skills this morning.
Fail? Win? It’s just so hard to decOMNOMNOMNOM
Photographer Ellen van Deelen takes pictures of her (live, not stuffed) rats apparently engaged in all manner of human behaviors including, but not limited to, playing musical instruments.
More, and much stranger, here.
NY-based artist Bradley Hart painstakingly injects acrylic paint into bubble-wrap bubbles to create ‘pixellated photorealistic’ pictures. In his artist’s statement, he sez:
The pictures are copies of both snap shots of important people captured by me or given to me and maintained as a part of my own personal photograph collection, as well as powerful images obtained from other sources. […] As the paint is injected into a bubble the excess drips down the back of the piece. Upon completion of the injected work, the drippings are removed surgically from the backside of the plastic to reveal an impression of the work — a derivative work with its own meaning and story.
(Above: Steve Jobs, Dam Square in Amsterdam and Sara, a friend of the artist.)
Currently exhibiting at Gallery Nine5 in New York.
National Geographic Photographer Joe McNally got permission (after three years of patient negotiation with the skyscraper’s administrator) to climb to the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and take this shot of the city beneath his shoes during Gulf Photo Plus 2013. Sez he:
My old battered shoes climbed the worlds tallest building today. What an amazing structure! Tweeting from 820 meters straight up!
(Pix: Joe McNally, Nicolas Lannuzel [Burj profile] and Wikimedia Commons [graph])
Damn, that’s one filthy limo.
Did you recently attend a stag/hen do at a silage pit or landfill site?
Do tell.
(Thanks Lydia Tierney)
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A photo of legendary French mountaineer Gaston Rebuffat (1921-1985).
Subsequently used as the cover image for his book La Montagne Est Mon Domaine.
http://vimeo.com/61348049#at=34
A mini-doc on the burgeoning phenomenon of fashion blogging by GARAGE Magazine sez:
When we set out to make this short, our intention simply was to observe the phenomenon of fashion bloggers and street style stars. As we started to review the footage, two salient trends became apparent: fashion editors frustrated by the ensuing commotion outside of shows, and the rise of “peacocking” street style stars as a result of the proliferation of blogs. This film examines these themes from both perspectives.