Light Breakfast
Monday, March 15th, 2010
A still life by David Sykes
Red Dust
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009The pictures of the dust storm that is sweeping over Sydney are amazing. Here is a nice collection on flickr.
Update: A set from the Big Picture just in.
It looks so beautiful and eerie, but what was it like to walk around in?
Mike Tyson’s place
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009I love abandoned place, here is a great set of photos from Danny Wills of Mike Tyson’s abandoned mansion.
Peeling back Richard Galpin
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009“Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist’s own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form.”
Little Zoo
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Awesome
Monday, March 9th, 2009Bruce Haley has some highly amusing anecdotes about being a war photographer.
My favourites include:
25. No matter how good you think you are at “holding it,” amoebic dysentery always wins….
32. Drug lords throw amazing parties - somewhere there exists a jungle videotape of me and one of Khun Sa’s top aides (on a stage and backed by a fully electrified band) attempting to entertain 500 Maung Tai Army soldiers with an extremely drunken rendition of “Hotel California”…………..
61. Yes, those really are gruesome hacked-up snake parts in that big glass of homebrew you’re expected to chug down, and YES, your hosts will be extremely dishonored and upset if you try to weasel out of it (or if they catch you dumping it under the table when they look away)… quit being such a pussy and just drink the damn thing…..
(Via Kottke)
The architecture of density
Monday, June 9th, 2008These wonderfully flat photos of Hong Kong by Michael Wolf have been around for a while, but are still amazing.