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National Geographic's infinite image-mosaic of user submitted photographs blew my mind away. It may take a few seconds to load, but it's worthwhile.
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Brilliant photographer and artist Shawn Mortensen passed away yesterday.
Particularly renowned for his portraits of musicians, artists, and entertainers, Shawn photographed a stunning array of pop culture demigods in his 20+ year career including Keith Haring, Tupac, Henry Rollins, James Brown, The Notorious BIG, Bjork, Jun Takahashi, Leo Fitzpatrick, Christopher Wool, Mark Gonzales, Ed Ruscha, Vivienne Westwood, The Bad Brains, Dash Snow, Grandmaster Flash, Neil Young, MIA, John Lee Hooker, Nigo, Sofia Coppola, Agnes B., Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, Keith Richards, Chloe Sevigny, The Foo Fighters, Everlast, Kraftwerk, Wu Tang Clan, and The Sex Pistols, to name but a few. Shawn was also a successful commercial photographer who worked with clients like SUPREME and NIKE, and publications like VIBE, and I-D Magazine, where his streetwise eye was a highly prized commodity.
You probably recognize this iconic photograph of his:
I like this untitled piece by Jason Lazarus.
I love the nostalgic sense of imaginative play and the innocent recklessness that photographer Jan Von Holleben captures in his "Dreams of Flying" series featuring local kids from his neighborhood in Germany.
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Stunning test video shot by David Coiffer with his new camera (a Photron SA2...from the future maybe?) is delicious super slo-mo eye candy. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/3830864]
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My friend Pooja recently accidentally broke her camera. No worries, she said. She bought a new one. When I saw her new camera I gave her my honest opinion. I told her that I thought it was aggressive, maybe too aggressive and it didn't seem very practical. See:
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Alan Sailer's Flickr collection of his amazing high speed bullet photographs. It's a must see explosion of colors, literally.
Merry Christ-BAM! Clear Christmas bulb with water.
Jello. (Yummy.)
Paintball blast. Gangsta.
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I really vibe this black and white taken by New York photographer Andrew DiSalvo. I'm constantly impressed by graffiti artists extraordinary ability to tag seemingly impossible places to reach spaces in the urban landscape, which makes this photo so beautifully jarring to me.
I love that his set of tools includes the following analog camera, an Olympus Stylus Epic.
Boston Globe's Big Picture has a photo gallery depicting the current economic "Great Recession."
Hotel property manager Paul Martinez kicks in a tenant's door after no one answered the knock during an eviction February 26, 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The tenant said that he was laid off from his job in a retail store two months ago and had fallen behind on his rent payments at the low-budget hotel. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A RE/MAX Central bus advertises tours of foreclosed homes March 7, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The real estate group began giving tours for prospective buyers three times a week in February 2008, in an effort to clear inventory of foreclosed properties. They have seen a steady decrease in foreclosure listings since the summer of 2008 in the Las Vegas area. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Thousands of unemployed Chinese graduates flock to a job fair in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on March 7, 2009. China vowed to help train one million graduates in the next three years to boost their qualifications, and promised loans to business that hire graduates, as unemployment continues to grow. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Stephen Mallon has some amazing photographs of the retrieval of US Airways Flight 1549 from the Hudson River.
View more here.
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Vice explicates the epidemic of posing which has "swelled into a grotesque titan of pouting, winking and the faux salute" thanks to Facebook.
The “from above” As Jonathan Swift taught us, everyone looks better from above. Fewer chins, less coke nostril, bigger eyes. And so it is that every single photo has a weirdly truncated arm going off the side of the frame as the poser holds their camera a good three feet above their upturned faces, like a chick waiting for their mother to vomit down their gullets.
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This famous photograph was taken in 1951 by an American photographer Ruth Orkin. Orkin describes the photo in this brief sound clip. A copy of it hangs on the wall of my neighborhood pizzeria, which I always stare at while waiting for them to reheat my "Grandma slice."
New York Times photo essay on Department of Sanitation workers who clean up Times Square after the ball is dropped. This is what's going on in my head right now:
