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A collection of some vintage ping pong related photographs collected by Alec Soth.
The perplexed "what the hell am I supposed to do with this" look on the girl pictured above is great. Today I could see this same ping pong table being displayed at the Armory Show as some contemporary art piece.
If you'll permit a little bit of juvenileness here, I got a chuckle out of this catch spotted by a photographer I follow as he flew over somewhere near Denver.
AMERICA.
The G8 summit is taking place right now in Northern Ireland and to impress its powerful visitors the small town of Enniskillen cleaned itself up but not without some controversy whereby "much attention has been drawn to the Potemkin-village storefronts, which many residents say are a disingenuous effort to hide signs of economic decay."
I made a few gifs over the weekend thanks to the iPhone app Cinemagr.am:
Kaizar: Look familiar?
[Snapped by Terry Richardson.]
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Heel belongs to the owner of the paw, a standard poodle Gem who was in New York City for the Westminster dog show earlier this week. The photo is also very apropos with New York Fashion Week that took place at the same time.
Photo by Jordan Matter (the lens behind the popular Dancers Among Us series) with Michael McBride, a dancer at Alvin Ailey.
I really like this photo by Terry Richardson.
Photo Illustration by Penelope Umbrico for The New York Times, ‘‘Sunset Portraits, From 8,462,359 Sunset Pictures on Flickr, 12/21/10’’
[The linked above article is a great read about what to do with our online presence after we pass away.]
It cracks me up that Lance Wakeling decided to take what I consider the biggest architectural eyesore in Manhattan, which I've previously ranted about, and turn it into "art."
Soho after NYC's snowmageddon 2010. Photo by Michael Surtees.
Flooding in Highland, California on December 23. Photo by Mike Vilensky.
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/17793581] Created with Pummelvision: Jake Lodwick's latest Internet project that compresses your life in pictures into a sped up slideshow set to house ambient music. Above is my life since 2005.
Pause?
[Photo by Terry Richardson obvi]
From the archives. Who knew 
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Photo by Terry Richardson.
This peculiar house is from photographer Juliane Elrich's series "Korea Diary," which I really liked. Some of them like this and this reminded me of my early childhood years there.
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