Chema Madoz
Some clever photography by Chema Madoz.
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Some of the default Microsoft Vista wallpapers
Some of the default Microsoft Vista wallpapers are licensed from Flickr users and Microsoft employees. Doubtful that Apple would do something like this.
Update: A former Apple employee writes: “Almost all of the photos in iLife (the ones for the themes and so on) are from employees.” I was talking more about the Flickr part, but point taken.
Lots of nice photographs on Flickr of
Lots of nice photographs on Flickr of Comet McNaught, the brightest comet seen by the earth since 1965. This one by John White is stunning.
Photos by Bill Sullivan of people going
Photos by Bill Sullivan of people going through NYC subway turnstiles. I love the moments of recognition depicted here. (via dooce)
How to photograph cool smoke pictures. Or
How to photograph cool smoke pictures. Or you can skip the smoke altogther and make smoke-like images with Processing. (thx, shay)
Lego reproductions of some well-known photos.
Lego reproductions of some well-known photos.
Update: Another set from a different person, this time representing well-known paintings. (thx, derek)
Running the Numbers, a great new series
Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan, is kind of a combination of Chuck Close and Edward Burtynsky, with a bit of Stamen thrown in for good measure. (via conscientious)
Photos of patterns taken from public transport
Photos of patterns taken from public transport vehicles. Gotta make it ugly enough to hide the stains, I guess.
I like these photos of humans by
I like these photos of humans by Mohammadreza Mirzaei. (thx, bardia)
Photograph of every advertisement in Times Square.
Photograph of every advertisement in Times Square. Somehow I thought there would be more.
The folks in the Christmas Tree Carcasses
The folks in the Christmas Tree Carcasses group on Flickr are keeping track of discarded Christmas trees. (thx, richard)
The folks at Photojojo sent me a
The folks at Photojojo sent me a Monsterpod late last month and while I haven’t used it a lot yet, it certainly does work as advertised: it’s a little tripod that sticks to pretty much everything. Chris Spurgeon has a short review.
Power Washing 188 Suffolk St., a photo depicting
Power Washing 188 Suffolk St., a photo depicting how dirty NYC is. (via eliot)
Great aerial photography of Africa by Michael
Great aerial photography of Africa by Michael Poliza. One of my favorites. Poliza’s work reminds me of Yann Arthus Bertrand. (via nickbaum)
Thirteen photographs that changed the world, featuring
Thirteen photographs that changed the world, featuring Robert Capa, Man Ray, Matthew Brady, and Ansel Adams.
Faces of New York. Photographer Simon Hoegsberg
Faces of New York. Photographer Simon Hoegsberg asks people about their faces and then photographs them. “Essentially I would say I have made a drastic change the last three years. Age caught up with me. Good times caught up with me. Wild parties caught up with me. And what I see now is a truly aging woman. I no longer see the spontaneous, witty, charming…I see an elderly woman. And I find that difficult, but in a way very freeing.”
Noah Kalina (this Noah Kalina) recently had
Noah Kalina (this Noah Kalina) recently had his photo taken with several celebrities at a VH1 awards show. Here’s some background on the project. “The only celebs that were actually familiar with the phenomenon that is Noah K were Weird Al Yankovic and Paris Hilton. How perfect is that?” (via jen)
Santas riding the NYC subway in 1987. Seeing
Santas riding the NYC subway in 1987. Seeing graffiti on the subway always amazes me.
Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) on the
Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) on the Richard Avedon photo of her in the New Yorker: “I was so drunk I could barely stand up. I couldn’t zip up my pants because my stomach was killing me. I didn’t even realize I wasn’t wearing underwear until the magazine came out.” (via conscientious)
I quite liked the work of Barbara
I quite liked the work of Barbara Probst in the New Photography 2006 exhibition at the MoMA. Probst shoots the same scene with multiple cameras at the same time.
Wonderful interview with photographer Simon Norfolk on
Wonderful interview with photographer Simon Norfolk on BLDGBLOG. Norfolk photographs landscapes of war, but not just battlefields. “Because quite soon there aren’t going to be guys with guns shooting at each other. We’re quite soon getting to the era of UAVs and stuff. People aren’t even going to know what shot them - and there will be nothing to photograph.”
Hans van der Meer takes beautiful photographs
Hans van der Meer takes beautiful photographs of soccer fields in Europe. Also available in book form. (thx, dirk)
Cool composite photo of planes taking off
Cool composite photo of planes taking off from a busy airport. (via nickbaum)
Josef Koudelka, Prague, 1968
This is one of my favorite photos. It was taken by Josef Koudelka in Prague in 1968, just before the Soviet Union invaded and put a stop to The Prague Spring. To demonstrate the emptiness of the streets at noon, Koudelka stuck his wristwatch into the scene before shooting it. A simple, brilliant gesture that adds not only a temporal dimension to the photo but also a sense of solitary humanity in contrast to the empty streets.
Little People is a series of photographs
Little People is a series of photographs of tiny handpainted people depicted in different situations around London. Reminds me of the tiny people with food photos of Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle. It would be neat to monkey with the depth of field in these photos so that somehow both the little people and the background were in focus, making it seem more like the people weren’t little.
Photo of Beavis, a homeless man living
Photo of Beavis, a homeless man living in San Francisco, shooting up (perhaps NSFW). He was previously photographed in 1994 as a street kid in LA for Time magazine. “he picks his scabs to find a good spot; and tries a few locations before he gets a vein.”
Who loves you? I love you and
Who loves you? I love you and JPG Magazine loves you. For a limited time, if you use the KOTTKED code, you get $5 off a year’s subscription to JPG Magazine, “The Magazine of Brave New Photography”.
Photographs of postcards and miniature souvenirs held
Photographs of postcards and miniature souvenirs held in place of actual landmarks and tourist attractions. (via gulfstream)
Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space
Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a singularly talented photographer.
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