In August, I was away for a couple of weeks traveling through Cambodia with the husband and one of my friends from highschool. There is too much to say about this excursion right here, right now. The short version: Great food, terrible weather, awesome people, durian stinks, silk is cheap, ruins are big. I'll get around to more detail eventually.
Until then, enjoy the image above: Me, doing my best to make sure Angkor Wat stays a ruin.
For the low, low price of $10,000, Jezebel.com was able to get hold of an un-retouched photograph of Faith Hill that was--not surprisingly--modified before it appeared on the July Redbook cover. What was surprising: How heavily and needlessly extravagant the Photoshopping was.
Everyone knows about line smoothing and eye brightening. But moving hands, reducing an arm's width by half, reshaping someone's entire head?
Jezebel gets to the heart of the matter. And hilariously, too. Key quote:
3. THOSE CHEEKS: What exactly do you think she's hoarding in there? Snacks to get her through Ramadan? And boy could bitch take a little time out on that deviated septum...
This work will explore the idea that the marks on the pavement and the minutiae found in the streets can tell you where you are and provide clues for deciphering the narratives of the cultural terrain.
Photographer Robbie Cooper matches gamers with their online avatars in this weird and provocative slideshow. Yes, it's been linked everywhere for weeks. But it fascinates me and I keep coming back to it. Color me jealous.
This is me, walking back from lunch today, captured in the shiny finished of a parked car. Why can't everyday be as bright and clean and blue as today?
My friend Tony is an accomplished photographer who's been moving from traditional landscapes and portraits into more "abstract" territory recently. (I had to use quotes because my photography instructor said that a photograph, because it's a representation of the real world, can never be truly abstract. Oh, whatever.)
Call them what you will, these pics are awesome.
Artist Mark Jenkins shows off his tape babies in DC, etc. Funny, creepy, and sad--at the same time.
Still not convinced that creeping corporatism is a cancer? Read this. Then visit and take a picture.
I promised to upload one image per day on my photoblog DC Observed. Unfortunately, work got in the way of that for a while. But I just caught up, adding the pics to the days I forsook. Thank you, amazing time machine!
I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he stay also the night out. When he finally returns, I wonder where he was and what he did during his day. This brought me to the idea to equip the cat with a camera.
