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December 15, 2007
Urban decay, pigs on mopeds, & other good photos
- Art collective Henry VIII's Wives uses elderly Glaswegians to re-enact iconic photos of the 20th century. Triiippy... My wife says she'd really like to hear the conversations between the photographer & the pensioners. ("Yeah, so there was this little girl who got burned by napalm, and we want you to play her!") [Via]
- Also in the vein of photo reinactment, check out these classic photos done via Lego. (Presumably the conversation with the Legos is shorter.) [Via]
- I'm loving the portfolio of Diane Varner; I especially like this leaf bagel. Her site talks about some of her Camera Raw & Photoshop post-processing techniques, and on PhotoshopSupport.com she discusses her work & ideas.
- I can't tell you much about it, but I like this neat panoramic timelapse image. [Via]
- Henrik Kam captures urban decay in images from Hunter's Point . His work appears in Photolucida's list of Top 50 list of photographers for 2006.
- "Sleepycity is photographically deconstructing your city." I like this nifty bit of light painting in what looks like some sci-fi set.
- If that's up your alley, see also these '70s light paintings. [Via]
- My friend Khoi just returned from Vietnam, where he captured this pig riding a moped (so to speak).
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That last one of riding pig reminded me of this one: http://www.smilefoto.ee/?showimage=575
[Poor little porkers. But you don't see me giving up ham. :-\ --J.]
The lego recreations reminded me of or indeed may have been inspired by the labour of love that is the Brick Testament, created by the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith blog.
Quite literal retelling of stories in Lego, yet somehow a bit irreverent at the same time!
From the Reverend's blog
"Join along as David disenfranchises the original inhabitants of Jerusalem, expresses his hatred for the blind and lame, impregnates many different women, and exposes himself before God. While God, for his part, demands war on the Philistines and kills a man just for touching the ark."
Reductio ad absurdum.
The timelapse panoramic shot reminds me of a very similar picture hanging in my Astronomy dept, which I think was done in the 70s. Just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun! ;-)