February 08, 2009

Gut-busting photos & more

• Puking up mud isn’t half as scary as some of the attire seen in the Tough Guy Challenge.
• Interesting structures:
  • Dig Kim Høltermand’s ghostly images of the Hyllie Water Tower. [Via]
  • Patrick Boland’s Cockatoo Island Project, images of a shipyard in Sydney Harbour [Via]
• From the NY Times:
  • One in 8 Million chronicles New York characters in photos and sound.
  • The paper features a small slideshow of Mary Ellen Mark’s work photographing on the sets of more than 100 movies. See the accompanying article for more.
  • I’m late in mentioning it, but their 2008: The Year in Photos is well worth a look.
• Funky angles:
  • Flipbac promises to let you “shoot from the hip,” adding a little extension to your camera’s LCD. [Via]
  • The Super-Secret Spy Lens is “basically a periscope that attaches your SLR’s zoom lens… you can shoot left, right, up, or down, all while appearing to shoot straight ahead.” [Via]