Photography
Tiny Awesome Car
I was born in the land of Big. Big cars. Big muscles. Big breasts. Big country stretching from sea to shining sea. Big paycheck with which to buy a Big piece of meat from a Big cow, cooked on a Big open grill and served on a great Big plate. Big army with Big guns [...]
Venezia
Venice appears to float atop an impossibly vast lagoon, drenched in salty air and gelato. The city is a maze of cobblestone corridors and foot bridges, utterly unnavigable in the late evening after the crowds have returned to their hotel rooms and the storefronts are secured with heavy metal shutters.
On the banks of the [...]
Polaroid of That Day
Jamie Livingston, filmmaker, took a Polaroid photograph every day for eighteen years until he inevitably died. His collection of photos is published against a sparse black background on a site called Some Photos of That Day. There are no captions, no biography or explanation, just a collection of thousands of sequentially dated moments in time. [...]
Hobos
The Life of American Vagabonds is a short collection of photos that depicts a group of young people living outside of the borders of society and off of its discards. The portraits are gripping.
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Tag Galaxy – Explore Photostreams
Tag Galaxy provide a rich interface to Flickr photostreams. Type a photo attribute such as “beach” and Tag Galaxy returns all photos from Flickr tagged with the word “beach” along with frequently related tags such as “island”, “water”, and “sunset”. The results are represented as planets orbiting in a microcosm of outer space. Planet sizes [...]
A Walk in the Woods
The city of Prague ends abruptly on a wooden hillside about a mile north of here. Strangely, in this city without suburban sprawl, it is the same distance to the edge of town as it is to the center. The storied center of Prague is where the tourist herd snakes its way though the narrow [...]
Recreate
His name is Yeondoo Jung, and among many other works, he creates vibrant photo recreations of children’s drawings. His online gallery has several whimsical examples worth exploring. My second favorite photo in the series depicts a wizard flying on a broomstick next to a display case of cupcakes and a over-sized flower in the [...]
Mustache Champions
The World Beard and Mustache Championships will be held May 23, 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The 2007 competition saw “…upstart Beard Team USA [mounting] a serious challenge to the always dominant Germans, taking first in five categories.”
I do not consider myself a zealous patriot, but I think I’m going to be rooting for Beard [...]
Prague: City of Bridges
In my ongoing series of Prague photos, I offer this view of the Vltava River with the many bridges that cross from the old city center (Staro Mestska) to Minor Town (Mala Strana). The most famous is Charles Bridge (Karlov Most) pictured center which is a carnival of tourists, souvenir merchants, portrait artists, and musicians. [...]
Candy Trees
Prague is a city of parks, most famous for the stone facades of its storied past, but the real gem of this city is its centuries old commitment to conservation. The vast green spaces segmenting the city are omitted from travel books and destination guides, but make Prague one of the most livable cities in [...]
