Category: Photo

…what Blogger is to writing. That is, a handy service that takes all the pain out of posting photos online.
Gearing up for my trip to Taiwan, I want to make sure I can post my adventures when possible, so I looked into Flickr. It was a good sign of course, that Grand Poobah Phil Gyford had decided to use it, so I took the plunge last night. With a little tweakin’, I have most of the services up and running, including this “badge” in the top right corner, and the ability to email photos to my blog, which will be coming in handy soon enough.

From Metafilter comes this very cool link to NIGHT Windows, a collection of night photography of the sci-fi metropolis of Tokyo. If you have the right sort of cool phone, you can upload some of these to be your bg photo. I…don’t have a cool phone.

Some photographers just have that gift of making you see something with new eyes. Peter Funch is one of those guys.

Frank Jump photographs fading ads seen on the sides of buildings in NYC. Some of these ads are all we have left of that time as buildings get torn down, or the lots in the front of them get built up. Fading Ad Campaign
By way of Creative Generalist

Middle-aged nude photographer bares himself, too. While this is not safe for work, or lunch, I find Terry Donovan’s self-portraits quite brave, if not hilarious. I certainly wouldn’t “go there.”
People! They’re just naked!

MidbrowArt Model Vs Photographer
The Model Vs. Photographer series was created during a period of modest desperation. I had nobody available who was willing to model, but I wanted to keep moving ahead with cranking out images. While sitting around pondering this, I was struck by the idea that it would be hilarious if I would mimic the poses of models I had shot previously. This idea caught hold because of three things.
First, I really thought that the shots would be funny. Second, it was about the only truly creative idea I had ever had. While I’ve often seen photographer do nude self portraits, I had never seen a male photographer deliberately adopt the same poses as the females that he had shot before. Third, what better way to blunt the criticism that most nude art degrades women? I’m saying that I’m perfectly willing to do anything that I ask my models to do.? And I really think that the more feminine the pose, the funnier the shots become. So, in a serious light, that begs the viewer to ask “why?” But, forget the “why”, these are meant to be fun. Have a laugh at my e35ense. I welcome the “yuks”.

By way of Fleshbot

This is a fascinating photo-journey into the heart of Chernobyl Dead Zone taken by the 25-year-old Elena. Remember folks, this stuff could happen here (we have the wonderful “Diablo Canyon” plant only 70 minutes north of us).

You are looking at the first photo taken with my new Canon Powershot A70. We got a little bit of cash during the holidays, so we finally got a camera after using the low-rez photos on my DV camera using the memory card. It was good in a pinch, but it was still a pinch.
Much online research and price-checking led me to choose the Canon and get it for $269 (list is $299) without tax and with free shipping. Thanks, www.mysimon.com! The online shop that had that deal was Willoughbys out of New York. I also bought a 256mb card from B&H for $50 something to replace the paltry 16mb card that ships with the camera.
Okay, so it’s not much of a photo, but it’s the first one I took. Rather flowers than a messy apartment…
This came just in time. Jessica’s mother, aunt, and two of her sisters are coming tomorrow for a two-week stay. Expect some blogging to come, as we are going to Phoenix and Vegas.
Yep…

I found these photos of Barbie dolls to be creepy, surreal, and very satisfying. I know nothing about this photographer, but I’d like to see more.
Photographs by Gabrielle de Montmollin

A simple idea really: a series of still photos from the same location, shot in a minimal time frame, stitched together randomly by Flash. What results is a unnerving display of time eating itself, people’s facial and body language coming unstuck from its original meaning and gaining new ones. More, please. (update: there is more.)
Stop Motion Studies – Series 2
From the web site:

All imagery was shot in London, England between October 12 and October 15, 2002. The camera used was a Canon PowerShot A40 — a consumer grade still camera capable of taking roughly 64 low-resolution images per minute. The photos were then brought into Flash MX to be programmatically sequenced and formatted for the Web. There has been no cropping or retouching applied to the images.

By way of Boing Boing