Archives for category: Photography
As if you didn’t know: stock photography is absolutely infamous for being the most facile and obvious photos to communicate moods, ideas, and images.
So how this charming collection of what-in-the-hell ever made it to stock libraries is truly beyond me, but thank you Buzzfeed for putting it together.
Some of my favorites from the collection:
via Tori Main
Recently the Census bureau released the latest populations of cities across America. Detroit’s rapidly declining population clocked in at 713,777. A staggering drop from their boomtime in 1950, when the population was a thriving 1.8 million.
Which means there is enough space in Detroit to fit two cities. Fifty percent of the landscape is in decay. I can’t imagine what that must be like, walking around a metropolis when half of it is dead and empty.
French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decaying buildings of an American city in decline. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“ was published in December 2010.
A few choice pieces from their book that I grabbed from The Denver Post. My particular favorite being the Dali-esque melting clock.
I will say that this current state-of-being really presents a unique filming location for a city that could use the funds. “The Walking Dead”? Are you guys listening?
via Mindy McCutchen
“Dali Atomicus” – taken by photographer Phillipe Halsman in 1948. You know what that means…all of this happened in-camera. It took Halsman over 5 hours with 3 assistants throwing cats and another throwing water…
This one is a keeper, no question.
Pretty extraordinary picture of Dubai.
Can you imagine being at one of those windows, just above the cloud line, looking across a field of other floating skyscraper-islands piercing through the clouds?
via Erik Neilsen, who proudly admits he had Boz Bosworth hairstripes back in the day.
I stumbled on a gorgeous website called Nerd Boyfriend. Brilliant in concept, execution, and style.
Swoon-worthy vintage photos of men in their yesteryear prime decked out in impossibly, but perennially cool clothes. Underneath each shot are photo links of the modern equivalent of some of the items that take you right to the online store. And that’s it. No commentary, no headlines, no nothing to detract from the essence of what it is – delicious eye candy with impeccable style.
What a great shopping experience. Ladies, send your man the link and let him know: Baby, if it’s cool enough for Cassavettes in the 70s or Kinski in the 60s, it’s cool enough for you. Gentlemen, it’s pretty much a museum tour of Hot Damn! Through The Ages.
Great Flickr set from someone who’s adopted an Imperial AT-AT as a pet.
click on the image to be taken to the set.
