Time Lapse Video of Kiel Johnson’s Cardboard Sculpture of a Twin Lens Reflex Camera made strictly from cardboard, hot glue, and tape. Later they made the sculpture into a pinhole camera and actually took photos with it.
Portrait of a Koi Breeder
Joseph Zuritsky: Koi Breeder, by Michael Cogliantry
Look, a sailboat!
I love how our studio-mate Chesley Andrews keeps finding fresh ways of documenting the marine world outside our studio. Her latest picture on EveryDayEastRiver made me smile. And yes, our studio view is pretty darn amazing. Lucky us!
Oldest Living Things
Photographer Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Sussman, who is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, is endeavoring to raise funds for an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula to photograph 5,000-year-old moss this winter. She is hosting an Antarctic Expedition Benefit Party tonight at the fabulous Galapagos Space in DUMBO.
If you’re into Music, Trapeze, Dance Performances, free Vodka, Haircuts and free Grimaldi’s Pizza, you should venture to Galapagos tonight!
Use Discount Code FRNDS for $10 off on smarttix.com or at the door!
Subway Yearbook Photos
Here’s another awesome Improv Everywhere Mission: They installed a photography studio on a random subway car. They claimed that the MTA had hired them to take photos of every single person who rides the subway and that they’d be producing a yearbook at the end of the year. Most people were happy to pose for them, and the resulting photos show just how diverse New York subway riders can be. Enjoy the video first and then check out the mission report and photos .
I love NYC. I love Improv Everywhere.
cortex
Cortex is Xavier Encinas Studio’s Personal Visual Library. Wonderfully inspiring. Note to self: Need to ‘look’ and take pictures again.
Spaghetti and Meatballs
David Sykes is continuing his food series. His latest: Spaghetti Hoops. (the cheese is gym socks and towels) There are rumors he might do a limited run of prints. Yay!
(thank you jon)
Website Finger Hold
Jason’s Website Finger Hold Flickr post made me laugh. This is the de facto way designers present posters. Luckily, it looks just as silly to do it with a website: Website Finger Hold by Jason Santa Maria.
Objects In My House
YES! Objects in my house made me laugh out loud! What an awesome site. Thumbs up to the creator Dylan Chandler. Thank you for the smile!
(thank you max for this awesome submission!)
Polaroid Notes
These Polaroid-inspired notecards are made to look like the real thing! Using dreamy Polaroid images, the set comes with 20 different notecards and includes envelopes. Lovely.
ceramic polaroid
A ghost of cameras past: A chunky yet ethereal representation of the classic polaroid. Honor its humble form, use it as a paperweight or give it to your favorite photographer as a trophy. Ceramic Polaroid.
Squirrel in Focus
This made me laugh:
Melissa Brandts wasn’t trying to take a photo of this ground squirrel at Banff National Park. She’d set up the camera’s timer so that she’d have a nice picture of herself and her husband, with spectacular Lake Minnewanka in the background. She hadn’t counted on this ground squirrel hogging the foreground.Photo by Melissa Brandt, from the Your Shot Daily Dozen at National Geographic magazine
(via neatorama/via chrisglass)
Last Suppers
Last Suppers, by James Reynolds, is a series of photographs documenting former Death Row prisoners’ requests for their last meal before execution.
Kalina Magazine
Stunning Spread in the third issue of Kalina Magazine.
Sometimes…
… Happiness is Hiding in Plain Sight. So true. Make sure to view it larger.
Invading the Vintage
This flickr set called Invading The Vintage by Franco Brambilla made me laugh.
(thank you @Fangohr.)
SIGNS by Pentagram
Pentagram Papers 39 features signs from the personal collection of author and legendary Texas musician Joe Ely, photographed by Randal Ford, and a series of large format portraits of homeless people by Austin photographer Michael O’Brien. Ely wrote the foreword.
Simply moving.
Light Breakfast
This Light Breakfast by David Sykes made me chuckle. No photoshoppery, all done in one single shot. Wonderful!
(thank you jon)