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I am on a portrait kick these days. It’s one of the many genres of photography that I have almost no experience with, so I am looking to my Flickr comrades for inspiration. This is just a really nice set of portraits by a guy in Russia named Dmitry Medvedev. Most are outdoor, and the [...]
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I’ve been sitting on this review for a week or two. I want it to be perfect and polished, but I gotta get it out there so here it is: There are many harrowing scenes to choose from in Charles Ferguson’s 2007 documentary about the Iraq war, No End in Sight, but the one that [...]
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You must have heard the buzz by now. Expectations are rightfully high for the latest film by the quirky virtuoso duo of Joel and Ethan Coen. Blood Simple put them on the map in 1984. My recollection of Blood Simple is dim, but I know it is a dark thriller about jealousy and murder. Often [...]
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Señor Codo has a set of photos of Chicago murals. They are great works of art. Enjoy!
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Pretty funny video of CG claymation-style animals discussing what art is.
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Found a very cool video at Fresh Creation called Urban Cancer in which some creative and resourceful people play an elaborate prank on the city around them.
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The world’s biggest tech blowhard, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, was recently on Charlie Rose’s show touting the Kindle e-book thingy that we are all supposed to switch over to… Bezos had a huge, pleasant grin on his face and wide, doe eyes as he informed Rose of the sea change happening now that our country’s [...]
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Fake TTV Textures – a photoset on Flickr DLSDesigns created a bunch of textures that fake the look of a Through The Viewfinder (TTV) camera photograph. Very cool stuff. I didn’t even really know what a TTV camera was until I saw these, and I think I might just use them one day…
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This set is a series of nudes by Somilo. Somilo is a man and woman in their forties in the USA. The nudes are around-the-house type shots that appear to use natural lighting to highlight the body’s shapes. Here it is: Female
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Wow. Compelling short film about Naomi Klein‘s new book, The Shock Doctrine. It’s made by Jonás Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men. It graphically (and slickly) illustrates the central theme of the book: that shock therapy treatment is the philosophical basis of modern economic policy.
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