After Dolce & Gabbana decided to pull one of their recent ads, Mike Davidson tries to pinpoint precisely what elements make it offensive. Setting aside the inevitable offended reaction, there are some pretty good comments on the whole visual rhetoric. I think it’s interesting that you can change the whole tone of the work by adjusting or tweaking a few parts of the whole.
Category: photos
Ways of Working is a cool set of lessons and musings on street photography.
Lots and lots of maps of the brain. Kind of gross, all lumpy and pale.
The Cassini spacecraft has sent back some new images of Saturn. There’s a cool time-lapse video of making an orbit around the rings, with the moons zipping by in the background.
Square America is a gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography. I like the photos of people asleep, and the defacings are kind of interesting, too.
Photos of vending machines in Japan. Newspapers, underwear, beetles, fried foods. Oh, and drinks.
Mental note: I need to check out Art House in Decatur. In the meanwhile, I think I’ll sign up for this Million Little Pictures interactive exhibit thing they’re doing: “We’re sending out disposable cameras to hundreds of people and then we’re going to plaster our walls with the photos.”
This is a cool set of photos of sunset on Uluru, aka Ayer’s Rock.
There’s a Wikipedia article that lists where you can find images in the public domain.
Jonathan Ley hiked across Iceland last year, and as usual has shared some awesome photos. I am a big fan of his narrative of his Continental Divide Trail thru-hike; I love how he placed thumbnails of annotated photos in the relevant location within the text (for example).
Paul is going off the Flickr Grid: “My inner geek isn’t completely thrilled with my move to Flickr… Part of me thinks that all of the awesome stuff that Flickr enables (community, conversation, collaboration, cataloging, aggregation, and so much more) should be done in a distributed way across the Web.” He’s doing a great job of documenting the whole techie side of the process.
These three photos for the Wonderbra campaign over in Europe earned the top Epica Awards for fashion print materials. And rightly so. The lighting alone is amazing. Great expressions. [via… somewhere i can’t recall…]
“The deal is simple. Sit in front of the camera, and shake your head from side to side with a loose face. Take the picture when your head is at the far side of either side, and voila: You’ve been Ghost Punched.” See also shake face.
The photos in 50 people see are images made from combining 50 photos with the same Flickr tag. Here’s the mashup of 50 photos tagged with eye, soup, and each of the four seasons.
There’s a Flickr group for headcrushing photos.
Interesting commentary on photo essays that appear on government websites.
Mark Larson 
