Mar/100
William Eggleston.
Billy Eggleston is a tough photographer to discuss, mostly because I wouldn’t know where to begin, or stop for that matter. I mean, I have loads of awe for his vision and his pursuit of it, because in so many ways, he is the father of modern fine-art photography. He brought the colour to fine art photography, the irony, and the vernacular, and pretty much anything you see in colour hanging in art galleries today or marked up in the portfolios and facebook albums of the amatuers and professionals alike.
I feel a certain relationship to his photographs, they're the type of photographs that when once viewed, plague your everyday visions. You seem to tell yourself that everything you see should be photographed. His photos remind us of an excited kind of nostalgia. Eggleston once commented on the fact that everything around him was so ugly, to which his friend responded "Well, take photos of the ugly stuff then." Indeed, it can be seen that what he seemed to do was not just take photos of the ugly and mundane but transform them into beauty. The ordinary is gorgeous.
Jan/102
Rare photos of the cool.
Found a website that rivals The Impossible Cool. Nothing better than perusing photos of the coolest people eva!
Nov/091
Shooting your job.
...As this project progressed and I slowly learned my craft, I became increasingly fascinated with other photographers who had been in a similar situation, those who had found themselves recording their own jobs...
Between 2005-2007, London investment bank worker Hin Chua began practicing his new hobby by photographing his own workplace. Here he shows off his own stuff and the work of others who did the same. [Via Metafilter]
Oct/092
Walking with the zombies.
Yesterday's Zombie Walk was awesome. Check out my photos from the event here.
Oct/092
Hey baby, wanna take a ride on Spock’s starship?
Add your caption in the comments. (Via Wil Weaton.)
Sep/092
Suspicious white van.
I caught this van sitting outside of my apartment. By the time I returned to fix the URL, t'was gone.
Sep/091
Painting with light in High Park.
Last night, I followed w0rd contributors Liam and Evo, and a man called Grimes, into High Park for some late-night lightpainting. Check out our night's work here.
Sep/095
Look dorky as the leader of the free world, easy it is.
Please caption this photo. Come on.
PH0T0ADAY.
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