Hand Painted

Not sure about the exact origin of these photographs (who took them and who painted the hands), but they're quite amazing to look at. I wonder if that paint is sweat-proof. Lots more here.



Via NotCot.org.

This Is Your Breakfast

Photographer John Huck has taken pictures of people and coupled them up with pictures of what they had for breakfast that morning. And then he posted them on his site. That's it! Not sure exactly what part of that is compelling but I did find it engaging enough to click through every one of them so there's got to be something there. Anyone else find this interesting?



Via Kottke.org.

Pulp Photo

Thomas Allen is a photographer with a wacky knack for cutting up, folding and positioning the covers of vintage paperbacks to create these really neat, mini self-contained pulp fiction scenes. And then he takes pictures of them. And then he exhibited those pictures at the Foley Gallery. And then he got a book deal, put all his photographs together and came out with Uncovered. So crazy! I live (and blog) for this kind of thing. Wee!




Via Notcot.org.

You Are Wasteful

Running the Numbers is a great photo series feature in The Morning News by photographer-cum-anti-mass-consumption-activist Chris Jordan. Jordan attempts to capture the reality of American mass consumption by creating visual expressions of statistics. He hopes that seeing the cumulative effect of each individual’s actions will shock people out of complacency. So I’m doing my part by passing on the message. What are you doing about it, huh? Huh?


Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the U.S. every 30 seconds.


Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the U.S. every five seconds.

Via BoingBoing.

Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss Can't Be Ugly

According to his website, Alain Delorme is a French photographer of a new school of artists that use “the computing tool for the ends of mutation and hybridization of bodies.” Man, I gotta get me one them computing tools! His newest series of photographs, Little Dolls, is meant to be a scathing criticism of Western (particularly American) stereotypes of female beauty. The main subjects of Delorme’s criticism seem to be young girls’ beauty pageants and Barbie. So he grabbed a bunch of little girls (well he probably didn’t just grab them off the street or anything like that. I mean, I’m pretty sure he held like auditions and stuff. Don’t go spreading any rumors now), dressed them up, painted their faces all pretty (read: creepy)-like sat them down in front of various baked goods and snapped photos of them which he then proceeded to “mutate” and “hybridize” with his fancy “computing tool”. The result is this:


Which totally reminds me of those terrifying little girls from the beauty pageant in Little Miss Sunshine, non?

The Layman's Doppelganger

Hello out there. Is anyone even still reading this thing? Well just in case you are I thought you'd be interested to know that Canadian photographer François Brunelle has taken it upon himself to take pictures of people and their doppelgangers. He calls the project I'm Not A Look-Alike! The people pictured below are not related, they are simply strangers that have found their pseudotwins. People who want to participate in Brunnelle's project submit their information on his site and he dresses them in identical clothes, makes them touch each other in a slightly uncomfortable way and photographs the result.




Via enRoute Magazine and Farpas & Bitates.