At the White House event today promoting Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid, in the middle of a fencing demonstration, somebody handed Obama a motherfucking lightsaber.
There is so much awesomeness in this photo right now I think my head might explode.
(via Swampland)
September 18, 2009, 10:31am
I’m a big fan of desserts, and I personally think it takes lot of guts to become a dessert chef and dessert connoisseur. There are certainly a lot of sweet tooths out there, and I’ve found one who has just absolutely fallen in love with finding the very best desserts. Her name is Namada Metabo; with her cute glasses and SLR camera, she sets out across Japan in search of desserts.
Her blog, namabolic, documents her adventures around the urban centers of Japan like Daikanyama, Shibuya and Harajuku, which apparently is dessert central for residents and tourists alike. What I like most is that, while the blog is written in Japanese, I can still get a grasp for what she is raving about through her wonderful pictures of the dessert. Of course, I still resort to using Google Translate to get a gist of her words, but unnecessary to take in the full beauty of her pictures. Namada updates quite often, so readers can get their fair share of eye candy, so to speak.
For any of you planning on visiting Japan in the future, it would be a great idea to use Google Translate to sift through her posts for dessert shop locations. If you’re not really familiar with the names of Japanese prefectures or districts, I recommend consulting Japanese tourist booklets as a quick reference. Namada also posts links of the dessert shops she visits if it exists, which should make it easy to track down good locations to visit. Yum!
JT
July 26, 2009, 10:16am
Yasmine Chatila, Stolen Moments. The Bachelor, Wall St, Fri 11:34 PM (video)
Quite an interesting photo set.
July 03, 2009, 10:17am
Serial No. 3817131 #69, from Rachel Papo’s series on female Israeli soldiers.
I find these photography sets, whose subjects exist in such a dangerous part of the world, very fascinating. It tells you a lot about what’s going on and provides visual insight at the same time.
June 25, 2009, 10:16am
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I was admiring the beauty of this film shot (though I can’t tell whether it’s genuine or digitally manipulated) when I noticed the watermark on the bottom left corner. I absolutely despise photographers who ruin good shots with a watermark or otherwise digitally produced “signature”. As syntheticpubes points out, good photographers can let their shots take care of themselves if their style is distinct and can only be attributed to that particular person’s camera eye.
This only reaffirms my conclusion that 97% of the work on Deviant Art is garbage.
June 22, 2009, 11:06am
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Flickr Set of the Day: Previously unpublished photos of Audrey Hepburn, by Hollywood photographer Bob Willoughby.
Says Willoughby:
In the process of going over my prints recently, I realized that I have a lot of photographs that the galleries have never shown…and that I feel should be seen.
Above: “Audrey Hepburn getting into Studio car, 1953.”
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Simply incredible.](http://12.media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63ou2hetgwnuleRQao1_500.jpg)
Flickr Set of the Day: Previously unpublished photos of Audrey Hepburn, by Hollywood photographer Bob Willoughby.
Says Willoughby:
In the process of going over my prints recently, I realized that I have a lot of photographs that the galleries have never shown…and that I feel should be seen.
Above: “Audrey Hepburn getting into Studio car, 1953.”
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Simply incredible.
June 22, 2009, 8:30am
This set is called Schoolgirl Complex, and it’s absolutely ingenious. Each shot is of a model in a schoolgirl uniform; some are cute and funny, others are suggestive and bizarre. I’m fascinated because it defines something that many men fantasize about, and yet each shot isn’t necessarily sexual. Instead the images are a strange insight into the many scenes of Japanese schoolgirls and allows us (at least, the male viewers) to take in the beauty of the skirts, knee socks, bowed shirts and cute slippers in a school setting without ever seeing the face of the model. Unfortunately the photographer doesn’t publish their name on the site.
June 19, 2009, 10:15am
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Perhaps one of my favorite “complexes.”
June 16, 2009, 10:37am
