In Panama where people’s finances are limited, these men spent what little they have to decorate their bicycles as a representation of their personality. José Castrellón travelled around trying to find several of them and produced this series he calls “Priti Baiks“. See more after the jump.
Mirror self-portraits are sort of weird, but are way weirder when you swap out the phone for a pop-tart. The Self Pop Tart Tumblr is a testament to that.
To inspire a discussion about the smoking ban in Belgium, photographer Frieke Janssens, produced this portrait series of different prototypical smokers depicted by children. She was inspired after seeing the video of the Indonesian baby who was hooked on smoking. She was struck by the American reaction of being repulsed, compared to the overall Indonesian reaction of considering it normal. See the rest after the jump. Apparently the cigarettes were some sort of “dummy” cigarette, so keep those pitchforks stowed away.
A few weeks back I was asked by The Daily to cover the filming of an episode of Toddlers & Tiaras where one of their writers would be embedded as a guest judge. It was an interesting experience to say the least. The story was published today and is definitely worth a read and also includes a . It’s cheeky and in general follows the same sentiment I had towards the whole experience. The author, Rich Juzwiak, has the longer unedited version on his blog as well. My take on it is here. After the jump are some of the images that didn’t run in the final version.
What do you think about child beauty pageants and the T.V. show?
Our very own Jay B Sauceda was asked recently by the curatorial board of Pecha Kucha to speak about his work for the next Pecha Kucha Night. It’ll be taking place next Thursday, November 17th, at 916 Springdale, which is the old Goodwill Warehouse on the east side. It starts at 8:20, but as usual it’ll be a packed out so get there early. Other presenters include Bale Creek Allen, Will Hornaday, Robert Craft, Andrew Yates, and Mike Wolf.
Let’s all have a meat machine dance party!
Shredder wants you for the foot.
Whoa, some weird cows.
Awesome People Hanging Out Together.
Great short on Winterhouse.
All it took was 6.24 seconds.
America looks like a shark or something.
Amazing Iron & Wine poster by Landland.
You missed the top. “Oh ah!“
Those fine fellas over at The Post Family have a fresh new redesign!
I’m a pretty big fan of this beautiful typeface called Helmut.
We’re getting closer and closer to terminator days.
No one wants to be that bored couple.
You don’t need more closet space. You just need Magritte Hangers.
What can I say? I’m a glass half full kinda guy.
The White House flickr stream is pretty neat.
It’s been a long time since someone has actually yelled, “stop the presses!”.
Lamebook.com has officially released an iPhone App.
I used to have an airedale, he couldn’t do this.
The world’s smallest horse, no you can’t ride it.
Please let this be the new Lil Wayne cover.
Connecting science and art.
PUBLIC SCHOOL is a group of creative folk working on the east side of Austin. 2 photographers and 5 graphic designers doing our best to show you everyone's best.
