These road trip photographs by ck/ck are phenomenal. He took them over the course of 66 day trip across the U.S. and in the process created an amazing body of work. Across America is a wonderful collection of Americana and American landscapes as viewed from a European’s perspective.
UPDATE: Apparently we already posted this. Consider this a reminder.
It may be old news to you, but older CRT TV’s used a beam of electrons to create the image on the screen. That beam built the image repeatedly from top to bottom until you turned it off. When you turned it off, that process slowed until it stopped, hence the weird patterns you saw when you turned it off.
Stephan Tillmans decided to photograph that shutdown process as the beams fade away to black. These beautiful abstract images were taken just as the old CRT Televisions were turned off. See the rest on his site.
The term “bureaucrats” gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but what do they look like? What do they do and how much are they getting paid to do it? Jan Banning‘s “Bureaucratics” project tackles these questions by cataloging bureaucrats from around the world. Some are tax collectors, license issuers, Texas Rangers and everything in between. He photographed them sitting in their respective offices or workplaces and the differences are stunning.
During my trip to Dallas this past weekend, my good friend told me about a few new photographs that he had purchased from New York based artist Sze Tsung Leong. I took the time this morning to dig into his work and I am really glad that I did. Leong’s series of horizons were easily my favorite.
“Horizons are an international collection of images of natural terrains and urban landscapes that considers the relationships between far and near, foreign and familiar”
I pulled a few of my favorites from the series, but check out the other two series presented on his site. All very complex work presented in a simple fashion.
I’m going crazy over these archival portraits of criminals in Sydney, Australia. They were taken between 1912-1948 and are part of the archives of the Sydney Police. I’m not sure if it was standard to shoot booking portraits like this at that time or not, but they remind me of another series from back in the day called Crooks Like Us that I posted about before. Whatever the case, I think the most jarring aspect of the photographs is how well dressed everyone is for being criminals. Oh the times they are a changing…
Let’s jump rope!
The internet, it’s open.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
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