Paradise Parking
29.02.2012
Paradise Parking is a photographic series by Paris-based photographer Peter Lippmann. The photos capture abandoned cars in a state of complete decay as each is gradually consumed by nature.
Via Colossal
Shrink Wrap
23.02.2012
Very cool but also very disturbing images of shrink-wrapped people by a Japanese artist known as Photographer Hal.
Via Bumbumbum
Abandoned Hoops
20.02.2012
My blog readers know that I love art and photography, but if any of you follow me on twitter, you've probably picked up that I'm also very obsessed with basketball. Austin-based photographer Casey Dunn's series, Hoop Dreams, feeds right into these two loves of mine, as he visits the sites of abandoned hoops and rims on a journey across the American landscape. Dunn writes:
"When I was eight years old my dad came home with a fiber glass basketball goal and put it up in our backyard. After a couple of hours of grunting and swearing he tossed me a ball and said “shoot with your wrist” and walked inside. I spent hundreds of hours out there over the next ten years avoiding family functions and shooting hoops on that rim. As I started to travel a bit more, I started to notice more and more back yard goals that had fallen into disrepair the same way my childhood rim had. I loved the idea that some other kid had spent countless hours dreaming while shooting baskets the same way I did. This series is a collection of their basketball goals."
"When I was eight years old my dad came home with a fiber glass basketball goal and put it up in our backyard. After a couple of hours of grunting and swearing he tossed me a ball and said “shoot with your wrist” and walked inside. I spent hundreds of hours out there over the next ten years avoiding family functions and shooting hoops on that rim. As I started to travel a bit more, I started to notice more and more back yard goals that had fallen into disrepair the same way my childhood rim had. I loved the idea that some other kid had spent countless hours dreaming while shooting baskets the same way I did. This series is a collection of their basketball goals."
Via Feature Shoot
Underwater Dogs
13.02.2012
Some great underwater photos of dogs mid-grab of their favourite toys, looking like wild prehistoric beasts. This reaffirms why I love dogs so much... they're fucking nuts.
The series was taken by Los Angeles/ Chicago based pet photographer Seth Casteel.
Ralph Gibson
03.02.2012
I've seen many of these beautiful Dada-esque photos before but never realised it was the work of one man. If anyone needs me, I'll be lost in the amazing archives over at www.ralphgibson.com.
Via Melt
This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids
18.01.2012
I absolutely love this project! All words and images below are via Colossal.
"Last December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color."
Alex Kisilevich
12.01.2012
I love this strange series of photographs by Toronto artist Alex Kisilevich. Dark and banal, but oddly funny, I'm looking forward to seeing more work from Kisilevich.
Tree, Line
21.12.2011
I really love this project by site specific artist Zander Olsen...
‘This is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest. These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales,involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.’
National Geographic Photo Contest 2011
22.11.2011
The deadline for entries for this year's National Geographic Photo Contest is November 30, so if you're a budding photographer with a few gems in your portfolio it's time to submit them. Photographers of all skill levels (last year more than 16,000 images submitted by photographers from 130 countries) enter photographs in three categories: Nature, People and Places. Get onto it. Below are some of my favourite submissions so far. (via boston.com)
