flickering pictures

Brazilians, Italians and Brits all claim to be the world’s biggest sports fans, but flag-waving and beer-swilling is lightweight stuff compared to this guy’s latest stunt. Looking to show off his patriotism and his excitement for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, a Chinese man named Wei Sheng did the natural thing and jabbed 2008 pushpins […]

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That beast up there is Tokyo’s subway map (click the map for a larger image), and it scares the bejeesus out of me. According to Infoplease, it provides 2.6 billion rides each year, and is over 281km long.
Tokyo’s subway is by no means the longest though — the Beijing network, pictured below, is set […]

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Now that the posting part of the site is up and running smoothly, I should have some time over the next while to work on the photography pages. I’m working with some friends to showcase their work in a sort of gallery of galleries, and it’s starting to come together — so far we’ve got […]

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I see a lot of neat stuff on the Web, but this really hit me.
The brilliant gang at Mental Floss somehow discovered an anonymous beta site featuring 6,000 scanned polaroids — one taken each day from March 31, 1979 to October 25, 1997. Some impressive detective work by the Mental Floss crew turned up […]

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Dove’s much-ballyhooed “Real Beauty” advertising campaign makes a point of showcasing “real women” — love handles and all — as opposed to the scrawny models and twenty-somethings that typically prance around in beauty product ads. As it turns out, the Dove models may not be so real after all.
The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins recently […]

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Look into my eyes and say no by ~Fatts on deviantART

A good friend of mine is a photographer, globetrotter, modeling agent and quite possibly the only Palestinian-Canadian in Beijing. The lady above is of one of his clients — a Russian model named Tatiana Gritsayenko. Click here for a SFW gallery of his […]

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Abe Lincoln notwithstanding, the U.S. five-dollar bill is looking just a little bit more Canadian these days, with a brand new splash of purple to help visually-impaired people distinguish between denominations. It includes new watermarks and an “enhanced security thread,” and the new colour is apparently also meant to foil counterfeiters who’ve run out […]

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