flickering pictures

Last week we dazzled you with Andrea‘s sublime boudoir photography. This week we move from the sexy and urbane to the sleek and urban. Ricky is photographer number five to add his work to the our fast-growing galleries. Check out some of the others if you haven’t already. From his bio: Ricky Leong takes pictures [...]

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Andrea is the 4th photographer to join our growing galleries, and we’re delighted to welcome her sexy sultry boudoir portraiture to flickering pictures. Andrea Hausmann is an upcoming Montreal photographer who specializes in vintage portraiture and boudoir photography. Andrea’s keen eye for detail makes for classic, intimate portrayals of beauty. She recently opened her studio [...]

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For some time now, I’ve been meaning to host several photographers’ work on flickering pictures — sort of a gallery of galleries featuring great shots from all over. My own stuff has been up for months, but I can hardly tell my apertures from my f-stops and I’m nowhere near as good as these folks. [...]

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I know I got back from Asia a month ago, but I’ve finally had a few moments to get my photos together, Photoshop them until they don’t suck, and put them up here for general consumption. Have a look see at the new listings under South Korea and Japan on the photography page. And by [...]

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From a Flickr gallery devoted to the “most interesting” photos taken by Cory Doctorow, the Canadian sci-fi novelist, Guardian columnist, public speaker, copyfighter, civil liberties campaigner and co-editor of the most linked-to blog on the Net. And I haven’t met him or anything, but he appears to be an all-around awesome guy.

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I’ve never posted an XKCD comic here before, but this one was just too good to pass up. Let it be a lesson to us all.

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The New York Times has put together a nifty interactive timeline-map highlighting how many medals each country has won in every Summer Olympics since 1896. You can click on a year to see the medal counts from a given Olympiad by country, and view the results by geographic distribution (as above) or as a straight [...]

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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 into [...]

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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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