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yamakasa festival — fukuoka, japan

July 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Told you they’d be worth the wait. : )

More pictures and a much-belated post soon…

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Tags: dispatches from korea · photography · travel

photography afoot

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: art · housekeeping · images · photography

photo-a-day project chronicles 18 beautiful years of life and death

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: art · beautiful · do something · images · neato · photography · sad

famous airbrusher says he photoshopped dove’s “real women” big-time

May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: art · beautiful · consumer · images · media · photography · sad

a friend’s gorgeous photo gallery

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: beautiful · images · photography

an austrian p.o.w.’s adventure in wwii tibet

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

National Geographic reprints the amazing first-person account of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian soldier who escaped from a British P.O.W. camp in modern-day Pakistan and fled to Tibet, where he ended up as one of the Dalai Lama’s tutors. The article chronicles his extended stay in Lhasa, and originally ran 53 years ago.
Here’s an excerpt:

War […]

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Tags: china · dalai lama · history · photography · writing

20 amazing weather phenomena

April 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

I admit it, I like lists. List of strange things, cool objects, bizarre coincindences, you name it. Usually I spare you guys the full extent of my geekiness, but this one was too neat to pass up.
The good people at the aptly named List Universe have compiled images, descriptions and causes of some […]

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Tags: climate · curio · images · nature · photography