flickering pictures

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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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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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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Just what the title says. I’m not sure why, but these photos kinda make me just a little sad.
Via The Presurfer.

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Vanishing Point features photos and essays by Canada’s urban explorers, who trek through everything from Montreal’s sewers and Toronto’s underground tunnels to a decommissioned Niagara Falls power station and the Hamilton drains.

There’s no way this is legal, and there are about a million things I’d rather be doing on a Sunday afternoon than spelunking in […]

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One of my favourite photos from India - a low-angle shot of a weathered wooden obelisk. It sits in front of the Japanese temple in the Buddhist town of Sarnath. Click the image for a larger version, or here for the Flickr album.

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The main bulk of my pictures from India are now loaded onto Flickr. Have a look if you like.
And trust me, you don’t want to see this kid’s crane technique.

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