For the masses....

I don't know who this (wo)man is. I don't know where this photo was taken, and I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but this is now the background on my computer, and I would be a total asshole not to share it.



Fuck the haters!!

Relative humility...Max, the cat

My cat, Max, is a badass. He detached his retina in a street fight, real talk, so he had to get his eye removed.


Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Boone

Russian pride

I caught a Semyon Faibisovich show at my school's art museum (Zimmerli Art Museum) not too long ago. I thought his work was whatever, but I was curious enough to learn more about him.


Soldiers (from Train Station series), 1989, Semyon Faibisovich

Turns out he likes to focus on the mundane tasks that we all do every day (riding the bus to work, waiting for a doctor's appointment, eating breakfast, and all that jazz), which is something I think about a lot, so after reading that, I interpreted his art a whole lot differently.

For years, Faibisovich, who graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, worked in design offices while he tried to establish himself as an independent artist.

And he certainly did. One of his pieces, an original painting commissioned by TIME magazine for one of their covers in 1989, sold for $120,000 on Ebay this past April.


Beauty (from the Cycle workers festive march), 1988, Semyon Faibisovich

The jury at the Moscow Architectural Institute said his work, "[combines] astute social criticism with a subtle and sophisticated visual poetry. The influence of [Faibisovich's] architectural education can be readily felt in his meticulously conceived paintings and series, which often subject a disquieting urban landscape to the gentle irony of a wise observer of Russian society."

Photos courtesy of artnet.com

Proof that camera phones CAN take great pictures

courtesy of Kim Images

Shot with a 1.3 megapixel camera on a Motorola Razr, photo wanderer Jae-Han Kim shows us how it's done on a camera phone.

I'm usually opposed to gadgets on a phone not for communicative purposes, but I went to the Apple Store the other day and played on the iPhone. Now I understand.

I'm trying to persuade Kim to blow up some of his camera phone photos (he has many, but he will only let me post one) and show them. We'll see what happens. Though I'm sure it's already been done.

This picture was taken outside our building, the one we are currently moving out of :-(

THE HORROR!!!

courtesy of joshuahoffine.com

"I believe that the horror story is ultimately concerned with the imminence and randomness of death, and the implication that there is no certainty to existence. The experience of horror resides in this confrontation with uncertainty. Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that the monsters are all around us."

-Joshua Hoffine

Check out his Web site because this is just one of many photographs like this.