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I know we post cosplay photos from the San Diego Comic Con every year, but while it may be the biggest comic book convention, it’s far from the only one. A few weeks ago, Boston held their yearly convention and the costumes are utterly delightful as you can see in this great gallery over on Geeks Are Sexy.
This cat has a serious love-hate relationship with his owners. One minute they’re petting his belly and feeding him cans of Fancy Feast and the next they’re shaving his fur to make him look like a mock Stegosaurus.
Clearly he had someone take this photo for him as a cry for help, so it should be turned over to the ASPCA immediately!
Kiddies-this is what catnip addiction can lead to, so keep your fur clean and just say no!
Back in 2007, we posted a photograph that Marcy Light took of her son Daniel doing a one-fingered handstand at Four Corners. There was a spirited discussion on how the picture was taken, and we even posted one blogger’s theory. Now we have the definitive answer. Marcy posted the procedure at her blog, (Don’t Be) Too Timid and Squeamish. Link -Thanks, Marcy!
At last weekend’s Tokyo Hotaru festival, 100,000 little balls with LEDs inside floated down the Sumida River. From a distance, they look like a blur on the river. Close up, they look like fireflies dancing on the surface of the water. You can view more pictures at the link.
Link -via Colossal | Photo: Tokyo-Hotaru
A tender mother-child moment, brought to you by the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. This picture was taken at Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia. The contest is open for entries until June 28, or even later with an additional fee, but oy, look at the competition! Link -Thanks, Marilyn!
(Image credit: miranda rachellina)
Molly Wood of Charlottesville, Virginia turned 111 years old last month. Her family gathered for the occasion, including her daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, great-great-granddaughter, and even her great-great-great-granddaughter, who was only a few weeks old. It was a unique opportunity to see six generations of direct descendants together. Link
See more pictures here. Link
(Image credit: Christian DeBaun)
A group of high school students in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, were decked out for the prom last Saturday night. They headed to Lac La Belle and posed for group pictures on the lake’s pier. Then the pier collapsed. The quick-thinking photographer kept shooting, resulting in an unforgettable sequence of pictures. The wet teenagers, attempting to save the occasion, ran so many hairdryers -plus a clothes dryer- in one home that they blew a breaker, but managed to make it to the prom. Link (with video) -via Arbroath
Monkeon wondered what if record labels, instead of hiring artists and photographers and making expensive concept covers for record albums, had just entered the album title into the search field on a stock photo service. It would have saved time and money, and since he went ahead and tried it himself, the covers would have been just as eye-catching! Of course, when many of these albums were produced, such service wasn’t available. But you can see a dozen examples of how it would have worked at his site. Link -via b3ta
Antonio De Rosa of ADR Studio has got an interesting idea of how Instagram can spend their billion dollars from Facebook: create a real Instagram camera. Behold, the Instagram Socialmatic Camera!Link - via Wanken
Hoth is a beautiful, but inhospitable land. In fact, it’s so rough that even when shot in Lego version, it still seems terrible rather than silly -with the exception of those sweet pictures of Darth and the storm troopers skiing.
Polaroid co-founder Edwin H. Land was born on May 7, 1909. In honor of his birthday, LIFE magazine has a tribute to his most popular invention, the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera. Introduced in 1972, everyone wanted the “magic camera” that developed photos all by itself -no need to count the seconds and pull the film apart, as with earlier Polaroids. And the chemicals didn’t leak. You could even watch the picture fade into view! Shown here is Edwin Land himself taking a picture with his SX-70. Link
(Image credit: Co Rentmeester—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Ridley Scott’s prequel Prometheus comes out next month, so prepare yourself by revisiting the original Alien movies. Or maybe just the first couple of them. Go look at a collection of photographs taken on the set of the first film -and you’ll get to see the actor who is inside this Alien Queen costume. Link
Move over, Instagram! There's a new app that makes your photos look like they were taken by Nintendo Gameboy (ah, those were the good ol' days!). Behold, 1-Bit Camera: Link - via PetaPixel
Photo: Anja Hitzenberger
If a little advertisement is good for business, then A LOT of it should be fantastic, right? During her two-month residency in Beijing, China, photographer Anja Hitzenberger captured the intense competition between stalls in a food court:
This series, shot in a temporary food court set up inside Beijing’s Olympic Park, reveals a visually and viscerally overloaded fast-food culture that may make some mouths water and other bellies ache. Hitzenberger concentrates on the saturated visual displays of the food stalls and the way the environment contrasts with the boredom of the workers, offering an insight into some of the contradictions in contemporary Chinese culture.
Folks, this is what happened when you have an arms race in advertising: Link - via Creative Roots
In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won his only Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Old Man and the Sea, which was published in its entirety in LIFE magazine in September of 1952. The magazine sent photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt to Cuba to take pictures of Hemingway for the issue.
“He was,” Eisenstaedt once said of Hemingway, “the most difficult person I ever photographed.” Coming from a man who was a professional photographer across seven decades — someone who photographed presidents, emperors, socially awkward scientists, testy athletes, egomaniac actors, insecure actresses and once, famously, a scowling and goblin-like Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels — coming from Eisenstaedt, that bald assertion about Hemingway is striking, and sadly revealing. And it’s especially sad in light of the effort that Eisenstaedt evidently put into trying to like Hemingway.
Sixty years later, LIFE has posted a gallery of the photographs Eisenstaedt took on that mission, many which have never been published before. Link
(Image credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt)
Anime girls may look cute in the cartoons, with their big, bright eyes and pinched features, but translating them to real life makes them just plain creepy.
If you see a girl that looks like this coming your way, eyes wide open and mouth agape, you’d better make a break for it because she may be after your soul!
Photographer Chris Scarborough apparently likes the look of the anime ladies, so he’s created an entire series of manipulated photos showing what they might look like in real life. All I can say about this series is AAAAGGGGHHHH!!
Link –via Geek Tyrant
No, that’s not a scene from the best role playing game of 2011, it’s actually a photo of an auroral storm over Arctic Henge in northern Iceland. Sure video game programers are talented artists, but pictures like this remind us that they have to get their inspiration somewhere.
NASA goes cosmic in this demonstration video that’s more poetry than information. It was produced by the media team at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center to show on a very high-resolution screen technology called The Hyperwall, which I suspect will be as impressive as IMAX was when you first encountered it. The Hyperwall will be part of a touring exhibit, and may come to a facility near you. That said, can you imagine this little video shown as big as a wall in extreme resolution? Link -via Geekosystem
Deep below the Mediterranean island of Sicily, thousands of tons of salt are excavated every year. The mining leaves behind miles of tunnels that are “vaulted alabaster corridors” under any available light. Take a tour of these strange but beautiful mines at Environmental Graffiti. Link
(Image credit: Antonino Savojardo)
When he was 18, visual artist Shawn Reeder won a trip to Yosemite, and was smitten ever since. Which is a good thing for us, because he's just completed this epic timelapse, called Yosemite Range of Light, which took two years to shoot.
The video clip is on Vimeo, and to appreciate its beauty fully, you'd have to see it in full width - so head on over there. It's easily the most gorgeous thing you'll see today: Link
Photographer Tony Karp took this photograph of a young model in 1962. Then he was drafted, his family moved, and his negatives were lost. But the print survived, and as photography moved into the computer age, Karp went back and made digital copies of his earlier photographs. In this post, he explains how advanced the process of image manipulation became over time, and shows some of the different ways a picture can turn out, even decades later. Link -Thanks, Tony!
Photographer Lee Eunyeol’s light installations bring the stars of the night sky down the Earth. To my eye, they turn into fairies at play in the meadows. You can view more of Eunyeol’s images at the link, or at the Gana Art Space this week if you’re in Seoul.
You know how it is: anytime we see a hummingbird, we stop and watch, but they fly so fast and dart around so much that you really can’t get a good look at an individual bird. But by the magic of high-speed photography, we can see many different species of hummingbirds frozen in time, in a collection of pictures at Ark in Space. Link -via the Presurfer
(Image credit: Flickr user Chris Dupe)
There’s s0mething unnerving about the understated horror lurking behind Adam Hosmer’s digital artworks.
Perhaps it’s the way these dark figures blend in with the photograph, or maybe it’s the frayed and unraveling nature of his subjects. Either way, Adam’s works give me the creeps!
Check out more of Adam’s snapshots from the darkside at the links below, but only if you can handle seeing people fall apart right before your eyes.
(NSFWish due to nudity in one pic)
Link –via Beautiful/Decay
This camera doesn’t want to simply duplicate whatever you see through the viewfinder, it would rather describe the whole scene to you via text.
Created by Matt Richardson to explore the possibility of adding metadata to digital photos, it requires a team to analyze each photo, who then sends the description back via text 3 to 6 minutes later.
It’s safe to say that the descriptive camera won’t be replacing traditional photographic equipment anytime soon, but it does have the distinction of being the strangest, and arguably the most useless, bit of tech I’ve seen in quite some time.
Hit the link if you want to find out more about the ideas behind this conceptual gadget, and how the whole process really works.
Link –via DesignTAXI
Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch went into foreclosure a few years ago, and was sold off in pieces. But before that happened, urban explorers Scott Haefner and Jonathan Haeber sneaked in to document the amusement park in photographs for posterity. See 25 pictures from their night in Neverland at Environmental Graffiti. Link
(Image credit: Scott Haefner)
This Civil War photograph was …wait, are those porta-potties in the background? And a station wagon? Yes, this photograph is less than a year old, but you can imagine someone cropping it and using it as a Civil War photo sometime in the future. Photographer Richard Barnes shoots Civil War reenactments using techniques authentic to the period, such as wet-plate photography. The picture shown here was taken at the 150th anniversary reenactment of the First Battle of Bull Run. See a gallery of Barnes’ reenactment photographs at National Geographic magazine. Link
(Image credit: Richard Barnes)
7th Street and Union Ave, Westlake. Photos: Ted Soqui
Twenty years ago, after a jury acquitted police officers on charges of excessive use of force against Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted in riots.
Over the next six days, widespread looting, arson, assault and even murder happened in the streets of South Los Angeles and other areas of the city. All in all, more than 50 people were killed, 2,000 injured, 1,100 buildings damaged and 3,000 fires set. The property damage was valued at more than $1 billion.
Back then, L.A. Weekly photographer Ted Soqui risked life and limbs to
document the 1992
Los Angeles Riots from the streets. Today, he returned to re-photograph
the sites. Ted, along with writer Patrick Range McDonald, retells the
story of the Los Angeles Riots and how things have changed for some, yet
remain stubbornly the same for others: Link
- via Metafilter
Love the Dogs in Art post by Miss C? You'll love this (ahem) high-brow (high-bow wow?) art: Photographer Julian Wolkenstein (previously on Neatorama) has recreated "The Hustler," the classic 1950s dog playing pool by Arthur Sarnoff, with REAL dogs!
Take a look:
Image: Julian Wolkenstein
Image: Julian Wolkenstein
The original "The Hustler" by Arthur Sarnoff:
Most photographers are content with taking and editing photos, but Levi Mandel can’t leave well enough alone.
He feels the need to print out said photos, then he folds and bends and wrinkles them into some strange semblance of the original subject, then he shoots the photo again so we have something delightfully creepy to stare at.
You can check out more of Levi’s discarded portraiture at the links below, take a gander before they end up in a pile of trash!
Link –via Booooooom!
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