:: September 11, 2005
Well hello! I am selling some 8"x10" prints of two pictures I took in New Orleans in May of this year. The full cost goes directly to the Red Cross. Click on the photo above to go to its page, or try Dorignac's Food Center signage on for size. Go here for more donated arts n' crafts. ::
:: August 4, 2005
Me circa 1973! Doesn't it look a couple decades older than that?
Photobooth.net is all about old-school photobooths, with a blog, a photobooth locator, photobooth sightings in the media ("no, you don't need to tell us about Amelie," they say, which made me laugh), a picture archive, etc. I don't know how they feel about the new digital booths. It's hard to take a bad picture in the old kind, that's all I know. ::
:: January 1, 2005
Swapatorium found some mug shots of ladies from the 1940s. They all have fabulous hair. ::
:: July 18, 2004
My parents got a new puppy. They're deciding between the names Oprah and Ethyl. FREAK'N CUTE
If you hate dog pictures on weblogs, how about a junebug larva instead? ::
:: May 8, 2004
Ron has very refined taste in found photos. Big Happy Fun House ::
:: January 5, 2004
Women with dogs, a collection of found photos. I wonder if this is a fetish thing.
(via Sew Happy) ::
:: September 7, 2003
Mimosa is a collection of found (?) photos from old Russia. The info page is not entirely enlightening, but that's OK. ::
:: August 9, 2003
Two photo-related links that you must see if you haven't already: Random Personal Picture Finder (above comes from a search for dscf0009.jpg, which comes from the same brand of camera that we have.)
And, a small but mighty collection of photos taken of people reacting to the photographer's van backfiring. ::
:: July 25, 2003
He wants to start calling this picture the best picture ever to replace the old one. While I agree it is a fine specimen, I think this one edges it out slightly. ::
:: June 23, 2003
I heart kdunk's fotolog ::
:: April 15, 2003
Photos of seemingly every storefront place of worship in Brooklyn by R Grahn (via Sharpeworld) ::
:: April 1, 2003
Deer Lake, Canada (B. McLean)
The Insecurities Project: "In airports around the world, security personnel are now asking many travellers to take a photo to prove their camera is not a bomb. Canadian visual artist Isabelle Devos is collecting these photographs for an international art project."
A small but interesting selection of these photos can be viewed on the project website. ::
:: March 21, 2003
"'... Dad literally slept with a [police] scanner under his pillow, and the emergency tone on those radios was like an alarm clock. It would go off and we'd all run out in the dead of night, and we'd be changing out of our pajamas in the car. The first guy out of the house got to ride shotgun with Dad.'"
Irwin Norling of Bloomington, Minnesota was a more modest version of Weegee -- an amateur photographer who (along with his wife and kids) documented crime and accident scenes for the local police department. Norling also avidly documented everyday Bloomington from the 1940s through the early 80s.
Brad Zellar stumbled across Norling's collection at the Bloomington Historical Society, tracked down Norling himself, and wrote this excellent article for the City Pages celebrating the man and his heretofore unrecognized work. Norling died just last month, shortly before the story ran. The article includes an extensive photo gallery -- don't miss the link, it's in a little box to the right.
By the way, Mr. Zellar has another article this week on Bernd and Hilla Becher, a German couple who photographed industrial buildings. He also keeps a weblog.
(so good I posted it to Metafilter) ::
:: March 7, 2003
I love everything about Nerfect. The Creeps are a good place to start -- and they come in icon form too. The photo-essay A Visit to the Bunny Hutch novelty golf course (bottom of page) is beautiful! ::
:: March 6, 2003
(by MicHael Galkovsky)
Today The Morning News has a photo essay of Austin toilets by MicHael Galkovsky. Some of them are quite coy! The photographer also has a great series on the demolition of the I-35 Montgomery Ward on his site, called Mindgutter. Not to mention more great imagery, Austin-related and not, all under a Creative Commons Attribution deed. ::
:: March 5, 2003
Found Slides, via Magnificent Obsessions ::
:: October 15, 2002
They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships is Evan Izer's collection of old found photographs of sailors. ::
:: July 26, 2002
Some pitfalls to avoid when taking your band photo: brick walls, railroad tracks ("the Other Brick Wall®"), the fish-eye lens, sunglasses at night, poses, shirtlessness, eyeliner or see-thru shirts (that's Vallejo, by the way, who epitomizes all that is wrong with Austin music), scariness, floating heads, irony, being German. (via Metafilter and Boingboing) ::
:: June 14, 2002
Discards: Photographs That Time Forgot: Matt of Scrubbles.net has published a small portion of a vintage slide collection his man Christopher recently acquired. Clean, sharp Sixties interiors and some dioramas to boot. This will make Charles Phoenix jealous or proud, or perhaps a heady mix of both. ::
:: May 4, 2002
Typographic Signage Project: "a brief survey of signs in the Chicago area." ::
:: April 17, 2002
My pal Dr. Chris Kelty can even make Houston look special. ::
:: April 14, 2002
The Kansas City Public Library presents Autochromes by Frank Lauder. Early Thirties KC and environs in color. (Via Consumptive) ::
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