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Jesse Chehak

Jeff — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:01:48 +0000

Jesse Chehak’s Fool’s Gold is an amazing portrait of the West. Read a brief profile of Chehak in the New York Times’ Lens.

Pieter Hugo - Agbogbloshie

Jeff — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:43:58 +0000

For the past year, South African photographer Pieter Hugo has been photographing Agbogbloshie, a dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. It’s a wasteland, where people and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives, is far removed from the benefits accorded by the unrelenting advances of technology. It’s a haunting and dismal glimpse at what becomes of the 50 million tons of digital waste produced each year in the Western world. The exhibit, called Permanent Error, opens tomorrow at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Capetown, South Africa and runs until September.

St. Vincent Sings INXS

Jeff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:02:46 +0000

From Beck’s Record Club, an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time.

Infinite Garage

Jeff — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:53:51 +0000

Raina Lee’s parents were pack rats. And when they died she inherited 35 years worth of her parents’ stuff crammed into a 3-car garage in Southern California. The garage was a mythic place where as I child I could find anything– gadgets, kitchen wares, stamp collections, bags of money, and clothes. Now that my parents are gone, I’m clearing out their mess but discovering more than ever about their lives. She’s posting her finds on her Infinite Garage project daily and selling some of it on Etsy.

Helmo Collages

Jeff — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:51:58 +0000

It’s like a Goya monster coming over the hills or something. French design studio Helmo has made these great collages for les Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne, an annual street arts festival in rural France.

James Cooper

Jeff — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:47:37 +0000

I really like James Cooper’s photos. He’s a photographer from Bermuda who takes some of the most funny and creative underwater photos you’ve ever seen. Check out more photos at his image blog.

Andrew Moore

Jeff — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:56:03 +0000

There are lots of photo essays documenting the growing fallowness of Detroit, but Andrew Moore’s photos of Motown ruins are my favorite.

Nathalie Grenzhaeuser

Jeff — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:22:07 +0000

German photographer Nathalie Grenzhaeuser has taken some beautiful photos of the Arctic. In the series The Construction of the Quiet Earth, she has taken dramatic photos of mining and research facilities in the Arctic Archipelago, Spitzbergen. And in The Islands you can see the relentless lonesomeness of the tiny Arctic shacks built by hunters and trappers over the past century.

For a Classy Evening

Jeff — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:39:48 +0000

Have you tried this trick for a making your evenings a little classier:

Get out your drink of choice.

open 3 tabs on your favorite browser.

On the first tab

On another tab

On the last (might want to go full-screen on this one)

L.A. Looks Great When You Take Away the Cars

Jeff — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:12:51 +0000

Ross Ching shows how attractive L.A. is when you get rid of the cars in Running on Empty. Ching was inspired by a similar project of still photographs, Empty L.A., from L.A. photographer Matt Logue.