Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Design fun for a Friday with hipsterised logos
Daughter - ‘Youth’ (Live)
Lana Del Ray has nothing on Elena Tonra. Crushing, magical stuff.
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Caption: Peanut Mourning Photo: Terry Border
With some well-placed wire, creative lighting and a provocative sense of visual puns, sculptor and photographer Terry Border has given life to everything from peanuts to pill bottles. His cleverly cartoonish scenes are often viral hits on the Internet and they’ve brought his blog, Bent Objects, a global audience.
“I don’t mean for everything to be funny,” says Border, who lives in Indianapolis. “We all have different perspectives and my perspective happens to be kind of strange and twisted.”
(via Objects Come to Life With Photographer’s “Bent” Sense of Humor | Raw File | Wired.com)
The Composites creates photofits of literary characters based on their descriptions using police software. Here’s their take on everyone’s favourite road-tripping child molester…
Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Gloomy good looks…Clean-cut jaw, muscular hand, deep sonorous voice…broad shoulder…I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome male; slow-moving, tall, with soft dark hair and a gloomy but all the more seductive cast of demeanor. Exceptional virility often reflects in the subject’s displayable features a sullen and congested something that pertains to what he has to conceal. And this was my case…But instead I am lanky, big-boned, wooly-chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows…A cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile…aging ape eyes…Humbert’s face might twitch with neuralgia.
The revealing and inspiring photography of Don McCullin
Today at Tate Britain I discovered a retrospective of the hugely inspiring work of Don McCullin, one of the great war photographers of the 20th century. McCullin was first sent overseas in 1961 to Berlin where he documented the grim realities of a divided city as the first permanent structures of the Berlin wall went up. He subsequently was dispatched to Vietnam, African war zones and the Falklands. In 1968 his trusty Nikon camera stopped a bullet meant for him.
His photographs are spectacular at telling the tales of their subjects - peering into their souls and revealing the truths about their lives. They’ve really inspired me to take more photographs and instil a greater sense of story within them.
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” - Don McCullin
