Category Archives: On a lighter note

Plastic, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways

By eyecurious | Published: 27 February 2010
Megumi Tomomitsu is fond of the plastic bag. She has even compiled a pretty exhaustive list of reasons why. For someone (and somehow I think I am not alone here) who stores hundreds of the things for absolutely no discernable reason, this interests me. Thinking about it, I probably own more plastic bags than photobooks, [...]
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Moment of sublime strangeness: Medvedev on photography

By eyecurious | Published: 12 February 2010
A little Friday fun for you: the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, on a 7-minute rant on the nature of photography. I love the way this is all delivered straight to camera, as if he really wants every last Russian to know his thoughts on the subject. Would love to know who wrote this speech for [...]
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Minutiae

By eyecurious | Published: 2 February 2010
After a period of overuse I barely give Flickr a glance any more. The proliferation of animated gif ‘awards’ for best-super-duper-gr8est-pic-ever that get handed out to anything that is posted and the intricate descriptions of what kind of strobe lights were used to take some of the world’s most boring images just makes me want [...]
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Agan Harahap

By eyecurious | Published: 24 October 2009
On a lighter note… Agan Harahap’s ongoing Super Hero project involves dropping super heros (Darth Vader also pops up quite a lot) into photographs of important historical moments of the twentieth century.
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Photocritic International: A. D. Coleman has a blog

By eyecurious | Published: 29 June 2009
A.D. Coleman, the NY Times’ first photo critic now has a blog. Seems like no one can resist switching over to the ‘dark side’ that is the blogosphere anymore. (via J. M. Colberg)
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