happy rosh hashanah, mr. obama.

Ahoy, tribe! I hope you are all enjoying some delicious apples and some scrumptious honey. This post has a two-part mission: Jews and Obama.
Let’s start with Obama.

Four Things.

Fevery haze continues, so I’m just going to number the images and newses that caught my eye recently. There are four of these things, but some spin off a little. You’ll forgive me, I know.
1.

Keith Bedford shoots Eliot Spitzer for The New York Times.

Customer Service Announcement: Your Kitten Could Kill You

I was just enjoying a little schmear on this fine (humid, fever-laced) Sunday, and I recalled some ads I spied last week. Seems folks are worried about their foods, and are hiring agencies to help get the good hygiene point across.

These two are from Saatchi & Saatchi, Venezuela.

43 Boxers, All in A Row.

Now that I’ve stopped snorting with laughter over that wig situation, I’m back to the before-and-after, but with a bit more of the high brow.

A Makeover, A Doctor, A Wig.

Hello, friends. I’ve fled to the country with a sore throat, because with no health insurance, one often needs the consultation of a kindly (and free) doctor. Luckily, I’ve got a step-father with a stethoscope.
But in addition to the strep test, Dr.

The Transparent City

All this economy mayhem with layoffs and cities panicked makes me all the more poised to snatch up Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City. I love the mix of private and public. Plus, the press release invokes Edward Hopper and Blade Runner.

Spam of the Day. Or Not.

photo by Tim Davis
Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationshipwith a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My countryhas had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds ofUS$800 billion.

Dear Jay Maisel,

I want
to be you.

A Chat with Dustin Shum

I featured Dustin Shum‘s image above months ago on Shoot the blog, after finding a wealth of interesting imagery from the Beijing Fotofest 2006.

Abelardo Morell and the New Color Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura: View of Central Park Looking North-Summer, 2008
Upside downBoy, you turn meInside out And round and round
Whoa. I have karaoke on the brain. But I am very very jazzed, because I just saw Abelardo Morell‘s color camera obscura images; it looks like someone took a work jaunt to Italy.