It’s Hip to Be… a Sad Stock broker

If you’re visibly unhappy on the trading floor, you may just find yourself on a blog. Here are two that have sprung up recently.
brokershandsontheirfaces
Is this the same guy?
sadguysontradingfloors

Into the Fridge, with Lars Tunbjork.

Part two of fun food photography in the Times includes an online feature that contrasts progressive foodie types with the insides of their refrigerators. The images are shot by one of my favorites, Lars Tunbjork.
And some of the portrait/fridge images are quite telling.

Food and Flowers Go Boom.

The New York Times Magazine food issue had plenty of fun this weekend; Looks like photo editor Kathy Ryan gave photographer Martin Klimas a 22-caliber rifle and told him to embrace his anger. He decimated an ear of corn, an apple and a pumpkin so thoroughly that the editors could not decide on a favorite.

Slim Aarons, Tina Brown, and Me.

Shameless self-promotion moment: check out a little piece of mine over on Tina Brown’s new site, The Daily Beast. We kicked off the party with the always amusing and debonair Slim Aarons.

Here’s an Aarons image that didn’t quite make the cut.

Desire and Despair, with Marni Horwitz

I’ve had an Annie Lennox song in my head for two days..  the lyrics “desire, despair, desire, despair, so many monsters” are circling in my brain. And lest you think I’m about to throw myself off the Brooklyn Bridge, this is actually a good sign.
What, what, you ask?

A Walk in Manhattan, with Candidates and Ektachrome

I took a little stroll in good ‘ole nyc yesterday, and I came upon some photo fun. Above are the windows at Rothman’s, on Union Square North. They even dressed Sarah in an Alaska-appropriate parka. Though I don’t think orange is her best color.

Guess the Real Cover.

Ok, I guess this isn’t so hard.

Watch how Bob Staake created his cover illustration:

“I guess I have a pretty unusual way of working — at least that’s what my illustrator friends are always telling me. I start by creating the most basic shapes and then refine with details as I go.

Ads Gone Bad.

Wow, that seemed like a good idea at the time… x 4.

O dear.see more here.

Colors, IQs…. and Ponies!

Good monday, my friends. I’ve spent a smashing three days in the country among beautiful tamed beasts who jump jumps and win ribbons of every color. Though those of the primary variety are far more valued.

Two New Photo Books! Dos and Dont’s.

1. Do Want.

Eugene RichardsThe Blue Room
Dropping from Phaidon in December, yo. Amazon says:
This new body of work, entitled The Blue Room, is one ofRichards’ most personal works to date.