The One in Which Leah Oates Helps us Overcome our Depression

Did you get a pile of residency rejections this month? Me too! Was your long term photo project (the one on which you had pinned many of your 2009 hopes and dreams) just canceled due to swine flu? Mine too!
Wow, what a coincidence.

WordPress Developer Needed for A Photography Blog!

Friends! I need a little assistance and I thought I might ask you to help me out.  You see: I need help doing something I am not able to do myself (picture above is an allegory of sorts).
No- I do not need a close shave. But I DO need help with this here blog.

Holy Children of the Corn, Batman!

From Shorpy:
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. “Mrs. John Nolan, children’s party.” Agood if eerie example of what happens when the shutter opens before theflash goes off. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
Click on the image to make it larger… if you dare….

Morell, Monteith, Obscuras and Edens

Here is my requisite I’m-obsessed-with-Abe-Morell-did-I-tell-you post; I make one every couple of months, every time I see some more of his work. So here are the latest jaw-droppers:

Camera Obscura: 5:04 AM Sunrise Over the AtlanticOcean.

Give me your Winogrands, Jared Kushner!

I paused last night, perplexed, while finishing the New York Magazine article about Jared Kushner and his power/money. Read this little ditty from the end of the piece:
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“Jared shows me around his sparely decorated office.

A Hazy Day for Horwitz and Jacobson

Wow, you folks just about burned me at the stake for that Dash post. You’re some tough customers- apparently you don’t like semen in your art, whaaa?
Anyway, today is breezy muggy breezy muggy, happy sad happy sad.

The Beauty of Dash Snow

Just a quick ditty here on the passing of Dash Snow- despite all his critics, the man had some Polaroids that were just beautiful and raw. Here are a few, via Tiny Vices.