material concern

sofia ajram’s photos via Ben Trovato

came across this when researching Russian Constructivist artists…this is a defense drill in Leningrad in 1937

thanks to vanessa to sending over photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek’s long term project exploring street wear and identity….

spotted on one of my favorite blogs, art brut(e)….these fantastic surreal-inspired photos from Genlux and photographer Andrew Matusik are lovely…

talented photog and all around lovely lady shaniqwa jarvis updated her portfolio and it’s looking good…

I grabbed pics of jena malone (because i love her) and popomomo (because i’m a shameless self-promoter)…but you can check out all the goods here.

Life Magazine’s photo archives are up on google now, which is pretty wonderful.

When you are in Google Image search just put your query, then: source:life

Here are some recent pics I grabbed while searching for pictures of teenagers (eg. teenagers source:life)

make sure you read the captions: they are amazing.

check out this awesome art auction where the money goes to help obama….including work by cathie opie, larry fink (shown), andrea fraser, carter mull and many others.

it starts oct 1st.

i’ve always wanted to do a hand-drawn photoshoot..

swirl did one this season…they did a cute, girly, great job….

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old mugshot grabbed from search and destroy…

we stopped by skylight books in los feliz new expanded arts/design 1814 shop: it looks great and made me dream of disposable income…