Happy 100th Birthday Robert Capa

Robert Capa turns 100 today! The International Center of Photography and Magnum Photos (co-founded by Capa himself) have teamed up to put together a 100 day exhibit featuring his works. Each day the exhibit presents a new Capa work, along with another photograph that ‘visually responds’ to the Capa photograph. The audience is invited to 'get closer’ and to respond by posting their own photos via Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Capa is one of the most noted war photographers in history, having covered five major wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. 

See Magnum Photos for exhibit updates and be sure to tag #getcloser when posting your own photos. 

Read more on the exhibit at Time Magazine.

Light Painting

Spooky? Ethereal? Beautiful? All of the above. Meet JANNEPAINT, or Janne Parvianinen, a light painter and photographer from Finland. With the project description “straight from the camera, no post editing”, Parvianinen gives us something that stands out amongst the popular photography trend.

Check out more of his work here. 

"The Knife"

Take a look at these awesome installation pieces created by Maria Luján and Wolfgang Krug. The project, titled “The Knife” is made from cardboard and paper. Luján and Krug create larger than life sized knives to emulate crimes scenes and place them around the streets of Berlin. Luján describes the project as “just for the fun of it” and that is exactly what it is-fun and hilarious.

Check out Maria Luján and Wolfgang Krug’s other works.

First Listen: Death Cab For Cutie, 'Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)'

A great article covered by NPR. In lieu of the 10th anniversary album release, NPR is streaming Death Cab For Cutie’s ‘Transatlanticism’. For many, this album is the very definition of nostalgia; reminders of first loves and heartbreaks, first kisses and disses. The whole album is beautifully mastered, beautifully written, and beautifully reminiscent of younger days. 

A personal favorite on the album is the album song 'Transatlanticism’. Ben Gibbard, King Poet and lexicographer of metaphors, explains the distancing of two people as the separation of two islands. “I need you so much closer” is repetitively sung in a soft and almost infinite request as the song concludes. 

Another favorite is the album closer, 'A Lack of Color’. With verses like "If you feel discouraged that there’s a lack of color here, please don’t worry lover, it’s really bursting at the seams, absorbing everything, spectrums A to Z“, the guys at Death Cab for Cutie seem to understand the twists and turns between human and life.

Thank you NPR for a trip down memory lane. Thank you Death Cab for Cutie for this beautiful and life changing album.

Photographer Michael Wolf’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ serves as a documentary of the ups and downs (literally) of daily human life. Setting up a camera and tripod, Wolf takes pictures of Google Street View images and captures everything from people falling off bikes to cars on fire.

Reminiscent of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 'decisive moment’ and the humorous photos of Weegee, this series is a redefined and modernized approach to photojournalism. Some praise him for his smart series and others accuse him of appropriating the images from Google. I personally see this series as an amusing look at humanity; it’s something that we, as humans, can all relate to when it comes to the smaller disasters of daily life-that moment you fall off your bike in front of others, that moment you can’t hold it, that moment your car starts smoking…

Not to mention, we all take part in the voyeurism that is today’s internet. Maybe Wolf is the ultimate troll of Google Street View!

See more of the series at Word Press Photo, who awarded Wolf with an Honorable Mention in 2011. 

likeafieldmouse:

Michael Wolf - Hong Kong: Front Door/Back Door (published 2005)

“Wolf’s trip through one of the most densely populated areas of the world is also a journey through a strangely underpopulated place, inhabited only by the traces of city dwellers.

The dark back alleys that crisscross the city are home to objects that, at first glance, seem to be discarded—the random detritus of the man-made world. Under the scrutiny of Michael Wolf’s photographic eye, these objects become fascinating installation pieces, while the abstract patterns of the buildings reveal the beauty and order that underlie the apparent chaos of the city.”

escapekit:

Lonely Planet’s Beautiful World

In their latest book Lonely Planet showcases some of the most beautiful places around the world. The 224 page, full-color book contains over 200 images that are meant to inspire readers to see the world like they’ve never seen it before. 

skeletales:

Approximately 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa lies an island nation known as Mauritius that gives off the illusion of an underwater waterfall at the southwestern tip of the island. The visually deceiving impression, created in the water due to the runoff of sand and silt deposits, is especially effective and breathtaking in aerial shots. In fact, the illusion can even be seen on Google Maps.

nevver:

Banksy in NY

conflictingheart:

Aging Face Transformation by GifCraft

Originally posted as a video, portraits of people from their youth and their old age are transformed into gifs, presenting a shift between the two images with a scrolling yellow bar.