Archive for the 'Photos' Category

Hi-res portrait of Bill Clinton

Monday, May 12th, 2008

See the full-resolution image at Wikipedia.
Previously on Doobybrain.com: Hi-res portrait of George W. Bush.

Seriously, THREE zippers?!

Friday, May 9th, 2008

WTF for?

Mini Melbourne: Ben Thomas the City Shrinker

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Here is the Eureka Tower
Ben Thomas is the City Shrinker. A native-born Australian, Ben uses a technique known as tilt-shifting to make his real-life images look like model sets.
Since he is a photographer working out of Melbourne, he has several photos of Melbourne city in this style and they’re pretty cool to look at. Check [...]

Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Click image for full album cover
Narrow Stairs is the new album from Death Cab For Cutie. I think the album cover art is just fantastic. I’d love to have this album cover blown up and hung on my wall as a poster.
You know you want it. Get it here.
Or buy it when it comes out [...]

Erika Pham photography

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I just came across the beautifully simple and straightforward website for photographer Erika Pham.
The website was designed by David Corti of September Industry and it features a unique navigation menu that allows Erika’s photos to get the spotlight (right-clicking brings up the menu and left-clicking makes the menu disappear).

David also created beautiful black-on-black business cards [...]

Hungry sheep

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Seen at Caldermeade Farm in Victoria.

My father lived in Kowloon Walled City

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Click to see full size
So I’m hanging out with my dad today (my parents are here in Melbourne visiting) and somehow I got to talking with him about his life in Hong Kong before he moved to the United States. Out of curiosity, I ask my dad if he knows what Kowloon Walled City is, [...]

Gallery of bottlecaps

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A Flickr photoset of nearly 200 different bottlecaps. That’s all. I love this stuff. [via]

Tree People of West Papua, Indonesia

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

The photo above taken by George Steinmetz is absolutely amazing. It is part of a series of photographs George took in West Papua while documenting the life of the Korowai people who live primarily in tree houses. [via]
I singled out the photo here because it is just mind-boggling how enormous the trees are and how [...]

Ansel Adams’ assistant talks about his iconic work

Monday, April 28th, 2008

“Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point” (1948)
The New York Times has a great audio-visual slideshow of Ansel Adams’ great photographs taken in Yosemite National Park. The commentary is spoken by Andrea G. Stillman who served as Adams’ photo assistant on their expeditions through the park.
I’m sad to say that I’ve never been to [...]