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April 25, 2012

Photo Gallery: Sudan is bombing the hell out of South Sudan

Violence rages in Sudan-South Sudan conflict - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 12:57 PM | Permalink

April 23, 2012

Photo Gallery: The Pickers of Dandora

The Pickers of Dandora - By Micah Albert | Foreign Policy

East Africa's most populous city, Nairobi, is a booming metropolis, regional headquarters to major international corporations like Coca-Cola and Google, and filled with upwardly mobile urban dwellers. And all the trash they produce has to go somewhere. It ends up in Dandora, the city's only municiple dumpsite, where thousands of workers -- men, women, and children -- pick through refuse daily, looking for food and recyclable scraps to sell. It's a hard, toxic life -- but it's also the only job available, and as the Nairobi city council considers closing the site and moving it across town, they fear losing even this most unwelcome resource. As David Conrad writes for Foreign Policy, "They are fully aware that Dandora is not good for their health, but a slow death is better than no life at all." Here, photographer Micah Albert takes a look at the lives of the people who make their living scouring the massive waste land.

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 06:43 PM | Permalink

April 22, 2012

This painting about the Trayvon Martin thing is not at all subtle

Trayvon Martin Sociological Painting of the Day - The Daily What

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 02:04 PM | Permalink

April 19, 2012

Photo Gallery: Customers post on Amazon pics of them wearing the Horse Head mask

So awesome.

Customer Image Gallery for Accoutrements Horse Head Mask *via Lucy Knisley by way of Kevin Church*

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 11:58 PM | Permalink

April 18, 2012

Photo Gallery: Final flight of the space shuttle

Space Shuttle Discovery's Final Flight - In Focus - The Atlantic

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 07:27 PM | Permalink

April 17, 2012

Photo Gallery: The most beautiful public libraries in the world

Flavorwire -- The 25 Most Beautiful Public Libraries in the World

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 06:36 PM | Permalink

Photo Gallery: Next Gingrich with zoo animals

The 25 Cutest Pictures Of Newt Gingrich With Zoo Animals

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 06:17 PM | Permalink

April 16, 2012

Photo Gallery: Romney doesn't know how to hold babies

Pictures Of Mitt Romney Confusing Children | TPM Media

Posted in Graphic(k) Art - Politic(k)s. Posted by Mojo at 01:11 PM | Permalink

April 14, 2012

"The Great Emancipator? Where we're going, Marty, we don't need the Great Emancipator!"

Little, but lots to love here: Gallery: So you created...

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by dave-o at 10:04 PM | Permalink

April 11, 2012

Photo Gallery: North Korea marks 100th anniversary of founder's birth

North Korea marks 100th anniversary of founder's birth - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 04:13 PM | Permalink

April 10, 2012

Photo Gallery: Lavatory self-portraits in the Flemish style

While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style. I was wearing a thin black scarf that I sometimes hung up on the wall behind me to create the deep black ground that is typical of these portraits. There is no special illumination in use other than the lavatory's own lights and all the images are shot hand-held with the camera phone. At the Dunedin Public Art gallery, the photos were framed in faux-historical frames and hung on a deep red wall reminiscent of the painting galleries in museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Nina Katchadourian *Thanks, Emma!*

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 06:01 PM | Permalink

April 09, 2012

Photo Gallery: Easter 2012

Holy Week and Easter, 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic

Posted in Graphic(k) Art. Posted by Mojo at 01:41 PM | Permalink

April 05, 2012

Today's Tumblr: Kevin J Weir's Flux Machine

Weir takes old-timey images from the Library of Congress and animates them with bizarre and spooky effects. Or sometimes he just adds Cthulhu and tentacles.