Dunno what’s going on here. but they got some weird photos.

Artist Hu Yang spent a year interviewing and photographing 500 Shanghai families.

Jin Chizhe (Shanghainese, Technical Assistant)

I’m busy with my work in a company and I also work as a part-timer for my artistic friends. I likie collecting artificial guns and enjoy designing and making mechanical products of the 1960s and the 1970s. I want to have my own studio and work for myself one day. My pain is that I don’t have enough time to be with my parents and family.

Sand & Gravel Yard, New Orleans 2005 44×82” (All print sale proceeds will be donated for hurricane relief)

Some cool photos and and Flash site from famous famewhore.

Back to our originally scheduled programming—time to get a break from bunk ass Bush and his cronies. This is the new ad campaign from Sisley and photographer Terry Richardson.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Terry Richardson (1965–) is a noted photographer. He has been producing work since the late 1980s, and has shot advertisements for numerous fashion designers, including Gucci, Levi’s, Hugo Boss, Anna Molinari, Baby Phat, and Matsuda. In addition to advertisement work, Richardson has also shot editorial photographs for a wide array of magazines, including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, The Face, and Dazed & Confused. He is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson.



Richardson’s published output is not limited to the contractual work listed above – the full body of his photography can be amusing, bizarre, and shocking to most. Much of it contains sexual elements of a kind not ordinarily seen in mainstream media. His trademark style is notably raw, direct, and amateurish, though he is not an amateur. A great deal of his photography can be viewed on his website.

Richardson also takes some topless shots of Kate Moss, while he’s nude. Does he think this gets her excited?

Davin Risk, a designer living in Toronto, Canada is participating in Flickr Katrina Relief Auction.


About Katrina Relief Auction – buyers welcome, sellers please hold



Donate a print of one of your images to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. All proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross Emergency Relief Fund to assist those tragically affected by Hurricane Katrina.



DUE TO THE AMAZING RESPONSE WE ARE SUSPENDING NEW OFFERINGS UNTIL SEPT 16th, 2005. THE UNBELIEVABLE VOLUME OF DONATIONS HAS SWAMPED THE GROUP, THE POOL, AND ESPECIALLY THE ADMINS. WE NEED TO TAKE THE TIME TO SWEEP THROUGH THE POOL, MAKE SURE THE EXISTING AUCTIONS ARE FORMATTED PROPERLY, KEEP TRACK OF THE PLEDGES, AND KEEP UP WITH YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHALLENGES. WE CAN’T ADEQUATELY DO THAT WHILE CONTINUING TO ADD TO THE CURRENT INVENTORY OF OFFERINGS.

Art photography from Yasumasa Yonehata. Models Reco Ogata and Hitomi Koike. Designed by Parra

Publish your own art photography book with QOOP and flickr.

Chinese blogger Furong Jiejie (芙蓉??) also known as Hibiscus Older Sister, Sister Hibiscus, or Sister Furong is the center of attention of the Chinese government—they’re trying to erase her presense on the internet.

From Wired:

“Sister Furong started the craze by posting pictures of herself—draped back-down over a stone ball, bent at the knees with her chest thrust out suggestively and in other poses—on internet bulletin boards of two top Beijing universities to which she had tried but failed to gain entrance.



The shots, and accompanying captions and passages she wrote proclaiming her own beauty and talent, became a campus sensation.



But when her cult status began to sweep the whole country, Beijing stepped in.



“They’ve cracked down on me,” Sister Furong, a 28-year-old girl next door whose real name is Shi Hengxia, told Reuters.



In late July, authorities told the country’s top blog host to move Furong-related content to low-profile parts of the site. Her pictures can still be found online, but links to them and chatrooms about her have disappeared from the front pages of major web portals.”

Who has the most interesting subways in the world? I’m sorry to say, BART didn’t make it on the list (totally agree). I’ve been some of ones listed (Hong Kong, Singaporee, Paris, London, New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles (should a subway that’s not used count??). Also check out Keith Fielder’s Urban Rail Guide.