May 2010 Blog Posts (246)

Skateboarding is an art form (not a sport) so it makes sense that great art can be made from capturing it on film and video. There are no uniforms, stadiums or rules in skateboarding and I have always thought of it as this free flowing thing like good jazz music. I think photographer Brian Kelley might view it the same way judging from his shots. At its best skating is done in the streets on obstacles whose original purpose had nothing to do with…

TV isn't dead but the world of network television is changing. Total viewership is dropping and people are spending more time on the internet with their free time than sitting in front of their TV. Here are the details about what's going on in television:

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French artist Philippe Ramette believes nothing should ever be fake. His impossible, gravity-defying poses might look like classic Photoshop, but look a little closer and you'll see evidence that it's not. "You see a tension in my hands, my red face is far from serene as the blood rushes to it, my suit is ruffled," said Ramette.



In France, Ramett's bizarre…

To promote the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup, ESPN commissioned artists to depict a story of each of the 32 teams in a mural.



Each mural will appear in publications and on subway platforms and billboards in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and elsewhere from now through mid-July.



The network worked with the Wieden+Kennedy ad agency and the…

Designer Kim Hye-shin brings us the craziest computer mouse you've ever seen... And I want it! Look at this thing, it's so smooth.

Yanko Design:"If you were to strip off the mouse and bring it to the bare essential, how would you design it? Kim Hye-shin perceives it as a single strip…

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There's a lot going on in this collaborative piece by artists Os Gemeos and Blu. If you look closely at the huge mural which covers two sides of a tall building, you'll notice that the man sucking the globe wears a crown adorned with oil company logos. The piece is timely considering what's going on in the Gulf of Mexico. Hopefully that dude with a human slingshot…

If you follow us here on theMET, you know we're big fans of The Big Picture. A new website, entitled The Big Caption, takes a photo each day from the photo blog and adds a funny or serious caption.…

Although Esquire used the same cover shot of Christina Hendricks in their April 2010 US Edition, this sexy spread in their upcoming June 2010 Russia Edition is totally worth a double take.



Hendricks, who just turned 35, is an American actress best known for her starring role as Joan…

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For a little wit and whimsy this morning, check out Christoph Niemann's latest illustrations for the New York Times. The series, title The Haunted Household, will make you wonder just what kind of creatures are lurking around your house!



For more of Niemann's clever…

If you work with applications like Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom, Logic Pro... etc. then you're probably dealing with a lot of shortcuts. These keyboard skins help you learn all the shortcuts available in those applications. They're custom fitted, color-coded by function and can be easily removed and reapplied. Available for different Mac…

Want to see where most of us travel to? Check out this world map color-coded by level of touristiness, based on analysis of photos on Panoramio. Yellow indicates high touristiness, red represents medium touristiness, and blue means low…