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Pic of the Day: Wicked Witch in Real Life



Does street art get better than this? Found on the streets of Verona, Italy is a pair of unmistakable legs! Surely they belong to the Wicked Witch of the East who was known to wear ruby slippers and striped socks. Morbid? Sure. Awesomely unexpected? Absolutely.



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Added by alice on May 15, 2011 at 5:32am — 1 Comment

Toys Illustrate the Devastation of Chernobyl



Considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the recent Fukushima nuclear accident), the Chernobyl disaster is one of the greatest catastrophes we've experienced in modern times. While most of us could never fully understand its impact, one photographer made it his mission to show… Continue

Added by alice on May 5, 2011 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Winners of the 'Art in the Streets' Books!



Congrats to the three winners of the Art in the Streets books! Here are the winners' names along with who they chose as their favorite street artist.



Kevin Wray Weddell: D*Face

Liz Flynn: JR

Sunshine Stevens: BLU



(To… Continue

Added by alice on April 21, 2011 at 7:00am — 4 Comments

Pic of the Day: The President was a Pirate



Today, the New York Times has a great article and some fantastic photos of President Barack Obama and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. One of the most wonderful photos is of Barack Obama dressed up as a pirate in Hawaii (standing next to his mother). Also really love… Continue

Added by alice on April 20, 2011 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Facebook Fan Giveaway: Three 'Art in the Streets' Books



Yesterday, Eugene and I attended the preview of MOCA's upcoming show Art in the Streets. At the gift shop (which displayed a nice piece by Shepard Fairey), we picked up three books with the same name.



Written by Jeffrey Deitch (the MOCA Director and Exhibition Curator) Roger… Continue

Added by alice on April 15, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

New Banksy's and More at MOCA's Art in the Streets

Banksy's Stained Window



Today, we witnessed history being made. As the very first major U.S. museum exhibition of graffiti and street art, MOCA presented the media preview of Art in the Streets, an epic visual feast you must experience for yourself! Tracing the…

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Added by alice on April 14, 2011 at 7:30pm — 14 Comments

Glamorous Reese Witherspoon at the Circus



For the May 2011 issue of Vogue, photographer Peter Lindbergh pulled out all the stops, bringing one of today's biggest modern day movie stars to the circus! Reese Witherspoon gracefully dons Dior and Narciso Rodriguez dresses and an outfit by Dolce & Gabbana in this latest editorial. As Vogue's May covergirl, Witherspoon shows us that America's sweetheart can get… Continue

Added by alice on April 14, 2011 at 6:57am — 3 Comments

Winners of the Art of Photography Contest

OVERALL GRAND PRIZE WINNER



 You blew us away with your entries! Congrats to all of you who submitted spectacular photos into our first ever Art of Photography contest sponsored by YPOC. Every day for a… Continue

Added by alice on April 5, 2011 at 10:00am — 18 Comments

Extraordinary Shots from the Sky



Though we've now all seen our fair share of aerial photography (see here, here and here), it… Continue

Added by alice on March 31, 2011 at 10:30am — 5 Comments

Pic of the Day: Rainbow Surprise



A cat and a rainbow. What's not to love? "The photo of Wendy was just a total lucky shot I caught while trying to photograph a rainbow on the wall behind her that the acrylic chair creates," says Kat Miss of For Me, For You. "She turned and yawned just at the right moment. I laughed so hard when I looked down at the photo I had just… Continue

Added by alice on March 27, 2011 at 9:30am — 4 Comments

Pic of the Day: Sci-Fi Self-Portrait



17-year-old Alex Stoddard never ceases to amaze me. His latest self-portrait is truly out-of-this world. (See a collection of his other ones here.)



When asked what the story is behind this shot, here is what Alex said, "I got home from work late and was incredibly exhausted. It probably would have been easier just to go to bed, but I didn't want to skip another day of… Continue

Added by alice on March 25, 2011 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments

Swallowed by the Sea



"As Japan reels from the tsunami, archeologists claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis, a fabled place built—like much of the world—in the crosshairs of nature." - Newsweek



Illustrator Tomer Hanuka (who we featured here) recently made this beautifully tragic piece for… Continue

Added by alice on March 25, 2011 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments

Pic of the Day: Exhaustion



Photojournalist wedding photographers Twin Lens took this great picture of an exhausted father at a wedding.



Spencer Lum of Ground Glass said: "As a parent, I think I can fairly say that this is an image that hits the nail on the head. This… Continue

Added by alice on March 24, 2011 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Spectacular Shots from the Sky (20 photos)



While studying architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Alex MacLean took a course on community planning that would ultimately change the course of his destiny. As part of the program, he became exposed to aerial photography and a few years after he graduated, he obtained his commercial pilot license. Shooting through an airplane window, MacLean found mesmerizing patterns, bringing to light order and chaos in ways we could only… Continue

Added by alice on March 21, 2011 at 11:00am — 7 Comments

Pic of the Day: After the Quake



Jonathan Puntervold took this heartwarming/breaking photo on March 12, 2011, one day after the quake.



"I was in a train headed north from Tokyo with two of my friends when the quake itself happened," Puntervold told us. "The train was suddenly put to a halt, after which the ground started shaking, along… Continue

Added by alice on March 17, 2011 at 9:00am — 5 Comments

Could You Be the Photographer of the Year? (12 photos)



Do you have what it takes to be the Digital Camera Photographer of the Year? While our own photo contest is still going on, I wanted to let you know of another that you can enter. Digital Camera Photographer of the Year is… Continue

Added by alice on March 16, 2011 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Actors Bring the Drama (15 total)



Like Randall Slavin, celebrity photographer Kurt Iswarienko has a way of taking our favorite actors and making them appear strikingly dramatic. There's a cinematic feel to his shots and the way he casts light on his subjects' faces only seems to intensify the already heavy mood.



The Los… Continue

Added by alice on March 9, 2011 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Story Behind the Sweet Love Story (4 pics)



Remember Sarah and David? They're the creative couple who shared their sweet and funny love story with their wedding guests. A friend of Sarah's, who just happens to be an architectural designer in Los Angeles and an "urban savvy, a bloggo, and attuned to the culture" gal, came across our post and told the… Continue

Added by alice on March 5, 2011 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Pic of the Day: Iceland at 1 A.M.



Today's incredible Pic of the Day comes to us by Reykjavik, Iceland-based graphic design student Thorleifur Gunnar Gíslason. "Me and my friend Hörður Ellert Ólafsson went on a photography road trip around Iceland in June 2010 to capture the Icelandic landscape at night on the brightest time of the year here in Iceland," says Thorleifur Gunnar Gíslason. "During late June the sun does… Continue

Added by alice on March 4, 2011 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Must Watch!: Tick Tock, the Trippiest Video You'll See Today

Ready to get your heart pumping? Tick Tock is a student short film made for 2011 Emory Campus MovieFest that is as suspenseful as you can get! It won Best Picture at the Emory finale and will be competing internationally at Hollywood in June.



Before you read any further watch the film.



The synopsis: What would you do if you had five minutes to live? Trace a young man's few minutes of trying to fulfill his highest… Continue

Added by alice on March 2, 2011 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

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