A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
A specific homage to Flandrin’s painting this time by Phuzzy0 at deviantART. Earlier variations are linked below. My own Fallen Angel variations are now available as signed prints as well as CafePress products.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
Photography by Joan Crisol.
Concluding a week of shadows and chiaroscuro, Daniel Nassoy‘s photographs of the male body in all its splendour are on exhibition at Violette and co, Paris, until the 28th of this month, and then again in August.
One of the exotic creatures at today’s London Pride march. More pictures at this Flickr pool. Marchers braved wet weather and renewed terrorist threats after two unexploded car bombs were found on Friday. (And where that matter is concerned, The Register has a rebuke to the inevitable hysterics.)
On a related note, this site has a feature that allows you to see how your blog (or page) would be rated by the MPAA. As Queerty notes, overuse of the word “gay” pushes up the supposed offensiveness quotient, something which results in this page receiving an NC-17 rating when it scans the past month of postings. Yes, it’s only a bit of web silliness but when the real Motion Picture Ass. of America has been shown to treat gay themes or stories with greater restriction than straight ones then it’s probably more accurate than its creators suspect.
Update: also in The Register, an ex-armed forces bomb-disposal operator explains why the London “terror clowns” shouldn’t be dignified with the hysteria they’ve been receiving.
Contemporary Los Angeles via Luther Gerlach’s wet-plate photography.
Using antique cameras he restores himself, and a wet-plate photographic process dating from 1851, Luther is completely immersed in this compelling method of vintage process. Gerlach says, “Quite often I feel as if my soul is in the past and my mind is in the future.” His ability to combine past and present becomes even more evident as he transports glass-plate film, restored cameras, lenses, precious metals and solutions to each photo location via his converted van. His unique use of the wet-plate process, combined with his contemporary style and provocative subject matter has propelled his work on the covers and featured editorial in respected publications, such as; View Camera, Celebrated Living, Shutterbug, and Montecito Journal to mention a few.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Bradbury Building: Looking Backward from the Future
• Downtown LA by Ansel Adams