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Although there are a lot of issues with government, environment, and society in China (which would best be discussed in another forum), it's seeing photos like this that makes me really glad that the Olympics are held in Beijing this year.

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony @ The Big Picture

photo: haymarket dude

happy august :]

photo: cake for me

photo: chlorophyll radiation

Yeondoo Jung's Wonderland

basically, korean photographer yeondoo jung's series entitled 'wonderland' takes children's crayon drawings and tries to recreate it irl ("in real life" for you n00bs). some of them are spot on, with some artistic deviations, i.e., color choices and additional compositional elements. there are some really creative solutions in terms of interpreting some of the things in the drawings that are unclear and just plain weird.

it's just really endearing and cute. sometimes ultra bizarre, haha. there's one photo with a gay couple getting married, and a baby on the carpet, hahah. i have no idea what the kid was thinking, but it's hilarious that jung read it as just that. i dunno.. take a look.

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Joshua Hoffine's photography gallery

The cool thing about Joshua Hoffine's photos is that he doesn't use Photoshop to create the scenarios, only to touch up color/saturation/etc. That being said, I assume he's got mad hookups in the taxidermist and makeup industries.

Most of the photos in his gallery involve death, doom, or childhood fears. "I believe that the horror story is ultimately concerned with the imminence and randomness of death, and the implication that there is no certainty to existence. The experience of horror resides in this confrontation with uncertainty. Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that the monsters are all around us."

One look at his photos and my mind immediately comes up with a story, of what's happening in the photo, the events leading up to it, and what happens afterwards. Here's my take on this photo: This lady was a skank. On the day of her wedding she consorted with an old flame, or even the Best Man. Unfortunately for her, the hotel where they had the wedding was possessed (a la The Overlook Hotel) and started eating up everyone. Based on the rules of horror movie making, the skank was one of the first to get her due.

Childhood Fears
Joshua Hoffine Website

He's also got a great blog that details the behind the scenes process of these photos.

photo: like a cast shadow

photo: he never called

our first photo friday

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