I'm grateful to Susie Bubble for always digging up such interesting clothes to blog about. Here are some dresses made from photos of different textured objects, blown up and printed on fabric, which is then sewn into simple T-shirt-like shapes.

Time-lapse photos of dancers in motion (nude, but totally SFW).

Dave Malki et al. are putting out a second Machine of Death anthology, and have posted three preview stories. It's impressive how wide a variety of things can be done with the anthology's basic premise of a machine that tells you how you will die (but not when) and is never wrong ( Read more... )

Four of kick_galvanic and kittietoes' skeleton boy doll photos sent off to Chizine's webmaster, barry_king, with the following text ( Read more... )

Organized my closet, took a bag of stuff to the thrift store and while there, found a pair of pants to complete my aviatrix outfit ( Read more... )

Ghoulish websurfing + insomnia means I am now unable to stop formatting an argument about why I think the posed Victorian post-mortem photograph* is a myth**, and I don't even know if it's a particularly widespread myth.

I also have some thoughts about why modern viewers might mistake Victorian photos of living subjects for post-mortems ( Read more... )

Been experimenting with digitally manipulating photos to give them more of a vintage-y, quasi-Daguerreotype feel.

iPhone whose back is a collodion-process photo

Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits - in the Flemish Style.

Apparently, Rockwell used to stage and photograph his scenes like a movie director, using his family and friends as the models. I like how the photos are a bit Cindy Sherman, slightly more gritty and mysterious than the paintings based on them.