Photo Feature of the Week: Unfortunate Profile Pictures
This week's belated photo feature is of no aesthetic or technical value. If that's what you're looking for this week, then proceed elsewhere. We suggest this most incredible photo essay on the post-Chernobyl town of Slavoutich by Guillaume Herbaut.
For the rest of us internet-trash-scouring philistines, we present a harshly filtered selection of photos from the totally NSFW and tasteless ru-community shkola_urodov, dedicated to inappropriately toned discussions of various unfortunate persons' social networking profile pictures. Though making an ass out of yourself on the internet is not culturally exclusive, let's gander at the Slavic strain of the phenomena, distinguished by a joyous lack of judgement, heavy abuse of photoshop, and an abundance of wall carpets.
Irina, 25 (according to her profile) is umbrella-ready, lest the beach furs get rained on.
Lena has perfected the Barbie doll stare.
Marina from Odessa is still working on it.
Ivan is very cool.
Photoshop - the virtual compensator.
Straight-edge through nuclear war - these guys are determined.
Yura from Belarus makes an error in judgement. Then makes it official on Russian Facebook.
Varvara from Moscow abuses her authority, eyes.
Searching for a soul mate.
Soul mate found?
Olga, the more subtle of the love-seekers/accidental performance artist.
The not-very-subtle love-seeker.
Emo teens make fun of closely situated toilets.
Sergey - romantic, passionate, loyal.
Sergey is also available in cat-hatted.
VLADIMIR knows the power of branding.
Anton the lonely Russian steampunk.
Svetlana the mystical mermaid.
AND THE WINNER IS:
Nikolay the Awesome.