Italian artists Lorenzo Fonda and Davide Terenzi bring us this thoughtful and well-executed exploration of every day human life and behavior. The project, aptly named “Their Circular Life”, features five different sites throughout Italy and lets the viewer become the observer at each location, as if you were right at that place at that moment. The viewer drags the triangle around the “circle of every day life,” where a full circle represents a whole day, and as the triangle moves along, you can observe different people come and go, cars passing, things happening, and life flowing steadily, only to repeat itself again at the next cycle.

~Sarah

We all have those oddball family photos. You know, the ones that were taken many a Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday ago; that now, if they were lucky enough to escape the clunky old camera and be developed, sit in albums tucked deep within drawers and cabinets. Just sitting there, collecting dust, and keeping you from embarrassment. Until now that is.

Thanks to the creation of awkwardfamilyphotos.comthese beautiful portraits and snapshots can be shared on the world wide web. Yes, the daring souls that do submit to the site are subjecting themselves to mass ridicule and mockery, but we all know that looking at embarrassing photos of other people is oh, so entertaining.

Either dust off those photo albums and start submitting away, or I suggest that you quickly get rid of the evidence of any mullet donning father holding you as a child, any first day of schools nineties jump suite apparel, or any naked baby in the bathtub pictures. 

They say a photograph is worth a thousand words….let’s see what you have to say about these!

~Steph

I know what you’re thinking - whoa, is that V from V for Vendetta? Well, no, it isn’t. It’s the talented Colton Onushko, a 19-year-old photographer from Vancouver. Although all of Onushko’s work is original and stunning, his photo manipulations are especially captivating. The most amazing part about the flawlessness and intricacies of his photographs is that Onushko is self-taught; his work exemplifies the pay-offs of experimentation and hard work. With over 10,000 fans on Facebook, an established website (www.coltononushko.com), and a growing and dedicated fan-base, Onushko seems ready to take the photography, photo manip, and art worlds by storm.

~Sarah

I’m sure you’ve all seen them – with their shallow focus, squareness, and instantly recognizable falseness. (And no, ladies, I’m not talking about men.) I’m talking about the cliche yet utterly popular pictures inundating blog sites across the world wide web.

The above image is brought to you by Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper and former leader developer of Tumblr. His sarcastic article, “How to post photos on the Internet”, hits the nail on the head and will provide you with a few chuckles, especially if you’re a regular blogger and/or a photographer. Vague, emotional phrases and large, fake vignettes in photographs are all the rage now!

~Sarah

It’s all about the hearts! At the online image database and community WeHeartIt.com, users can share and “heart” inspiring images and videos. By “hearting” a post, a user is saying that he or she likes it, and the most recently hearted images appear on the home page. One can also search images by tag; the top tags are displayed on the main page as well. The images cover a wide range of subjects and themes (as seen below – these were the first six images I saw when I visited the site just now), but all evoke a sense of nostalgia, at least for me personally. Create an account or just browse through the thousands of images at www.weheartit.com!

~Sarah

In the world of photography, artists are always searching for and experimenting with new techniques that will captivate the viewer. A photograph will especially stick in my mind if, when I look at it, I end up scratching my head and asking, “How did they do that?” Over the past few years, forced perspective has become one creative trend for photographers, filmmakers, and architects. This technique employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects, the correlation between them, and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

Daniel Adams from Instant Shift shares 88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography, where each stunning picture stretches the boundaries and limitations of the art of photography. The examples below link back to the artist:

~Sarah