Photos capture strangers who look like twins
(Photos: Francois Brunelle / Rex USA)
A photographer spent 12 years tracking down pairs of people with eerily similar features and photographed them in a project called “I’m Not a Look-Alike!” Not only are the people in the pictures not twins: They’re not even related.
Wish we could’ve been a fly on the wall when this photographer made the pitch.
“There is something about Americans glancing up,” says Benjamin Lowy, who photographed attendees of the 57th Presidential Inauguration for NBC News on Monday. The upward glance seems to embody a hopeful gaze into the future, and it inspired similar portraits by Mr. Lowy during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions last year. “It doesn’t matter if we’re black, white, yellow, or brown,” he says. “We look the same when we look up.”
See the remainder of Mr. Lowy’s “57 Faces for the 57th Inauguration” on NBCNews.com.
While we agree wholeheartedly about the power of tilting the head up a bit, the judicious use of sun is doing a lot of work here as well.
Polaroid’s comeback play: For decades, Polaroid was one of Steve Jobs’ biggest influences when building Apple. But now, after decades of decline, it looks like the company is trying to make a comeback by pulling into Jobs’ own playbook — creating boutique stores where users can edit their digitally-taken photos and get them printed on all kinds of crazy surfaces. (Bamboo, anyone?) Above is the first Polaroid Fotobar, located in Delray Beach, Florida.
And the award for best Instagram photo of the day goes to Engadget.
As we mentioned a few weeks back, Getty Images has updated their watermarks, in an effort to make them something a tad less annoying for folks to share. What do you think?
Rad Getty Images ad of the day: It’s not all cheesy illustrations of Facebook in the Getty database. Ad firm Almap BBDO had image researchers look through thousands of Getty Images files to find the right 873 that told a consistent story in a single minute. The flow of the images is perfect. Pretty amazing. (note: ad is safe for work, but there’s a little sexy time at the beginning)
One of the great frustrations with watermarks on copyrighted images is that they take away from the images themselves and there’s no way to know the original source. Here’s Getty Images’ attempt to change all that, by making the watermarks more graceful and putting a URL right on the image. What do you guys think?
Sarah Palin’s Facebook stalker: Here’s the photo of newly-retired Secret Service agent David Randall Chaney (one of the agents at the center of the Colombia prostitution scandal) with Sarah Palin which led him to write this on his Facebook page: “I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
EDIT: Palin has responded, saying “I hope his wife kicks his o’coolie and sends him to the dog house.” Can’t make this stuff up.
A sampling of some of Gage Skidmore’s photos, hand-picked by the photog. In case you missed it, earlier today we did a quick profile on the teenage photographer, who has kept Flickr awash in Creative Commons photos of GOP politicians — especially Ron and Rand Paul. Which one’s your favorite?
The funeral of Pope Shenoda III. The late Coptic Pope’s body was displayed for mourners at the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo for days. (by Mosa’aberising)
Fascinating that they justlet him lie in place for so many days.
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
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Muammar Gaddafi reportedly captured as Libyan forces seize Sirte
An image captured off a cellular phone camera shows the arrest of Libya’s strongman Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte on October 20, 2011. A Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) commander had told AFP that Kadhafi was captured as his hometown Sirte was falling, adding that the ousted strongman was badly wounded. (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images)
We thought about not posting this but decided in the end it said too much about the story. Assuming this would be tough to Photoshop. But we’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
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A rebel on crutches fires a rocket propelled grenade while fighting on the front line in Sirte, Libya, Sept. 24, 2011 (Anis Mili/Reuters)
Anis Mili just scored a crazy photograph. Wow. Look at the timing on that thing.
Banned from Facebook.
“Hmm…not sure censoring one of the most iconic pieces of album artwork ever produced is going to do much for Facebook’s street-cred.” -Gerald Lynch, Tech Digest
This is pretty much what happened to me when I was a kid and really wanted this album for Christmas — apparently my parents bought it, then couldn’t handle the photo, so they bought me Pearl Jam’s “Ten” instead. Worst Christmas Ever. — Ernie @ SFB
PHOTOS: The Day in Pictures
A gallery of the day’s best photos from around the world.
This is as cool as what we did last night. Tumblr’s changes on the photoset feature open up a new world of possibility, guys. Take heed. We will be doing more with this.
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