I’m sitting here in a fog of pain killers and medical marijuana listening to Master Piece, renowned dub-reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry’s latest offering of lounge-dub and deep trance. I got the vinyl — it’s crisp and warm at the same time like sitting by a fire in a field of snow. It’s September 11, 2012, […]
Today, like most days, we’re thankful for the internet and the wondrous ways of Photoshop as we’ve been gifted with a new face of hip hop: Emceez Ansari. The meme is taken from a Tumblr page, where actor/comedian Aziz Ansari’s face has been Photoshopped onto a handful of hip hop album covers. It’s amazing how […]
London-based artist and photographer Alex Kliszynski has made an interesting series of Photoshopped photographs conflating porn with Barbie dolls. As Alex explains: “The main body of my work is a number of human-dolls that aim to raise questions about the numerous images of the objectified and idealised body that we see in the mass media…I […]
I stumbled across the photography of Ruadh DeLone and was instantly struck — both by the inherent disturbing nature of some of his themes, and the adept skill with which he captures his subjects. There’s obviously some post-production Photoshop wizardry performed on some images, but they are not tricks to hide flaws but rather techniques […]