Category: Art & Photography

I feel like this is the visual representation of stress and beauty.

Achinoam Alon via BOOOOOOOM!

I recently went to Las Vegas for a conference. And after the conference, I partied Vegas-style with the other attendees which was the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I was barely outside of the hotel during the daytime, but I still like this photo as a little reminder of the circus type of sophistication that is Vegas.

$20, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000, by Mike Sinclair via 20×200.

Tom Palumbo got his start working at Harper’s Bazaar and later went on to shoot for Vogue, and many other publications. This photo is an outtake for Junior Bazzar from the early 1950s. Don’t you just love her dress?

Via Grain Edit.

“Inspired by the avant-garde cinematography of Jean Cocteau, this imagined final scene seeks to capture a style that in films like Beauty and the Beast was, paradoxically, both modernist and classical at the same time.”

Fin via Keep Calm Gallery, $70.

I love the way this photo harkens back to another time but still has a modern day sultry to it.

By Nemanja Knezevic via Booooooom!

One of the trends in photography these days seems to be the hipster vibe- a distinct isolation characterized by not really caring. So I really liked the simple honesty that emanates from Ukranian photographer Irina Gumenyuk. I don’t get the sense that she’s trying too hard.

Self-Portrait by Irina Gumenyuk (via Feaverish Photography).

At work, we’re each assigned an animal by our CEO. Sometimes it takes him awhile to decipher your personality, but I was assigned to be a Siberian Crane (or Snow Crane) almost immediately. The reasons for why we’re each given our animal are the best part, but I’ll let you mull those over on your own.

For those reasons however, I’d love this adorable Baby Crowned Crane print in my office. The artist Sharon Montrose has photographed numerous other animals as well, all equally endearing.

Baby Crowned Crane Print, $25. (via Cup of Joe)