Seth Armstrong's Urban Landscapes

I was once somewhat obsessed with Orange Grove Tool Sheds and Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain. I photographed thousands over the course of just a few months.

Joe Eszterhas, the screenwriter of Basic Instinct, Flashdance, Betrayed, Music Box, and many others, once said that all his screenplays discuss the same thing. If you've seen these films, you'll know that they're quite different from one another, so it's a rather curious comment. Then he said, and I'm paraphrasing, "But I wasn't aware of it. It was someone else who pointed it out to me, the theme that I return to over and over again: Can you really know the one you love?" Indeed, that is what all those films are about.

I once heard author and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano say that he writes the same book over and over again and that he likes to think of himself as a photographer with one subject. Before exploring them again, he just moves the camera to see them from another angle.

I like when artists do this. When they repeat themselves without being repetitive. It seems to me that this is what Seth Armstrong is doing with his urban landscapes:

Wonderful stuff. More on Armstrong's site.


Life from Tomas Slavik's POV

First person footage from the winner of the 2025 Red Bull Cerro Abajo Valparaiso race. This video is short at just 2 mins and 40 seconds, but incredibly intense. I've gotten my bike up to almost 60KPH and have never seen faces blur like this.

Here's the run from a third person perspective. Not as exciting but still worth a watch:

Dude is pushing 40. Incredible.


Josef Hoflehner's Jet Airliners

There's an airport in St. Maarten (SXM) that's famous for how close it is to the beach. Josef Hoflehner's got some spectacular shots of the planes coming and going.

You can view the whole series on Hoflehner's site.

For those of you who think these may be faked, or collages, here's an extraordinary vid of one landing (posted 9 years ago, so pre-mainstream-AI):

On Youtube you can also find vids of tourists intentionally standing behind the planes in order to be propelled by their exhausts during takeoff.


HebTroCo

The world needs more companies like HebTroCo, a shop run by two dudes from Hebden Bridge (that's in the UK):

10 years ago we had an idea in the pub. We’d found out that our town, Hebden Bridge, used to be known as Trouser Town. Was it possible to support small British manufacturers with production sized orders, and get more people wearing British made clothing? So we started with trousers. Now we’ve got shirts, jackets, boots and more, all made in factories up and down the UK.


Intros and Outros, Sweeps and Stings

FreakyFwoof Shorts is your one-stop-shop for producers, podcasters, media students, radio stations and hardcore enthusiasts looking for high-quality intros, outros, sweeps and stings for your projects.

Most excellent single-page site with a single purpose.

via WebCurios, if I remember correctly.


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