Silly bands looking silly in photos. When I’m not busy mangling PHP code or Photoshopping face wrinkles out of my photos, I can be found scanning lots of music sites looking for goodness to share with you. I’m a visual person and also a jerk, so if I deem an artist/band photo too precious, too staged or just too ridiculous, I will quickly move on and not click the MP3 or MySpace link.

Finally Finished My Dog Costume. I think it came out well.

If you love the beach with no humans on it, you’ll probably dig some awe-inspiring photos of the shore sans people. This calendar is full of them, shot by photo ace Pat McCarthy. “Pat’s primary focus is capturing the beauty of the Jersey Shore from the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Delaware Bay.”

Enjoy these wonderful “found” photos from the John Maloof Collection: “This was created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s – 1970s. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes [...]

Wow, there sure are lots of gossip and snark-filled websites out there bombarding you with heaps upon heaps of the negative, the nasty and the nonsense (our favorite). Some fun, so pretty despicable, most leaving you with that less-than-fresh feeling in your soul. Remedy? Today I stumbled across a website every that is refreshingly different, dare I say sweet… and stylish to boot.

Mark Mothersbaugh at the Starwood The Ramones on Sunset Boulevard 1978 “You Will Never Work in This Town Again” Robert Plant 1978 View many more evocative shots of The Beatles, Sinatra, Matt Dillon, The Sex Pistols, Debbie Harry, Muhammad Ali. Website: www.bradelterman.com

Replacing World Landmarks With Cheap Souvenirs

Make every day a little more stunning with a quality photo.

The middle shot above reminded me of the latest Battlestar Galactica episode (poor radioactive Earth!). Many more intriguing photographs here: Website: www.smashingmagazine.com

Chicago-based photographer Lee Klawans just informed us that he was the man behind the iconic picture of Marnie Stern that we used for our CD review of her latest release – which led us to take a look at his other material (like the great shot of Company of Thieves at the Metro shown above). [...]