Quick pic and Photoshop action on the olde iPhone 4

Club América de México vs. Manchester City, Atlanta, Ga July 28, 2010

Arequipa, Peru

It’s a giant three-dimensional billboard for Goody’s Kodak, which sits atop an abandoned building that used to house the photograph development business on Ponce De Leon ave. The sign itself is in bad shape, having deteriorated continuously through the years. I don’t know how long it’s been there, but it certainly has a quaint look. [...]

After noticing the heavy proliferation of stickers on public street signs in Atlanta and other “non-traditional” methods of outdoor advertising, I thought of a way to relate that phenomenon to this assignment. Because of the fact that they are placed on “public property” they seldom get removed, which enhances their intrusive nature, and therefore, their [...]

You’re such a brave little toaster.

full moon, originally uploaded by alexo05. me escondo detrás de la luna que brilló como no lo hacía en 15 años…

Thought I’d add a little more context to this assignment for my Photography and Social Change class. In light of the recent news that Detroit’s big 3 car manufacturing companies want a bailout, it strikes me as poetically just that the demise of the American auto industry is pretty much a self-served cocktail mix of [...]

Doug McMillend, an awesome amateur photographer based in Decatur, Ga, sent an email to my job (Creative Loafing) asking where we’d gotten our Urban Explorer placeholder icon from, as it looks eerily similar to his photograph of the Downtown Atlanta Skyline. He said he didn’t mean to imply that they’re the same, but he just [...]