Lazy Sunday afternoons

Ever dreamt of become a great expressionist master?! Well now you can.  I stumbled across this totally addictive website by Miltos Maneta, www.manetas.com/pollock/, where you can become the great Jackson Pollock himself, and with just a few clicks of the mouse you can create a real-life abstract masterpiece; well maybe not a masterpiece, but it'll look pretty good anyway.  I could stare into space at this thing for hours, it's strangely therapeutic!  

This is my best piece yet...I can tell your impressed, haha!

Faces in Places

Brought to us by fellow blogger on blogspot.com, 'Faces in Places' is a photoblog that features a series of archived photographs presenting a selection of faces found in everyday places.  The photos contain inert objects to which human qualities have been attributed. 

There are links to a flikr group and discussions such as ‘are there more happy or sad faces in places’ – a fairly comical group in my opinion, especially as I myself am one to judge cars on whether their headlights are shaped as friendly or evil eyes!

Here are a few of my favourites taken from the Faces in Places website.  I now see faces everywhere!

Sleeveface

'Sleeveface' is the brainchild of Carl Morris, who set up the website alongside his friend John Rostron in 2007.  Another comical photoblog which encorporates, according to the website, ‘one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion’ producing clever and witty images.

Sleeveface parties are apparently held by vinyl junkies across the world with the concept becoming popular on social networking sites.  ‘Sleeveface’ mania is substantially better established that faces in places, with what begun as a game between vinyl lovers now transformed into a book.  A great edition to the coffee table!  To visit the website click here.

Bad hair day

'Don't Judge my Hair' is a photoblog featuring bizarre hairstyles with the tag line ‘epic hairstyles’, an interesting label! Amongst the many photographs, some retro, some modern, there are countless and hilarious hairstyle failures which will have you in stitches.

The phrase ‘bad hair day’ doesn’t quite cover it! Here are some snaps taken form the website:

 To view more disastrous cuts, colours and styles from around the world visit 'Don't Judge my Hair' for yourself.  I can guarantee ‘What were they thinking?!’ will be the first thought to cross your mind!

The man behind the hand

The 'Souvenirs' project is not a photoblog as such, but is of a similar theme.  It is slightly different as the photographs featured are the work of one man only.   Michael Hughes travels the world taking snapshots of famous landmarks with cheap souvenirs placed in front of them.  With as many as 200 countries visited by Hughes, he has been able to refine his technique, capturing the souvenir in perfect proportion to the landmark in subject and its surroundings, producing a collection of over 100 fun and playful images.  Michael stumbled across the idea of creating such illusions and developed it as a hobby, producing photos that, at a glance, could be the real thing.

'I was on the tourist platform at the Lorelei cliffs next to the river Rhine when I held up a postcard I bought for my daughter.  I was amazed because it just seemed to fill a massive grey hole that was in the sky and it was the exact position the photographer had taken the picture from.

After that I noticed coffee cups from a shop near the Statue of Liberty had the statue printed on so I poured my drink on the floor, and position it in front of the statue.  Since then taking the pictures has developed into a hobby and a passion to the point where I have been taking trips recently just to photograph a souvenir next to its landmark.' 

Quote from an interview with Michael Hughes for the Daily Mail online.

These holiday snaps are no doubt a clever use of perspective – the best of which have been published in the book ‘Souvenirs’ as seen below.  Visit Hughes’ souvenir set on Flikr to view a slideshow of his work.