More empty pools

More abandoned things - soviet gymnasiums

Photos by Angus Boulton

Frank Breuer - Warehouses, Logos

Frank Breuer's warehouses - more of which can be found here. He has also done a series on corporate logos, freight containers and telephone poles, all of which can also be found there.

Anamorphic Art

A commission for the Cardiff Bay Barrage created earlier this year by a Swiss artist called Felice Varini.

Diving 3

More diving boards. I love these things so much - that someone would build a structure whose sole function is that it can be jumped off.

Cinema redux

Brendan Dawes has been experimenting with various ways of getting a flim into a single image. The most prosaic of these - just making a print of a series of miniature stills - is also the one I like best. Here, for instance, is Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver:


And Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo:

Diving 2

From Flickr photosets here and here.

Diving 1

A random selection of pictures of diving boards I have found. First, ones in the snow. More to follow.

Photostudio

It's back! There is a wonderful pool of photos on flickr on studio portraits. There are some more wonderful ones here and here. There are also completely beautiful pictures of empty studios from this guy (who has a very nice photoblog here) and also some beautiful ones by abby robinson here (and third picture below).