I may have mentioned this before but actor Jeff Bridges is quite a photographer. I guess when a lot of what you do in movie acting is sitting around between takes at least Bridges fills his time creatively. For his recent role in the hit Iron Man as Obadiah Stane, Bridges spent much of the time documenting the behind-the-scenes process using a wide angle Widelux panoramic camera that takes beautiful.. wiiiiide .. shots. Perfect when you consider the size of stages, rooms full of people in story meetings, it is really an interesting perspective. He's now assembled it into an online gallery.

BoingBoing today alerted us nerds to a funny and great post in Apartment Therapy itself posting a Life magazine retrospective of rock stars in the 70s posing with their families in their homes. Apartment Therapy is poking the stick at the hellacious environs with the main crime being bad carpets and terrible wallpaper.

The gallery includes Frank Zappa, Donovan, the Jacksons, and Elton John. My favourite is Elton John and his parents' bad wallpaper.

While poking around the Internet I came across another costume photo series -- this one published in Mother Jones magazine. Obviously, I share the fascination of photographer Elena Dorfman with the fantasies of these cosplayers. Wonderful stuff.

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My favourite cabal of professional photojournalists have released their gallery from the night Barack Obama became the first African-American to become the President of the United States. It's a beauty.

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Like a lot of Canadians I've been following U.S. Presidential election campaign even more than we followed our own. One of the sites that I've visited every day is FiveThirtyEight.com, a polling analysis site that conducts daily breakdowns of the national polls. One of the members of the site, Brett Marty is a photographer and has taken daily pictures of his experiences on the road following the campaign. It's a nice blend of photojournalism and landscapes. I especially like his shots of the every day people who participate in the campaign process. Check his site out: http://www.brettmarty.com/

Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin accepted the innaugural Prix Pictet award today recognizing outstanding photography showcasing the environment today in Paris. His series on the desertification of a vast region in China features images of the people, countryside and cities in a region in Northern China threatened by dust storms and loss of arable land.

Links

• CNN slideshow
• Benoit Aquin official site