There's some extremely beautiful portraits of the actors / characters from Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland feature film making the rounds now. These were taken by Mary Ellen Mark using huge Polaroid cameras (20x24) to take these studio shots of Johnny Depp, ingenue Mia Wasikowska (as Alice) and Helena Bonham Carter.

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Lung Liu, a photographer I know tangentially through friends, has released his gallery of photos from Haiti. He spent two weeks there with a small group, bringing in his own water and food. In his discussion in the Hardcore Street Photography group he mentions that he didn't really see that many photojournalists, counter to the New York Times blog that asked whether there were too many. But with a disaster of such magnitude surely there are places that do not get the same amount of coverage? And if you do not stick with the pools -- which I do not blame people for doing for safety and resource reasons -- then certainly you can get shots that others do not and tell stories that never get told.

Here's another behind-the-scenes at a photoshoot video with a bit extra. How many behind the scenes vids begin with a spoken word segment? Not many. Anyway, I dig I dig ;) Nice to see the style of the composition and also really great subjects. Good work, Street Etiquette.

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I stumbled on Mark Hogencamp while reading one of my favourite film news sites: Twitchfilm.net. I hadn't heard anything about Hogencamp before until the write up about the film of his work premiering at SXSW:

Meet Mark Hogancamp. In April of 2000, Mark was attacked outside a bar in New York State and literally beaten to death by a group of five men. Though Mark would be revived by paramedics he would spend nine days in a coma and awake brain damaged and so badly battered that his own mother didn't even recognize him. The beating was so severe that his entire memory was in tatters.

Okay, that got me.

Hogencamp makes films and photographs dioramas he creates using Barbie dolls and scale WWII props to make up a world he calls MARWENCOL, a combination of his name and the names of two women in his life. Because he doesn't remember a lot, he has created this fantasy world to create his own stories.

PHOTO THEORY from marwencol on Vimeo.

This is very cool. Stereographs from 19th century Japan.

I found that my mind went to a strange place the longer I stared at them. Maybe you should cap your viewing to 10 minutes.

This is one of these circumstances where I don't dig deep enough into something that I absolutely love -- partly because I like the idea in my head. For the longest time, since university days, I've loved the Billy Bragg song "Cindy of a Thousand Lives" from his album Don't Try This at Home but never really wanted to know what it was about. In my head I just imagined a former relationship about a mysterious woman from America. That was it really.

Sarah and I were playing Billy Bragg songs and I wanted to play "Cindy..." for her and this YouTube version was the only one I could find. And here is where I find out that Bragg is singing about Cindy Sherman, probably the most famous art photographer still working today.