Switcheroo is an interesting project by Canadian photographer, Hana Pesut. She asks couples around the world to swop clothes so that she can take a picture. A few things emerge that you might have known already. Couples who care about clothes invariably dress the same; opposites don’t attract. She’s chosen the backdrops well – making the most suburban scenes look pretty or interesting and the couples look very compatible judging by
How wonderful would it be to travel the world in one’s own house? Floating from place to place like the old man in Up without leaving the comfort of home behind. It’s not so whimsical a thought behind these images by photographer Laurent Chehere however. His aim is to pick out overlooked architecture and domiciles in his native Paris and literally elevate them for our attention. The complex, photoshopped collages
A little Sunday afternoon opinion piece – interested to hear your thoughts… Social media’s a party right? It’s fast, fun and free and everyone’s invited. It can even shift power from the traditional heavyweight to the little guy. But are we sleepwalking towards a day when shunning Facebook and just saying no to Twitter is deemed socially irresponsible? Could being a social media refusenik make you invisible to society and ultimately render
How would you describe yourself in a personal ad? So few words to sum up your whole life. You’d think that most people would go all out to sell themselves. Are these people too modest and undemanding to even sell themselves in a personal ad? Check out their ads from a local paper below. ‘Bob, 58, drives, seeks special female of similar age for relationship’ ‘ Jim, 50 likes nights
Patrick Dalton loves London, especially the shit parts. Seven years ago he started the website Shit London as a response to Secret London which featured photographs of sunsets at Tower Bridge and pictures of Beefeaters. As he pointed out, he lived in London and Beefeaters didn’t feature hugely in his life. Most of the photos are sent in by readers and he selects the best for publication. His captions are
Vitaly Raskalov and Alexander Remnov call themselves skywalkers. Skywalking, which consists of scaling structures without safety equipment and then uploading the pictures to social media sites, appears to have originated in Russia and has gained popularity over the last year. Some of the highest buildings in Moscow and some other cities in Russia feature including the top of the Russian Academy of Sciences (where the boys are doing the plank) or a turret
At 32 Jeremiah McDonald filmed this conversation with his 12 year old self. Does make you ask yourself what you were doing at 12 years old. Were you already planning a film career like Jeremiah?
‘Not every craft project looks like Martha made it’ are the wise words on the CraftFail site. Quick to spot that Pinterest and other craft sites were begging to be satirised CraftFail along with Pinstrosity and Pintester do just that. Pintester’s strapline is ‘fucking up pinterest pins so you don’t have to’. Despite their apparent lack of crafting skills some of the publishers seem to be actual crafters. CraftFail was started
The brilliant photoshoppers at Worth1000 have been skilfully morphing Hollywood’s hottest male stars into these hilarious, slightly weary looking, lady versions of themselves. Be careful though, you’ll laugh but you may find a long held crush is killed stone dead…
Utterly beguiling and very funny short film by David Shrigley for Pringle. He doesn’t really have a one eyed alcoholic son called Gerald does he? Until January, you can see new and recent work by David Shrigley at the Cornerhouse in Manchester in an exhibition featuring drawings, paintings, sculpture and never-seen-before live performance. Shrigley’s new book How Are You Feeling? has also just been published by Canongate.