Street Anatomy

Brian Walker – Plastic Fantastic

Brian Walker is an amazing contemporary photographer and digital artist, these works are just a small sampling of his awesome series Plastic Fantastic. His work is best described in his own words:

“I like the visual language of my images to appear hyper real, as if they could exist but a second take reveals something amiss or askew. The perfection of a single detail or the impossibility between elements is what I continue to find fascinating.” Walker is influenced by photographer David Lachapelle, “I’m interested in his ability to iconograph a scene from popular culture and to make it look so real that it is contrived. I would say our processes are similar, I use a lot of concept sketching as my works are highly manipulated, I have to plan almost every detail before a shoot to make sure I have every element I need. I meet with the make up artist, models and stylist to make sure things run smoothly and that they share my vision.”

His recent works take inspiration from the plasticization of the female form in fashion and online virtual dress up dolls. Walker aims to perplex his audience, his style guaranteeing an element of surprise intended to delight and amuse his viewers.

Be sure to check out the whole collection, it’s pretty surreal to say the least!

[via Designyoutrust via trendland]

Anatomy of a Kiss

Eww, so that’s what kissing looks like anatomically.  This is a still image from Madonna’s “4 Minutes” music video.  The effects were created by Paris based Mikros Image who specialize in digital post-production and visual effects for feature films and commercials.  Watch the video here, they did an absolutely seamless job.

[spotted by Laura]

Don’t Judge People…

Peter Chmela – “Don’t judge people according to their appearance.”

This is a brilliant photographic project filmed by Peter Chmela. If you look carefully, you can see that each photo spells out a word of the title phrase.

[via FabrikProject]

Suspicious Toes

From left to right we have, Guilt, Suspicion, Innocence, Distrust, and Overly-heavy-mascara (aka draaaama queen).  I see potential for a cartoon series…

by Flickr user soheresanomelette

In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort

Amazing imagery by the famous photographer, Richard Avedon.

Definitely worth looking through the entire collection here!

“In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort” is a photographic fable shot in 1995 for The New Yorker by uber photographic legend Richard Avedon.
Considering that one half of the couple is in bare bones mode, it’s really something, that after looking at a few photos, you start looking at the skeleton as an almost normal half of the couple. At times creepily touching, at others bittersweet sarcastic, even if the subject matter repulses you, you can’t stop looking at it.

[via biophemera]