Awesome interview with graphic designer James Victore.
Interviewer: Do you ever have the feeling that your last great idea could have been your last great idea?
JV: You're a pussy.
(please also visit his website. I want one of those plates for my birthday, in July)
(click for original link. Copyright AP Photo/Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Denise Truscello)
This photograph would have been super cool in the 80's. Now it's just kinda sad.
Blog ThePornSpot refers one-handed web surfers (where's that other hand? *hee*) to celebrity look-alike adult stars. The concept: why wait for a nip-slip? Just indulge your celebrity sex fantasy with a low-rent replacement model. Some are all-out porn stars (like Famke Janssen look-alike, Penthouse Pet of the Year and "Subway Tits Girl" Jamie Lynn) while others are merely amateur teen teasers (like Lindsay Lohan clone Heidi Honey):
vs. 
One of Lindsay's first high-deas and, frankly, a genius concept.
(also noted: if you, like myself, are a guy that will claim that you've NEVER EVER seen any of these girls before or that you don't have a huge image stash somewhere on your hard drive of a couple of these chicks, then you, like myself, are a big fat liar.)
Having skipped a fine arts education almost completely, there's still a whole world of discovery out there for me in the realm of well-regarded photographers. Today: Enrique Metinides.
Graphic, unsettling (but famous) photo of car accident after the jump...
Now showing in LA if you're lucky enough to catch it:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/garcia/garcia4-24-06_detail.asp?picnum=3
More info from a prior show:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,1169,1048129,00.html
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