Jean Shrimpton from David Bailey’s (website) Box of Pinups
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” ~Charles Bukowski
I watched Army of Shadows last night. It’s a movie about the French Resistance during WW2 directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. While I enjoyed the story and the direction quite a bit, Melville did a great job of blocking the scenes and creating tension - especially toward the end, I was most taken by cinematography of Pierre Lhomme. As you can see from the pictures above everything has the gray/blue color palate and an understated feel. He captures the shadowy world of espionage really well.
The real effects of SOPA and PIPA are going to be different than the proposed effects. The threat, in fact, is this inversion of the burdon of proof; where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we’re given the freedom to create, to produce, or to share.
A map of the 315 drug war killings that took place in Mexico in the first ten days of 2012.
(via rifles)
