Simply devastating. People of developed nations often feel like we are doing something good for developing nations when we donate, but it’s difficult to follow the entire process once the product has left our own hands.
A dump site for digital technology, Africa’s notorious Agbogbloshie Market is a toxic wasteland where Europe’s outdated computers are scavenged for spare parts and torched to recycle precious materials. The surreal site in the capital city of Accra has been burdened with tribal rivalries, drug problems, and child trafficking, while receiving repeated warnings from international agencies about massive emissions of noxious fumes, threatening the pickers, and poisonous chemicals, seeping into the soil.
A surprisingly suppressed story, it recently gained worldwide attention when the New York Times Magazine published pictures of the heavily polluted place by South African photographer Pieter Hugo.
According to the New York Times Magazine, “the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, agreed to in 1989 and now adopted by a majority of nations, was meant to stop the dumping of toxic waste in poor countries. But rules get complicated when the waste arrives as a gift.”
via Flavorwire
我对南非真心疼。
Cooking Dinner Vol. I from William Hereford is a beautifully filmed and wonderful concept for the food preparation experience. The imagery with perfectly fitting typography and soundtrack really indulges all of your senses while cooking.
With the redefinition of how content is created, shared, and digested, Cooking Dinner Vol. 1 definitely gets the mental wheels spinning on the potential direction of food magazines, with thought to beautifully shot, yet easily digestible vignettes.
It’s a great example of a new concept for food magazines moving towards the tablet technology, while also engaging the user:
Tablets (and the internet really) provide the opportunity to look at moving images with the same studied intensity as a still photograph. Traditionally we are at the director’s mercy regarding when a shot begins and ends- the whole experience is fleeting, which can be wonderful, but I like the idea of creating a moving image which runs on a loop or is shot over a long period of time so the media can be consumed and studied in ways a traditional film cannot.
Cooking Dinner Vol.1 tells a lovely story of process and engages those tech geeks who do (and don’t) cook, while making an enjoyable experience in the kitchen.
via PSFK
Cooking Dinner Vol. I的食谱视频真有意思！非常漂亮也用所有的感官。在厨房能很好玩。
Just the start of a funny collection of photos of nothing I’d see in the States:
Beijing, China (courtesy of my classmate Tim. Thank you!)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
在亚洲的街上休息休息：这几张照片就是开始的系列。真有意思，在美国没见过。
Domino’s YouTube video shows the secrets behind shooting a commerical with a twist.
Discover what crazy things are done at pizza photo shoots, and why Domino’s has made a promise about how we shoot our inspired pizzas from this day forward.
Beyond the clever commercial, I knew that shooting food was difficult, but I had no idea that it was THIS involved!
看这个Domino’s 广告关于怎么拍食品广告和照片。我以前知道拍食品照片很难， 但是不知道拍广告是怎么难！
I’m loving the fresh fruits and veggies of summer time. And coming across this collection at Toxel made me smile wide 
The natural food colors and not so natural colors from packaging are so vibrant. I wonder how Linda Lundgren decided and picked which colors go where, like grapefruit as red and fish as blue, cooked vs. raw… It really makes me think of the number of food varieties we encounter daily.
Cool photo series by Linda Lundgren, a talented food stylist from Sweden, features different food products organized by their color.
And speaking of food that looks good. An article at Good highlights “10 of the best foods for your looks”:
I took this photo during my trip to Nanjing only as a way to document my walk that day and the things I’d seen. Looking at the photo again, now, I’m not quite sure what’s going on here…There’s something really intriguing to me to know what daily life is like for this lady.
Definitely hanging laundry to dry in the middle of the street: nothing new.
Definitely construction going on: also not new…Though the bricks look really interesting, blocking the garage door-sized opening.
Most interesting is the old lady with her chair and shoe shine accessories..? She looks so lost and confused, though I’m sure she’s far from it.
我在南京散步的时候照这张照片， 原来没有什么意思只用记得。现在我在看这张照片， 我不知道照片里它们做什么。。。照片里的老太对我真的有意思。 她每天的生活，每天做什么我要知道。哈哈。
照片里肯定有街上干衣服：不是新闻。
肯定有建设：也不是新闻。。。但用砖堵门有意思。
最有意思是老太和她的东四。他的皮鞋油东西。看起来她迷失或者比较愦，但肯定不是。
A new look at the Polaroid and instant-photo? In stamp form! Stampy is a camera concept that allows users to ‘stamp’ photos instead of print them (or in addition to printing photos). The pixelation of the stamp is a visual detail that references the original digital photo…? I’m curious what the thought process was behind the product concept, beyond fun and beauty. Its a thoughtful juxtaposition against the Polaroid, that’s for sure…
via YankoDesign
Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia has some amazing photographs compiled for his book “A Matter of Taste” combining fashion and food. Words won’t do it justice. Take a look at the photos, using food to create fashion accessories and products:
via Toxel
Weird. hahaha.
