Photography from Andreas Gursky who takes beautiful large scale photographs.  The second one, titled "99 cents," just sold for over two million dollars.

Check this out: pictures in various cities such as Sao Paolo, Brazil (above), Caracas, Venezuela, and Dharavi, Mumbai showing the incredible divide between the rich and poor. This picture above amazes me mostly becuase of terraced balconies with swimming pools and the size of the tennis courts versus the size of one favela.

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Who is Pascal Dangin?  He is the retoucher for stars.  Pretty he master that professionally photoshops fashion photos for editorial.  His aid is so high demand, for his techincal and as well as his taste of what is visually appealing in photography.  Majority of well known photographer such as Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel, Craig McDean and more will not allow one of their images to be published with it passing the hands of Dangin's studio.

I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual “real women” in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job. “Do you know how much retouching was on that?” he asked. “But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.”

If you are interested in Photoshop or Photography or the business of graphics the New Yorker article on Pascal Dangin is a great read.

The above collection of portraits are titled "Unnatural & Calm,"by Ken Adams , he was inspired from Zhu Yunwei's one eyed Portraits below.

opened / closed eyes
"each portrait consists of two portrait shots. took two pictures of each person - one with opened eyes,he other with closed eyes.  I then integrated the two pictures into one portrait,
resulting in the calm but unnatural expressions seen here.  human beings wake up and open their eyes in the morning, close their eyes and fall asleep at night, these are which the two
normal states of everyone. "-Zhu Yunwei

 

In the mood of the last article, I felt this was a prefect addition, of streetwear,skating, and especially being invisible. This pictorial was made to show off "The Hundreds" new line of clothing. You can see more of these pics and read their blog @ TheHundreds.com , these people are riduclous its more than a blog and more than a clothing its like a way of life, you will figure that out after viewing their site.

In next months issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, Kanye West will be taking to up the cover as Jesus Christ.  Supposely he is presented as another G.O.A.T., Greatest Of All Time, in the magazine as being Muhammad Ali.
The article will give you a run down of Kanye's year from his 8 grammy nominations, his verbal attack on the president and his porn addiction which he acquired at the early age of 5.
"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts," he says. "You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"  A quote from the issue that shows him to be egotistical but confident in himself and his work. You can't hurt a man for being proud of himself. Man, if I was in Kanye's shoes, I would definitly be proud of myself and would thank the Lord everyday for it (I still do).

Diddy's new advertisements for Sean John's new "Unforgiveable" fragrance, is bringing a lot of fire from department stores.  Stores are refusing to display the ads  which show Diddy in bed with 2 women, suggesting they engaged in some adult fun.  Obviously, sex sells, so even without the steamy advertisements not on display, orders are still rolling in.
HipHopDX - Ad 1 - Ad 2 - Sean John Clothing

Wafa Dufour the niece of Osama Bin ladin is set to grace the pages of the upcoming issue of GQ in what many will find as a suprise side of the Bin Ladin family. 
    While she has since shanged her name to Dafour after the september 11 attacks Wafa cannot understand the connection people  place on her with her Uncle claiming that there are 400 people with similar connections to the man the only difference is she doesnt live in Saudi Arabia.
    Wafa is currently an aspiring musician who also claims never to have met her uncle Osama.

Source - GQ Semi Web Article 
Pick up the Dec issue of GQ for the Full Article