Color Wars 2008 held a competition for people to submit a photo of themselves when they were young and another photo trying to recreate that moment as they are now. They have a gallery of all the submissions and some of them are just awesome.

This extremely horrible story of animal cruelty in the name of “art” was just brought to my attention by a fellow blogger. Read more about this on Push A Pixel.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!

Not the usual type of post from me, but these blog statistics I just read really blew my mind…

As of April 2007, Technorati via David Sifry’s The State of the Blogosphere, shows over 72 million blogs being tracked and over 120 thousand blogs being created everyday. 1.2 million new blogs and 14 million new posts in a matter of 10 days.

My passion for vintage design recently had me googling old supermarkets. To my surprise, I found some great blogs and sites that focus on this exact subject. Pleasant Family Shopping is a sweet blog “dedicated to preserving the history of retail chain stores of the past - with an emphasis on supermarkets and discount stores.” Also catching my attention is Groceteria, “a site about the history of the American supermarket, from both an architectural and a business perspective,” concentrating mainly on the 1920s through the 1980s. Such wonderful history, details and photos on both sites.

Here’s a collection of color vintage supermarket photos from The Imaginary World that warm my heart.

One of my favorite creative blogs that I like to visit from time to time is Randel Plowmen’s, A Collage A Day. Randel, an artist from Kentucky creates a new 4″x4″ collage every day and puts it up on his blog. To fund his artistic living, he also sells each collage for $25.00, which even includes 8″x8″ archival matting. Not only is he clever, he is a super-talented artist with a great eye for compostion. I really love the vintage images and type he sprinkles throughout his pieces.

Joana Linda has kept an on going self-portrait project for the past 5 years which initially began as ’somewhat of a joke’ and has now become a very important part of her life. In her own words:

“It’s a documentation of moods, required and un-required love stories, lucky days and rainy ones. It’s also a form of psychoanalysis, catharsis and self-knowledge. This is my way of dealing with problems, indecisions, impossibilities. Each person has its own universe, its own imaginary, more important than the mundane day-to-day routine.”

BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT