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This is beyond impressive, this is completely geektastic. The dedication and obsession that went into this is phenomenal. It only took Volpin Props a full 17 months of blood, sweat and tears to create this amazing Daft Punk helmet. Complete with colorful lighting and shiny gold exterior.

I came across these images when having a browse through the Guardian website. It was a nice sight for bleak morning eyes. Clark little is a hawaii based surf photographer. Being a long time surfer, Clark Little gained recognition for his photography with appearances on Good Morning America, Inside edition and many other local shows [...]

The Places We Live features panoramic photos of slums by Jonas Bendiksen, and narrated by the people who live there (albeit through translators). It’s very moving, educational and thought provoking And most of all, it is brilliantly executed. Like, it’s really really well done. It’s good to know that people actually use, often misguided, web [...]

Much has been made of the death of the Polaroid, you’ve all probably read thousands of articles on it and went out and stockpiled catridges like they were tins of beans in the days leading up to the Y2k crisis. News of the shutting down of production was taken badly by design mavens worldwide. Wailing [...]

Tristan linked us to these spectacular photos taken in North Korea and published on the Boston Globe website. These photos were all taken within the past six months – some taken from the borders, peering in, others provided by North Korea itself, and several generously shared by freelance photographer Eric Lafforgue, who recently spent some [...]

With all the screaming and shouting about The Economic Crisis – or as I like to call it the American Econopocalypse - it’s hard to get away from hearing all the fear-mongering sensationalist headlines and the general chit-chat of people who pretend they know basic economic theory which really they just stole some quote from an [...]

The Reportage festival is currently running in Sydney. Tagged as ‘a celebration of photojournalism’ the festival showcases work by both local and international photographers and involves a a mix of exhibitions, documentary screenings and seminars. Reportage is a Sydney based photojournalism forum that has been running since 1999 with the aim ‘to inform, share and [...]

With each passing day the US election coverage gets ever more intense and more and more people get ever more frustated and just plain over it. It’s a bit ludicrous that for over half of the current president’s term there has been an ongoing campaign to pick his successor. And modern politics is hardly the [...]

Keeping somewhat on the limited edition arts book theme, I came across Playboy’s Complete Centerfolds collection thanks to Golden Fiddle. This 730 page behometh recreates every single Playboy Centerfold exactly as they were published. And not only that, it comes in a self-described “handsome leather briefcase lined with velvet”. Why would you want to spend [...]

You know how hard it is to find a camera bag for a DSLR that’s not a boring black nylon thing? I mean, considering how popular and mainstream DSLR’s have become (and especially with women) you’d think some company would start manufacturing ones with some clue about style. The Bowler, by the reputable ACME MADE [...]

A few friends of mine attempted some of this light painting photography just last weekend. Our result was nowhere near as cute and awesome. Still, it was a lot of fun mucking around with LED lights and slow exposures. This one was done by Ryan Cashman from San Diego. In his words: Animated light paintings [...]

I remember doing something similar to this when I was a kid with some matchbox cars. I though I was pretty clever then. As we know, bigger is better – it’s way more impressive with real cars. It was part of the IMAGES’08 visual art festival in Switzerland. Now if only we can figure out [...]

Keep track of the most important question facing mankind today here. Simple, succint and to the point. Oh yeah, in case you missed it, check out this photo gallery of the greatest gadget ever built. And no, this joke will never get old and DEGOURGET shall remain forever obsessed with it.

Here’s one for the budding photographers amongst you -LabourStart, “where trade unionists start their day on the net”, apparently, has a contest up on Flickr. The LabourStart Labour Photo of the Year Contest wants your photos. Which photos I hear you ask? “Photos should be, very broadly, of union members in action. At work, in [...]

Light painting, or light graffiti, is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. Typically the light source itself, or guy swinging around the tourch, does not appear in the image. The term light painting also [...]