The Coney Island History Project presents an exhibit of images and ephemera from the earliest days of Astroland, Coney’s space-age amusement park.

During the early 1960s the Albert family transformed a square block occupied by Feltman’s Restaurant, birthplace of the hot dog, into a futuristic amusement park that exists to this day.

The exhibit honors the Albert Family’s four-decade commitment to Coney Island and includes the original plans of the park and photographs of the construction of the Astrotower, Mercury Capsule Skyride, Diving Bells, AstroRocket, Water Flume, Cyclone, Space Orbit and the Astroland Restaurant, formerly Feltman’s.

skate your ass off

"Night Moves" fashion story in this month's XLR8R mag

this is a pal of mine: since again's amanda ford who's art work is equally as radical.
her style has never let me down and always keeps me guessing.
we collaborate sometime to create fun stuff for our side project lunar lover which i posted about before and a zine photography project called hunt yo! that is working itself out, so watch out!!

francesca tallone

i've talked about this young lady before in an older post... but she still manages to amaze me with her photos. she is one of the photographers in this coming volume of lines & shapes vol. 3. i love photography that drifts away from the usual portrait or still photography and that pushes the limits of creativity. Francesca Tallone does just that with her art. she loves blurry images, she loves the stuff that we don't always see, and she loves to create moods with her photos. she is one of the fantastic artists featured in the third issue of Lines and Shapes, Gather. her series is so lovely. she has been taking her self portraits using photobooth on her Mac. check out her portfolio and flickr stream and get ready for some inspiration!

here is a cute interview with her from unruly things:
favorite thing to photograph:
Life, in varying degrees and levels of active cooperation

advice you'd give starting or aspiring photographers:
Shoot all the time. Whatever you want to, just do it a lot. Sometimes you're lucky and get amazing pictures right off the bat but sometimes it takes a few dozen to get what you want. Sometimes the best pictures are ones you don't expect.

if you could eat only one thing:
Strawberries I think. Can I have whip cream too with that?

Lines & Shapes Vol. 2

Maria & Lena's Lines & Shapes, Vol. 2. Other artists featured in the book are: Jim Green, Maditi, ThussFarrell, and Stephanie Waddell. It was great exploring the book's theme, "Block".

The book is only $21 plus shipping or you can get a subscription so that you get all volumes. If you need visual inspiration, you should definitely have these on your bookshelf!

play by charolette ronson

exclusively at UB..