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Five Friends Take the Same Photo for 30 Years

August 20, 2012 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

In the summer of 1982, five teenage boys sat down on a wooden bench together and posed for a group photo at Copco Lake, California. 30 years later, they’re still taking that photo. High school buddies John Wardlaw, John Dickson, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney and John Molony made a pact: every five years, they gather together at the California lake, sit on that same bench and recreate the picture they took at 19 years old.

To begin with, a ritual was never intended: the original picture from ‘82 was taken simply to mark the vacation. Captured with a 35-millimetre camera on self-timer, the photo saw the young vacationers sporting curiously “dark and mysterious” expressions as Molony held up a Folgers Instant Coffee jar containing a live cockroach, a piece of butterscotch candy (food for the cockroach) and a photograph of Robert Young (company for the cockroach). Revisiting the lake in 1987 saw them taking the photo again, on the advice of cabin owner Wardlaw (nicknamed “Wedge”), with the same facial expressions and the same pose, and they’ve done so ever since.

Their touching tradition recently gained media attention when Dickson posted the photographs on a website dedicated to the pact. “Watch us lose hair and gain forehead, gain and lose and gain and lose weight,” Dickson posted on the site. “There are reasons we all decided it was better to take the photo with our shirts on.”

Such collective dedication makes for a heartfelt tribute to the power of friendship. But how long will this go on for? “We plan on doing this for the rest of our lives, no matter what,” says Dickson. “Up until there’s one guy just sitting in the same pose! Even then, maybe someone will take a picture of an empty bench for us.” [Read more…]

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Josh Sommers’ Insane Photo Montages

January 21, 2011 By Anne Burwell Leave a Comment

California-based photo illustrator and photographer Josh Sommers will blow your mind with his incredible surreal photo montages. As you can see in these photos, he has injected himself into his work. His creations are very weird, and you may find them disturbing, especially the ones where his head is endlessly coming out of his head.

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Filed Under: creative Tagged With: book, camera, effect, endless, fingers, flickr, hands, insane, josh sommer, mirror, montage, park, photo, photography, photos, pics, skill, strange, trip, weird

Amazing Cardboard Cameras

December 16, 2010 By Anne Burwell 2 Comments

Can’t afford one of those fancy, expensive SLR cameras? Then why not make one out of cardboard? American artist Kiel Johnson did just that, and his final creations look amazing. Johnson used his background as a painter and sculptor to take simple cardboard pieces and turn them into something extraordinary.

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