Gawker: pictures

The Associated Press Wants Your Plane Crash Porn

Foster Kamer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:40:21 EDT

Ardent defender of their words and content, the Associated Press is now taking their talk to the streets! Where are their photo editors are trolling for pictures of today's crash these days?

Flickr, but of course! The wonderful photo-sharing community is rife with hi-res pictures by professionals, iPhone amateurs, and people who just bought their first DSLR who can more or less take pictures just as well as the professionals because they own an expensive camera. Check out this offer, from one of their agents:

Do you have good plane crash porn? Hit the AP up! They want to buy it and you make you a stah. Meanwhile, we'll stick with Tumblr and Twitter pulls because they're free and we don't really have to wait for them and also, people just give them to us. To which I say : | indeed.

[Tip via Bucky @ Animal NY.]

Hipster Grifter: Naked

Richard Lawson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:30:00 EDT

So. There are some supposedly-real naked photographs of Kari Ferrell, the so-called Hipster Grifter, floating around this internet. We won't be posting them here because we're not savages. But if you're so inclined:here you go.

Beth Ditto Should Know a Good Picture When She Sees One

Richard Lawson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:15:03 EDT

Rocker grrl Beth Ditto is none too pleased about her new Out magazine photo shoot. We hear that she is unhappy with how it came out. Though, considering the alternative, we think it's pretty flattering.

Ditto has been ruthlessly mocked for her appearance by respected periodicals like the National Enquirer—Bad Beach Bod pictures and whatnot.

So sure you can't see much of her on the Out cover, but at least it's subdued and tasteful enough. And the inside picture is serene and downright elegant. We're not sure why she'd be unhappy with it.

Teen Murder Suspect John Katehis: The Complete Gallery

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:52:37 EDT

The Satanic Myspace page of 16-year-old John Katehis, who confessed to murdering newsman George Weber, has already been deleted. We've salvaged quite a few of his photos. Here, the complete, creepy collection:

Katehis and his blades.

Katehis with his father.

Katehis online.

From his Vampirefreaks.com profile.

Beastie Boys' Mike D and Wife Dining Out with the New York Times?

Richard Lawson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:08:10 EST

Are we, and a tipster, crazy, or is that rapper Mike D and his wife Tamra Davis in the photo accompanying Frank Bruni's review of the John Dory in the New York Times today?

Isn't that Beastie Boy Mike over there on the left, with his film director wife on the right? (And, you know, some random dude there in the middle.) The other photo shows the happy couple in 2006. As of last summer, Mr. Diamond was sporting a jewfro.

Why were they there? Maybe they got sick of eating at the nearby Brass Monkey.

(Fun-ish side note! Looking at the Times's Audio Slideshow, it appears that Iron Chef sous master Anne Burrell was there too!)

Samantha Ronson's Video Gaming High School Days

Richard Lawson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:04:12 EST

Not but an hour ago, we solicited your classy-lite New York memories photos, to help us get through these worrisome times. Well if that's just a little too thinky of a Yearbook project for you, here are two photos of lesbian deejay Samantha Ronson (she dates a former actress named Lindsay Lohan) back when she was in high school. A little videogame playing nerdette! Who hugged boys. And... oh pish. It's a Friday. Peep away at a larger version of the above pic, and at another snap, after the jump.

Monkeys Form Dangerous But Adorable Alliance With Tigers

ian spiegelman — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:16:34 EDT

Don't be lulled by the hypnotic cuteness of these photos of Anjana the chimpanzee and her baby white tiger friends Mitra and Shiva at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in South Carolina. When the chimps start raising tigers, we're only a few years away from total world domination by our simian cousins. More pics after the jump. So you can, you know, study these deadly enemies of mankind. (Images from Barcroft Media)

[TheSun via Funtim]

Awesome High-Speed Photography

ian spiegelman — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:55:53 EDT

Ah high-speed photography. Destructive and gorgeous. WebUrbanist has a really cool exhibit of photos and accompanying essays which you should definitely check out. We have a modest sampling after the jump.

Wall Street Exuberant Again, Journal Woodcuts Reveal

Ryan Tate — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:43 EDT

Sure, the S&P 500 fell 9 percent last week as financial problems spread further beyond Wall Street. But now one troubled bank. Wachovia, is in such high demand that the federal government had to step in to mediate a dispute between two bitterly competing suitors, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This must be great news for the economy, because Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has lost the scowl added to his Wall Street Journal woodcut in the early days of the financial crisis. See his portrait, left, taken from WSJ.com this weekend. He's even forgotten how embarrassing it was when Wells stole the Wachovia deal out from under him! This must mean the panic is over forever, right??

Picture This: John McCain Visits Criminal's Yacht

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:58:55 EDT

My oh my, look what has "surfaced," as they say: A photo of populist war hero presidential candidate John McCain lumbering his way onto Raffaello Follieri's yacht in Montenegro! And on the day after Follieri pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud! How highly enjoyable. It was already known that McCain spent his 70th birthday, in 2006, aboard the yacht with Follieri and glamorous actress Anne Hathaway. But this is the first photo of the meeting, which drives home the unmissable point: John McCain spends his birthday on foreign yachts with criminals and Hollywood types. There's not enough lipstick in the world to cover this pig. Big version of the photo (found by The Nation)—and the upshot of the meeting—after the jump:

In the photograph, taken in Montenegro at the end of August, McCain is shown boarding the yacht ramp towards the smiling Follieri and Hathaway. Just ahead of McCain and shaking hands with Follieri appears to be Rick Davis—McCain's top aide and now co-manager of his campaign, who accompanied him on the trip and advised the government of Montenegro. A few months after McCain's yacht party, Follieri strengthened his ties to McCain's orbit by retaining Rick Davis's well-connected Washington lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, and offering Davis both an investment deal and help in securing the Catholic vote for McCain's presidential bid.

[The Nation]

Making Actresses Even More Fake

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:20:50 EDT

This video is a sales pitch demo for Image Metrics, a digital animation firm. Notice anything strange? The actress is a fake. Her face is computer-generated. She's a digital freak. Would you have known if we didn't tell you? No, you would have tried to ask her out for a drink later on. The point is, soon all actors will be unemployed. Click to watch the vanguard of your pixellated overlords. [via Adrants]

Supercool Star Wars Art

ian spiegelman — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:26:46 EDT

Yeah, yeah, The Dark Night beat Revenge of the Sith's opening day record and now it's gone on to beat Spider-Man 3 for biggest debut ever, but I still love Star Wars more than anything, and so we celebrate with neat Star Wars art from a photoshop contest over at Worth1000.

[via Cynical-c]

Business Leaders Appear To Be Worried

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:33:31 EDT

The economy these days is terrible and scary! Uh, notwithstanding yesterday's biggest gain in financial stocks in two decades. The important thing is, business figures must look terrified for the future of us all. So the WSJ had to redo some of its overly happy portraits (like Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit's, pictured). Below, a larger version of Pandit, and before and after shots of Hank Paulson, courtesy of CJR. Their furrowed brows will solve the credit crisis:

Pandit's more concerned visage:

Treasury secretary Hank Paulson's former look:

But now—don't bother him, he's busy:

[via CJR]

Make-Up Free Blonde Lady Terrorizes Vacation Town

Richard Lawson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:23:00 EDT

Because it's been a slow news month, here is a picture of benevolent-looking actress and orchardist Gwyneth Paltrow with no make-up on. I like her earrings. She's in the Hamptons. She probably had some white wine and swayed a bit to an Allman Brothers song and then maybe picked up one of her little ones and pointed at some birds and then went home and went to bed. ISN'T IT HIDEOUS??? [LA Rag Mag] Click thru for larger, soul crushing, city-destroying image.

"The empire struck back and laid me off"

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:36:50 EDT

A couple months ago we brought you the elegiac newsroom photography of Martin Gee, a designer at the San Jose Mercury News who picked up a camera one day and documented the ghostly quality atmosphere inside a newspaper dessicated by layoffs. Well, guess what: Gee has now been laid off! With no warning. While he was on vacation. Sucks. He's pissed, but he never put down his camera. After the jump, three photos that express his feelings towards his old employer:

"the empire struck back and laid me off. fuck the merc. fuck medianews. newspapers deserve to die. i left today with my at-at under my arm."

Flickr]

Animal Cuteness Overload!

ian spiegelman — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:58:14 EDT

Happy Summer, everyone! The folks at nbc11.com have assembled a big ol' slideshow of totally adorable animals (and a couple of kids) being totally adorable. Cuteness run amok after the jump!

NYT Readers Mystified By Hooker Pictures

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:29:49 EDT

Sedate national readers are so curious about Eliot Spitzer's sexy sex affair of illegal sex that the Times had to post a whole list of FAQ's about the story. Complete with answers! One of the most asinine questions is, "Why did The Times track down and identify 'Kristen,' the prostitute in the case?" Our answer would be, "Seriously?" But the Times, being a respectable news outlet, tells its curious old readers that the real answer is: because she's in the news. Well, why did they have to print a picture of her sexy sexiness, then?

Times editors said the photographs were published because they have inherent news value — readers always want to know what the people they are reading about look like. "We cropped the photograph of her in a bikini so as to meet our standards for taste, and ran it in conjunction with another photograph, where she is clothed," Ms. Rudoren said.
She added: "Part of the reason we ran both pictures was to provide as complete a portrait as possible; only showing the bikini picture might have given an overly sexy impression, for example; only using the other picture might have given a distorted sense of youthful innocence. We linked to the MySpace page so readers could get more information and listen to her song; we frequently provide links to MySpace or other sites."

Leave the good pictures to us! (And the Post!) [weak pic above via the NYT]

The Greatest Science Fair Pictures Ever

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:27:23 EST

The science fair: a traditional rite of passage for all American schoolchildren. The nerds who do it well, the losers who do it at the last second, and everyone in between. Add in the fact that science fair projects get assigned in middle school—when all of us are at our most disgustingly awkward—and you have all the ingredients for some of the most hilarious pictures you have ever seen. After the jump, the ten greatest science fair project photos [from a longer list at Photo Basement] on the Internet, or anywhere else in the universe.

"Animal Magnetism"

"Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe?"

"Drop It Like It's Hot"

"Electro Worms"

"Extreme Wood"

"Something Smells Fishy"

"Juicy Beans"

"Code of the Meniscus"

"Plants and Pop"

"Moon Babies"

Christmas In Hipsterville

Alex Blagg — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:00:34 EST

Blue States Lose is a much-needed weekly investigation into the trends and mores of the young. Going where the cool-hunters are too afeared to tread, via the party pictures on Cobrasnake, Last Night's Party, and Nicky Digital, our pal Alex Blagg teaches us about what the young have become while we were busy doing nothing.

10.The Cobrasnake. Holiday Crutches photo #8283: On most people, that t-shirt would be ironic.

9.The Cobrasnake. Christmas Pash photo #7946: Someone might want to break the bad news to these girls that Santa and the Elves can't wrap up attention and put it under their trees.

8. Last Night's Party. Le Baron photo #0078: Sometimes, when I'm doing this job every week, I see pictures of people like this guy, and a little voice in my heart whispers, "I wish we could be best friends forever."

7. The Cobrasnake. Christmas Pash photo #7833: Yeah he looks like a greeting card from 5 years ago in Hipsterville, but you've got to admit, it's pretty adorable when college freshmen first discover The Strokes.

6. Nicky Digital. Loose @ Vine Bar photo #69878: "Chill" indeed.

5. The Cobrasnake. Holiday Crutches photo #8343: "Brooo, those 3-D glasses are SO rad. When you, like, look in the mirror, do you actually see not one, but THREE dicknoses?"

4. Last Night's Party. Le Baron photo #1490: This is why hipster fashion ambiguity must be stopped. Sure, sometimes it's all fun and games with the ironic shirts and wacky 80's sunglasses, but before you know it, you've got a terrifying Sex Instructor In A Tiger Hat on your hands, and people really start to get hurt (raped).

3. The Cobrasnake. Greater Then photo #0106: I'm not a violent guy, and I know this chick is just screwing around, but I secretly like to fantasize that she was warbling some shitty Joanna Newsom rip-off acoustic poem and someone finally just came up and punched her in the face.

2. The Cobrasnake. Christmas Pash photo #7880: I think this guy's stylist must be a colorblind ex-raver who ecstasied himself into non-functioning retardation.

1. The Cobrasnake. Holiday Crutches photo #8385: Jesus Christ, scary sequined nightmare Santa vest. It's fucking Christmas, would you please just knock it off?

Things Happened To Rich People This Year!

Joshua Stein — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:00:04 EST

Things we'll never ever have to care about again, brought to our attention by Style.com's year in parties in review, include Arden Wohl and her headbands, whether the Mortimers or the Dexter-Jones/Ronson families were the "most ubiquitous clan of 2007," and whether the Olsens or the Millers (Savannah and Sienna) were the most ambitious sister act. Also, this might be as a good a time as any to give voice to my vitriolic hatred of Renee Zellweger, both her face and her craft. If she is beautiful in this world, this world is rotten.

The Year in Parties [Style.com]