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  1. 6AM with Gabriel details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 21 hours ago

    1. Bite the apple. 2. Pass the apple. 3. Wait for a bite. 4. Receive the apple. 5. Repeat steps 1-4 until done. 6. Break open the core. 7. Consider each seed. ...

  2. George Eastman House Autochrome Collection details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 6 days ago

    The George Eastman House has joined the flickr commons and has included a set of early 20th Century autochromes which have been a source of fascination and inspiration...

  3. Erica Cho details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 9 days ago

    Are You Me? (03 Hangul) from aufdemweb on Vimeo. My wife's cousin Erica is a video artist. I love this video which is part of a set video poems between herself and...

  4. Eric Newby on Meeting Thesiger details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 11 days ago

    When I was a teenager my heros were great travellers like Eric Newby and Sir Wilfred Thesiger. The Guardian has a short account by Eric Newby of meeting Thesiger on the...

  5. Overheard in the Elevator at 195 Chystie details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 12 days ago

    Girl on phone: Why? So you can go home and read Vonnegut and be depressed? Girl on phone: (Long Pause from 9th floor to 4th floor) Girl on phone: Oh. My. God. Martin...

  6. Kate Orne details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 2 weeks ago

    It's hard to image a more hostile working environment for a Western female photographer than a Pakistani brothel, and yet photographer Kate Orne has managed to make a...

  7. Virgilio Ferreira details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 2 weeks and 2 days ago

    Portuguese photographer Virgilio Ferreira's portfolio Daily Pilgrims is one of those projects that sort of snuck up on me. I looked at it a week or two ago and have kept...

  8. Adrien Missika details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 2 weeks and 3 days ago

    Adrien Missika's portfolios hold many haunting landscapes both real and created as well a few super looking limited editions books (Less interesting are the portfolios...

  9. Wanderers details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 2 weeks and 3 days ago

    "I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know...

  10. Things I know about Night details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 2 weeks and 4 days ago

    Nights in LA smell of sweet, like honeysuckle and jasmine, Nights in Harbin smell of coal and cabbage. Nights in Monterrey smell of smoke from a grill. Nights in the...

  11. Christoph Niemann details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 3 weeks ago

    I love this piece titled The Boys And The Subway by artist/illustrator Christoph Niemannon on the New York Times website. If you have kids who ride the subway you will...

  12. Hin Chua details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 3 weeks ago

    While not all the images in the series work for me, I admire the ambition that goes behind a series with a title as grandiose as After the Fall. And many of the...

  13. Overheard on Bowery and Stanton details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 3 weeks and 2 days ago

    Guy: I think it's over there. Girl: I think it's over there. Guy: Do you really want to go? Girl: Not really. Guy: Let's go back to the hotel. Girl: Lets. Guy:...

  14. When You Talk To The Seaweed details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 3 weeks and 4 days ago

    While we were drawing monsters today, Raul Andres told me a story which I transcribed. When You Talk To The Seaweed A very long time ago when there were no dinasaurs...

  15. Carolyn Drake details »
    www.mexicanpictures.com Posted 3 weeks and 6 days ago

    2008 Lange Taylor Prize winner Carolyn Drake has been making beautiful photography all around Central Asia which is my favorite part of the world. Her pictures like no...