11.00hrs 11/11/1918
(Siegfried Sassoon's notebooks)The Dug-outWhy do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,And one arm bent across your sullen, cold,Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold;And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulderDrowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head...

Mr. Lee
I came across this short fun video by Mark Schwartz of his road trip with Lee Friedlander, compiled - as he puts it - on the occasion of Lee's 75th birthday (earlier this summer if I'm correct?) Know I know what to eat to make sure I get to a ripe old age as well.You may be able to view a higher def version here if you are on facebook (I was also having some youtube problems with it...)(Thanks for the link to

WARNING: this model's hips were made smaller than her head in Photoshop. Human beings do not look li
Or; What's all the fuss about?This advert for Ralph Lauren seems to have become the nexus for some quite strange responses to what many seem to see as the "problem" of digital manipulation (and has also confusingly become conflated and confused with the separate issue skinny models and unrealistic body image). I'm going to stick to digital manipulation - or more accurately, image manipulationThere has been something of an outcry about this and other similar images which

The Kindly Ones
"The real danger for mankind is me, is you. And if you're not convinced of this, don't bother to read any further. You'll understand nothing and you'll get angry, with little profit for you or me."

Unique photographs of the Battle of the Somme
A shell bursting some 10-20 yards way on the Somme Battlefield, 1916. Photograph from the album Lieutenant J.S. Purvis, 5th (T) Battalion (1916-1918). RICGH:2005.31.6I just came across some quite amazing and unique pictures of the Battle of the Somme courtesy of the Darl