“Photography is not like painting,” Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post in 1957. “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative,” he said. “Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” —Henri Cartier-Bresson

Yes, us photo nerds all remember this line from art history, for it is the decisive moment that dictates our eyes and our lenses. I fell in love with a photo series by Howard Schatz called In Character: Actors Acting. In this series he delivers creative and diverse scenarios to his incredibly expressive and emotive actor subjects and shoots them in that decisive moment. Below you will find one of my favorites by Jeff Goldblum.

Left: You’re the surly 14-year-old son of a single mother, steeling yourself as she awkwardly, haltingly begins a belated and unnecessary “birds and bees” talk.
Center: You’re at your daughter’s college graduation, and the pretty classmate of hers that you’ve been secretly ogling has just said, “Mr. Lefkowitz, you can’t be 58—you’re too cool!”
Right: You’re the valedictorian of your high-school class, having just been introduced to give the speech of your young life—and your mind has gone completely blank.

You can see more of the series from Howard’s book on Amazon, or Vanity Fair’s feature slideshow.

Wow, I’ve been really awful with posting things that I’ve immediately come across. Well when I was eight years old, I vividly remember the series of AT&T commercials that depicted cutting edge technology of the future. Thanks to the anything-that-ever-happened-ever archiving of YouTube, we can look back at them and see how accurate it is [...]

A totally rhombus promo from the most anticipated cartoon, Adventure Time!

Another kid-inspired photo project, entitled Wonderland, this time by Yeondoo Jung. Sometimes the best art direction comes from the imaginations of children.

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, it’s a project by Jeongmee Yoon where she explores the stereotypical colors generally preferred by the little boys and girls of the world, blue and pink respectively.

Yeah, that’s right. It’s a laptop case in a hardcover book. Thank you, Twelve South.

“Motivation comes from the relentless desire to get back to that briefest pause on the mountaintop. It’s as simple and as hard as that.”—Martin Lawless, 300million
From Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities.

I recently sat in for a friend of mine, Ben Liddle. I also just so happened to have gotten a new haircut that day, but that’s besides the point. This was part of one project he’s been working on, and the second is a part of other painted portraits. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have either one [...]

With abbreviated messaging available in the form of Twitter and text messaging, of course there would be a website dedicated to photographs and the short stories associated with them. Pictory does this (as well as the trend of combining key words à la “Vimeo” and “Blog”) for a quick convenient sift and scroll for the [...]

I had the pleasure of working on a 30-second commercial this past spring for a very ambitious and talented friend of mine, Jason McLagan. It just started out as a pet project for him as a contest entry for Bombers Burrito Bar in Albany. But for any normal matriculated student, projects pile up and he [...]