WOMAN RECREATES CELEB INSTAGRAM PICS ALL WRONG –BUT THEY'RE SO RIGHT!

Australian funny lady, Celeste B. given over her Instagram making hilarious recreations of celebrity pictures. Here are some her best photo parodies, but check out more here.

(via Sad and Useless)

SAM JONES LIKES TO HAVE LONG TALKS WITH (SOMETIMES NAKED) FAMOUS PEOPLE

Sam Jones is an acclaimed photographer and director who has made some amazing portraits of everyone from President Obama to George Clooney to Kristin Stewart appearing on the covers of scores of magazines. In 2013 he launched Off Camera with Sam Jones which an hour long conversational interview. Right now you can see the great interviews on Netflix. I just watched Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman and Martin Short.

It’s shot in black and white and the intimate style and Jones’ innate ability to capture the essence of his subject make it VERY relaxing and simultaneously stimulating. You just don’t get to see long interviews and in fact what passes for an interview on today’s talk shows, are really just rehearsed bits in little chunks, never more than 7 minutes.

Here are two little unrehearsed chunks from the Will Farrell interview. Watch.

LIZ, JACKIE & CHER ARE STILL IN THEIR PRIME IN RON GALELLA'S "SEX IN FASHION"

A photographer named Paparazzo in Felinni’s La Dolce Vita is the eponym of the word “paparazzi”. Fellini took the name from an Italian word that describes a the annoying noise of a buzzing mosquito. As Fellini told Time magazine, 

“Paparazzo … suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging.“

To further than analogy, in the 60s & 70s Ron Gallella was the fictional king bee. The Bronx-born photographer practically invented the paparazzi market in this country. His obsession with getting on-the-go shots of the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor made him famous. It also got him sucker-punched by Marlon Brando, who broke his jaw and knocked out five teeth. 

At 85, Galella is now retired. The only event he comes into the city for these days is the Met Ball, the annual celebrity bonanza that is the Costume Institute gala. 

His new book, Sex in Fashion, is out now, and he told Vanity Fair,

“I’ve always felt that I’m more than a paparazzo. I’m a photojournalist, that’s what I got a degree for in 1958, from the Art Center College of Design in L.A., after a five-year stint in the Air Force. I worked hard at my craft, too. I was discharged in 1955, went to school, and then in 1958, I came back to my father’s house in the Bronx. I didn’t have money for a studio—like [Francesco] Scavullo, whose father had a building on 65th Street—so the streets became my studio. I built a photo lab in my father’s basement, and I started doing something that wasn’t being done, which was capture spontaneity. Other photographers would do posed and well-lit pictures. I captured celebrities in their environments: at parties, in airports, when they were not aware of the photographer or the camera. This was the real them. That’s what photojournalism is about.

Nowadays the media overexposes the celebrities. There’s no mystery. They have fame but no talent. I think TV is the reason that it created a lot of mediocrity. Edward R. Murrow would turn in his grave to know what was going on. The overexposure of no-talent celebrities. Like all those housewives: they’re beautiful—until they open their mouth. There’s so much mediocrity. Before, they had to have talent, like Bette Davis. They were trained. Even Liz Taylor was trained to be a great star.“

They are great pictures. It’s hard to imagine today’s celebs making a coffee table book, but in 50 years, they’ll probably look interesting. Most things do over time.

(via Vanity Fair)

WHO DAT? MONDO EDITION: 36 BARELY RECOGNIZABLE CELEBS

This has been an ongoing game with my Facebook friends, but this is the mondo edition… I did throw you a few bones, but a few should be SUPER-tough. Grab a piece of paper and score 10 points for each correct answer. 360 is a perfect score. Answers are at the bottom. Go to the post on my Facebook timeline and leave your scores. It’s a honor system but a perfect score will receive a hypothetical, “Can I get an amen up in here?!” from the imagined audience. Good luck, kids!

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