On the road to nowhere specific,
this week Rose
+ Olive blend their trademark
intimacy with one another and brief lessons
from the biological world, making even the mundane feel like the history
lessons you wish you’d gotten in school. Yes, they flash
school buses. Yes, they shave
in the sink. And, whether recording dead
animals or beautiful women, the result is always tender, gorgeous, and
weirdly close to home.
The Seige
joins us in mourning
the impending death of the Polaroid, channeling that sense of loss into the
kind of quick, urgent shots the camera seemed designed for in the first place.
Also, a few more bodies
immersed in milk, which always make me feel like I’m looking for familiar
shapes in the clouds – tell me
what you see.
Autumn
never fails to bring us photos whose flirty, earnest appeal feels ready to just
spill out from the frame. This week finds her offering up a gracefully
naughty ballerina, a former
nun (now in Playboy Brazil), and a naked boy
playing in the river – all with her fast and insightful footnotes to guide
us along, satisfying our basic curiosity but always hungry for more.
Brandonland
brings us cheeky action shots from his time spent traveling, documenting the hard-scrabble
boys of Portland in various states
of undress (now with more naked
skaters than you can shake a stick at). Well, there’s one new one, but it’s
not recommended that you shake sticks at naked skaters – who knows what kind of
ruckus they’ll bring.
Chase, also
couch-surfing his way to/back from everywhere, catches up with a bunch of Grime
House dwellers in the midst of hand-inking
one another – and, even though there’s not a whole lot of naked, there’s
something infinitely compelling, scarily intimate even, about watching someone
let their softest skin get penetrated with needles strapped to a pen – that’s
right, y’all, I’m talking nipple
tats.
— Caitlin M.
See more pretty pics
after the jump…
Rose and Olive hit the road...
Autumn goes swimming with friends...
Brandon plays it cool...
And Chase shows us the nipple tats...
