From pushpin to portrait: Creatives at Ogilvy & Mather’s Chicago office construct a unique homage to their founder, David Ogilvy.

Paul Church documents his daily life in his adopted home city of Tokyo. The 32-year-old moved to Japan eight years ago to join a Senshusei course.

Church is clearly a man who throws himself into things with admirable dedication; when he graduated from the aikido course he received an award for never missing a day through sickness or injury – participants train almost every day for eight hours, and many drop out after only a few days.

He still lives in Tokyo, working as a scientific copy editor and transcriber by day, but in his spare time he channels his energies into his photo journal.

His amazing pictures of life in the city document not just his daily life, but life in the city.

• Tokyo diary – a year in pictures

Alan Sailer is not your typical photographer. Why?
Well, he captures objects on his high speed camera while they are exploding. In which they become beautiful intriging.  Think of exploding apples, aubergines, icecreams, eggs. But also cigarettes or a can of Pesi and more.

Actually: it’s better if you see for yourself how beautiful these exploding objects look like.

Ever thought how silly some stock images look? Well, now you can be part of such silly representation of daily life activities and emotions. Join the “stocking is the new planking” project launched Projekt202. Choose your favorite stock image on either Corbis, Getty, iStockphoto etc… and take a picture of yourself in the same position, with the same camera angle, with the same facial expression.

• http://stockingisthenewplanking.com

At first glance, these images look like painted landscapes, including towering hills, mad sea and stormy weather in the background. However, if you look a little more closely…

• Carl Warner – Stills

On the site dearphotograph.com your dearest  photos from the past get a makeover in the present. Make a picture of a past picture in the present, et voilà: your new picture 3.0.

When you were young, did your momma always say: “Eat your veggies!”? Well, I guess you would if they looked like this.

Photographer Carl Kleiner is creator of these Veggie identities. Not only Veggie humans, but Veggie animals too. Check out the Butternut squash lion for example.

And while you’re at it: get inspired by his other photography too

Throughout history, photographers have turned their cameras on the extreme human conditions present within the populous urban core. Polluted and unhealthy, characterised by dangerous class divisions and social tension, the metropolitan area is a place of degeneration and decadence, and at many levels embodies society’s ills. GUP’s Metropolitan theme is justified by renowned photographers like Michael Najjar, Wayne Lawrence, WassinkLundgren, Albrecht Gerlach, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Hassan Hajjaj, Alain Delorme, Xavi Comas, Murat Germen and many others.

GUP – The Metropolitan Issue (180 pages, 48 more then usual) is available in stores around the globe from today.

• http://www.gupmagazine.com/articles/181-gup-30-the-metropolitan-issue

What happens when you let children use oil crayons or pencils to express their imagination through drawing sketches. You get silliest, wackiest, the most unbelievable scenes that look like the are out of this world. But, what would happen if you tried to bring these absurd children’s drawing into life by reconstructing them. This is how children’s drawings brought to life look like. Only from Japan.

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Hot summer wheather stimulates the real artist in everyone….