Ooh, shiny! A million pieces of light

This has been sitting in the drafts queue for months, but given wax|wendy's mission statement, it's a post that's timeless ... and whose time has come.


All That Glitters: The History of Shiny Things from Etsy on Vimeo.

Via The Mary Sue

Oh pile of books, oh pile of books, how lovely are your pages

Consider this the Orthodox Christmas coda to my ongoing discussion with ItsJustMo and BethLamPen.

Credit: Mandaleigh-Geek

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Handle with Care

Christmas is over.  The New Year is upon us.  Time to take down the tree and carefully pack away the ornaments.

Or not.

Photographer Alan Sailer works out of his garage shooting things with a high-speed pellet rifle and photographing the results using a homemade flash unit. An interesting series of photographs he has, titled ‘The War Against Christmas’, involves filling Christmas tree ornaments with various things and shooting them for unique explosions of texture and color.

Check out his full photo set on flickr.

credit: Alan Sailer

via The Mary Sue