Cool Hunting

Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck
by Scott J Lachut If documenting trips to faraway lands is beginning to take time away from actually enjoying them, then a robotic picture-taking duck may be just what you need. In an effort to "to liberate cameras from human operation," South Korean artist Taeyoon Choi created a traveling companion, "Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck," that snaps photographs in response to other camera flashes...

Gus Powell
The midday meanderings of New Yorkers on their lunch breaks, famously captured by Frank O'Hara in his 1964 collection "Lunch Poems," are the inspiration for "Manhattan Noon," the first large-scale New York presentation of works from Gus Powell. When writing his book, Frank O'Hara would step out of his mid-town office at lunch time and walk his way to the Olivetti typewriter showroom where...

Sarah Pickering: Fire Scene
Sarah Pickering's photographs belong to the magical space that exists between reality and illusions. Capturing the unique bursts of smoke and light that resulted from detonating certain types of bombs including land mines, artillery, air fuel and even napalm, I was completely dazzled by her earlier photos of explosions taken during military training exercises. Her most recent body of work called "Fire Scene," now...

Peter Ross: Spiritualists, Healers, Mediums and Psychics
Freelancer Peter Ross is a 41-year-old year old portrait photographer in Manhattan who makes his living taking pictures of celebrities. His latest offering deals with spiritual mediums in two communities connected by the spiritualism movement of the 1800s. Today, mediums live together in communities in Florida and western New York which were both founded by early founders of the 160-year-old spiritualism movement. Ross spent...