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...
