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Skylar Blum

Pretty Puke a.k.a. Miller Rodriguez is a guy whose photos I really like - super low brow and super great (How does he know so many superfreaks? How can I attend one of the man’s parties?). I’ve been wondering for some time who he is and this week, VICE has featured his photos as something distinctive - which they are. 

He has a lot of photos that I look at and think “What the hell is going on here?” Not all of them looked staged.

He used to take a picture of a person, often a stranger to him, then post a number of facts about the person, showing that he had been really listening to whatever their story was.

www.prettypuke.com

Mike Brodie first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. He spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S.. In 2008 he dropped photography to become a diesel mechanic.

These kids are riding the rails and sleeping in a coal car.

http://mikebrodie.net/projects/gallery/

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David Choe hitchhiking and riding the rails across the USA with his nephew in Thumbs Up!

Alec Soth from the Niagara photoset

Alec Soth has taken a group of photos of Niagara Falls that tells a somewhat tacky, run down story of love lost and love found through found letters, pictures of couples, motel exteriors and the odd shot of the falls. The combined effect is compelling.

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Alec Soth also runs this blog, which has some black and whites you might like.

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More found letters and the like at www.foundhandwriting.com

Stéphane Goin, photos from Made in USA and 15000 Miles.

Stéphane is from France and is into oldtimers, signs, cars, diner cars, old gas stations and everything that represents the spirit of Americana. He usually visits five or six states over the course of his summer vacation, switches off his cell phone during his stay to just to feel the land and not be disturbed. He rents a car then drives, drives, drives.

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Many of his pictures contain themes I am interested in. 

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Night

Cars

Gas stations

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Other roadtrippers:

Joel Meyerowitz

Steve Fitch

Jeff Brouws

Keith Davis Young

Jason Koxvold

Steven Shore

William Eggleston

Ali Bosworth

Frank Breuer

Frank Gohlke

Rob Kalmbach

Melodie McDaniel

Joe Sternfeld

Drew Kelly’s Explorations

Werner Amann’s Surf Fiction

Tons of Land no travels but Americana in the South.

DneproGES Dam and Power Station, Zaporozhe, built 1927–1932. Architects, Aleksandr Vesnin, Nikolai Kolli, Georgui Orlov, and Sergei Andrievsky.

Photograph by Richard Pare, 1999

GAS Station by Atelier SAD

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The straight sides of Saturn’s northern polar hexagon are each approximately 13,800 km (8,600 mi) long, making them larger than the diameter of the Earth. The entire structure rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as that of the planet’s radio emissions, which is assumed to be equal to the period of rotation of Saturn’s interior.

More trees

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Mies Van der Rohe, Farnsworth House. Photo: Scott Frances

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More Farnsworth House at justement and Lego Farnsworth

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Matthew Porter from the Flying Cars series