Shot With Strangers: Richard Renaldi's 'Touching Strangers'

I loved this so much - Richard Renaldi's photographs of strangers together.

It's strangely poignant.

You can read more here.

Pregnant Pirelli Pause: Steve McCurry

We all know Pirelli is known less for their tyres and more for their calendars. Well they are in my circles anyway.

Here they are getting raunchy again. This time on pregnant model Adriana Lima - the first model to be shot forwho is visibly pregnant.

Not that they've just snuck up on Lima. It's not like she was just hanging about by that wall, having massaged a healthy slathering of baby oil over her belly.

And yet... There's something that doesn't sit well with me. And I'm not a prude. I love pregnant women. I think they are blossoming, beautiful, so feminine and so sexy. It is one of my favourite times of my life, being pregnant. I felt so much like a woman. The curve of that belly. Swoooooon! But this photo.. I just can't put my finger on it.

Photographer Steve McCurry (famous for *that* National Geographic cover featuring the Afghan girl with the piercing green eyes) went for a less bare look this year - but with more bump? He's been quoted as saying this calendar will be a calendar of the soul. And pregnant bellies.

Maybe when I see the calendar in its entirety I'll feel different, but for now, I'm not convinced.

You? You dear reader? What do you think?

PS - Fashion Friday is currently on hold. At least until I get out of my jammies.

Read more about Pirelli's new calendar here at NY Mag.

So. What's The Go?

Why's it so quiet around these parts?

Oops. There goes a tumbleweed.

Wow. There goes another.

I can hear an echo-echo-echo-cho-cho-cho.

Yawn.

Are you there reader, it's me. Lexi-poo.

For my record keeping purposes, I found this image somewhere. If it's yours, let me know - happy to credit it, a beautiful and intriguing photo of mama with baby.

PS - Just for the record, I don't get my news information from The Simpsons. I haven't watched The Simpsons since I was 12. And that was at least 2 years ago.

EDIT:: The excellent Sarah has come to my rescue - this is the photographer behind the above image, beautiful and beguiling - you should check out Eric Lafforgue's Flickr stream. Amazing.

Bill Cunningham

Holy gwackas - this looks all sorts of amazing. And then some. Can. Not. Wait.

Bill Cunningham. Zeitgeist. Far out, he's a real force. Amazing.

Seriously. ICANNOTWAITFORTHISONE!

via The Sartorialist

Street Photographer: Vivien Maier

I saw this a few weeks ago and thought I should share it. A young real estate agent bought some old negatives at an auction and unwittingly stumbled upon an unknown street photographer with amazing talent. He did some research and discovered she was a nanny, who, on her days off, walked the streets of Chicago taking photos.

Now he's started a blog sharing her prolific body of work. Pretty awe-inspiring!

If you like The Sartorialist then you'll love this.