A last look back at Vancouver 2010 brought to you by Big Picture;

Part 1

Part 2

as well as TPM.

Awesomeness.

Photographer Phillip Toledano explores cosmetically altered beauty (NSFW):

I’m interested in what we define as beauty, when we choose to create it ourselves.

Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological means to mint our own, what choices do we make?

Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon’s hand? Can we identify physical trends that vary from decade to decade, or is beauty timeless?

When we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping away our very identity?

Perhaps we are creating a new kind of beauty. An amalgam of surgery, art, and popular culture? And if so, are the results the vanguard of human induced evolution?

Fascinating.

This is how

Photographer Brandon Voges came up with a simple and surprisingly novel idea: photograph portraits of people hanging upside down by their ankles. Then invite your closest friends to do the same. The resulting eerie series “Upside Downey Face” is a collection of unsettling, strange images of people flipped the wrong way up.

Click Here to see the rest of the slightly scary pictures…