This is hot

Taken from the How blog:

Re-releases of all the James Bond novels with new retro-styled illustrations by Michael Gillette. I don't even want to read them, I just want to hang them all up on my wall in a row.

And then, while I was looking at the pictures of the book covers at Kitsune Noir, I happened upon this great entry,
Advice to baby photographers, not photographers of babies written by photographer Clayton Cubitt.

Excerpt:

If possible, don’t take a picture of anything right away. Give yourself time to just experience. You need to do this to understand what you’re photographing. If it’s a landscape, walk around and soak up the sun, smell the dirt. If it’s fashion, feel the textures, the colors. If it’s a portrait, talk to the human in front of you and try to understand what’s in their head. If it’s combat reportage, get behind the video guy, he’s a good shield. 
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What makes up a style? Find a photographer you really admire and rip him off mercilessly.Consider it a remote apprenticeship. This is the history of culture. One day you’ll accidentally start doing original work, and then some young punk will start ripping you off. And the cycle of life is continued…