Now you have to admit that this looks dead-good, eh? If ever you wanted proof that you can’t keep a good man down (or a dead evil one), here it is. Osombie is an independently-produced, feature-length zombie film, packed with violence, mayhem, guns, blood and discussions about Pokemon. Oh, and zombies. Lots of zombies. We featured the first Bin-Zombie film (Zombinladen – The Axis of Evil Dead) back in September 2011, but this production takes it to a whole new level.

The story follows Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama Bin Laden is still alive, despite having been buried at sea. In Afghanistan, Dusty falls in with a team of NATO Special Forces on a secret assignment. Turns out Derek is not so crazy after all, and that Osama has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists. When the group crashes headlong into the growing zombie apocalypse, Dusty and the troops must find and destroy the root of the zombie insurgency before it infests the rest of the world.

Osombie is packed with desert (Utah, that is) action, cgi explosions, and cgi blood, but the fun factor is looking mighty high. It stars Corey Sevier (The Lost Future, Age of Dragons) and model Eve Mauro. It’s been shot and edited, and the filmmakers are currently seeking a post-production budget on Kickstarter.

We’ve all seen the advert, a fat lardass of a man is transformed by the power of supplements into a muscle-bound six-pack wearing god of fitness. And for all the sceptics they even have pictures to prove it, so there! But this genius exposes the potentially fraudulent ways that such a picture can be misleading. And there’s no Photoshop either. IT’S ALL TRUE!!!

Mark Malkoff is living the Hollywood dream, but in the same rotten global economy we all are, so when he went to LA, instead of staying in a hotel, he asked celebrities if he could sleepover at their homes. Not really big celebrities like Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts but the ‘less’ major people who were in sitcoms many moons ago. And Kristen Schaal. And Chloe from 24. And the badass evil karate instructor from Karate Kid. Actually, this all sounds pretty good when you think about it…

Yosemite National Park, featuring a valley carved out of the American landscape by glaciers 4,000ft wide 1 million years ago. Yes, it’s one of those places where it’s OK to be totally wowed by nature and not come across like some leaf-loving hippy. It’s a place of stunning beauty, exactly the sort of place where you’d want to take a Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses and time-lapse the fuck out of it.

The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.

Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.

“I felt like there was kind of this void,” says Mantoani. “There were all these anonymous photographers out there who have not been given enough credit.”

Jeff Widener holds his photo of Tank Man in Tienanmen Square from 1989.

At a time when everyone has a camera in their pocket and millions, if not billions of photos are flying around the internet each day, Mantoani wants to help people understand that iconic photos don’t just happen. They are the product of people who devote their entire lives to photography. Giving these people a face, he says, helps do that.

Steve McCurry holds his 1984 photo of a young woman from Peshawar, Pakistan. “I looked for this girl for 17 years and finally found her in 2002. Her name is Sharbat Gula.”

“It was important to step back and understand that cameras didn’t make these photos, photographers made these photos,” he says. “Without these people and their understanding of photography, these moments would not be there for us to understand and appreciate over the course of time.”

Neil Leifer holds his photo, Ali vs. Liston, which he took on May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine.

Mantoani, a San Diego-based commercial and editorial photographer who is well known for his portrait work, decided to challenge his own craftsmanship by shooting the portraits on the enormous 20×24 Polaroid format. Only a few 20×24 Polaroid cameras still exist, and the film can be prohibitively expensive — about $200 per shot.

Bill Eppridge stands with his photo of Robert F. Kennedy after his assassination on June 5, 1968.

Over the course of the project, some of the photographers who participated passed away. Polaroid went belly up, making 20×24 film that much harder to come by. The weight of each photo’s importance as a historic document became more apparent with each loss.

Elliot Erwitt: “The picture I am holding was snapped in 1974 just across the street from my apartment in New York’s Central Park. It has been 38 years since that event and sadly I have lost track of the participants.”

“We have come to a point in history where we are losing both photographic recording mediums and iconic photographers,” Mantoani says.

Brent Stirton: “This is Virunga, the first National Park in Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Silverback Mountain Gorilla, along with 6 females, had been killed by a group trying to intimidate conservation rangers into being less proactive in their efforts against poaching & illegal charcoal making.

Scarcity and history also increased the pressure to produce a quality image. “Digital has allowed you to hold the hammer down and work it out later,” he says. “This process really forced me to go back to my roots and try to get everything perfect before I even made the exposure.”

Brian Smith: “The magic of photography happens when you don’t see what’s coming next.”

Some portraits Mantoani nailed on the first shot, others took three or four tries. The process often became a collaboration between Mantoani and his subjects, who offered their own advice.

Douglas Kirkland: “This is from my Evening with Marilyn.”

Steve McCurry, for example, looked at his own first portrait and commented on the amount of space that Mantoani left between his head and the top of the frame. McCurry insisted that Mantoani could do what he wanted, but Mantoani was happy to take the advice — especially considering the source.

“The shoots sometimes became little mini workshops,” Mantoani says.

Harry Benson: “Brian Epstein — Beatles’ manager — had just told them they were number one in America, and I was coming with them to New York, 1964.”

Some of the photographers not only lent their advice, but also their rolodex. The first few photographers Mantoani worked with were instrumental in getting him access to the larger community. Some photographers still said no, even with the referral. Others, such as Herman Leonard, took a long time to come around.

Karen Kuehn: “From the 1993 Cats Story shot for National Geographic. The director Thomas Kennedy asked me to shoot an entire story about ‘cats.’ He did not want it to be typical! So problem solving this assignment was good fun. The Russian Blue Cat and Ballerina legs was inspired by George Balanchine — he used the idea of cats landing always on their toes to teach his dancers.”

“When people realized that I wasn’t out to take advantage of them but instead wanted celebrate this group of photographers, they wrapped their arms around the project,” Mantoani said.

Lyle Owerko: “No one knew such a beautiful warm day would serve as the backdrop to one of the most painful and confusing events to the heart of mankind. This picture is one small part of such a huge event that ties the threads of thousands of stories and millions of people together.

The book is the first step in preserving and broadcasting the archive. Mantoani eventually wants the original prints to become part of an exhibition.

Mark Seliger: “Originally an inside opener for Rolling Stone cover story of Nirvana in conjunction with the release of In Utero, my first Polaroid (with Negative) was by far the most emotional and revealing of his spirit. Two months later Kurt died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. This photograph became the memorial RS cover.”

“I wanted to create this archive so that some day when the photographers are all gone, my grandkids can not only appreciate their photos, but also know who they were and what they looked like.”

To find out more or purchase a copy of the book, please visit the Behind Photographs website.

NO, they are not 2 webcam wannabes shaking their thang. If you’ve never heard the two words above, then where have you been all week? Both these acts that threaten the freedoms of the online world with their lameness have had bad press this week, thanks in no small part to thousands of websites going dark in protest against them. But if you’re still a little unclear as to what these beasts will do to our internets, this video will help explain it.

It’s surprising this religion-hating fool hasn’t felt the wrath of God rein down on his puny human head, smiting his fleshy brain into the void of idiocy. Because God is an angry being who has been made impotent by science and the lack of intelligent people believing in him. Why is it all atheists are know-it-all douchebags and religious types are generally dumb, where does SOPA and PIPA stand on all this, why are we here…..Oh God! Where’s my lithium?

This must’ve taken a long time and some dedication to complete, so props for that. A collection of quotes from various movies are edited together so that everyone from Arnie to Elvis to Bruce Lee to Morpheus joins together to give their unwitting rendition of Lionel Richie’s “Hello”. And what a marvellous performance it is, a thing of rare and treasured beauty the likes of which the world has never seen. Kind of.

“Sitting around, smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos and masturbating do not constitute plans.” – If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad then shame on you and your family. If you have seen it then you’ll know how breaking badass it is, as the dynamic duo, Jesse Pinkman & Walter H. White, go from bad to worse, and then back again – and you’ll enjoy this montage of POV shots taken mostly from inanimate objects like a frying pan, toilet, wood floor, dryer, shovel, sidewalk, parking lot, clipboard, roomba, grill, pizza, bathtub, refrigerator, pool, vent, cleaning brush. Lets get cooking.

It’s musical Wednesday over here on PB, so enjoy the President of the United States of America laying it down like Lady Gaga and showing the Little Monsters that he can do anything she can do better. If his hidden singing talents aren’t going to win him this year’s presidential election then the country might as well give up and sink into the ocean.