Link About It: This Week’s Picks

People as paintings, graphic design challenges, chatty improv, decadent hotels, futuristic sunglasses, and more

1. Slideshow: 2010 Winter Paralympics The Boston Globe‘s photo site The Big Picture offers an inside view on the Paralympic Games. The powerful images capture it all, from the opening ceremonies to hockey, slalom and more. 2. Bedrooms of War Photographer Ashley Gilbertson captured a unique and heartbreaking side of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for this week’s T Magazine photo narrative. The Shrine …

The Great Western Alpaca Show

Photographer Ross Evertson's journey through one of the USA's largest Alpaca shows

Photographer Ross Evertson‘s 2007 trip to The Great Western Alpaca Show highlights the strangely fuzzy annual springtime exhibition, recently featured by Good Magazine. From shearing contests to best in show, the livestock-friendly fair finds a little something for every Alpaca lover. Featuring their famous long hair, the Alpaca photo shoot takes a behind-the-scenes look at the largest Alpaca show west of the Mississippi. and continues …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Drunken revelries at the Times, state-of-the-art bathing, vintage models of brains, the newest music videos and more

1. Lady Gaga: Telephone The highly anticipated follow-up to the pop giant’s music video “Bad Romance,” covered by On Smash, finds our Lady jailed in ripped tights, latex and caution tape. She gets sprung by Beyoncé, (whose music video Videophone last year featured Gaga) and the two cause general nonsensical mayhem and mass homicide in the spirit of “Kill Bill.” 2. Kid Cudi: Pursuit of …