Website Review: justinshady.com
by D.J. Kirkbride
 
Good photography is in the eye of the beholder. Like other forms of art, one person’s masterpiece is another’s babified chicken scratch. One person’s amazing portrait is another’s meaningless snapshot. So it goes in art.

Justin Shady’s photography often transcends all that, turning snapshot into portrait. Using only available light and often armed only with a small digital camera, Shady’s photographs are immediate and of the moment. The pictures work best when they’re of people just being themselves. There’s something amazing captured in the shots, especially when they’re not posed. His chosen subjects often don’t know they’re being photographed until after the fact. His composition is interesting and adds to the immediacy without being pretentious. Shady’s use of color is exciting as well, often unbalanced to great effect; a blue hue over the whole picture or a golden tint from the incandescent lights.

Justinshady.com utilizes the same simple yet elegant, barebones approach that goes into the photographs. Sparse in terms of graphics, the site lets the pictures take center stage. It’s updated every month or so, and the photos aren’t archived, so it’s a good idea to check it out once in a while, to see what this unique photographer is up to.

Website Review: radiohead.com
By Dustin Grovemiller
 
Imagine that you’re carrying someone’s brain around in a bucket, and you trip and fall. The brain spills out all over the floor, slick and pink. You bend over to pick it up, but somehow get sucked into it, and suddenly you’re lost in an incomprehensible maze of the subconscious, where nonsensical phrases appear and disappear, and you wander around randomly looking for answers and escape. That’s a lot like entering radiohead.com.
 
But at least they tell you what you’re in for up front.
 
A self-proclaimed “enormous Ziggurat in hyperspace,” Radiohead’s official website is an accurate reflection of the band and their work. Even if you’re not patient enough to stay and explore the site – which could take hours, if not longer – you’ve got to be impressed with the sheer complexity of it. Peppered with snippets of lyrics, real and potential, along with a variety of other mood-inducing phraseology, the twisting and turning journey through pages and buttons also features some gorgeous illustrations that follow along the lines of later album art.
 
If you’re feeling like taking a head trip, have plenty of time and a sturdy net connection, then settle down with radiohead.com, put in anything from OK Computer through Hail To The Thief, and start clicking.