Mark Laita has put together a spectacular book of snake photography called Serpentine ($39). Serpentines photographs span the beautiful and the dangerous in a collage of color and danger. Accompanying the photographs is an essay written by William T. Vollmann. The snakes covered in the book include such beauties as the black mamba, pit viper and the candy-cane-striped albino Honduran milk snake. The images in Serpentine will, at the same time, haunt and amaze.
There is an unavoidable downside to spending an evening necking your favorite cocktails, and that is the next day hangover. In today technological world, you really would have thought that by now someone would have come up with a mass cure for the lethargy, nausea and the nagging headache. Sadly nobody has but step forward […]