Fecal Face Jeremy Fish studio visit. Photo by Trippe.

I’ve been addicted to Fecal Face‘s Studio Visit feature for a long time. Every once in a while John Trippe, the art site’s founder, will crash an artist’s space, bring beers, and take pictures. It’s my favorite thing on FF. The pictures are not staged; they’re more like the pictures your friends take of their friends. The artist is usually milling around, caught mid-conversation.

ShareSomeCandy has something similar: A recurring feature called WorkSpaces takes on illustrator types. The presentation is cleaner — the artists are now at their desks and knickknacks are photographed lovingly — but the effect is the same: it’s a peek at the places where good work is done.

There’s tons of stuff like this: Architectural Digest, Unwrapped, reality TV in general. But it’s all too well curated. It’s not personal, and it’s completely predictable. Rich people! “Food” squirting out of tubes! Flip flops and beer koozies! It’s a snooze.

Studio visits are the right kind of behind the scenes. They’re highly intimate without the shock value. Oh, and they cover something that some of us might actually care about.

ShareSomeCandy's Workspaces. Deanna Halsall