Google Sightseeing highlights interesting satellite photos taken from Google Maps
Google Sightseeing highlights interesting satellite photos taken from Google Maps.
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The innuendo photo pool on Flickr
The innuendo photo pool on Flickr. Including “Bunghole Liquors” and “Huron Drugs”.
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was that weird looking baby?
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus exhibition at the Met is worth checking out. Open through May 30.
Flickr switches from Flash to DHTML/Ajax
Flickr switches from Flash to DHTML/Ajax for displaying photos and notes. You can now also put links in notes, which, damn, my mind just blew.
“Queens” sign on a women’s bathroom in
“Queens” sign on a women’s bathroom in Chelsea might cause some confusion.
How a couple of mathematicians helped the
How a couple of mathematicians helped the Met accurately photograph some priceless tapestries. The difficulty in piecing together the different photographs was because when the tapestries were taken off the wall, they “began to breathe, expanding, contracting, shifting”…that is, they were changing between photos.
Man bitten by a deadly Brazilian Wandering
Man bitten by a deadly Brazilian Wandering Spider is saved by his cameraphone pic he took of the spider. “Experts at Bristol Zoo were able to identify [the spider from the photo] and suggest an antidote.”
Dressed as their favorite characters from a Wes Anderson movie
Dressed as their favorite characters from a Wes Anderson movie.
Nikon is coming out with new D-SLRs soon
Nikon is coming out with new D-SLRs soon. The successor to the Nikon D70 (dammit, I just got mine a few months ago!) as well as a more entry-level D-SLR.
Rephotographing Eugene Atget’s photos of Paris
Rephotographing Eugene Atget’s photos of Paris. I wanted to do this someday.
Tugboat limbo
Now you’ve seen everything: a tugboat doing the limbo. (via mb)
Update: Found this while rooting around in my archives and updated the broken link. A classic internet meme.
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
These color photographs of circa-1915 Tsarist Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii are amazing (particularly these two).
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