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Amusing crashes

Datsun death

Dark Roasted Blend is full of interesting, bizarre, and entertainingly candid shots, including car and plane accidents.

date Wed, 02 Jul 2008 Bookmark comment Comments
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NYC Abstract

Photo: Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
Photo: Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
There’s a short-n-sweet photo gallery of Abstract New York over at the NY Times that I thought was interesting.

date Fri, 30 May 2008 Bookmark comment Comments
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EV Lacertae's a star—with some serious flare

EV Lacertae - NASA
Image Credit: Casey Reed/NASA
According to NASA, a really small star had an intense solar flare around the end of April 2008. NASA’s Swift satellite captured the flare, which was thousands of times more powerful than any other solar flare observed.

Aside from all the interesting science, the image is amazingly beautiful.

date Wed, 28 May 2008 Bookmark comment Comments
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Dulce Pinzón - Superheroes

Dulce Pinzón's Superheroes
Photo: Dulce Pinzón

What is a hero? Dulce Pinzón asks this question and focuses on a very common, unsung hero—immigrants. More specifically, he targets the Mexican immigrant in New York. He’s introduced an interesting juxtaposition of American and Mexican superhero characters and the many different jobs that Mexicans living in New York City perform. As far as their “hero” credibility, Mr Pinzón states how much money they send back home to Mexico. I would argue that these people’s potential “hero factor” increases as they contribute in many other ways aside from sending money to their home country.

On one hand, it’s a politically-charged statement that forces one to think about the current situation of illegal immigration, stereotypes, etc. On the other hand, they’re great photographs by combining a surreal element in a concrete environment, which in my opinion could stand on it’s own.

I think this project is brilliant, really fantastic! Check out more photographs here.

date Tue, 18 Mar 2008 Bookmark comment Comments
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Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers

Chris Jordan - Cans Seurat
Art: Chris Jordan, Cans Seurat, 2007

Chris Jordan’s new exhibit Running the Numbers is a thought-provoking piece that brings ordinary statistics to life throught his brilliant use of scale and repetition.

If you’re in New York this summer, you’ll be able to see these images in their native size at the Von Lintel Gallery from June 14 through the end of July.

date Fri, 02 Mar 2007 Bookmark comment Comments
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blackthoughts, nowwashyourhands

nowwashyourhands - blackthoughts

Pretty girls doing scary things at blackthoughts. While you’re at it, peep the rest of NOWWASHYOURHANDS.

date Wed, 27 Sep 2006 Bookmark comment Comments
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Niemeyer remix

niemeyer remix — art by Brian Morris
Art: Brian Morris

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói
Fundação Oscar Niemeyer

date Mon, 18 Sep 2006 Bookmark comment Comments
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Inside Out: Photos by Migrant Workers

Chouysang Supot foto
Foto: Chouysang Supot

Photo editor Dorothy Ho writes a beautiful note about her current project which puts cameras in the hands of migrant workers in Singapore in order to see what usually isn’t seen.

She writes…

“Jaded by repetitive news reports, our perspective of the world tends to be narrow and fearful. We live by stereotypes and cliches because it is easier to understand the world through a simple lens…”

Go check out Inside Out for yourself – see if you like it. Link via Daniel Koh at K10K.

date Tue, 17 Jan 2006 Bookmark comment Comments
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Panoramic head

Panoramic head

Check out the story behind this crazy image!

date Thu, 08 Dec 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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Helsinki fashionista

HEL LOOKS
30 July 2005, Fredrikintori

Ville (20) “Drunkenness and hangover are in fashion at the moment.”

See what normal people in Finland are wearing on the streets over at Hel Looks.

date Sun, 04 Dec 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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Cassette tape mania!

Memorex dBS 90

After all of the marvelous things the internet does for us nowadays, I still enjoy the fact that it has yet to cease as a viable outlet for our innermost (neurotic?) desires to catalogue absolutely EVERYTHING under the sun…

…like tons of blank cassettes! Check out Not Wild Style’s Cassette Jam ‘05 before the 50 gazillion terabyte Lee Press-On hard drives give us a DVD nostalgia gallery.

date Mon, 17 Oct 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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