A series of superimpositions created for a 2010 History Channel promo by photographer Seth Taras entitled ‘Know Where You Stand’. Taras recreated the angles of images taken of various historical events around the world in an early example of the ‘then and now’ trope.
Above: the 1937 Hindenburg Crash, the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 1944 Normandy Landings and Hitler in Paris in 1940.
A mini-doc on the burgeoning phenomenon of fashion blogging by GARAGE Magazine sez:
When we set out to make this short, our intention simply was to observe the phenomenon of fashion bloggers and street style stars. As we started to review the footage, two salient trends became apparent: fashion editors frustrated by the ensuing commotion outside of shows, and the rise of “peacocking” street style stars as a result of the proliferation of blogs. This film examines these themes from both perspectives.
End of a long week.
Pictures by Harrison Howell Walker taken around Ireland in the summer of 1940, ostensibly for The National Geographic but some for his own – and now our – pleasure.
Includes obligatory Irish mother cutting turf after burying her son.
(Thanks Sibling of Daedalus)
From the Tumblr Pictures Of Hipsters Taking Pictures Of Food wherein we observe hipsters taking pictures of food.
Damn.
(Hat tip: Anthony Finucane)
Alan Friedman likes to point a Hydrogen Alpha filtered telescope directly at the sun from his backyard in Buffalo, New York. Above are the raw, colourless original images he captures and others that Friedman has tweaked, unblurred and colourised in order to tease out the fine detail. Sez he:
My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes.
The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image.
Even higher definition photos are on show at Friedman’s Tumblr.
And here’s a TEDx talk he gave last year.
Includes: Wright-bodied Mercedes, a Coke-covered KD345 and Leyland/Bombardier bus-on-bus action.
Mmmmm…
(heavy bass)
I’ve come about the hydraulics…
Bring out the Imp…
etc.
Images from ‘Dublin Bus: Changing with the City 1987-2006′ by Jonathan McDonnell, Darren Hall and Ian Molloy.
From top: Bombardier KD160-174s in Donnybrook garage, June 1987; Atlantean DF422 and Bombardier KD261, Westmoreland Street, 1987; KD13 turning into Lower Abbey Street en route to Howth, 1991; Atlantean D378 re-registered as 88 D 988 on Eden Quay May,1988; P class P37, Abbey Street, June 1993; Coke-Cola sponsored KD345, O’Connell Street , December 1988; Wright-bodied Mercedes minibus, Rathmines, early-1990s and the old and new fleet, Phibsboro garage, 1987.
Previously: May Contain Vintage Dublin Bus Porn
Gaza, November 20, 2012.
By Paul Hansen.
A group of men carrying the bodies of two dead children to a mosque for the burial ceremony while their father’s body is carried behind on a stretcher. Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their mother was put in intensive care.
Swedish Photographer Paul Hansen Wins Premier Photo-Contest Award (World Press Photo)
Russian biologist Alexander Semenov’s macro photography of the multicoloured surfaces of starfish epidermis. His close-up series of coral and jellyfish are equally impressive.
Images from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out exhibition
More at the 40+ image Flickr set.
French photographer Normann Szkop‘s incredible, Cessna-borne aerials of the tulip fields of Anna Paulowna in northern Holland, taken last April.
See the full (100+ image) set here.
