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Musarium: discovering signs of intelligent life on planet earth

taz — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:00:11 -0800

I've been having a great time exploring the maze that is Musarium, wandering about and peeking into into various nooks and crannies to find such exotica as the wonderfully bizarre birdhand book, and absorbing cultural artifacts and musings, including the poetic Visions and Icons (I really love the way the text works with the images on this), the atmospheric Familiar Ghosts (the texts will cue you on clicking through this somewhat dream-like landscape), the time-capsule imagery of Balkan Portraits (1906-1910), the breathtaking portraits of photographer Steve McCurry (famous for his National Geographic portait of the Afghani girl), the subterranean monologue of Grand Central: the View Down Under, and the shocking and heartbreaking Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. There's a lot more, so take your time. You can use this page to access archived material.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:25:51 -0800

...the preview button

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:27:00 -0800

Gorgeous lovely links. What a resource.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 04:15:13 -0800

hmm. I thought I had fixed that last link. Let's try it again.

By: kozad

kozad — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 06:26:09 -0800

wow

By: photoslob

photoslob — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 06:29:03 -0800

Be sure to check out the Rio work by Claudio Edinger. Absolutely stunning.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 07:14:17 -0800

Vietnam Inc. by Philip Jones Griffiths is amazing and leads to interviews including stuff about Magnum and it's internal politics.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 07:17:29 -0800

photoslob How did you get into the Rio pics? Everytime I try one of the view Images links I get a database error.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 07:49:57 -0800

Great surfing site indeed, taz...I like some of the the pop culture stories on the site too...like the report of Harley week in Daytona and photos from a tattoo convention in Rutherford, NJ. Here's an index page that describes some of the past featured stories.

By: .kobayashi.

.kobayashi. — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 08:47:23 -0800

This is really wonderful stuff; thanks taz! I particularly liked the Bird Hand series, both for the photography, and for figuring out which bird is which. Once I moved to AZ, where no one knows the name of the birds -- at least, no one I know-- I learned that one of the local birds was a grackle, but never learned which bird. Grackle quickly became my code-word for anything unfamiliar. And know I know which one a grackle is. Which destroys that tiny in-joke, but in the coolest possible way... Oh, and speaking of Arizona, the Border States sequence is also pretty good.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:13:01 -0800

Aww. Nice grackle. If you like Schrager, there's more of his "handiwork" here, in his Botany series, and here's his current exhibit. Booky.

By: kavasa

kavasa — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:22:31 -0800

Excellent site - best of the web, even. Thanks.

By: scody

scody — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:38:16 -0800

Lovely find as always, taz! Thanks.

By: Ljubljana

Ljubljana — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:55:25 -0800

The Balkan Portraits really knocked my socks off. Gorgeous, taz, thanks.