The Midnight Sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months near the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. This short, time lapse film was shot in June 2011 over 17 days and incorporates 38,000 images. The photographer/videographer traveled over 2,900 miles throughout Iceland.
Midnight Sun (SL-vimeo, via) [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Oct 18, 2011 -
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Jo Guldi writes
a fascinating entry about social engineering and geography in the 1970's. "The geographers located answers in American zones of isolation and hopelessness. Bill Bunge organized his fellow professors into the Detroit Geographical Expedition, leading frequent trips to document the slums of Detroit and later Toronto. Their findings were equally provocative. In 1968, the Society published a map entitled “
Where Commuters Run Over Black Children on the Pointes-Downtown Track.” Life and death, they argued, were not merely the commodities available to any hard-working American, but hung upon the thread of a special kind of privilege, the privilege of safe territory."
Guldi is a historian at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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posted by cashman
on Feb 12, 2010 -
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Great photographers:
Clark Little (surf photography),
Nick Brandt (mostly African wildlife),
John Hyde (mostly wildlife and Alaska),
Veronika Pinke (landscapes),
Dale Allman (miscellaneous; particularly beautiful are his Australian cityscapes and the HDR/DRI photos),
Ansel Adams (the undisputed master of nature photography who died in 1984; famous quotes: "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", "A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. "),
Michel Rajkovic (mostly marine landscape, exclusively in black and white). And
again, as a tribute to a gifted artist who died far too early, the work of
Bobby Model (adventure photographer). Last but not least:
Onexposure, probably the biggest collection of quality photography on the net.
posted by Matthias Rascher
on Sep 21, 2009 -
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Thomas Graz has a collection of glasses with pictures on them. Mainly from the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the German Empire, but including some other countries too. A novel way to navigate history, architecture, people and landscape. Oh! and he
needs help with some of them too.
posted by tellurian
on Aug 5, 2007 -
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The Third View project is a fascinating presentation of "rephotographs" of over 100 historic landscape sites in the American West that presents original 19th-century survey photographs, photographed again in the 1970s, then once again in the '90s - from the original vantage points, under similar lighting conditions, at (roughly) the same time of day and year.
[Flash, and you'll probably need to allow pop-ups; a little more info inside...]
posted by taz
on Jun 15, 2007 -
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More than 16,000 photos related to the USGS from the years 1868 through 1992 are now available online where they may be easily searched, viewed, and downloaded free of charge.
These are old stereo pairs, sites drowned by dams, geologists and surveyers in horse drawn wagons, petroglyphs, national parks, Mount St. Helens, John Wesley
Powell, hoodoos, arches, ruins, mines...
posted by the Real Dan
on Apr 14, 2005 -
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The Group of Seven. Arguably Canada's most important artists, the Group of Seven "
popularized the concept of an art founded on the Canadian landscape, gave many Canadians a sense of national identity and enabled them to discover the beauty of their own country." Peruse an
art gallery and marvel at the beauty they portrayed.
(Mangled quote from the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery)
Equally important was
Emily Carr. While her style was similar to that of the Group of Seven, her interest in First Nations became her trademark. Some of her
paintings.
posted by ashbury
on Jun 30, 2003 -
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When academics rebel. A
group of economists is attempting to redraw the landscape of academic research publication by injecting new
electronic peer reviewed journals into the marketplace. Electronic publication of research certainly has its merits at times. Case in point: Because of the pressing medical importance of analyses of the recent anthrax cases,
JAMA has published the results of two studies (one of patients who
survived and one of those who
did not) online in advance of the print publication in order to inform health care professionals as soon as possible. Do situations like this argue in favor of a change in the way that research is conducted and/or reported?
posted by iceberg273
on Nov 15, 2001 -
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