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Another year in pictures

allkindsoftime — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:17:11 -0800

The year 2009 in photographs (boston.com, parts 2 & 3 coming tomorrow and the next day) prev

The Super-Kamiokande

Chan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:50:30 -0800

Hi-res pictures of the Super-Kamiokande, a neutrino detector in Japan. The Super-Kamiokande, also known as the Super-K, is used to detect neutrinos, electrically neutral particles that are able to pass through matter. Effectively, it's a giant pool with walls made of phototubes used to detect Cherenkov radiation emitted by the interaction between neutrinos and electrons in the water. But even if you didn't understand any of that, it's still shiny and neat to look at.

The pictures and sketches of JRR Tolkien

nthdegx — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:01:53 -0800

The pictures and sketches of JRR Tolkien

Explore the most beautiful, most repulsive city in the world through the photography of Brian Scott.

Orange Pamplemousse — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:21:47 -0800

Winnipeg: Love and Hate Marlborough and the Legislature are two particularly nice pictures. Satellite Map mash-up (the artist).

Please Prepare For Landing

msalt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:33:36 -0800

1,512 high-resolution images of Mars from the viewpoint of an airplane passenger. Previous photos: 1 2 3

Well, I don't know, pictures

mss — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:22:49 -0800

Them Thangs, NSFW, 13 pages of, well, stuff. Not much reading required.

Light-Test

ColdChef — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:13:14 -0800

Light-Test: a home for all of our light tests. A website dedicated to pictures of photography assistants at work. Sort of.

Why chicks cry

paduasoy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:52:37 -0800

Why chicks cry. Images of women and girls crying, taken from DC romance comics 1957 to 1968. via Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

Everyone wins when the camel is adorable

Del Far — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:38:55 -0800

camel vs. bin

Dork Yearbook

carsonb — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:42:21 -0800

Dork Yearbook - vintage tech pr0n, now with thicker glasses and footsier pajamas!

Side by Side

Mitheral — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:12:55 -0800

"Josh and Nina are two friends. Every day, they each take a photo. Operating under a pact of absolute secrecy, neither knows what the other is working on. Each morning, they post their photos on Minty Forest side by side." Despite the diversity of their subjects the individual days often have consistency, consonance, coincidence, congruence or discord.

Broken Picture Telephone

ob — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:20:29 -0800

In the spirit of Friday being game day, I give you Broken Picture Telephone; a pictoral version of the classic game of telephone (also known as Chinese Whispers.) Previously on MeFi.

Found lives

mudpuppie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:43:13 -0800

Ten years ago, a guy started collecting undeveloped rolls of film. That's pretty much all you need to know. (Via.)

The Visual Telling of Stories

carsonb — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:53:36 -0800

The Visual Telling of Stories
A lyrical encyclopedia of visual propositions;
a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories. And we, spectators always, everywhere Looking at, never out of, everything ! It fills us. We arrange it. It decays. We rearrange it, and decay ourselves. Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, the eighth elegy, 1922

120,000 words

allkindsoftime — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:12:58 -0800

The year 2008 in photographs (boston.com, parts 2 & 3 coming tomorrow and the next day)

Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharped dress man (with a baby)

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:25:01 -0800

Yes we can (hold babies)!

Baby's First Internet

oxford blue — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:26:13 -0800

Baby's first internet comes amidst other, less illustrated, concerns about the all-consuming 'blogosphere' and increasingly online life. The problems, it seems, are somewhat novel and (one assumes) almost endless.

Words of warning

nospecialfx — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:30:26 -0800

Words of warning: Watch out for squirrels. Keep your kids with you, but don't put them here. And finally, some advice for golfers. (links go to pictures) If you like those, there are more at Funnysign.com and Swanksigns.org (dedicated to the art of mocking public works).

This is a list of frogs.

bigmusic — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:55:56 -0800

This is a list of frogs. Look at pictures the frogs. Most importantly, listen (sounds like a fart) to (sounds like a baseball card in your bike tire) the (sounds like a sheep) frogs (classic frog sound). More pictures and sounds at the first link.

Kano Collection of old Japanese books and scrolls

Kattullus — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:06:05 -0800

Tohoku University's Kano Collection is an unparalleled collection of japanese books from the Edo period. The beautiful and grizzly Kaibou zonshinzu anatomical chart has been making the blogrounds lately but that's only one of the countless treasures the Kano Collection has to offer. Stumbling around near-blindly, like a non-Japanese reader such as myself, with only minimal help from the site, I have come across an amazing variety of beautiful objects, such as this picture book, a scroll with images of animals, city map, map of Japan, battle map, another picture book, the Kaitai shouzu anatomical chart and this picture scroll which has my favorite little scene I've come across in the collection. Whole days could be spent just surfing idly through the Kano Collection.

So much time has passed...and not much has changed.

zardoz — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:40:07 -0800

YOUNGME - NOWME. Amusing recreations of childhood photos.

If you look really close, you can see people on the beach - doing stuff.

bigmusic — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:47:23 -0800

274 Atolls. "This page is a doorway to a very large gallery of the world's atolls. The atolls presented here are by no means exhaustive of all those that are known — many are not included. Atolls which have lost their lagoons, such as Jarvis Island and Nukutuvake, are not included. Atolls that are classed as "almost atolls", such as Aitutaki and Raivavae, are not included. Raised atolls, such as Atiu, are not included. Sunken atolls, partly sunken atolls and atolls that have lost their islands are included." oceandots.com

In the flash of a click

hadjiboy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:42:01 -0800

The Power of Photography (might or might not be NSFW) with accompanying articles: Stricken Child crawling towards a Food Camp [1994] | The Falling Man [2001] | The Youngest Mother [1939] | Born Twice [1999] (via)

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2007

stbalbach — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:42:26 -0800

The Wikimedia Commons Picture(s) of the Year 2007.

Pictures by Cat

Mitheral — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:00:55 -0800

Fritz Cam [german homepage] is a collection of pictures taken by a cat during his daily walkabout using an interval camera attached to his collar.