Patrick Dangin on the work of a photo retoucher . Make no mistake about it: in this age, even Real Beauty is fake.
posted on May 8, 2008 - View this thread

Google to map the oceans.
posted on Apr 30, 2008 - View this thread

Gravity Defying Homes Image gallery of some pretty funky homes. {via Daily Dose of Architecture}
posted on Apr 26, 2008 - View this thread

Britain's Maunsell Sea Forts [wiki] were built during WWII as part of the coastal defense system. They were decommissioned in the 1950's, but many of them remain in use for non-military purposes (this is arguably the most famous). Some great photos here. [previously on metafilter]
posted on Apr 25, 2008 - View this thread

From Aircraft to Zodiac, from Tricks to Trucks, the Zippo Gallery has something for everyone. (Well, everyone who likes Zippos, anyway.)
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - View this thread

Decaying memorial photos at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
posted on Apr 11, 2008 - View this thread

Paradise: The Gardens of Tokyo. A collection of amazing photographs of Japanese gardens as taken by Tim Porter.
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - View this thread

Tokyo By Night - Just one of the posts on ArkiBlog, a blog about architecture and design. {via}
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this thread

Interesting photos and film (mpg | avi) on a site that doesn't give context.
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - View this thread

"Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up. Love, Jay / The Plug". Stranger Photos Have Happened.
posted on Mar 21, 2008 - View this thread

A handful of pretty great spacewalk pix from last summer's Endeavour mission.
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - View this thread

Uncle Dirty is a fascinating photo essay about a photographer's strange uncle who has lived 86 years obsessed with bodybuilding, penises, and thongs. Not safe for work, but not too crazy, the photos really humanize someone you'd probably cross the street to avoid in real life. (via mjj/blort)
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - View this thread

Song Chart Meme. A series of charts breaking down popular music.
posted on Feb 29, 2008 - View this thread

Desiree Palmen makes some really neat camouflage photographs. via
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - View this thread

Unflattering photos from the campaign trail. My personal favorite is this one: NOMNOMNOM
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - View this thread

Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe High school science project alchemy: dumb shit into comedy gold.
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - View this thread

The first drive-in movie theater was opened on June 6, 1933, by salesman Richard M. Hollingshead in Camden, N.J. On the bill was a twilight showing of the British comedy Wife Beware. And so the drive-in era was born, peaking in 1958 with almost 5,000 theaters in the U.S alone. These days you'd be hard pressed trying to find one but thankfully there are plenty of handy lists online telling you just where to find one (there's even one for Aussies like me!). And that's not all we have to be thankful for; the drive-in scene is apparently witnessing something of a "mini-revival" at present. Don't feel like going out? Then why not make your own? First you'll need instructions on how to build one. Then you'll need intermission-advertisements (you can download or even just watch heaps of them for free here). And then you'll need a handy list of the kinds of films they used to show at the drive-in. If you're in the US, you'll need to know some of the special rules the FCC has for drive-ins, and if you have any more questions, I'm sure the fine folk at the United Drive-In Theater Owners Association could help. All of this sound like too much work? Then just sit back and check out the videos and photos on this nice site (it's about drive-ins, of course!).
posted on Feb 18, 2008 - View this thread

Hong Kong sex scandal. Edison Chen's cache of private photos may be the biggest Asian sex scandal ever. Starting roughly on Feb. 5, developing, developing. Some pix NSFW but pixelated, and you'll have to google if you want the real images.
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - View this thread

The Wikimedia Commons Picture(s) of the Year 2007.
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - View this thread

Domesticated by photographer Amy Stein explores the tension between settled and wild spaces.

Stranded is another collection of work dealing with the expectations of public and private space.

More self-explanatory: Women and Guns and Halloween in Harlem. She also has a fine blog.
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - View this thread

Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it.
posted on Feb 3, 2008 - View this thread

The World at Night is a collection of astrophotography from around the world.
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - View this thread

"'If Ranger Craig leads me to a freshly-dug open grave, I'm going to be very miffed,' I thought." Andy Ihnatko goes on a behind-the-scenes tour of Alcatraz.
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - View this thread

Rick West takes very nice photographs of tarantulas.
posted on Jan 8, 2008 - View this thread

Huang Chuncai poses before his second tumour operation. (slideshow)
posted on Jan 8, 2008 - View this thread

Photos of payphones from around the world. More international payphone photos. Stylized payphones from Brazil. Seen enough photos? Then perhaps you'd like to start calling some of them?
posted on Jan 2, 2008 - View this thread

Alison Jackson takes paparazzi shots of celebrity lookalikes. (NSFW)
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - View this thread

Reuters Pictures of the Year, 2007. Some are NSFW. 109 striking images.
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - View this thread

Francois Brunelle photographs look-alikes. Does everyone have a double?
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - View this thread

From about 1875 to the 1940s, cigarette cards spurred tobacco sales. Sets offer a glimpse into the popculture of the times, spanning newsmakers, cinema celebrities, and sports stars; cute illustrated subjects, like "frisky" and children with rosy cheeks; handy info like air raid precautions, first aid, and amusing tricks; and neat stuff like famous escapes, exotic races, and figures of speech. Browse more fun sets of vintage images.
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - View this thread

Food and Beauty is a series of portraits of models with meat (and fish, and other kinds of food). It's strange, it's off-putting, it's sometimes sexy, but mostly ewww. Somehow I bet somewhere there is a Rule 34 site dedicated to weird shit like this (via Serious Eats)
posted on Dec 7, 2007 - View this thread

Louis Stettner: Atmospheric black and white photos of Paris and New York by Brooklyn-born photographer who now lives in France. Some are sexy, some amusing, some poignant. A series on Penn station in the 1950s is especially nice, and a big contrast to the candy colored Mad Men palette. Beware mispelled main url. via.
posted on Dec 7, 2007 - View this thread

Russos takes photos of Moscow Metro construction. Also of a half-abandoned river port, a cool bridge being put together, and an old underground nuclear submarine base. But mostly of the Metro, behind the scenes. (Don't ask me how he gets access.)
posted on Dec 6, 2007 - View this thread

Terry's Chop Shop. "Ever since I was a boy I have had a burning desire to chop."
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - View this thread

Face Your Pockets. "Our goal is to not only bring all these objects into light but show the owner of them. During the scanning process it is recommended not to open your eyes."
posted on Dec 3, 2007 - View this thread

Polanoid "We are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography." {stolen from notcot
posted on Dec 2, 2007 - View this thread

Pictures from hitchhiking across America. {via}
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - View this thread

Trevor Paglen, the "underground geographer," documents the Black World, offering brief glimpses into the most secret programs and installations of the US military. He has uncovered the ominous and geeky patches used by classified projects, taken long-range photos of secret military installations, traced the mysterious Janet flights of unmarked aircraft that shuttle workers to hidden bases, as well as documenting many other fascinating and hidden things such as the secret rendition programs of the CIA, as discussed previously.
posted on Nov 28, 2007 - View this thread

Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica UK and US researchers peice together the most detailed map of Antarctica yet, searching through years of data to find cloud free images.
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - View this thread

Can you tell this photo was taken at 4:52pm, on either May 5^th or August 10^th? Forensic Genealogy uses historical records and small clues in pictures learn as much as they can about old photographs of unknown provenance. Want to try it yourself? Check out their weekly quiz. via GAMES
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - View this thread

ukgraves.info has thousands of photographs of cemeteries and gravestones all over the UK, from City of London to the Kirk of Lammermuir, and random points in between.
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - View this thread

Remember when air travel was viewed as glamorous and exciting? Of course you don't. So check out this collection of vintage flight attendant photos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
posted on Nov 13, 2007 - View this thread

Photo-Essay on the Marlboro Marine and PTSD. An update on this story: 1, 2.
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - View this thread

Man comments on Flickr photos he discarded in an alley dumpster 30 years ago. Vietnam 1967-1968: Darrell Hill, Photographer
posted on Nov 11, 2007 - View this thread

On November 11, 1880, Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger, was hanged at the Melbourne Gaol with the last words "Such is life." And so today, on the anniversary of his death and as his gun is due to go under the hammer, now is an excellent time to look at the history of the man sometime referred to as Australia's answer to Robin Hood. Many more Ned Kelly resources are to be found inside.
posted on Nov 10, 2007 - View this thread

While God was fooling around with his celestial SimCity control panel, he accidentally built a river right through the middle of a road.
posted on Nov 9, 2007 - View this thread

The great Seattle Fire. "The spring of 1889 in Seattle had been beautiful....Unfortunately, the unusually good weather proved to be disastrous, as the dry conditions conspired with a handful of other elements to allow for the worst fire in city history...the fire burned until 3:00 am. When it was done, the damage was enormous. 120 acres (25 city blocks) had been destroyed, as was every wharf and Mill from Union to Jackson Streets. Although the loss of human life was evidently low (no statistics were kept on that) it was estimated that 1 million rats were killed...." Photo gallery. A roughly contemporaneous account. A Historylink essay on the fire. How the fire changed Seattle's architecture.
posted on Nov 7, 2007 - View this thread

Goalie Masks of the NHL - A series of photos showing an amazing amount of personal self-expression and art on these professional athletes.
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - View this thread

25 photos taken at just the right time.
posted on Nov 2, 2007 - View this thread

Photo gallery of houses in some pretty spectacular places. Some of these might be photoshopped (or not-- who knows...) but they're still pretty amazing to look at.
posted on Nov 1, 2007 - View this thread