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Dan Weiss
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Morning Coffee
1930’s Spanish low-budget Art Deco. Sometimes it’s hard to fight the temptation to turn this whole section into awesome pictures of typeface. Leaked audition tapes for the National Organization for Marriage’s new anti-Gay Marriage ad. Street With A View introduces…
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Sounds of the Past
Phonograph cylinders were the earliest form of audio recording. Today, the Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection (part of the Syracuse University library) has begun digitizing their vast collection of cylinders with free access to all. The results provide a fascinating view…
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Morning Coffee
Sometimes life is really about the simple pleasures. For example: pictures of Scandinavians hiding. SelfControl, a program that blocks email and specific websites for a predetermined period of time so you can work. Pride and Prejudice + Zombies. Scientists are…
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Morning Coffee
Waking Vixen on the parellels between sex worker activism and youth activism. (via $pread) The end of Alternadad; Neal Pollack’s final post on Parents.com. Khmer Rouge defendant expresses “heartfelt sorrow” for his role in killing 20% of the Cambodian population.…
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Morning Coffee
Caleb Charland’s photographs of scientific curiosity. Paraplegic man is bitten by a spider, regains the use of his legs, and is arrested for domestic abuse. Using Google Maps to determine the exact opposite side of the globe. (via deathwishthree) Executives…
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Landscapes with a corpse
Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru invited actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about a perfect death, the circumstances, location, and designer they’d like to be wearing. the results, entitled “Landscapes With a Corpse,” are, rather than violent, filmic, elegant, and…
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Photographing Mexico’s Drug War
Since 2006 there have been some 9,500 deaths resulting from the Mexican government’s attempts to thwart drug cartels, putting an end to decades of passivity. In the last week Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have pledged US support. Big Picture…
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The Library of Congress, on Flickr
The library of Congress has been slowly uploading their entire photo archives onto flickr, just this year they’ve been working on a series of photochrom’s taken between 1890 and 1910, essentially postcards from the beginning of the last century from…
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The Quintessential Mad Russian Scientist
“As I understand Leon Theremin’s personality, he was a kind of alien-child playing in a sandbox on a global playground. Like any eternal child, Theremin was always under supervision. And each time he went out of his sandbox – he…
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Sony World Photography Awards
The winners from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, and thanks to this digital age we live in can be viewed without having to fly to France (or put your pants on for that matter). The winners…