Tag Archives: photo
iProp
Calling Tim Powers. iPhone photos of a prop:
Old pix
LAT: NASA was so preoccupied with getting an astronaut to the moon ahead of the Soviets that little attention was paid to the mountains of scientific data that flowed back to Earth from its early space missions. The data, stored on miles of fragile tapes, grew into mountains that were packed up and sent to [...]
“Layer of ash separates the morning and evening snow”
“Alternating ash and snow fall over several days create layers in this examination of tephra-fall deposits (volcanic ash) from the initial explosions from Redoubt volcano on March 22 and 23, 2009. Picture Date: March 31, 2009. (Kristi Wallace / Alaska Volcano Observatory),” from the Big Picture: Source notes that (amidst all the toney, pseudo-historical historical [...]
yourpreciousfluids.google.com
“Watch out Broughton! Street View fans plan to descend on ‘privacy’ village for photo fest” (Dolan+Wrenn, MailOnline, 3 Apr ’09): The impromptu protest started on Wednesday when Resident Paul Jacobs spotted the Google car—which was unmarked but featured the tell-tale 360-degree rotating camera fixed on a pole on its roof—cruising slowly down his lane in [...]
gEverything
See also: “If we showed you, we’d have to pixelate you,” “performance.google.com,” “Proposed Google service,” “Google: ‘Privacy? Depends—where are you?’”
The Rag content of digital paper
The LoC Flickr stream has several new pix of Lincoln, including Alexander Gardner’s 9 Aug 1863 “seated portrait, holding glasses and newspaper”: The very private Flickr user gbvico notes: From the way the newspaper drapes, I would guess it is a copy of the New York Tribune, or one like it. Greeley’s paper was printed [...]
Last days of disco
Exhumed as counterpoint for Murphy+Purdum+Sands, “Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House,” VF (Feb ’09). Leibovitz carries a whiff of Riefenstahl, doesn’t she?
You’re not allowed to take pictures here
Google Maps streetview driver pulled over by police. “But, Officer, I was helping to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google sightseeing)
Kodak moment: