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life remembers:
On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we present photos — most of which never ran in LIFE magazine — from Hawaii and the American mainland in the aftermath of the infamous 1941 attack.
Pictured: Not originally published in LIFE. Training with gas masks in Hawaii, early 1942.
I made this and so can you! (note to self: don’t settle for low-res images) (ps: someone wake ramny he’s going to love this)
Cuban kitchens after 50 years of US trade embargo
The presence of vintage cars on Cuban roads is one of the most iconic consequences of the 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo on the communist country. Cubans, however, have had to preserve many other types of items that Americans routinely replace, while making do with the gradual deterioration that comes with age.
Offering another peak into this life, Ellen Silverman has been photographing Cuban kitchens. NPR describes how they capture, among other things, the “grand, but crumbling” architecture,” mismatched kitchenware, and vintage appliances.
“The total consideration for San Francisco-based Instagram is approximately $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close later this quarter.”
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jtotheizzoe shares NASA’s:
Blue Marble 2012
See, when you look at this on your Dashboard, it isn’t going to do it justice. Instead, click here, because viewing HD pictures of Earth at 8000 x 8000 px is really where it’s at.
My name is scarf.
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Dik Daniels shot an indescribably awesome series of portraits at the Sci-Fi Convention in Los Angeles back in 1980. The photos are all wonderful and we were sorely tempted to post each and every one of them. They’re part of our colourful shared history of complete and utter geekery.
Do yourself a favour and head over to How to be a Retronaut to view the rest.
Issac Newton’s Notebooks are online at the University of Cambridge. This amazing collection allows you to explore one of the world’s greatest minds.
It took just 5 weeks. The only one ahead of it? The iPhone 4.
By the way, numbers three and four? The iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS.
One Android phone did manage to beat the original iPhone though — the HTC EVO 4G, places a distant fifth. Let’s remember that the original iPhone is over 4 years old.
Wait, actually, looking at the data, Flickr isn’t even counting the original iPhone anymore. Maybe that’s because there are not a lot of pictures, but maybe not.
Regardless, the EVO did beat the iPod touch. I think. It’s not clear if they count that in the “smartphone” category.
It also boasts a 0.7 megapixel camera. Tough competition.
The most popular camera overall across all of Flickr? Still the iPhone 4. Soon to be dethroned by the iPhone 4S, no doubt.
Let’s also remember that the Flickr numbers don’t include Instagram photos because those are stripped of the metadata by iOS. In other words, the iPhone isn’t just beating every other smartphone out there when it comes to picture taking, it’s likely destroying them. And probably most point & shoots as well.
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Ever wonder where Halloween traditions came from?
The name “Halloween” comes from “All Hallow’s Evening,” marking the night before All Saint’s Day (or Hallowmas or All Hallow) , the Christian holiday celebrated in Western traditions on Nov. 1. The term first came to be used in the 16th century.
Now, what about Jack-O-Lanterns? Or, trick or treating? Don’t worry, we’ve covered it all: click on.
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Office Space cast - Entertainment Weekly Cast Reunion by Matt Hoyle, October 7th 2011
Video here: http://www.ew.com/ew/package/0„20433411,00.html
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When we think about exploration and travel, we think about maps. And in addition to loving Ken Jennings’ new book, Mapheads (see this slide show he made for Slate), we’re fans of the way Bay Area artist Jenny Odell plays with modern technology and the perspective it gives us on the world. Her 125 Swimming Pools, made of images culled from Google Maps, is above. In her own words:
“The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see.… From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that read: people were here.”
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The Relative Sizes of the World’s Largest Photo Libraries
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![They Don’t Shoot Bullies of the Day: Jennifer McKendrick (AKA Jen McKen), a self-employed photographer from Pennsylvania, recently came across a Facebook page created by a number of teenage girls as a sort of “Burn Book” for the purposes of “say[ing] mean and hurtful things about their class mates.”
“It was beyond ‘your clothes are ugly’ or ‘you don’t have any brand clothes’ or ‘you are ugly, your hair is not right,” she told 6 News. “It was vicious. It was talking about sexuality.”
McKendrick recognized some of these girls as clients who had senior picture photoshoots scheduled with her. She promptly sent those girls (and their parents) an email letting them know that she will not be able to proceed with the sessions.
“[H]ow I could spend 2 hours with someone during our session trying to take beautiful photos of them knowing they could do such UGLY things,” she wrote on her blog. “Realistically, I know by canceling their shoots it’s not going to make them ‘nicer people’ but I refuse to let people like that represent my business.”
McKendrick says she’s received emails back from two of the girls’ parents, expressing shock at their daughters’ actions and apologizing for their behavior. “So far I haven’t received any backlash but I’m ready for it,” says McKen, who understands that this decision may affect her business.
But her new policy stands, cemented with a powerful motto: “If you are ugly on the inside, I’m sorry but I won’t take your photos to make you look pretty on the outside.”
[wate / mefi.]
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They Don’t Shoot Bullies of the Day: Jennifer McKendrick (AKA Jen McKen), a self-employed photographer from Pennsylvania, recently came across a Facebook page created by a number of teenage girls as a sort of “Burn Book” for the purposes of “say[ing] mean and hurtful things about their class mates.”
“It was beyond ‘your clothes are ugly’ or ‘you don’t have any brand clothes’ or ‘you are ugly, your hair is not right,” she told 6 News. “It was vicious. It was talking about sexuality.”
McKendrick recognized some of these girls as clients who had senior picture photoshoots scheduled with her. She promptly sent those girls (and their parents) an email letting them know that she will not be able to proceed with the sessions.
“[H]ow I could spend 2 hours with someone during our session trying to take beautiful photos of them knowing they could do such UGLY things,” she wrote on her blog. “Realistically, I know by canceling their shoots it’s not going to make them ‘nicer people’ but I refuse to let people like that represent my business.”
McKendrick says she’s received emails back from two of the girls’ parents, expressing shock at their daughters’ actions and apologizing for their behavior. “So far I haven’t received any backlash but I’m ready for it,” says McKen, who understands that this decision may affect her business.
But her new policy stands, cemented with a powerful motto: “If you are ugly on the inside, I’m sorry but I won’t take your photos to make you look pretty on the outside.”
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Mr. Mollison’s new book, “Where Children Sleep,” had its origins in a project undertaken for a children’s charity several years ago. As he considered how to represent needy children around the world, he wanted to avoid the common devices: pleading eyes, toothless smiles. When he visualized his own childhood, he realized that his bedroom said a lot about what sort of life he led. So he set out to find others.
