Posts tagged photography

“Earth | Time-Lapse View From Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS” - Michael König (via)

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011

Mesmerizing.

Snickers “It’s What You Would Want” Print Ad - TBWA\Chiat\Day (2006) Just plain muzzafuzzin’ creepy awesome. (via)

Snickers “It’s What You Would Want” Print Ad - TBWA\Chiat\Day (2006)

Just plain muzzafuzzin’ creepy awesome. (via)

“Occupy the Tundra” - AKMamma By whatever and wherever means necessary. (via)

“Occupy the Tundra” - AKMamma

By whatever and wherever means necessary. (via)

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.
Robert Capa

This Is What Happens When Your Dad's A Graphic Designer — Ewoks!

Anthony Herrera’s young children we’re bummed they didn’t see any Ewoks living in Sequoia National Park during a recent visit. Problem solved. Magic and wonder restored…

And it’s awesome. (via)

Graphic designer Anthony Herrera used his Photoshop skills to perpetuate the notion that Ewoks live in the Sequoia National Park, to keep his young children from being bummed out that they couldn't see any during a recent trip there. Image of Herrera with his daughter in the forest, with an inset of a blown-up section of the photo featuring an Ewok peering at them from the brush. Image © Anthony Herrera.
(Image © Anthony Herrera)

And I have done the same, my good man… laughing at this. (via Turbo’s email forward)

And I have done the same, my good man… laughing at this. (via Turbo’s email forward)

“Chicago’s Very (tiny) Own: Chicago In Miniature”

I loves me the tilt-shift. (via)

Gapers Block: Chicago From Space

American astronaut Ron Garan could see his house from where he was on August 15, 2011… aboard the International Space Station.

Chicago at night, from the International Space Station, on August 15, 2011. Photo: Astronaut Ron GaranCloser detail of Chicago at night, from the International Space Station, on August 15, 2011. Photo: Astronaut Ron Garan
(Photos: Ron Garan/NASA - Originals available here and here)

Zombie Attacks Couple During Engagement Photoshoot, Results In Death & Viral Imagery

Clever and fun work from L.A. photographer Amanda Rynda and the more-than-willing (and able) couple, Juliana Park and Ben Lee, who might need to revise the meal selections on their wedding RSVP card:

☐ Beef Tenderloin
☐ Roasted Chicken
☐ Salmon
☐ Brains

Zombie Engagement Photo by Los Angeles photographer Amanda Rynda (Image © Amanda Rynda)
(Photo © Amanda Rynda)

Guardian: Key Workers – Writers And Their Typewriters – In Pictures

Brings back fond memories of mechanical/electrical word companions of years gone by. I’m sure my last electronic Smith-Corona is still pissed, twenty years later, about its dusty closet digs. But that’s progress.

Honestly, since the advent of the word processor/computer, I have no idea how I could use a typewriter now. Sure, I miss the tactile response and the aural feedback (there are apps for that, by the way), but editing is too important a part of the writing process to leave to inefficient correcting ribbons and erasers. The virtual effortlessness of computer-based revision on the fly, without derailing the creative train, is more valuable than the nostalgia.

William Faulkner works on a screenplay on a balcony, Hollywood in the early 1940s. Photograph: Alfred Eriss/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
William Faulkner works on a screenplay on a balcony, Hollywood in the early 1940s. (Photo: Alfred Eriss/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

John Cheever at his home in Ossining, New York in 1979. Photograph: Paul Hosefros/Getty Images
John Cheever at his home in Ossining, New York in 1979. (Photo: Paul Hosefros/Getty Images)

Patricia Highsmith at home in the village of Moncourt, near Fontainebleau, in 1976.Photograph: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/Corbis
Patricia Highsmith at home in the village of Moncourt, near Fontainebleau, in 1976. (Photo: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/Corbis)