Do you know Wouter? I may have a wild streak for photo setups and gaffing… but this guy takes it to the next level! 

I’m also in my “pano” phase… and here, he puts out some mighty fine comps sans photoshop.

"The magic of photography is that it is the object which does all the work. Photographers will never admit this and will argue that all the originality lies in their inspiration and their photographic interpretation of the world. As a result they take photographs which are either bad or too good, confusing their subjective vision with the reflex miracle of the photographic act."

Jean Baudrillard

(Source: egs.edu)

Forced Packet Loss: Number Three, Ka Ho Karl

Flash video on Tumblr, Macintosh iBook G4.

01:25 - January 21, 2012

Wonderous things are abrewing.  Enjoy.

Ben, forced packet loss on video screengrab, Ka Ho Karl, 2011

2011-11-21 at 11.00.18 PM

Waterfall, Moonbow, and Aurora from Iceland.

Watch this snippet from citizen journalist Tim Pool’s herculean 17 hour webstream of OWS taking back Liberty Park.

Reuters, Time, RT are all rebroadcasting TIm’s work, and in this video you’ll see real people on streets helping each other.

Trivia:
Which Canadian reporter does Tim rescue from the dark?
Which city did the Canadian supporter drive from upon hearing about today’s closure of Zuccotti Park? 
What smart phone does Tim stream with?
How many batteries does he use?
What fruit does Tim have too many of?

We occupy together.

What is the Gateway to Astronaut Photography?

The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth. Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 1,155,810 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website.

These images include 675,262 from the International Space Station. These numbers were determined 11/1/2011.

Chatoyant, Ephemeral, Crystaline and Opalescent vibes!?!

Ho ho, I think I’ll like it here!   ^_^

Bread as nutrition, craft, and culture. From the land mark Sample Lesson for a Hypothetical Course.  Charles and Ray Eames, 1953.

via Manufacturing Consent, the NFB’s 1992 documentary with Noam Chomsky.

Lartigue, though having lived and worked in the infancy of the Modern Age, harkens back not to Victorian optimism, but to what M.H. Abrams called the Romantic “Natural Supernaturalism.” Within his photos, we glimpse creation in reverse, or the body pulled by its toes back into the emanating light from which it sprang. A woman is stopped, mid-summersault, as if to be rolled back to her girlhood. A boy is hooked by his heals mid-dive. A dog is launched across a ditch but has come to the end of the invisible rubberband to which he is attached. The creatures of Lartigue’s photographs verge on being jerked back to that original joy of the imagination before the act.

What it all comes down to is the miraculous response of the body to the human mind—an energy propelling nature’s cycle forward from origin to experience and back to origin. We leap and fall and spin over and over again because the joys of our bodies refuse stasis. We are not trees. We are not stones. We are what Wordsworth describes as “transitory Beings.”

"Eisen follows the radiation trail (metaphorically speaking) left behind by digital imaging, creating photo-based works that resemble the Northern Lights, brainwaves, and the glassy interiors of icebergs."

R.M. Vaughan, Globe and Mail (yay!!!)

(Source: barph)

As Occupy Together nears week three, here’s a birds eye view of the movement in Toronto.

(via candy_coated)

omfg, this is way way cool and too cute!