arminjahr:

There are truly and honestly no words to describe how happy this makes me.

(via fyeahcroatia)

Rather Go Blind - Man Man

Such a good cover!!!!

newyorker:

Street Team: New York’s Photo League

This week in the magazine, Vince Aletti writes about the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition, “The Radical Camera,” a survey of New York’s Photo League, which lasted from 1936 to 1951. The show, Aletti writes, “rounds up vintage prints by the men and women who made the League a magnet for Depression-era idealists and activists and, later, a target for McCarthyism”: Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, and many more. “Passionately engaged with the city and its poorest citizens, their work is brash, poignant, gritty and often opinionated,” Aletti writes. “It’s also artful, often movingly so, but never at the expense of tough reality.”

Head over to our Photo Booth blog for more photographs from the exhibition: http://nyr.kr/ue6I82

nationaljournal:

This has been circulating the NJ office all day. We don’t only talk campaigns and Congress over here. 

npr:

Awwww. Just like Andre.

kqedscience:

Baby Seal Enters House, Sleeps On Couch

nationalpost:

Gay penguins no more: Buddy and Pedro find female partners, zookeeper says
The bromance between Pedro and Buddy, the potentially homosexual African penguins that made headlines last month when Toronto Zoo keepers said they would be split up for reproductive purposes, has come to an end.

Less than 72 hours after the union ended, Buddy successfully paired with female Farai on November 19, said Tom Mason, curator of birds and invertebrates at the Toronto Zoo, at a press conference.

They bonded “very tightly” Mr. Mason said.

However, life after Buddy might not be as easy for Pedro, who has been courting female Thandiwey for several weeks but has made no permanent moves.

“Pedro is very ready to go, per se, but his prospective mate… is a little standoffish,” Mr. Mason said.

The pair were split up to preserve the species, which has seen its numbers drop from 1.2 million in 1910 to 60,000 in 2010 and 50,000 now. (Photo: Mark Blinch/Reuters)

fuckyesmaps:

dantheuscfan:

Today I learned that Congo is massive. Mercator projection fail.

Another interesting fact: Congo is 76 times the size of its former colonizer, Belgium!

kateoplis:

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

kateoplis:

Michael Benson’s Planetary Landscapes: Titan’s atmospheric haze

kateoplis:

This wildlife overpass near Banff National Park, combined with fencing that leads animals to it, is designed to give wildlife a way to cross over the interstate. It is now thought that underpasses work better for skittish animals too shy to cross out in the open.

— Joel Sartore, Fragile Nature

kateoplis:

Touch of Evil: A video gallery of cinematic villainy directed by the amazing Alex Prager for the NYTimes. 

Love this. Also, holy shit, Brad Pitt.

Either the worst thing that ever happened to the Mariners that they couldn’t help, or the trigger that brings a Prince to the King’s Court.

latimes:

Pujols, Angels agree on a 10-year deal: The Angels make the biggest free-agent move in team history when they reach an agreement with Albert Pujols on a 10-year deal for at least $250 million.

Photo: Albert Pujols during the 2011 playoffs. Credit: Jamie Squire / Getty Images

latimes:

Jan. 28, 1940: The Huntington Beach coastline in 1940 was a forest of oil derricks. Oil discoveries in Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Santa Fe Springs in 1920 and 1921 drove massive drilling.

View 130 photos for The Times’ 130th birthday on Framework.

Photo credit: Ted Hurley / Los Angeles Times

latimes:

April 5, 1947: Howard Hughes after a test flight of a plane he designed and built. This was the second XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane built. Hughes was almost killed when the first XF-11 crashed on July 7, 1946.

View 130 photos for The Times’ 130th birthday on Framework.

Photo credit: Phil Bath / Los Angeles Times