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amorasin: Mt. Rainier / Lake Washington / Boeing

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:58:33 -0800

amorasin:

Mt. Rainier / Lake Washington / Boeing

This is perfect. They don’t buy that he cares either.

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:10:11 -0800

This is perfect. They don’t buy that he cares either.

globalpost: Scientists have discovered 46 previously unknown...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:24:42 -0800

globalpost:

Scientists have discovered 46 previously unknown species in the tropical forests of Suriname, in South America.

During a three-week expedition to the small South American county, Conservation International (CI) recorded a total of 1,300 plant and animal species, including 46 believed to be new to science and 14 on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.

theastralcity: Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:12:05 -0800

theastralcity:

Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth. Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.

To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.

The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated. Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.

Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything. Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage. A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.

The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.

I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.

For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:39:44 -0800

laphamsquarterly: Napoleon had a French thing, Houdini had a...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:53:39 -0800

laphamsquarterly:

Napoleon had a French thing, Houdini had a mom thing, and Leona Helmsley was really into her dog.

See other famous Last Requests and who benefited from them in this chart from our Family issue.

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:05:28 -0800

kateoplis: Kodak Moments Kodak founder, George...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:44:54 -0800

kateoplis:

Kodak Moments

Kodak founder, George Eastman with Thomas Edison, 1929

London headquarters, 1902

1920s

kateoplis: Aogashima Island, Japan

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:16:08 -0800

kateoplis:

Aogashima Island, Japan

kateoplis: The views from the Shanghai World Financial...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:34:06 -0800

kateoplis:

The views from the Shanghai World Financial Center, which sports the world’s tallest observation deck, by Matthew Niederhauser.

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Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:49:06 -0800

nationalpost: Kim Jong-un turns into Vladimir Putin in latest...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:12:06 -0800

nationalpost:

Kim Jong-un turns into Vladimir Putin in latest North Korean propaganda video

On Sunday, North Korea released a video of Kim Jong-un to celebrate their new leader’s birthday.

If you look closely, though — and we’ve looked closely — you’ll notice some remarkable similarities between still photos of Kim Jong-un taken from the video, and photos of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

More side-by-side comparisons

kilele: Tying the Wrapper Photo by Jide Alakija

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:36:05 -0800

kilele:

Tying the Wrapper

Photo by Jide Alakija

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:22:28 -0800

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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:31:14 -0800

arminjahr: There are truly and honestly no words to describe...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:38:29 -0800

arminjahr:

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

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:49:13 -0800

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:41:31 -0800

Rather Go Blind - Man Man Such a good cover!!!!

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:59:29 -0800

Rather Go Blind - Man Man

Such a good cover!!!!

newyorker: Street Team: New York’s Photo League This week in...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:32:44 -0800

Arthur Leipzig, Chalk Games, 1950

Rebecca Lepkoff, Lower East Side, 1947

Morris Engel, Harlem Merchant, NY, 1937,

Sam Mahl, Untitled, 1949

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