Mr.
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A beautiful photo from Jonathan’s Iceland diaries.

Dragon shape in phosphate fertilizer mining waste photograph by J Henry Fair. His site Industrial Scars is one of the most disturbing & depressing sites you will see today, but thankfully someone is documenting this stuff.

He is also the one who has photographic evidence of the OTHER SPILL in the Gulf, coming from the Ocean Saratoga rig, owned by the Diamond Offshore company, which is now being identified because of the heightened attention around the region.

First reported by SkyTruth, Gawker and other media outlets have picked up on the story and hopefully we’ll hear some thoughts from someone in charge of this mess soon.

Regardless of how ridiculous this shot (and premise) is…I trust Dennis won’t change. His dedication to a singular idea and his give a sh*& attitude is partially why Foursquare is a success. He lives his product and being irreverent is part of the dpstyles brand. I for one expect (and hope) there will be more “bad” photos in his future.

via fimoculous:

Sorry, Dens. 

(Read the story of how this happened.)

via spaceships: via youmightfindyourself Kim Høltermand, I think? 

Good set of “Sleeveface” examples found here.

Image credit: Meyer Ardila

via purple-diary:

Andre’s Drawings show at Colette and dinner at Caviar Kaspia more photos

Richard Barnes Murmur project

“They put on breathtaking aerial displays above the city, banking in nervous unison, responding like a school of fish to each tremor inside the group.

The birds are beloved by tourists and reviled by locals - understandably, since the droppings cover cars and streets, causing accidents and general disgust. A flock of starlings is euphoniously called a “murmuration,” but there is nothing poetic about their appetites.Their ability to focus both eyes on a single object “binocular vision” allows them to peck up stationary seeds as well as insects on the move.

In the countryside outside Rome, they feast on olives. Like us, the birds are enormously adaptable but what we admire in ourselves we often abhor in our neighbors. Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds - or at least the double nature of our relationship to them - recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass. Many of Barnes’s photographs, which will be shown at Hosfelt Gallery in New York this fall, were taken over two years in EUR, a suburb of Rome that Mussolini planned as a showcase for fascist architecture.

The man-made backdrop only enhances the sense of the vast flock as something malign, a sort of avian Nuremberg rally. It is, of course, natural for birds to surrender individual autonomy to the flock; according to the Roman ornithologist Claudio Carere, who has identified 12 basic flock patterns, the starlings are primarily trying to evade falcons. But we project onto the natural world a large measure of ourselves. In ancient Rome, augurs studied the flight patterns of birds to divine the will of the gods; part of the fascination of the starlings is the way they seem to be inscribing some sort of language in the air, if only we could read it.”

Art. Lebedev Studio 13th Anniversary in Moscow. October 2008.

Christina by the boat by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O Gorman. 1913 (via nowness)

“…Though color photography was not really popularized until the invention of Kodachrome film in 1936, color processes have been around since the 1860s. One of these early techniques was Autochrome, patented in 1905 by the Lumiere Brothers (who, incidentally, opened the world’s first public cinema in 1895)…Autochrome offers an vivid and surreal window on the past, its slightly too-rich colors imbuing each scene with a sense of fantasy.”

An hopeful image from the MSNBC Year in Pictures-News.

“Balloons with messages attached released by Palestinian children are seen in the sky during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20 in the West Bank city of Ramallah.”

Photo by Muhammed Muheisen - AP

An intense image from the MSNBC Year in Pictures-News.

“A a cow is sacrificed for the celebration of ther first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Rhodpe Mountains village of Ribnovo, Bulgaria, on Nov. 27. The Festival of Sacrifice marks the end of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca”

Photo by Nikolay Doychinov / AFP - Getty Images

Noah Kalina in Puerto Rico for Air Canada’s enRoute

I covet the latest promotion from Pola Premium.  At $500, its a bit pricey, but the package includes:

• 1 rare, black, refurbished SX-70 camera covered with original white Polaroid truck tarpaulin
• 1 high quality FREITAG FRITZ bag made out of matching white truck tarpaulin, featuring a removeable leash, keyring and shoulder strap, perfect for housing the SX-70 camera and films
• 2 limited packs of truck-branded PolART film, ND-Filter
• Polapremium CD with original SX-70 materials (manuals, articles, tips & tricks)
• Handsigned Polapremium 1-year warranty card
• Strictly limited to 26 hand numbered, shining kits