Category Archives: photography
Bostonian Brutalist Frog
Untitled, Seth Tisue, Boston, 2007 There’s links to background on the building, the Boston Government Service Center (BGSC), known as the Lindemann Center ( designed by Paul Rudolph and opened in 1972) which turns out to be notorious: …Rudolph chose … more…
Alan Jaras’ refractions
Alan Jaras, Green Starlight, 2007 These are refraction patterns or ‘caustics’ formed by a light beam passing through a shaped and textured plastic form. The pattern is captured directly on to 35mm film by removing the camera lens and putting … more…
Air Collision
Derek Redos, Associated Press. Two acrobatic planes from the Zelazny group collide during a performance at an air show in Radom, Poland, Sept. 1, 2007. “Midair Collision” From the 2007 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest Winners. I don’t expect to see … more…
Axel Antas
Axel Antas, Cloud formation suspended, 2006 Feels appropriate. The head cold is resilient. I am no shape to post anything intelligent. Normal services, whatever they might be, will resume shortly.
smoking ruins
From a thread at sydenham.org.uk — my local discussion forum — with lots of pictures of the Crystal Palace, which stood on Sydenham Hill after it was moved from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition of 1851, until it was … more…
suicide teddy
In my efforts to track down some attribution for this image — which were in vain — I discovered that Google has more than half a million results to offer for suicide teddy. I’m just saying. (via FFFF)
Lohse, 1938, Zurich
Cover for a brochure for Escher-Wyss Zürich, designed by Richard Lohse 1938 ( via FFFFOUND!)
Greenwich Tunnel, from the hip
Greenwich tunnel, November 1999 Too busy to scrape anything very interesting off the walls of the internets today, and off out later, so here’s something from one of the dustier corners of the hard drive. I took this picture whilst … more…
sparks, hassocks
Sparks, Hassocks, Nov 17 2007 (This is the best of about a dozen shots of the inferno before which I found myself last evening, on the occasion of my one and only female cousin’s fortieth birthday party, which was good … more…
Balloon Wranglers: 1942
Alfred Palmer, Balloon Wranglers, 1942 Today’s “real” post was overcome with sprawl and linkage, and consequently is unfinished — and I must away for the evening to the south coast or thereabouts. More of which, perhaps, tomorrow. (via Shorpy)