AmEx Photo Magnets
God bless the kind people at American Express. Each week, sometimes 2-3 times a week, they send me a nice letter to let me know that they approve of me. They’re probably the friendliest pen pals I’ve...
View ArticleThose You Like Better
This is one of my favorite galleries on Flickr, compiled by user arndalarm of the pictures users have ranked favorites 10+ times.
View ArticleSea Cucumbers
Found these photos of sea cucumbers online and was captivated by them. Perhaps this is where they got the inspiration for the aliens in the movie The Abyss.
View ArticleUh oh, the princess is in another castle
This is pure genius. On 23rd St and 11th Avenue, a variation of space invaders: Mario, of Super Mario Bros, was porcelain tiled below stand pipes that look uncannily like those in the original game....
View ArticleCaptured: America in Color from 1939-1943
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small...
View ArticleThe Everyday, Zoomed
As fascinating as it is to see normal, everyday objects magnified 1,000x plus, it’s even more enjoyable to distance yourself from their identification and appreciate their texture, palette,...
View ArticleVintage New York Blizzards, by The New York Times
Early New York Times photographs of snowstorms really capture the havoc, misery and peril a blizzard could visit on the city in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Blizzard of 1888, for example,...
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