Entries tagged with “photos”
Steve McCurry, who’s best known for shooting the Afghan Girl photograph, requested that he be allowed to shoot the last roll of Kodachrome Kodak ever produced. National Geographic documented his journey shooting the final roll.
Russo said they documented McCurry shooting the final roll of film in New York, then traveling to Bombay and Rajasthan, India, then back to New York, shooting along the way several personalities of the world of filmmaking.
McCurry said he spent about two months shooting the images, which also included scenic photos, as well as serendipitous moments on the streets of New York.
Hopefully, National Geographic will print a few of the photographs. It truly is the passing of an era.
Edith Shain, who claimed to be the nurse in Eisenstaedt’s iconic Times Square V-J Day photograph, has died. She was 91.
“You can imagine how people felt. They were just elated,” Shain said in a 2005 interview with The Times. “Someone grabbed me and kissed me, and I let him because he fought for his country. I closed my eyes when I kissed him. I never saw him.”
Coincidentally, that photograph was on a very short list of posters I’d selected to possibly decorate a wall in my apartment.
Flickr user lance15100 gives us a set of old style beer cans.
A new photoblog about weird goings-on on airplanes and in airports. Should be a good one to keep an eye on.
His socks must really stink!
Tourists are just about the most annoying thing about growing up and living in NYC; so much so, that I try to steer clear of touristy spots most of the time. However, when I heard that the Brooklyn Bridge was to undergo repairs in late 2009, I actually got off my butt and made a trip to see it before the repairs made it all pretty. I also combed through my photo archives to see what other photos I had of it…
A number of years ago my father taught me how to shine my shoes using an old T-shirt or rag to apply the polish. As I was shining my shoes this evening, it dawned on me that the old T-shirt I was using was about 14 years old and was related to a very old service of Microsoft.
In 1995, as part of the run-up to Windows 95, Microsoft introduced something called “The Microsoft Network” as a competitor to AOL. I don’t remember the specifics, but anyone could be part of “The Microsoft Network” beta test program, and if you were, you got a T-shirt after the beta was over (in those days, the beta periods were quite short and had actual end dates).
It seems that after I wore out the T-shirt, it volunteered to continue it’s service as a shoe polish rag. So, to celebrate its nearly 15 years of service to me, I present to you The Microsoft Network beta tester T-shirt in all it’s glory. Shoe polish splotches included free of charge.
Marge Simpson poses for the November issue of Playboy.
They don’t look real.
The Big Picture brings us “Hiroshima, 64 Years Ago”. I love The Big Picture, even if some of the images are tough to look at.
Previously unknown image of Phineas Gage found
In 1848, while working as a construction foreman, a freak accident sent an iron rod clear through his head. He survived for 11 years, but had major personality changes. It’s the stuff of textbooks.
Thomas H. Maugh II writes for the LA Times:
The daguerreotype has been in the possession of Jack and Beverly Wilgus for 30 years, although they do not know its origin. They thought it was an image of a whaler holding his harpoon, but whaling experts viewing it online told them it was not. Then an anonymous tipster suggested it was Gage.
The Big Picture takes us to the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling contest
I’ve seen it on TV and always ask, “Why?”
See if you can spot the guy dressed as Borat (hint: take the square root of 3,136 and subtract 40).
Create-your-own NYC Air Force One flyover photo
Every once in a while I just heart the Daily News.
Human landscapes from above
I love photos like these.
Official White House Photostream on Flickr
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Life publishes never before seen photos the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed
Interesting photos of what went on later that evening. I wonder where that jar is today?
People who sit in the disability seats when I’m standing on my crutches
Pictures of…wait for it…people who sit in the disability seats when a guy is standing near them on his crutches.
Hi, I’m An Asshole is the best.
All I wanted was a quick glass of water. What came out of the tap was less than appetizing.
It looked more like skim milk than water.
I know it’s just aeration due to apartment living, but it still looks ugly. When it finally cleared up, it looked like someone hocked a luggie in it.
Looks like I’ll be stopping by Bed Bath & Beyond, again, and picking up some Brita water filter stuff.
The Big Picture takes on the inauguration of President Barack Obama
Amazing pictures from around the inauguration, the country, and the world. The amount, and diversity, of people is amazing.
For the horologists out there, the watch he’s wearing in #36 is a Jorg Grey JGC6500, which was a gift from his Secret Service detail.
I wonder why Former President Bush chose to label the envelope he left for President Obama with a Post-It Note rather than just label the envelope (#48)?
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