The amazing, award-winning photographer and photography teacher Jonathan Worth (previously) is about to launch his next course: Depictions of Addiction, from Connected Academy, with internationally renowned photographers Nina Berman, Jeffrey Stockbridge and Graham Macindoe.
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Last night was Manhattanhenge: It. Was. Glorious.
I’m obsessed with Manhattanhenge, the two nights a year when the sunset aligns with the prevailing east-west streets of the New York City grid, a phenomenon that Neil deGrasse Tyson named in 1992.
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Hoarder Barbie trashes her Dream House
Carrie Becker’s Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a detailed 1:16 scale model of a hoarder house, inside a Barbie Dream House, beautifully and hauntingly photographed. I know hoarders (and am related to a couple) and it’s not a joke — and neither is this amazing work of art. (via Waxy)
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Gorgeous,dramatic photos of Japanese playground equipment by night
The Park Playground Tumblr features Kito Fujio‘s gorgeous, dramatically lit photos of Japan’s whimsical playground equipment: climbers, slides and other fun stuff styled to look like animals, abstract modernist forms, world monuments, magical creatures, robots, gadgets, and whimsical beasts.
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Charles Babbage wrote a “cardboard vaporware” app in 1840 and left it in Turin
Bruce Sterling’s been playing with a stack of hand-punched cardboard cards created in 1840 by Charles Babbage as a kind of vaporware app for his never-built Analytical Engine; they were intended to placed in a revolving “six-sided prism.”
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Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany’s legendary, paranoid secret police
Canadian Adrian Fish is one of the few photographers who’ve been permitted to take and publish photos from the archives of the Stasi, the legendarily invasive secret police of the former East Germany, who employed one snitch for every 60 people at their peak.
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Photos from the Body Farm
Texas State University’s Body Farm (AKA Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University or FACTS) is a 45-year-old facility where the corpses of medical body donors are left to decompose so that researchers can observe the rate at which human remains are consumed by the elements, scavengers and microbes, allowing them to accurately date the bodies of murder victims and those who died accidentally.
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Gorgeous, humbling photos of Manila’s super-dense shantytowns
German photographer Bernard Lang has produced a photo series documenting the incredible overcrowding in the slums of Manila, a city whose mean density is 36,000 people/square mile, rising to 200,000 people in the city’s 500 riverside slums.
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Haunting photographs of Nara Dreamland, a rotting Japanese theme park
We love and celebrate the people who sneak into derelict themeparks and photograph their ruins! Beijing, Orlando, Sichuan, South Carolina, Japan, Berlin, New Orleans, even Walt Disney World!
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A Flickr group devoted to the most beautiful old control panels you’ve ever seen
Do you like dials, knobs, levers, gauges, toggles, dip-switches, knife-switches, blinking peanut bulbs, faders, patch-panels, big red buttons, keyboards, breakers, fuses, stops, fascia, takeup reels, wheels, yokes, tachyometers, odometers, speedometers, emergency handsets, mics, valves, periscopes, oscilloscopes, brush-switches, paper tapes, manufacturer’s instructions engraved in acrylic signs, and other control apparatus? I know you do! You will therefore love the Control Panel Flickr group.
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