September 2010 ~ amyste in photo

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Are Fireflies Disappearing?

Posted on 20:35 by election

Untitled (19), 1996 © Gregory Crewdson
First it was bees and now fireflies? There has been much anecdotal evidence that fireflies populations are in decline. The Museum of Science wants to know for sure and has started Firefly Watch, a ten year citizen scientist driven mission, to find out.

(Via Treehugger)

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Tuesday, 28 September 2010

A Few Questions for Chris Verene

Posted on 19:21 by election

© Chris Verene, 2007
I’ve been familiar with Chris Verene’s photographs since I started graduate school at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Chris was a critique teacher there, and although I never had the chance to study with him I was always curious about his highly saturated, unsettling and poignant images of his extended family. Chris has been photographing his relatives in Galesburg,

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Saturday, 25 September 2010

A Line Describing The Sun

Posted on 13:16 by election

William Lamson is a fellow POCer and one of the most original, witty and creative artists working today. For his latest project, A Line Describing The Sun, William has finally scaled his genius to its appropriate size.

A Line Describing the Sun involved a day long performance in which I followed the path of the sun with a large Fresnel lens mounted on a rolling apparatus. The lens focuses the

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Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Digital Cameras Are Just So...Confusing

Posted on 06:26 by election

From Little Brown Miscellanea.

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Tuesday, 21 September 2010

The Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

Posted on 08:10 by election

See full size.

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Thursday, 16 September 2010

When Werner Herzog Rescued Joaquin Phoenix

Posted on 05:43 by election

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix from Sascha Ciezata on Vimeo.

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Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Evolve or Die

Posted on 20:31 by election

© Mona Lisa Productions
I'm a bit of an evolution junkie. I'm particularly fascinated by the idea of evolution in real time. We tend to think of evolution as something that happens over millions of years, but there is evolutionary change happening right under our noses. See this story on Live Science about fish in southern Mexico who are adapting to a centuries old, yearly religious ceremony

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Monday, 13 September 2010

Senhorinha do Rá!

Posted on 21:37 by election

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Found Science Images

Posted on 20:11 by election

Dopamine crystals viewed with polarized light © Spike Walker

From "How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb"

Behavior of waves © Berenice Abbott

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Friday, 10 September 2010

Photographers are Terrorists

Posted on 05:15 by election

Photography is Not a Crime shows us a new poster by the Transportation Security Administration that makes a pretty clear assertion: if you are a photographer near an airport you are potential terrorists and must be reported. Next thing you know some church in Florida will start burning copies of The Americans.UPDATE: The TSA responds. Thinking about it more, I don't know if the greater insult is

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