Photography
By way of Kottke comes this exhilirating collection of hurricane photographs taken from the International Space Station.
Sublime.
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1. Where has collected the best urban photography among recent Ffffound! finds.
2. I love advocacy group Global Voices’ map of online censorship (and anti-censorship) efforts around the world. Be sure to check out their gallery of national blockpages.
3. Deputy Dog has given us his choices for top 5 ‘deserted city’ scenes in film. I’ve always [...]
1. Some pictures: Brisbane’s brightly painted traffic signal boxes.
2. A map: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops hosts a well-done interactive map of poverty within the United States.
3. A list: the most expensive cities for expatriate employees. New York has fallen to 15th, London climbs to second, and Moscow holds fast atop the board.
Like Look at Me in Moscow, Stil in Berlin captures young, neon-clad Berliners dressed for a night out in Kreuzberg [map, wiki, official]. They’ve got a Flickr page, too, full of many other great photographs of nightlife in Berlin.
Look At Me, a Russian street-fashion blog, has some interesting shots of young people in various shades of cool.
Introducing: The Unconscious Art of Demolition Flickr group. The discussion page appropriately quotes Paul Auster’s City of Glass:
“Every once in a while, he would suddenly feel what it had been like to hold the three-year-old boy in his arms - but that was not exactly thinking, nor was it even remembering. It was a physical [...]
This series of photographs illustrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of people via car, bus, and bicycle.
Photograph: Münster, Germany, Press Office
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