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Torkils väg, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:41:29 +0200

Torkils väg, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:39:55 +0200

Torkils väg, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson)

lilykily: sniffyjenkins: ‘Endurance’ in the ice, by Frank...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:22:51 +0200

sniffyjenkins:

‘Endurance’ in the ice, by Frank Hurley (1915)

Oh my effing god, The National Maritime Museum have just updated their Flickr with new images from my ultimate hero Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917).

This is Endurance caught in the ice before she was crushed.

Oh, and if you don’t know the story, you should. You really bloody should. You need to know about the man about whom it was said by Raymond Priestley, a British Antarctic explorer who accompanied Shackleton on various Antarctic expeditions:

“For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”

HERO.

ARB for HERO and insane adventures!

ARB for Frank Hurley. I think I meant to do a post about his World War I photography over at 1/125 but never did more than a couple of lines worth of draft on it. Should look that thing up and see if I can finish it, too. But, don’t wait along for me, go look the dude up yourself.

triangletriangle: Takashi Homma Yes!

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:56:58 +0200

triangletriangle:

Takashi Homma

Yes!

VULVA ORIGINAL / Home

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:06:52 +0200

VULVA ORIGINAL / Home:

WTF? Really?

dailymeh: Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Windows 7...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:57:02 +0200

dailymeh:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Windows 7 personified! It says “Windows 7. Microsofts’s fastest operating system ever.” in Norwegian on the hood. Of the antique sports car. Which was fast maybe, I don’t know, fifty years ago? (Don’t shoot me. I know nothing about cars.)

I just saw this in a driveway and I’m really curious what it is, but the internet has been of no help.

That looks like some modern evolution of the Lotus Seven which, at least in its better modern forms, is still a fast and capable road and track car. Especially when price is taken into the equation and personal comforts not.

Also, seeing that abomination of a sticker on the, admittedly evolved but still classic, brainchild of the great Colin Chapman is making me sick to the stomach.

Sturegatan, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson) And another...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:42:52 +0200

Sturegatan, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson)

And another one…

Somebody's going to get punched

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:06:00 +0200

Number of items advertised in Tradera’s medium format camera category: 9
Number of items which are just general photography accessories and have nothing to do with medium format specifically: 2
Number of items which are specifically accessories for medium format cameras and could actually be considered to belong to the category: 2
Number of small format cameras: 3
Number of medium format cameras: 2
Number of people I am going to track down and punch in the head: 5
Number of folding 6x6 cameras I shouldn’t be looking at but will look at anyhow: 1

dielaughing: THEES DAI KNEEDS MOAR BEWBS This looks like the...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:50:18 +0200

dielaughing:

THEES DAI KNEEDS MOAR BEWBS

This looks like the backside of Terry Richardson, which makes me a lot happier about everybody in the photo having pants on.

YouTube - Community - The Study Group Sex Talk (megalulz) I...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:47:03 +0200

YouTube - Community - The Study Group Sex Talk (megalulz)

I just can’t get enough.

What was that, Glenn?

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:09:43 +0200

jeffcagle:

“And you know, our founders, if you read their speeches and their documents and their letters to each other, when they founded our country, they all said it would happen if the people turned to God.

“So let’s take them as people who knew what they were talking about. What do you say we give the whole ‘let’s turn back to God’ thing a try and see what happens?” - Glenn Beck

Really? How about the real letters:

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.”

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823 [via]

And

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814 [via]

I agree very much with this post but I want to introduce another angle: Should the founding fathers be treated like gospel? (No pun intended.) I can very much accept that we can still go back to writings from the 18th century and derive wisdom from them but shouldn’t we continually try to improve? Thomas Jefferson, non-christian deist and smart guy that he was, had slaves. Shouldn’t we stop for a moment and wonder whether we should be holding such a guy unquestionably up as a model?

But then, if Glenn Beck is really into the Bible he know it’s okay to have slaves as long as they’re not of your own people.

Bicycle Polo 2010, Hosjö (by Karl Gunnarsson) That + booze = my...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:14:01 +0200

Bicycle Polo 2010, Hosjö (by Karl Gunnarsson)

That + booze = my Saturday

Your weekend is invalid.

My bruises and hangover aren’t however…

DVD Panache: Seven Days of Sam Peckinpah, Part 2 That’s...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:55:22 +0200

DVD Panache: Seven Days of Sam Peckinpah, Part 2

That’s Warren Oates. Your argument is doubly invalid.

justinu84: florencio: Retro Styled Fake Superhero Movie...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:48:34 +0200

justinu84:

florencio:

Retro Styled Fake Superhero Movie Posters

Screw Eastwood. Get Warren Oates to do Wolverine.

legoexpress: LEGO by ~0mela Lady Gaga takes a turn to the...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:05:03 +0200

legoexpress:

LEGO by ~0mela

Lady Gaga takes a turn to the geekier.

"Some photographers kept multiple themes in their heads and add to them gradually as they come across..."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:00:00 +0200

“Some photographers kept multiple themes in their heads and add to them gradually as they come across more and more picture subjects that fit. Lee Friedlander photographed that way for many years—he had various ideas, and, whenever he’d get another picture that fit a particular one, he’d literally throw it in a box with the others.”

- The Online Photographer

You can’t imagine how comforting this is to me.

Sturegatan, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson) That place is...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:55:16 +0200

Sturegatan, Falun 2010 (by Karl Gunnarsson)

That place is irresistible.

Blow for bishop as orgasm church flops - The Local

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:00:07 +0200

Blow for bishop as orgasm church flops - The Local:

I’m not sure what to think of this headline. Mainly, though, it made me think of the Catholic church. You decide if that’s a good thing or not.

fuckyeahmath: yosaffbridge: Yes. Always. Vampire!Abed is...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:45:56 +0200

fuckyeahmath:

yosaffbridge:

Yes. Always. Vampire!Abed is epic.

(via mindlikeadiamond)

this = true

The Strange Case of My Local Library

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:53:43 +0200

So, I thought I had exhausted my local library of photobooks but a lucky mistake lead me to find that was not the case. Dropping by to borrow a copy of Gerry Johansson’s Sverige I got Johansson confused with another Swedish photographer, Lars Tunbjörk. Turns out the library had two more Tunbjörk books than I had thought, one of which I really wanted to see. The funny thing was that the Tunbjörk books were in different locations of the library and neither of them sorted into the section Johansson’s book belongs to.

Even stranger, Tunbjörk’s I Love Borås was in the geography section while his book Landet utom sig was in the biography section. The photography in both would definitely fall within the same genre and – apart from the tone of the photographs, I guess – the main difference is that Landet utom sig contains a couple of essays while I Love Borås is presented without any text. The same goes for Johansson’s Sverige but, if anything, a couple of essays along with the photos seems pretty much standard in photobooks.

Remarkably enough, however, Sverige ends up under “Pn” in the SAB system of classification. That’s photography or something like that. I’ve been running Google all over trying to find more out about this classification system and I’ve given up. (Sweden seems not to be friends with Mr. Dewey.) So, being curious – or perhaps flabbergasted is a better word – I asked the librarian manning the info desk why these books weren’t all in the same place. The conversation left me just as frustrated. One point is, though, that apparently the publishers seem to have some say in how they end up being catalogued. But also, she stated that Gerry Johansson’s work in Sverige is “technical photography” – as opposed to what I can’t remember. The fact that Tunbjörk’s work in I Love Borås is pretty much street photography, yet that book ends up in the geography section, while Johansson’s Sverige could be labelled a topographical account only makes this weirder.

I don’t know if I’m just being prejudiced as a photographer or if this really is a silly way of sorting books but I’m pretty sure this must have been the lamest subject of a rant on Tumblr for a while.