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WWIII Propaganda

WWIII Propaganda: Support Net Neutrality, originally uploaded by Brian Lane Winfield Moore.

Those great motivational posters of yesteryear are perfectly re-tooled for today. See the whole set here.  (Thanks, Fritinancy)

It takes a macro lens & lots of plastic

V.J. Day Times Square, originally uploaded by Balakov.

... to recreate some of the world's most famous photographs in Legos. The whole set is here. The original photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt can be viewed here. (And for a change, I didn't feature one of the Star Wars photos. Aren't you shocked?)

Grow Tower

It's Saturday, so you have plenty of time to play with the latest version of Grow. It seems we're building  a tower this time, blogfolk. Enjoy!

Also, I hope you're not tired of photographs of the inauguration, because I'm about to present you with The Mutha Of All Inauguration Photos. It's 2 gigabytes, and detailed enough that you can zoom in to see Yo-Yo Ma stealing a pic with his cell phone.

Oh but you ought to see the other fellow!

Oh but you ought to see the other fellow!
Originally uploaded by George Eastman House

I just found out that Flickr gathered all its public photography archives in one spot: The Commons.

Use their search function and prepare to waste a few hours.

(I love this dog photo from the Eastman House (Kodak) collection, 1885. The pipe and the bandages? And the caption? I think this could be the world's first LOLDOG.)

Old and New

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Originally uploaded by GraceD

Grace, this has become one of my all-time favorite pictures of San Francisco. What an eye you have. Merci!

The Urban Curators want YOU

Begun as a student project in Providence, the Urban Curators have a mission: to look at urban decay in a whole new light. Starting by mounting temporary frames over graffiti and peeling paint, and then snapping photos. Anyone is invited to join the project - there's even a pdf of a gilt-edge frame and a little curator card for downloading.

It does look like this website is taking a sabbatical, unfortunately ... there are no pictures linked to the map. Still, who needs an excuse to take pictures of randomly framed stuff?